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#ArtAdventCalandar #CountedThread #Embroidery Day 15. This piece was for a San Francisco School of Needlework and Design stitching contest. I'm not sure I like the bland color or the mix of sharp and flowing lines, but the gems were free to anyone wishing to stitch with them. A learning experience.

Abstract embroidery with flowing stitch lines surrounding raised squares. The larger squares feature Swarovski crystals, the smaller ones filled with scotch stitch. The colors are rather bland so as not to interfere with the crystals.

Detail: Abstract embroidery with flowing stitch lines surrounding raised squares. The larger squares feature Swarovski crystals, the smaller ones filled with scotch stitch. The colors are rather bland so as not to interfere with the crystals.

December 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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Oops, forgot most tags....brain is mush, travelling through Montréal on way back from Albany, NY. #Needlepoint #Embroidery #CountedThread #RainbowGallery #Sulky

October 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM

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Finally at the assembly stage for my new #Autumn #QuakerBall. it's a #CountedThread #Needlepoint #Embroidery project that has taken up a good part of 2025!!! Hope to have some "finished" pics soon

July 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM

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Quite happy with how the #embroidered #Hexagons are coming along for the #Autumn #QuakerBall
#CountedThread
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June 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM

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Totally forgot the relevant tags!!! #embroidery #TexturedTreasures #CountedThread #Blackwork

June 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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4th Octagon done for the upcoming #TexturedTreasures #QuakerBall
Quite happy with the simplicity of this one.

A #CountedThread Octagon with a burgundy border. Inside the space is a complex 16-pointed star motif created with thread and beads. In the centre of the star motif is a maroon flower bead.

The #Needlepoint #Embroidery is on scroll bars that you can't see, but the base of the image is pink felt protecting the already #Stitched area from being compressed as it is rolled onto the bars.

May 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM

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#MakersmARTch prompt for today is #Beads so voila, this is my #PeaceFlower full of lovely beading and pulled thread work.
#embroidery
#needlepoint
#CountedThread
#Beading

Detail photo of a piece of beaded needlework. The image shows the centre of a design called "Peace Flower Trilogy". Radiating out from a Wrapped Spider Web, are 3 rust sections, filled with rust beading and needlework, with the upper left section also holding some cream seed beads. On either side of each rust section are yellow zones filled with counted thread stitches and yellow beads. Between each yellow section are 2 pale seafoam sections filled with pulled thread stitches and seafoam coloured beads.

Design is available as a chart or complete kit from your local needlework shop or directly from www.texturedtreasures.ca

Photo of a counted thread needlework design from Textured Treasures. "Peace Flower Trilogy" is made up of 3 "fan" sections around a central circle, which is created with Wrapped Spider Web stitch. Each "fan" consists of a central rust, orange and yellow section created with a combination of counted thread stitches and beaded accents. On either side of this central bit, each fan has 2 golden yellow sections of beaded needlework. The outermost regions of each fan are seafoam coloured pulled thread stitched sections, also with added beads for bright sunshiny sparkle.

The outer border is scalloped in appearance and is created with scalloped buttonhole stitch and an overdyed Valdani thread.

Design is available as a chart or complete kit from your local needlework shop or directly from www.texturedtreasures.ca

March 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Today's #FebruARTy post comes from the #FishyFeb feed and is #School

So here is an exclusive design I did for teaching at the #StitchinInVermont Retreat this year. Apologies for the glare, it's one of the few models with glass.

#CrossStitch
#CountedThread
#Embroidery

Photo of a framed needlework model, with glass (so there is shadowing) being held by a hand on the left side of the space. The design is in autumn hues of warm yellows, tans, reds and a deep autumnal green. The outer cross stitched border is in a Greek border style with a variegated yellow to red fibre. There are several motifs in the design associated with autumn in Vermont, including a fall maple leaf in the upper right, a stylized autumn forest in the middle left and a butterfly in the centre bottom third. Other motifs include a string of lanterns done in beads adjacent to the top maple leaf, a fence made of gold and green bugle beads at the 1/3 point, and grassy bushes below the forest at the 2/3 point.

This was an exclusive design taught by Karen E. Dudzinski at the Stitchin' in Vermont event in 2024.

