lap of a little luxury
I am sitting in a hotel in Dover, Delaware as I write this. I am looking out back at the horse racing track (think Seabiscuit) having just finished my room service breakfast (marianne loves this).
We have been here since Thursday night, it is now Saturday and we leave tomorrow. K has been playing in these poker tournaments so the hotel rooms have been free. They are thrilled to have us.
I play penny slots, so I get points that we use to (mostly) eat on. As long as he “places” in the tournament (the last table usually splits the winnings) we are doing great.
I love free.
NewNeedlepoint.com is not being neglected. I have my little bitty Mac laptop with me (and free internet in the hotel). Danielle is at home watching Jack (as she lives next door, she checks on him a zillion times a day, she & her sister come over to play with him).
She fills the orders I get and takes them to the P.O. That works unless it is a kit, then I have to do the color placement chart over the phone with her, while looking at the canvas on my web site.
Not easy but doable.
Jack The Cat had his first bath on Thursday. His first since he was a kitten anyway (he is 6 now).
As a kitten he was not real good as cleaning himself, so my son bathed him. As an adult he is good at it but he has been shedding so much K decided a bath was called for.
K carried the unsuspecting Jack into the bathroom and shut the door.
I could hear the water running and these really loud meows. K said every time Jack escaped the bath he went to the door and looked up at the doorknob. I suppose he was wishing for opposible thumbs.
If cats had them they would rule the earth.
Anyway, Jack is gorgeously clean & fluffy and after a handful of his much loved Treats, he forgave K.
NewNeedlepoint has been selling more canvas & kits lately. Somehow reducing and focusing my stock has spurred this. I have no idea why but there it is.
I have the brand new Patt & Lee Scrap Threads Needlepoint Canvas. I call it Poodle & Pup.
It reminds me of her famous Striped Cats Scrap Threads Canvas a little but it is different, quite different.
Poodle & Pup has a dark background, which is unusual in Patt’s work. The background does not have to be stitched in black but I do recommend a dark color. Covering the dark canvas with light color thread would not work very well.
This design is brand, brand new. I have 2 of them.
I just finished a wonderful book, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson. It is not a military book, novel or otherwise. It is a grown up romance and a very good one, at that.
I found it slow for the first chapter or so but then I, like Mrs. Ali, fell in love with Major Pettigrew.
I am re-re-re (endlessly re) reading Pride & Prejudice by you know who. It is like visiting an old friend. It is funny, I find Miss Bingley to be worse, each time I read it.
I try hard not to be Miss Bingley. I too am capable of great flights of ridicule. I try to do it to things & situations rather then people, having seen it close-up in Miss Bingley (and myslf).
We will be home tomorrow and glad to sleep in our own bed. Jack The Cat is always a tad fatter when we come home than when we leave. Danielle spoils him, which is wonderful, she has taught him to stand on his hind legs for his treats. It is very cute. He won’t do that for me.
a contender
I have just written a strong contender for the worst book listing ever on NewNeedlepoint.com.
It’s worse than my former worst review, written for the Handbook of Needlepoint Stitches by Mary Meister Walzer.
Here is, in all it’s glory, my new listing for Do-It-All-Yourself Needlepoint by Joan Scobey & Lee Parr McGrath
“The Introduction to this book discusses how wonderful needlepoint is. It mentions the famous people who stitch such as Princess Grace (who was still alive then) Julie Eisenhower (who still mattered then) Joanne Woodward (who still does matter) and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (who haven’t mattered for a long time and are both now passed away).
The introduction also calls Needlepoint a “Lagniappe”. Now, I am a very literate person but I had to look that one up.
Wikipedia says it is “something given as a bonus or an extra gift”.
Merriam-Webster says the usage is mostly southern USA, where merchants give (or gave) customers a small gift as a thank you for shopping in their stores.
Given these definitions I fail to see how Needlepoint is a Lagniappe.
A joy perhaps but…..I am not sure where this book is going from here.
Joan Scobey is a well known name in Needlepoint, she is author of a number of other books by herself or with Lee Parr McGrath. They are all out of print now.
This book also credits Marjorie Sablow with the Original Needlepoint Designs used in this book and Eugene Sablow with the photographs (husband? son?).
The first chapter is What You Need To Begin, so it is safe to assume this book is targeted to beginners.
