surprising books
I have been having a real run of book orders lately. Single copies and groups of books both. I was beginning to wonder when about the Needlepoint stuff I list when I had 3 kit orders in 2 days so that worry aside….( I have lots of worries).
Before I get into it, in case you are curious, here is a picture of the outside on my new home.townhouse. It is an end unit so the entrance is somewhat private.
The garage faces the road, with the entrance around the corner from it. There is some nice landscaping too, with roses in the back.
My contractor troubles go on. The contractor presented me with a HUGE bill for his services but really, he is not doing all that much of the work. His is subcontracting the kitchen & counters, tile floors, carpets, bathroom replacement and all those installations.
I do not have any numbers on all that yet but I am getting nervous. One of my (new) neighbors told me the large hardware store/supplier he is having me use is expensive.
To give my self a frame of reference, we went to Home Depot today armed with K’s detailed & measured drawing of the kitchen. We knew exactly what we wanted and they gave us a quote, minus installation, which has to be estimated on site.
For comparable cabinets/granite we got a very reasonable quote.
So now I am waiting for my contractors report on his sub-contractors price (plus his mark-up).
I have already whittled the job down some, I am not tiling the showers and not replacing the windows.
We shall see. My biggest issue with having home depot do it is I will have to be there every day. With a general contractor I don’t. I don’t drive anymore so it is an issue. But I could hire Danielle, my excellent helper and Jack The Cat watcher (when we are away) to drive me etc.
So…..Now I am armed. I do not like being rinky-dinked. I do not like being taken advantage of. While I may look and sound soft, I am not and I will handle this in the way most beneficial to K & me, not to the contractor.
Ok, my subject. I think the new book Stitch Landscape by Elaine Oliveros & Stacey Tombros is another *hit* needlepoint book.
I have sold all but 1 of my initial order (which was not small) and the author/publishers are sold out as well. I have placed a bigger re-order. They say I will have more the first week of August.
I am still selling The Shapes of Needlepoint Part 1 and about to begin taking pre-orders on Part 2, which I will have to begin shipping August 15 (Sandy Arthur promises me).
I am having surprisingly good sales of A Perfect World in Ribbon Embroidery & Stumpwork by Di van Niekerk. A few of the other Ribbon Embroidery books are selling well too.
Redoute’s Finest Flowers in Embroidery flew out of here within days of my listing it. I now have more copies of it. A gorgeous book, I love Redoute’s flower designs. I have an antique one framed on my wall.
Canvas Embellishement & Canvas Embellishment The Sequel sell well, despite how costly they are. I think they are well worth it but still I only order a few copies at a time, I have to re-order them constantly.
June McKnight’s Spooky Stitches seems to be another hit, I have re-ordered it 3 times since it was released (not all that long ago, it is Ms, McKnight’s most recent book).
I am out of it right now, a new order is on it’s way.
it joins her other books: Shading and Thread Blending Techniques & Colorful Stitches For Over-Dyed Threads as some of my more frequently sold books.
In New Bargello Books, Creating Contemporary Bargello by Iona L. Dittelbach is very popular but sadly, there are so few new Bargello books.
The real news is my rare/hard-to-find/used books. I have been going through my Excel files, deleting older copies of books I buy (and sell) a lot. I was floored to see how many copies of some of them I have sold.
I know you have read me blather on about the Katharine Ireys great books, Finishing and Mounting Your Needlepoint Pieces & The Encyclopedia of Canvas Embroidery Stitches. I can hardly keep them in stock.
In going through my Excel files however it seems I have sold multiple copies of:
The Needlework Doctor by Mary Kay Davis (many, many copies)
101 Designs for Needlepoint and Cross Stitch & 97 Needlepoint Alphabets by B. Borssuck
Needlepoint Stitchery by Margaret Boyles (more from Mrs. Boyles when we get to bargello)
Needlepoint and Pattern by Gloria Katzenberg
Tapisserie: The Art of Needlepoint by Hayat Palumbo
Needlepoint Designs from Amish Quilts by Laura S. Gilberg & Barbara B. Bucholz
Your House in Needlepoint by Susan Higgenson:
Gold and Silver Needlepoint by Maggie Lane
A Needlepoint Gallery of Patterns from the Past by Phyllis Kluger
Trianglepoint by Shirlee Lanz belong in both NP & bargello
And then there are the bargello. Some of them sell more than I ever would have believed. The list is long.