February 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM

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#FebruARTy Day 26 - #Magenta

This was the original colourway for my design #Intersections

#Needlepoint
#CanadianDesigner
#CountedThread
#Canvaswork

Photo of a counted canvas needlepoint design called Intersections. The design consisted of 3 pale turquoise right angles radiating from the upper left, intersecting with 3 pale magenta / mauve right angles radiating from the lower right. At the intersections of two angles, the spaces are filled with needlework using the 2 colours. The fill spaces in the outer sections are in darker hues of the dominant angles, i.e. around the top and left, the filled stitches are all a deeper blue, while on the right and bottom the spaces are filled with deep magenta / purple patterns. At the upper right and lower left, the outermost squares each hold an 8 pointed star motif filled, using both dark and light colours from both colour groups.

The design is available as a chart book or complete kit in this and other colourways from your Local Needlework Shop or Textured Treasures www.texturedtreasures.ca

Detail photo from the lower central space of the Intersections needlepoint design, showing part of the outer borders in the foreground. The main focus of the photo is a multi-hued magenta fill, that creates 3D space. In the foreground is a portion of the border where Herringbone is laid over Scotch stitch blocks in varying hues of magenta.

February 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM

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As I spent the early hours writing the story of how the "Forward Alphabet Sampler" came to be, here's my original #Needlepoint Aphabet Sampler. In each square the stitches start w the letter(s) for that square.
#CountedThread
#TexturedTreasures
#CraftiVerse

Photo of a canvas Alphabet sampler taken outside in the sun so you see shadows of concrete and natural light around the Sampler.

The needlepoint design itself is made up of 3 x 11 boxes, each with one or two letters tent stitched in the box. Around the letters in a monochrome fashion are samples of stitches, filling the box, that begin with the same letter.

I've used 5 main colours for the box contents starting with blue for A, then orange, yellow, teal and purple for the next four letters, and then repeated for the rest of the design.

This design was the basis for the subsequent pieces, the #ForwardAphabetSampler (which I did on smaller count and removed the letters so I could add more stitch variety)

Chart or kit available through your #LocalNeedleworkShop or www.texturedtreasures.ca

February 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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#FebruArty day 20 #Turquoise

Although I have a WIP that is turquoise dominant, it's not ready to show yet. So this detail is from Na-Dzah, a #Needlepoint design I did a few years back.

#CraftiVerse 🧶
#CanadianArt
#CountedThread
#Embroidery

February 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM

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#FebruArty day 14: Pair
Canvaswork needlepoint cathedral windows. I designed stitched these while remote attending a RAPS Convergence (Regulatory Affairs Conference) from La Prairie, QC during COVID.

#fiberart #embroidery
#Needlepoint
#Canvaswork
#CountedThread

Photo of a counted canvas design called "La Prairie". It is made up of two tall columnar cathedral window spaces filled with needlepoint stitches. All fibres are from DMC and the colours are pale pink, a pale warm mint green, chartreuse, and then some deeper corals and greys. The base canvas is a pale blue.

Photo of the components of a needlepoint kit called "La Prairie Cathedral Card kit". On the left is the back of the kit showing the included fibres, needle in a paper wrapper from John James, and the pale blue canvas in a thin plastic bag. Top centre shows what the completed card will look like after stitching. Right side are the gold foil stickers used to seal the kits with the name of the kit printed in in black.

Kits available from www.texturedtreasures.ca

February 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM

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Back to the 2026 #QuakerBall , I'm feeling it's an evening to add #Beads to the #Embroidery
#CountedThread

February 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM

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#FebruArty Day 12 prompt - #Orange

Have to admit I have very few designs where I've used orange, but I'm not sure why - it's so versatile and there are so many hues to play with...must try it more in the future. This is the Sunrise colourway of my design "Cherith".
#Needlepoint
#CountedThread

Photo of a canvas needlepoint design, superimposed on a photo of a Sunset (because the colourway is called "Sunset"). The needlework design consists of 3 columns and a brocade border. The design itself is made up of diamonds within the columns stitched in gradations of reds to oranges in the left and right column, and oranges through yellow to a pale cream in the central column. As the design is stitched on black canvas, there are spaces that appear black where stitching is absent - this is intentional.

February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM

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