whimsicalstitch.com Stitch Guide #WS-SC-199.

A wonderfully abstract project is full of color, angles, and wild imagination. Metallics, beads, silks, silk ribbons, and overdyed threads bring this whimsical piece to life.

Designed for Catherine Breer Peaks Castle (distributed through Maggie & Co.)

A wonderful lake and mountain graphic from Amanda Lawford. The stitch plan adds beads, metallics, and some beautiful silks to bring it to life.

Designed for Amanda Lawford #AL042 (13M).

whimsicalstitch.com Stitch Guide #WS-SC-201. Contact your favorite needlepoint retailer for retail price.

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Steamboat Springs is a charming travel poster from Max and Oscar. It’s a beautiful study of pastels along with bright pops of color with a whiff of abstract. The stitch plan enhances the beautiful shading with metallics and open stitches and includes beads, silks, and fun stitches for the trees and buildings. Honestly, it is one of my favorite canvases and stitch plans.

Designed for Max & Oscar #MOUS-15 (18M).

whimsicalstitch.com Stitch Guide #WS-SC-193. Contact your favorite needlepoint retailer for retail price.

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A dramatic needlepoint interpretation of Bracha Levee’s Four Seasons is a study of balances a dramatically stitched tree surrounded by a study of small stitches. The threads include rich silks, metallics, beads, and silk ribbons.

Designed for Bracha Levee BL60T-B (13M).

whimsicalstitch.com Stitch Guide #WS-SC-190. Contact your favorite needlepoint retailer for retail price.

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Red, White, & Blue Picnic

An aspirational and lovely afternoon by the beach. The stitch plan includes a wide variety of open stitches along with some fun techniques (Or Nue, silk ribbon flowers, woven hat) to up your stitching skills.

Designed for Melissa Shirley Designs Canvas #3140 (13M).

whimsicalstitch.com Stitch Guide #WS-043. Contact your favorite needlepoint retailer for price.

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Passion Flowers & Birds

Another beautiful seaside scene from the charming English artist, Emma Williams. Passion flowers, lilies, gorgeous water, and a lovely tabletop are brought together with a variety of small and large stitches, as well as beautiful ribbon and bead work. Recommended threads include silk floss, Silk Lame, wools, wool metallics, beads (lots and lots of beads), and beautiful silk ribbons (to name just a few). You may contact Bedecked and Bedazzled (410-296-0405) for the canvas, stitch guide, and threads (as stitched at the recent Passion Flowers Workshop) or have your local needlepoint store contact me for the stitch guide.

Designed by Emma Williams for Melissa Shirley Designs Canvas #EW-113 (13M).

whimsicalstitch.com Stitch Guide #WS-030. Contact your favorite needlepoint retailer for pricing information.

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Tea by the Sea

It's an idyllic tea scene surrounded by gorgeous flowers and greenery. In addition, it's a blast to stitch and would make a fantastic framed addition to a bedroom or breakfast nook. With a lot of small areas to stitch, it includes a lot of creative small space stitches, a wide variety of silk ribbon techniques, and easy stumpwork and weaving. Recommended threads include a bounty of ribbons, various sized (and shaped) beads, cottons, silks, and wools.

Designed for Melissa Shirley Designs Canvas #1922 (13M).

whimsicalstitch.com Stitch Guide #WS-019. Contact your local store for retail price.

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Rooftops

This English seaside scene is a charming example of Melissa’s newest artist, Emma Williams. It’s full of rustic charm with a lot of fun threads and stitches.

Designed by Emma Williams for Melissa Shirley Designs Canvas #EW-105 (13M).

whimsicalstitch.com Stitch Guide #WS-014. Contact your favorite needlepoint retailer for pricing.

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Red Cottage

A longstanding favorite. A magical Christmas Eve with Santa flying over a house of children nestled all snug in their beds while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. The wide variety of metallics are balanced with traditional silks, cottons, and wools.

Designed for Melissa Shirley Designs Canvas #949 (13M).

whimsicalstitch.com Stitch Guide #WS-003. Contact your favorite needlepoint retailer for pricing.

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