There is a chapter on the Stitches, Finding Your Design, Design, Composition and Color (now we are getting somewhere), Putting Your Design on Canvas, Needle Notes (?), What To Make Of It-And How, Finishing Touches, A Gift That Is Part of The Giver, Needlepoint As A Family Affair, Patterns & Components.
In paging through this book I see that this would be a valuable resource for an absolute beginner.
I am somewhat “put-off” by the tone of this book but that might just be me. (I am something of a grouch).
The “Needle Notes” chapter is a joke and the cherry on this cake is the design graphs or patterns at the end of the book. They are gray tone drawings on a blue grid (the blue grid is the only color in the book).
How one is to stitch from one of these is beyond me.
Published as an Essandess Special Edition by Simon and Schuster (who should have known better) in 1971 this is a hardcover book with 184 pages.
The book is in very good condition. It does not have a dust jacket but otherwise, it is tight and clean.”
Below is the picture I mentioned, the design grids
This review is me at my snarky, sarcastic best. I think I am funny (at least someone does).
everything old is new again
When I first opened NewNeedlepoint.com in March 2009 some of the first stock I had was some wonderful canvases by Patt & Lee Designs. I had the Claire Sanchez Tote Bags and a nice stock of Hand Painted Canvases & Kits. Also some hand line drawn NewNeedlepoint.com *color-choice* canvases & kits.
Which was gorgeous stitched but hardly anyone bought my designs. I think I sold 3.
I did not stock or sell any books back then.
I *met* Patt when we were both just starting out on (ugh) eBay. I liked her work and we muddled through the first negotiations somehow. I have always carried Patt & Lee designs since then.
I no longer sell the Claire Sanchez Bags or the Hand Line Drawn NewNeedlepoint designed stuff. I stock and sell a lot of books and many less Hand Painted Canvases & Kits.
The Patt & Lee designs have been steady sellers, even back when I had hardly any sales, many of the few I had were P & L stuff.
I have a large stock of Patt’s designs, some sold as just as kits and some as canvases or kits. I have had a few of these since day 1. It is not that those designs were unsalable, it was that it took me 2 years to start having enough sales so things are moving.
Anyway, I am getting away from my point. When Patt began to do a series of Trunk Shows, at LNS all over the country, I sent her some of my older canvases to sell. To expand her “trunk show stock” and from my point of view, to move some of the older designs that had been here forever.
Again, this does not denigrate her stuff in any way, it was my store which did not have enough customers.
Patt just sent me back the canvases I had sent to her for these shows, along with payment for the ones that sold at the Trunk Shows. It seems that one after another the Trunk Shows she had planned on doing all through the summer have been cancelled. I think this is a shame.
One store is for sale, another owner is retiring and no specific reason for another. I think this is sad, not just for Patt & me but for the industry.
I did my first Needlepoint after walking by the store, day after day, on my way to the Post Office. I saw it in the window. It was an Erhman Kit of a Rooster.
This is 25 or 23 years ago now.
Would I have ever done NP if I had not walked by that store so often and fallen in love with a kit. I bet I would not have.
In time I became a “real stitcher”. I was known for my even stitching and excellent tension and my color sense.
Decorative stitching was just beginning to be The Thing back then so I still got snaps for my perfect basketweave.
Now, things have changed and I have a Needlepoint Web Store and do a lot of work for beginners. I even wrote and self-published (very crude on my own old laser jet printer) a booklet for beginners called * Needlepoint Stuff No One Told Me When I knew Nothing*.
If I don’t say so myself (and I do) it is not a bad little book.
But still….I believe we need the LNS and should not let them all fade away. Then again, I want you to buy from me instead. Think of me as a resource for all the stitchers who live no where near a NP store or anything even faintly like it. (like me)
Anyway…..back to my very first point. New old Patt & Lee Designs.
26 Colors Star Quilt is for sale as both the canvas alone and as a kit. I was and still am surprised that this has not sold. This is a gorgeous design. It indeed uses 26 colors. I originally had this kitted using DMC #5 Perle Cotton Floss.
This was long before I added the #8 size Perle Cotton to my stock. I never did re-do the quilt then but I have now.
The picture in my listing for the kit still shows the #5 floss but it has been replaced with the same colors in DMC and Anchor #8 Perle Cotton. I will re-do the picture one of these days (as in eventually)
I know the kit costs a lot more then the canvas alone but it does use 27 double skien balls of the #8 size floss (8 only comes in double skien balls).