Needlepoint Bargello, 4 Way Bargello & Bargello Antics by Dorothy Kaestener. I do not have 4 Way Bargello or Antics listed right now, they are in the pile of replacement books to list.
Bargello Plus by Mira Silverstein
The same for Margaret Boyles Bargello, an Explosion in Color and The Bargello Workbook.
Same for A New World of Needlepoint by Lizabeth Perrone, Elsa Williams, Bargello: Florentine Canvas Work.
In fact, bargello books are almost all hard-to-find and sometimes impossible to replace.
I would talk about what I am reading these days but I am sick of sitting here and I still have to place all the links so you can find these books on
Me again. The links don’t work anymore. Figures, I discover this on Friday night. Poor Zac, the tech, come Monday.
Stitch Landscape
This has been an exciting year for needlework book people. We have seen the publication of several new books, all of which are the first books in proposed series.
Today’s brand spankin new publication is Stitch Landscape by Stacey Tombros & Elaine Oliverio of Little Shoppe Canvas Company.
I spoke to Elaine when I first learned about this book’s pending publication and she told me that it was the first in a series of “speciality” stitch books. She was, by the way, a very nice lady to talk to.
This book has just come out and NewNeedlepoint.com is, I think, one of the first to get it (marianne toots her own horn).
I have looked it over, read parts of it and did my usual review for the listing. I am impressed. The boo’s structure is not confusing, things are where they are supposed to be (if you know what I mean).
Although it is a small book, with just 75 pages, there are 5 or 6 different stitch diagrams per page. They are well done and comprehensive and then some. There are many stitches here I have never seen before (not that I am an expert or anything but I do get around).
Each chapter has at least one page of Stitch Tips, they are pretty good (sometimes tips in these books are ridiculous).
The chapters are interesting. For example there is one for Soil. Another for Tree Bark. As I noted in my listing, there are 40 different stitches for Grass.
Below is a picture of 2 of the pages of this book
Stitch Landscape joins my other current & popular new books released this year:
The Shapes of Needlepoint Part 1 by Sandra Arthur.
I will have The Shapes of Needlepoint Part 2 for delivery on August 15. It covers Diamonds, Hearts, Octagons & Stars.
Not to forget Sharon G’s excellent Simply Essential Needlepoint Stitch Explanations or S.E.N.S.E.
This is exciting for me, I like being ahead of the curve, if you know what I mean.
I bought my new house/townhouse condo today. Tomorrow is picking tile for the floor and maybe light fixtures. Just waiting for the kitchen materials list to order that.
Oh, maybe bathroom fixtures tomorrow, maybe not.
The Shapes of Needlepoint Part 2
I have a date for the release of Sandra Arthur’s The Shapes of Needlepoint Part 2. August 15 2011.
I will have this book in stock on that date. I am going to do something brand new, new for NewNeedlepoint.com, anyway. I have 6 firm orders already, from people who said they absolutely want Sandy’s new book plus lots of enquiries about when it will be released.
Many more since The ANG magazine Needlepointers reviewed it in the current issue by Joni Stevenson. It is a very favorable review.
I am going to send an email to everybody who asked about Part 2 and everybody who bought The Shapes of Needlepoint Part 1.
Part 2 is Diamonds, Hearts, Octagons and Stars. I have not seen the book yet but according to Sandy’s web site, it is “chock full of diagrams” and laid out just like Part 1 was. It also has the 2 Tables of Contents, one by shape & one by thread count.
I still had, I thought, a huge stack of Part 1 but today, when filling & mailing the weekends orders, I found I have 1 copy left.I was surprised & placed an order for more.
It led me to to do a count of the number of copies I have sold. The total number is higher then I imagined (39). That is a lot for a small one-person needlepoint & needlework book web store like mine.
Anyway, getting back to my main point (I wandered, again). I am going to take advance orders for The Shapes of Needlepoint Part 2.
