The Problem & Solution for Canvas Enhancement

The canvas sits there in your stash, tempting you. On the wall at the LNS, you couldn’t resist it. Now it’s home and you don’t know how to stitch it.

What you need is canvas enhancement. There are live enhancement classes, but … But one isn’t available. Or it is too expensive. Or it uses threads you don’t like. Or . . .

What you need is canvas enhancement that takes you into account. One that takes into account your tastes, your stitching level, and even your stash. Maybe you have some ideas about the canvas, or maybe there is something you want to change but don’t know how.

When you take a canvas enhancement class, the cost is high, and you must buy the canvas from the shop giving the class. This may not be the canvas perplexing you. From the start, you invested money in a class that is not meeting your need.

Beyond these problems, the enhancement class has other problems — you have no input. You don’t pick the areas to cover. You can’t let the teacher know about the reason you’re stitching the canvas, your experience as a stitcher, or your likes or dislikes. You get what you get and often in the form of scribbled notes. I’ve helped enough students with bad results from expensive guides and enhancement classes to know.

The enhancement section of the growing Colorful Needlepoint membership site solves these problems. The cost is low; monthly memberships are less than many fast-food breakfasts. You chose the canvases to submit and the areas where you want help. Because enhancement is ongoing, you control when to submit. You can tell me about the canvas, your tastes as a stitcher, and anything else you like about the canvas.

One of the nicest aspects of enhancement classes is learning about the suggestions for other students’ canvases. You won’t miss this in Colorful Needlepoint. Every enhancement suggestion is a permanent part of the site. You can access the information either through a gallery of pictures of the canvases or by a listing of the effects covered.

This makes a unique offering inside Colorful Needlepoint, one that is always open, and one that will improve your needlepoint often, but it is only available to members. As a Christmas present, I’ve rolled back the membership prices until December 31. Join now, and the price is $14/month or $140/year as long as you continue to be a member. The links to join are on the site’s home page, near the bottom. On that page, you can also learn about the many other features of the site.