Then there is Patt’s design I call Patient Cat. This is also sold as a kit or the canvas alone
I love this cat, crouched and waiting for something, licking his chops. He is ready.
Patt stitched her canvas as a sample. As you can see, Patt is a much better stitcher then I am. She amazes happy old plain stitcher me.
The 3rd one is The Lady’s Hat. Also listed as the kit or the canvas alone
Aspiring to fashion myself, I can only admire the lady & her very stylish hat. I do not have the “presence” to carry this off but she clearly does, right down to her gold bow.
I am all done listing the new canvases, I still have a few on order (6 weeks for hand painted) and I just got Patt & Lee’s newest Scrap Threads design, The Dogs but have not done anything with it yet. I promise a picture in the next blog.
I am reading romantic claptrap, happily. I tried James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice. I read a recent review (or re-review, they were discussing his book in print during the HBO presentation of MIldred Pierce) that said The Postman was the best of his books.
BTW, I have not seen the new Mildred yet but Joan Crawford’s was great. I also liked both versions of The Postman Always Rings Twice, the older John Garfield & Lana Turner movie from 1946 and the Jack Nicholson & Jessica Lange 1981 one.
They were both different, the same story and the same book but different.
Anyway, I could not read it. Frank & Cora on the page did not “live” for me.
That’s all. I am working on listing the (now) more than 54 rare/used books I have to do. Slowly I plod along (how’s that for an image?).
Poltergeists in the US Mail Service
Since the 1st of the year I have been having problems with the mail. Usually, it is excellent. The shipping I do arrives quickly and mostly undamaged. I had one customer who asked for a replacement (new) book after telling me her’s had been wrapped inadequately. She really “spanked” me for my lousy shipping prep.
I package all the books with many layers or tissue paper wrapped around the book, a heavy plastic bag over that and a Tyvek or padded yellow envelope. Which envelope depends on the weight and number of books in the package. More then 3 books get a cardboard box.
I mean, I used Tyvek to wrap my house in when we re-sided my Acton house years ago. It was plenty strong enough for that. This is the same material the USPS uses on their soft Priority Mail envelopes.
I sent her a new book but she insisted on sending me back the damaged book, she said that “her husband was in the paper industry” (I am not kidding) and that these envelopes were not suitable for shipping books.
Ok, I got this lightly damaged book back. It looked like it has been dropped from a height, one corner was smashed in some but hardly a “demolished” book.
I have had lots of “my package is not here yet” emails. I used to almost never get those. Yes, Media Mail can be slow but it, mostly, eventually shows up.
I hate getting that kind of email. Then I fret over it. Only 1 book has never ever showed up and that was this month.
I am getting these complaints almost weekly now and they are so frustrating. I do not do delivery confirmation on Media Mail books. Even the 70 cents it costs matters. I am working on very small margins with these books. Especially the new books after you figure in the free shipping (which is my discount to you).
If I do the postage on line the delivery confirmation is free. But the on-line postage thingie does not work with Macs and I have always been and will always be a Mac user. So……
I wonder what is going on with the Post Office? Why is this happening so frequently now?
Are my personal Poltergeists messing with the NewNeedlepoint mail or is this happening to everyone? Why have Poltergeists chosen me?
I suppose it is egotistical to assume the Poltergeists are doing this just to me but then again it is not paranoia if “they” are really after you.
The desk drawer is still opening at random times. I have a folded up piece of cardboard wedged in the opening to keep the drawer in place but still…it sometimes comes sliding out.
Today I had to send a 2nd copy of Sandy Arthur’s popular new book, The Shapes of Needlepoint Part 1 to the patient customer who had ordered it April 1st (April 1!!!!!) and never received it.
It is even happening with Priority Mail.
Of course, there is the customer who changed her mind about the tote bag she bought ( one of my Claire Sanchez clearance sale bags, originally $80+, marked down to $20) and scribbled over her name & address when the package arrived and wrote “No Such Person” on it and sent it back to me.
Clearly , this is a Rant Blog. I have not done one for a while now I guess I was due.
My long burst of business has cooled down, however sales remain steadyish and I am OK with the ebb and flow (as long as the flow begins again soon).
I am beavering away at the listings. I am 3 canvases away from finishing listing all the new ones and starting on the 54 rare/used books I have to list.
Some of them are very rare and mostly unknown books.