I was not always able to get Part 1 or keep it in stock, this way the buyers will be guaranteed a copy immediately when they are released.
I will even have the shipping labels ready, so ship when I receive them. I have ordered 30 copies but I can up that number, if I need to.
This is sort of exciting for me but all the emails will be some work.
This is on top of the remaining piles of rare/used books, new books and canvases & kits I have been meaning to list.
Obviously, I got sidetracked by the new house stuff. I buy it Friday. I have already met with my contractor there and we have outlined the job and taken measurements.
As soon as he gets back to me with the list, I will order my kitchen & bathroom fixtures.
Then there are light fixtures and ceiling fans to buy, faucets, appliances etc.
Tile to choose. K is going to do the painting, his boss (and good friend) has offered to help. That is wonderful, he is very tall (LOL). K worked for a professional painter once, for a while and is an excellent painter. He will work behind the contractor & his guys, paint a room as they finish it.
We will start up stairs, they are only doing the one bathroom up there.
Then the last thing, the very last, will be the carpet. I am not using the contractor for that. As he says, and I know this to be true, all he would do is make a call and charge me a fee. I can find carpet & installers on my own.
That is also why I am getting what is needed for the job, myself. The only thing he will actually provide will be the granite counters in the kitchen, and I will choose the granite from his guy.
Even the bathroom vanity tops, which are standard sizes, can be bought pre cut and made, at Home Depot.
This sounds like a lot of work and it is, then again it isn’t.
I am something of a minimalist, in my home decorating. I like simple things in real materials. A full kitchen can be wildly expensive to do or it can be reasonable, it is all in what you choose to use. Same with the whole job.
Anyway, sorry to go on about this, clearly I am immersed in it.
After Friday it will just be the waiting for the job to be done, I hope to actually get some NewNeedlepoint listings done during that time. We do not move until the renovation is complete (we also have to do windows & heating system, those were unexpected results of the home inspection but I am not surprised).
Whew.
I am still reading Robert Parker’s Spenser series, in between every few of them I read some romantic twaddle. Sort of like having some sherbet in between the courses of a banquet, to clear the palette. I just finished Rough Weather. The Professional is next.
So, that’s my news. Now back to work for me. So many choices to make, I hope I get it right.
second part
Ok, so you all (all 2 of you who read this) knew I would not finish this post yesterday.
We came home from our Atlantic City extravaganza and found wonderful Danielle here with Jack. We talked awhile and then and after I gave Jack The Cat fresh water. I scooped his cat box, sorted the laundry from the suitcase(s) (I do not travel light) and then fell asleep.
That was it for me.
Ok, part 2 now. My excellent customer bought some very interesting rare books. ( I know, I am a suck-up for NewNeedlepoint)
Victorian Designs by Phyllis Kluger. A recent addition to my stock and a very rare book by the author of the often sold (and replaced) book: A Gallery of Needlepoint Designs From The Past. I will look for another copy of this book.
British Country House Needlepoint by Frances Kennett & Belinda Scarlett. Isn’t that a wonderful name “Belinda Scarlett”? It ties in with 2 of my favorite movies. Belinda is the name of the little girl Burt Lancaster gives the first, free lightning rod to when he is selling them from his wagon in The Rainmaker. And Scarlett, well we all know who Scarlett O’Hara is.
This book is what I used to think needlepoint was all about before I knew much about needlepoint. Gorgeous things in an elegant and impressive house, home to a duke or something.
A beautiful book full of beautiful needlepoint.
Tappisserie by Hayat Palumbo, the author of A Passion for Needlepoint.
Both book are rare, I only heard of them because someone I know, who knows much more needlepointy stuff then I do, mentioned A Passion For Needlepoint to me as a book she remembered. (yes, I know needlepointy is not a word) I will try to replace this book, too.
Jill Gordon’s Needlepoint was a rare book, and this is an very fine Gift Quality copy of it. It has been re-issued so I think I will replace it with the new one. I like Ms Gordon’s take on needlepoint, very modern & original.
Needlework Masterpieces from Winterthur by Hollis Greer Minor. The Winterthur Museum has an amazing collection of American samplers and needlework, from the collecting of Henry Francis DuPont (who died in 1969). The earliest known sampler worked in America is in the collection plus what is considered the finest examples of American Textile and Needlework.
