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How to Tap Into Your Creativity

How To Tap Into Your Creativity

By Ellen Johnson / September 25, 2022

Have you ever gotten stuck on a needlepoint project? You know – been absotively posilutely unable to find a decorative stitch that will work for that space on your canvas? Maybe you’ve tried 3 or 4 (or 7!) different ones – but NOTHING looks right. So, what are you to do when your creativity has … Read more

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Ellen's stitch guide for "Jingle", a canvas by Pepperberry Designs, was featured in Needlepoint Now magazine.

What Is A Stitch Guide?

By Ellen Johnson / January 20, 2022

If you’re a veteran stitcher, you probably know that a stitch guide is a set of instructions for how to stitch a particular needlepoint canvas in such a way that your finished project turns out exactly like the original piece. But if you’re new to needlepoint, you may not have a clue about what stitch … Read more

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Composition: Needlepoint Canvases and Fine Art

By Ellen Johnson / February 27, 2020

Do you know that a canvas designer uses the very same elements and principles of art and design on cotton mono canvas that a painter might use on one of their watercolor or oil compositions? In fact, your hand-painted needlepoint canvas is, first and foremost, a piece of art. But what does that have to … Read more

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