December 2012 page 1 4401 Medical Parkway, Austin, Texas 78756 512-451-6931 800-851-6931 WWW.THENEEDLEWORKS.COM E-mail: [email protected] Store Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Saturday 11:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Happy Holidays! The Needle Works will close at 5:30 p.m. December 22, 2012 and reopen at 10 a.m. January 3, 2013. Beginning January 3, The Needle Works will close at 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays. Evolution of a Stitch Long and Short Oblique can be altered many ways to create differ- ent effects. As charted in The Needlepoint Book by Jo Ippolito Christensen, the stitch is a combination of 3x3 diagonal stitches crossed on one corner with a 1x1 stitch. We stitched it with Impressions for the long stitches and Kreinik for the short in our first example. The second example alternates columns of Im- pressions and columns of Kreinik. In the third, Kim- berly added a single-line Greek between columns of long and short to break it up a bit. We changed the 3x3 stitches to 2x2 for a 2- thread-wide stripe, then added reversed continental between the columns for a variation of corduroy stitch. Try Long and Short with 1x3 stitches crossed with 1x2s and 1x1s and it becomes more like a tied wavy stitch. Long and Short Oblique As charted in The Needlepoint Book Long and Short with Single Line Greek Over 2 Stripe Corduroy Variation Tied Wavy Variations

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Page 1: Beginning January 3, The Needle Works will close at 5:30 p

December 2012 page 1

4401 Medical Parkway, Austin, Texas 78756 512-451-6931 800-851-6931

WWW.THENEEDLEWORKS.COM E-mail: [email protected]

Store Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Saturday 11:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Happy Holidays! The Needle Works will close at 5:30 p.m. December 22, 2012 and reopen at 10 a.m. January 3, 2013.

Beginning January 3, The Needle Works will close at 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays.

Evolution of a Stitch Long and Short Oblique can be altered many ways to create differ-ent effects. As charted in The Needlepoint Book by Jo Ippolito Christensen, the stitch is a combination of 3x3 diagonal stitches crossed on one corner with a 1x1 stitch. We stitched it with Impressions for the long stitches and Kreinik for the short in our first exam-ple. The second example alternates columns of Im-pressions and columns of Kreinik. In the third, Kim-berly added a single-line Greek between columns of long and short to break it up a bit. We changed the 3x3 stitches to 2x2 for a 2-thread-wide stripe, then added reversed continental between the columns for a variation of corduroy stitch. Try Long and Short with 1x3 stitches crossed with 1x2s and 1x1s and it becomes more like a tied wavy stitch.

Long and Short Oblique

As charted in The Needlepoint Book

Long and Short with Single Line Greek

Over 2 Stripe Corduroy Variation

Tied Wavy Variations

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December 2012 page 2

Stitch Along Sampler Frame Weight Part 3

Start this month’s stitch-ing directly below the bottom left corner. 1. The first stitch is Straight Rice, stitched with 1 strand of Silk Lame SL38 for the upright cross. Add horizontal and vertical stitches with 1 bunch of Baroque Silk 1264 (16 x 16 threads). 2. Move to the right and add a section of Criss-Cross Hungarian. Stitch the Hungarian stitches with 2 strands of Soy Luster 390 and the cross stitches with 1 strand Kreinik #8 Braid 339 (15 threads wide x 16 threads high). 3. The next block is stitched in Hungarian with 1 strand Silk Lame SL 17 and 2 strands Impressions 8016 (15 threads wide by 16 high). 4. Stitch the fourth sec-tion in Horizontal Double Brick. We used 1 strand Silk Lame SL118 (16 x 16 threads). 5. We stitched the corner block in Double Straight Cross with 1 strand Soy Luster 389 (16 x 16 threads). 6. Directly above the Double Straight Cross, stitch a block of Sleeping Hourglass C r o s s w i t h 1 s t r a n d of Impressions 8016 for the Ob-long Cross and 1 strand Tre-bizond 701 for the vertical stitches (16 x 16 threads).

New Materials 1 skein of Impressions 8016 Surf Green by Caron 1 card of Rainbow Gallery Silk Lame Braid Caribbean SL38 1 card of Rainbow Gallery Silk Lame Braid Sea Spray SL118 1 skein of Baroque Silk by the Pure Palette Indian Jewelry 1264 Threads from Parts 1 & 2 Soy Luster by the Pure Palette Indian Jewelry 389 Soy Luster by the Pure Palette Hummingbird Wings 390 Kreinik size 8 braid Tropical Teal 339 Trebizond Aquamarine 701 Rainbow Gallery Silk Lame Braid Lite Surf Blue SL17

Sleeping Hourglass Cross

Criss-Cross Hungarian

Hungarian

Double Straight Cross

Horizontal Double Brick

Straight Rice