She also bought 2 of the most often sold books I stock, right up there with The Needlework Doctor.
Finishing and Mounting Your Needlepoint Pieces by Katharine Ireys. This was published in 1973 and remains a great source of technique and information. The book also has 40 projects to stitch. I have more copies of this, I need to photograph & re-list them.
Also by Katharine Ireys is The Encyclopedia of Canvas Embroidery Stitch Patterns. This was published in 1968 and revised in 1972. There are, I suppose, many new stitches not here but the stitches that are in this book are easy to understand and well diagrammed. I have successfully learned stitches from this book. I also have another copy of this which I will re-list.
These are impressive choices. This was a big weekend for NewNeedlepoint. I also sold another copy of Sandra Arthur’s The Shapes of Needlepoint Part 1 and 2 copies of Sharon G’s popular new S.E.N.S.E..
Another fine customer bought 2 rare Victorian Needlepoint books, one very rare and one hard-to-find. Very rare is Beth Russell’s Traditional Needlepoint from 1992. Well known needlepoint designer & teacher, Beth Russell, does a very handsome book with original designs & pictures.
Elizabeth Bradley’s 1990 Decorative Victorian Needlework. This book calls it self sumptous and gorgeous. I have to agree. Wonderful projects, lots of flowers, which I love.
I have had both of these books in stock for a long time, I am not sure if I will replace them.
My potential new house has passed all it’s inspections, so I guess it is a go. We meet the (potential) contractor there tomorrow to look and measure. Then I will begin ordering a kitchen & some bathrooms. I know I sound blase’ but I am not, not at all.
I am still reading Robert Parker’s Spencer. I am up to School Days, based in part, I suppose on the Colombine shootings.
In between the Spenser books I read a novel of Parker’s, Love & Glory. It is basically a love story, of how the hero found and then won the love of his life.
I found this book disturbing, I am not sure why yet. I think it needs to percolate for a while.
excellent book choices
A customer of mine (esteemed & appreciated) who has bought books from me before has just placed an amazing book order. 15 books.
She has chosen well, some of these books are unique, a few are absolutely gorgeous more needlepoint picture books then design books (can I say “needlepoint porn”? I guess not).
Seeing her choices, it gives me a tiny look at her thoughts and tastes in needlepoint, which is interesting.
Ok, enough verbage. These are her choices with some of my (always pithy) remarks about each. The new books:
The Principles of Color by Faber Birren. This is a fascinating and easy to follow (surprisingly) book on color theory, usage and correction. I had sold a number of these, also surprisingly. I need to order more.
Canvas Embellishment & Canvas Embellishment 2 by Linda Corirossi. These 2 books were not available for a while, now they are back in print. I think the work “comprehensive” was invented to describe the contents.. Excellent collection of stitches.
The picture is of the first volume, the second is just like it, only red.
A Perfect World in Ribbon Embroidery & Stumpwork by Di van Nierkirk. Wonderful pictures and design ideas in this well done book.
In an earlier blog I made fun of the name “A Perfect World” but the joke is on me. I am out of this book, as well and will order more. The ribbon embroidery books are selling more then I thought they would.
A Potpourri of Pattern by Ann Strite-Kurz. Subtitled A Collection of open Work Patterns for Canvas & Linen use. All diagrammed with Ms. Strite-Kurz’s skill & expertise. Need I say More?
Tassel Making by Anna Crutchley. I love the idea of Tassels made with the same colors & threads you used in your stitching to decorate the finished project, be it pillow or whatever (curtain tieback etc). This books is soup to nuts on tassels, with templates for you to use too.
Charted Monograms for Needlepoint & Cross Stitch by Rita Weiss. Collections of wonderful letters & numbers. This was my last copy of this book, I think.
And of course, Sharon G’s new book S.E.N.S.E. Another hit new needlepoint (and selling very well on NewNeedlepoint.com) book
These are the new books, she also bought 7 rare/used books.
I will finish this blog tomorrow, I have been writing just this part for 2 hours now and my limited brain power is used up.