I have 3 Margaret Boyles books: Designs for Babies with all kinds of stitching on wonderful baby clothes, Margaret Boyles Crewel Embroidery and Margaret Boyles Country Needlepoint.
I have Elaine Slater’s book (author of The NY Times Book of Needlepoint & The NY Times Book of Needlepoint for Left-Handers) of Needlepoint Projects.
I have a lovely book called Joyous Occasions, A Collection of Heirloom Hardanger Designs by Emie Bishop with a picture of a beautiful bride & bridesmaid on the cover.
A Creative Needle Christmas by Creative Needle Publishing in Georgia subtitled “Sew a Wonderful Christmas” (this may not exactly be a needlework book)
I have Hope Hanley’s 1964 hardcover book “Needlepoint”. That’s all, just Needlepoint for the title. This may be her first book.
I have 2 books by Marie Barber. Cross-Stitch Florals & Cross-Stitch The Special Moments In Your Life.
A book by Phyllis Kluger (the author of the ever popular and steady selling book A Needlepoint Gallery Of Patterns From the Past) Victorian Designs for Needlepoint
I did not know these books even existed until I began digging. I have a Needlepoint & Latch Hooked Rugs book and more (MORE).
I have finished David Copperfield. It was a surprise from beginning to end. He never was or thought the things I expected him to think and feel. Behind the polite manners lived a wonderful man and in reading, he became real to me. I enjoyed it, all trillion pages of it.
I am currently wallowing in a Regency Romance. Sort of like a light sweet desert after a fine meal.
the bird
Next day, 8:03am. The bird is back smashing into the glass door over and over.
I turned the light off and he (this has to be a male, no girl is this stupid) is still doing it. Can a bird be possessed by a Poltergeist or can a Poltergeist appear to be a bird?
beginners & poltergeists
I have been surprised by the response to the TNNA’s series of Needlework books for beginners.
Although I refer to them as books, they are really pamphlets or booklets or something, each having about 30 some pages.
I have had the How to Needlepoint listed for a long time with little response. I think I sold 1. Then, all of a sudden, everybody wants one. I sold out the 4 I had and am now waiting for my re-order. They were back-ordered from the distributor for 2 weeks (or one more week remaining).
I wonder if everybody selling these suddenly had a run on them. These are great books. To quote my own (well written, of course) listing text. This one is for the Knitting edition
“The National NeedleArts Association (TNNA) has this very good series of book (or booklets, more like) for absolute beginners.
This clear and easy to understand book will take you from materials needed to the very first steps, step-by-step to knitting a basic Knit Stitch, Garter Stitch, Purl Stitch, Stockinette Stitch and Ribbing Stitch.
The commonly used symbols in knitting are translated.
On the inside back cover of the booklet, the TNNA says “This book is intended to get you started in enjoying knitting, learning basic techniques and just a few of the hundreds of stitched available.”
I think it is a great idea.”
And their Embroidery & Cross-Stitch edition.
I have only had the 2 new ones listed a few days and I have already sold one of the Knitting ones.
They really are the perfect beginner’s book, they are clear and easy to follow and no “talking down” to the reader.
Ok, the title of this blog. I have had a strange few days. As you might know, we are living in this dingy old rental now, since we moved from Florida last July and sold our house there.
It really is not that bad, we do live comfortably here, with a 2 car garage and central air and a nice laundry room etc but still…it is small. Much of my stuff is in storage and my office is a miracle of organization, it is only 9 X 9 feet and most of NewNeedlepoint.com is crammed in here plus my desk.
I have this amazing desk, I found these brothers in Vermont on the net (of course) who make handmade desks. I always wanted a nice one so I ordered a desk from them in Flame Birch. The top of the desk is one slab of wood that has been sliced and the 2 sides laid side by side for the top. The grain and pattern are gorgeous.
The desk is a regular size desk has 2 graduated size drawers on each side with a larger file size drawer below on each side.
I have had this desk for years. It has always been perfect. Now, keep in mind I have lived here since last July.
Last week the file drawer on the right side of the desk began opening on it’s own. It does not do it all the time or even most of the time, just sometimes. Often enough to be annoying.
It will sit there all quiet and perfect and then for no reason I can determine, it will slide open slowly.
Being me, I assume it is Poltergeists.
