As I stumble along, NewNeedlepoint.com will be 3 years old March 15.  The first year was hard, I did not get my first order for almost  7 months.  The waiting and the frustration were terrible.

The few of you who have been along for this ride, since the beginning or almost, know that I have made many changes to nn.com since I began.  Many.

Now, as a somewhat veteran of the on-line web store biz, NewNeedlepoint does OK.  I have repeat customers, new customers and a few have become friends.

My book sales are amazing, many books pass through here.  I  do a fine used/rare book business  although some of the more popular books are getting very hard to find in good condition and very expensive.  Still. I think some of the older books are well worth my effort.   I sell lots of Bargello books, new & old.  There are so few of them out there.

I do an Ok with Needlepoint Canvases & kits business.  My Laurel Burch category does well.

I have been thinking, off & on, that I might do better to change nn.com (again) to all books.  Then again, my expansion into lots of different kinds of needlework books has not been a success yet.

I have lots of stock in both used/rare & new books on Knitting, Crochet (less then knitting) Embroidery,  Color Theory, an interesting Misc Books category & Cross Stitch including stump work, beading included in needlework, ribbon embroidery and so on.

I am not worried, I figure it will take the time for this change to “trickle down” like the store itself did, in the beginning.

Then again, when I think of doing just books, I get an unpleasant feeling.  Even though I have little time for stitching lately, I started this web store because I love needlepoint.

I bought the Domain Name Needler Books but I am quite attached to NewNeedlepoint.com and the name is getting known.  Many of the searches that bring people to my store begin with “NewNeedlepoint”.  Not New Needlepoint.

So, I am sorry I have bored you all t0 death with my rambling.

I did get some info on new book releases today.   Sandy Arthur’s newest book The Shapes of Needlepoint Series 3 will be Corners, Diagonals, Horizontals & Verticals.  The book will be released in August.

I could use corners, see how I messed up and fudged the corners of this Bargello I stitched with a Trianglepoint border.

and here’s another one with a triple Slanted Gobelin Stitch border that Dr Denise stitched.  I told her to fudge the corners.

Sharon G’s next book, I am pretty sure it is about Borders, is supposed to be released in March/April.  I am looking forward to it.  I need help with borders too .

The second book in the amazingly popular Stitch Landscape series is still being written.  No word when to expect it yet.

Ok, here’s a surprise for you.  When I finally (if ever) finish listing all the new books, new rare books and canvases & kits I have (and I am making progress there) I may reopen the Bargello Needlepoint Kits category

I closed it 2 years ago, no one seemed interested.  Then again, no one was interested in NewNeedlepoint back then.

Now I sell a lot of Bargello books, can hardly keep them in stock so maybe…..

Speaking of, I am in process of re-listing many of the used/rare books that have sold in the last few months.  Some very popular titles are being re-listed this weekend (no, I never have a whole day off, neither do I get a whole lot done in a day)

Shirlee Lantz A Pageant of Pattern for Needlepoint in Gift Quality condition. Never saw one this good before.

Working on Canvas by Margaret Rivers, mostly Bargello

Dictionary of Canvas Work Stitches by Mary Rhodes, amazing stitch book for advanced stitchers  (way beyond me)

Textured Canvas Work by Alison Park.  I can’t keep this book in stock, as soon as I list one, it sells.

Marion Broome Pakula Needlepoint Plaids in unusually good condition

Good stuff.  Took me too long to replace it, all due to my laggard ways.

I also have 2 Dorothy Kaestner Bargello books back in stock.  I had a really hard time finding salable copies

4 Way Bargello

Bargello Antics

and Barbara Muller’s excellent Florentine Embroidery

oh well, good night  (how did it get to be 3:22am ?)