Plus, we are in Atlantic City (Again?) at the Trump Taj Mahal. It is right on the boardwalk and yesterday we walked 2 miles down the boardwalk and 2 (long) miles back. Now I have blisters on the bottoms of both my feet (on the ball of my foot) and ouch!.
I am limping around today and that is a problem if I am playing slots (moving from machine to machine) but not too bad if I park my fat butt at a blackjack table. (I won yesterday, haven’t been out of the room yet today…I am sure I just jinxed myself)
I do love funky old Atlantic City, for much more then the gambling, that is everywhere now, anyway. Atlantic City is like a faded old beauty queen, living in the memories of former glory days and planning a comeback.
There are 2 sides to the city now. The old hotels on the ocean & boardwalk and the new “younger” hotels over on the bay (Borgata, Harrahs).
While we like the bay hotels, I love the old boardwalk.
But the other factor for finishing tomorrow is I am running NewNeedlepoint.com on my tiny travel Mac laptop with no mouse, just a touchpad. I have 5 times the typos on this tiny Mac than I do my regular Mac. it took me 4 tries to type touchpad (and 2 to type tries)
Wish me luck!
books, this time
First and foremost, I have 17 new copies of Sharon G’s new hit book, S.E.N.S.E. or Simply Essential Needlepoint Stitch Explanations.
I ordered 20 but I had 3 orders over last weekend.
I still have good stock of Sandy Arthur’s new book, The Shapes of Needlepoint Part 1
A customer asked me if I could get a book for her. I had never heard of it so I went trolling around the net. Talented researcher that I am, I found it. It is available wholesale from the Author & Publisher in New York State.
The book is called Stitch: Landscape.
I called the wholesaler this morning, I talked to a very nice woman, Elaine, who is most likely the author of this book.
She told me it is going to be a series of book, the next one is expected in 8 months or so.
Elaine made a point of telling me that this book contains almost all unique and original stitches or original variation on stitches.
She says only 2 of the stitches are not unique. I was impressed.
The first printing of Stitches: Landscape sold out, they expect the next printing to arrive at the end of next week. I have ordered 10, let’s see how this goes.
Jane, the stitch maven and my sometimes rescuer (when I don’t know something, which is often) has a few links to reviews of this book on her Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure Blog
I have many of the new canvas backorders I recently received listed. I was almost out of beginner’s kits so I have more of those and more to be listed.
Several (4) of the new beginner kits are on 13 mesh canvas, so I want to re-do my color selections from my new stock of DMC #3 size Perle Cotton floss.
I have 2 of these handsome hand painted Kanji’s from Danji Designs. Both are on 13 mesh canvas and would be perfect for a first time stitcher.
The one below is Love. I also have Friendship.
I hope to get this all done this week (m pokes herself, who are you kidding?).
I just went downstairs and worked my way through a maze of drying laundry (many of my nice clothes can be machine washed but hate the dryer) to take pictures of 12 of the 22 remaining rare/used books I have to list.
When those are done I have 15 new books waiting to be listed…then 7 more used books I haven’t even processed yet (processed means cleaned them and repaired any damage that is I can, assess them for salability & condition).
Then I am done ( wishful thinking alert).
We went to Boston over the long weekend and went on a shop-a-thon with my son and his excellent girlfriend. He rented a huge new apartment and we picked out furniture. I gave them new linens as a house warming gift (both his furniture and his sheets & towels were college/single guy leftovers, very bad).
She has wonderful taste, I did not interfere, I was just there to oversee furniture quality (they do not yet have the experience).
I do not often like other’s taste but her’s is classic and classy.
What else? My lease here at the crummy but cheap rental is up next month and we are thinking of moving (Again?).
My son’s new rental is much nicer then mine, it was sort of an shock.
I do not want to leave Lititz, I am so fond of my helper and Jack The Cat watcher, Danielle, next door that I do not want to move far away so I am looking at condos for rent.
More room for NewNeedlepoint.com would be a big bonus too, I am getting busier and it is hard in this 9 X 9 foot bedroom I work out of.
So much for my justifications and excuses.
I am still reading Robert Parker’s Spenser novels. I am on Hugger Mugger. There are 10 of his books between Crimson Joy and Hugger Mugger that are not yet available on Kindle and since I am addicted to my iPad…….