Then, early this morning, I heard this tap, tap, tap noise. It was irregular and went on for some time (enough to wake me which is no mean feat before 9am). I thought it might be Danielle, she always knocks softly, but we had no plans for today.
I got up (not a pleasant sight, I am not a morning person) and went to the front door, no one was there, all was quiet outside.
I stumbled back up the half fight of stairs (the rental is a duplex that is like a long ranch house with 2 front doors) and happened to see movement at the French doors leading to our postage stamp deck (we live in a suburb of a small rural town in Amish agricultural Lancaster County, PA) and there was a bird knocking himself against the glass door.
It was a Robin and he did this over and over. Then, when he saw me he stopped and flew a short distance away.
As soon as I left the room (OK, went back to bed) it began again and went on, off and on all day.
But whenever one of us went into the room, he flew off.
K says the bird was attracted to the light, it was a gray rainy day and I had the lights on.
I turned that light off and the bird still did it. Odd.
I wonder what he will do tomorrow?
I am still reading David Copperfield. I think maybe I will be reading David Copperfield for the rest of my life. Not that I am not enjoying it (double negative there). I am at the part where David’s Aunt loses her fortune and our Hero steps up and and works like a fiend to restore their fortunes and respectability.
Plus, he is in love and a greater fool in love there never was. Uriah Heep is moving up in life and he is repulsive on the page, I can’t even imagine him on a movie screen.
All in all, K & I, Jack the Cat, the Poltergeists and the stupid bird are doing fine. It is fully spring here.
Sharon G is back
I received my re-order of Sharon G’s new book this morning. It is now *in stock for immediate delivery* (I always wanted to say that)
contemporary colors
I am shocked, shocked I tell you. It has been 6 days since I blogged (pardon me while I go whap myself upside the head). I know I promised to be a better blogger but clearly I am unreliable.
We went away for 2 nights this weekend, to the Maryland shores, just to look around. If I am home I do not and can’t seem to take a day off from NewNeedlepoint.com. I say to myself I will not work today but I do. My postage stamp size office is right here, looming large in my “guilt place” and my thoughts of work still to do.
So, it was a nice weekend. My wonderful neighbor and teenage nn.com helper, Danielle, watches Jack The Cat for us when we go away even overnight (Jack is demanding & spoiled, this is also my fault).
This is Jack about to wolf down some (more) treats that he whined, begged and meowed out of one of us for the gazzillionth time that day (or any day). And he remains thin.
I have actually gotten quite a bit of the work done. All but 6 of the newest canvases & kits are listed and 2 of those are delayed. I want to re-do my color selections (and the photos) for 2 of them.
Taking the pictures of the kits is sort of my “last edit” of the choices I have made. Sometimes I am not happy with them and re-do them. I am a real pain-in-my-own-butt about color.
I have all but 11 new books, 2 new Amy Bunger DVD titles and 2 new color choice tool thingies to list, so I have gotten through a lot of it.
Then I have 35 (AWK) rare/used needlework books to list. Many of them are part of my web stores book categories expansion into Knitting, Embroidery, Cross-Stitch, Color Theory, Ribbon Embroidery, Bead Needlework, StumpWork, Hardanger, Montmellick Embroidery, Rug Making, WhiteWork, BlackWork and on.
Then there will be a few even newer books.
I am out-of-stock (almost immediately) of Sharon G’s new book “Simply Essential Needlepoint Stitch Explanations or Sharon G’s SENSE. I have a big order of them due this week. I am taking orders and will ship the moment they arrive (anyone who has bought from me already knows I am a fast shipping freak).
OK, the colors I mentioned in the blog title is an examination of the current color use in the Laurel Burch Designs.
The 2 canvases below are Laurel Burch 2010. You can clearly see her color use. I think she has a very brave and original take on color and I admire it very much.
Green Dogs
Black Cat with Flowers
Now it gets interesting (not that the designs above are not interesting)
This is her 2010 Bird Ornament
Now, as I show a few of her 2011 designs, I want you to keep in mind the Bird Ornament colors, they are the first sign of a clear trend.
Below is Laurel Burch’s Poodles. This canvas & kit are not listed yet. This week (I hope)
Dog Pyramid (also not listed yet)
This one, I call it Cat Angel, sold within days of my listing it. I have not re-ordered it yet but I will.
As you can see, they all use the same basic colors & hues which leads me to believe these are the “fashion” colors for this year, in Laurel Burch’s design portfolio. I wonder how prevalent these colors in other designer’s 2011 work? I will have a better idea about that after the June TNNA show.
Or maybe these are the colors that attract me, so I have ordered these particular designs. Hmmmmmm. I am going to go look at the whole inventory of LB designs. BRB
With one total exception (a Christmas themed canvas) and 2 background color only exceptions, these are her colors this year. I think this is interesting but I am always interested in color and color use (as clearly shown my my Color and Color Theory books Category)
New Color Theory books are hard to get. Often (very) the ones I order are discontinued. Same thing with the Hooked or Punch Needle Books I try to get.
What else, Sandra Arthur’s book, The Shapes of Needlepoint, continues to be a big seller. I sold 3 of them just this past weekend. My stock is down to 3 and I have placed an order for more, more, more.
I am reading David Copperfield. Considering I can be a total book snob (when I am not buried deeply in some luscious romance novel) I had never read any Charles Dickens. I just took other’s word for it that he was a great writer. I was very “taken” with Great Expectations so I chose this.
I am enjoying David C. but it does go on and on, GE moved somewhat faster.
I also recently read Alice Hoffman’s newest novel, Red Garden, I enjoyed it but I have always been a fan and reader of Alice Hoffman’s books. There is much more to them than the books they have made into movies.
I think I have this right. They are:
Practical Magic
Local Girls
The River King
and 2 movies from her books for teenagers
I still have not read any Mark Twain but his book (3 of them) are sitting on my iPad waiting.
Anyway, I hope this long blog makes up (a bit) for my blog neglect.
mostly books
Mostly I have been listing books. I did sell the Laurel Burch AngelCat Ornament Needlepoint Kit just days after I listed it.
Of the 10 Vintage Erhman Needlepoint Kits I listed I have 6 left.
But books are mostly what I have been doing. I have filled a good portion of the Knitting Books Category.
Most of the books look pretty good to me, a few are standouts and a very few look to be not what I hoped they were.
In the standouts list is The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns by Ann Budd. This book has charts & charts allowing you to size almost anything to any size you want.
The Knitter’s Book of Finishing Techniques by Nancie M. Wiseman looks to me to be the one book all knitters need (sort of like the out of print Needlework Doctor is for stitchers).
I have assembled lots of knitting for my knitter mother over the years, now I know what I did wrong (a lot).
I thought The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Knitting by Becca Smith was very comprehensive and well done, perfect for knitting morons like me.
Last is this book, not only is the cover just gorgeous but the book is indeed A to Z, and well done. Easy to follow with tons of pictures. The A to Z of Knitting: The Ultimate Guide
I was not impressed with the very popular Knitter’s Companion: expanded and updated edition by Vicki Square.
(watch marianne shoot herself in the foot)
The book’s instructions were sparse and hard to follow (for me anyway). The pictures were mostly line drawings, small and hard to see details.
Yes, the spiral binding inside a hard cover is nice for a book for this but not nice enough to make up for a lackluster book.
I have not opened and watched the DVD version of this book I have, so I can’t tell you anything.
I have been replacing sold copies of the books in my rare books categories. It is the *usual suspects* or as K likes to say “Deja Vu all over again”.
The Needlework Doctor by Mary Kay Davis
Both Katharine Ireys books. Finishing and Mounting Your Needlepoint Pieces and her ever popular The Encyclopedia of Canvas Embroidery Stitch Patterns
I finally replaced 2 of my Lizabeth Perrone books. They sold a while ago but I have been dragging my feet about re-ordering. I have no idea why.
I have The New World of Needlepoint which is an interesting book, there are as many Bargello petterns in it as NP.
Lizabeth Perrone’s Folk Art in Needlepoint & Cross Stitch
3 books that I replaced today are in *Gift Quality* condition .
Martin Leman’s Needlepoint Cats, with the cats painted by Martin Leman and the needlepoint charted by his daughter Jill Leman, a wonderful book.
My newest copy of Stella Edwards Wildlife in Needlepoint is absolutely gift quality
This is the best condition copy of this book I have ever seen. It is a steady seller here on NewNeedlepoint.com. This copy of Geometric Designs in Needlepoint by Mary Jaene Edmonds is as good as it looks.
I am reading some romantic fluff, enjoying it. My cold is much better but I am still sniffling and coughing, all of which makes me a charming companion (sarcasm alert)