I am, of course, in love with Spenser and I do not hate Susan Silverman quite as much this time. Also quite taken with Hawk (who isn’t?).
familiar names
I have been hard at work (when not off staying at medium fancy hotels & gambling) listing the new rare/used books I have sitting and waiting for me to do something with all. All 54 + of them.
To save what scraps of my sanity remain, I am doing them in armloads. All at once would overwhelm me (and send me back to bed, a place I am trying to avoid). So, instead of taking them all downstairs and photographing them all, editing them all and listing them all, I am doing them in armloads.
Since they mostly seem to be hardcover, that means about 10 at a time.
I also have to include the books I sell all the time which, to replace in a listing, I have to photograph the new copy since no 2 are alike.
Needless to say, I sold another copy of Mary Kay Davis’ The Needlework Doctor (what else is new?). Someday, I suppose there will be no more copies of this book to be bought. This is already starting to happen with Margaret Boyles’ book, Bargello: An Explosion in Color.
Anyway (and back to my subject) many of these books are previously unknown (to me) books by authors whose names I know well.
I have Margaret Boyles’ Designs For Babies. Mrs Boyles is the author of some many wonderful Needlepoint and Bargello books, most of which I have:
Bargello: An Explosion in Color
Needlepoint Stitchery
The Margaret Boyles Book of NeedleArt
The NewNeedlepoint: Stitches & Designs
Margaret Boyles’ Book of Crewel Embroidery
The picture above is a close-up of one of the pictures from the book. It is a lovely crewel work typewriter cover (remember typewriters?)
Phyllis Kluger, the author of another book that has been a steady seller for me, A Needlepoint Gallery of Patterns from the Past, has another book: Victorian Designs For Needlepoint. Below is a picture of 2 of the pages from the book with some of her work.
From the famous Elsa Williams, author of one of the iconic books on Bargello Needlepoint, Elsa Williams Florentine Canvas Work and Creative Canvas Work I have a copy of a book I had never heard of before: Heritage Embroidery by Elsa S. Williams. Below is a picture from that book
and finally, from Rosemary Drysdale, the author of Pulled Work on Canvas and Linen I have this gorgeous book: The Art of Blackwork Embroidery.
I hope to have this load of books listed by tomorrow (don’t hold your breath)
Betty, a very fine stitcher in Arizona, sent me a picture of her finished version of Patt & Lee’s Scrap Threads Striped Cats Needlepoint Canvas.
I am currently out of stock on this canvas, I expect another this week.
What else? NewNeedlepoint’s Advanced Stitchers & Beginners categories are temporarily closed while I re-work them. There has been so much removed from there, they made no sense anymore so I am going to “clean” them up and re-open them. Again, please do not hold your breath.
Yes, I am reading but it is nothing worth speaking of, call it “filler reading” for someone with too much to do.
In case you were wondering why the pictures on my blog had suddenly gotten so small (as I was wondering) it turn out “someone” (not me) changed my setting to thumbnails from medium. I have changed it back.
Why on earth would I want to show needlepoint in thumbnails?
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)
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)
Sharon G’s book
I am still sick but I wanted to do a quickie (no sexual innuendo involved) about Sharon G’s Simply Essential Needlepoint Stitch Explanations new book. Or as she calls it Sharon G’s SENSE and so it is.
I just got it and listed it as fast as possible (no, I did not sneeze on it).
It is a terrific book with some (simply) sensible advice and great stitch diagrams.
I have added a few new Amy Bunger needlepoint DVDs.
The In & Outs of Needleweaving with Amy Bunger & Kelly Clark
Mops Tops & Buzz Cuts
Just FUR fun
Sadly, Amy’s Fancy Flowers DVD has been discontinued.
I am reading Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington, the well know author of Seventeen, published in 1916. I read Seventeen way back when and only remember that I enjoyed it. I think I will re-read it sometime.
I’ll tell you this, going directly from Robert Parker’s last Spencer novel (which I liked despite it’s tepid reviews) to Booth Tarkington takes some elasticity of mind (of which I have the tiniest bit)
I am going back to bed.
