Although supply chain problems continue to trouble every industry, including ours, fall is a big season for introducing new needlepoint projects. With two tradeshows coming up this weekend and early next month, there is plenty to cover.
Today I’ll be starting my coverage of new products. This coverage will continue next Monday & Thursday as well as after the November market.
Strictly Christmas Etc. has a new entry in their popular series of Santas. He’s ready for Halloween with a pumpkin-decorated coat, a black cat, and a bare tree. A stitch guide by June McKnight is available. Pepperberry has a flying witch bunny available as an ornament. Another canvas in the series is a wrapped mummy’s face with two green eyes staring out. Laurie Walden wrote the optional stitch guides. Kangaroo Paw has new Halloween hearts with patterns in stripes.
Canvas & Thread has a lovely realistic meadowlark canvas available. The 10″ square canvas has a vivid green background. Another canvas from the company has a great walking cheetah, available on both 13 and 18 mesh. Madeline Elizabeth has a leaf-munching brontosaurs canvas with a striped background. Kangaroo Paw has new key fobs featuring sorority mascots. One of my favorite artists is Anderson Design Group, especially their vintage-style Notional Park posters. Canvas & Thread has licensed these with five out initially and more to follow.
Patricia Sone has a new series of 4″ rounds featuring the 5 missions on the San Antonio Mission Trail. Anne Fisher’s licensed artist, SAL Panasci, has a lovely canvas of a floral bouquet in a glass jar. Another lovely Anne Fisher canvas is a fun fabric-like canvas by artist Jean Mason. Look carefully and you’ll see all kinds of items starting with. C hiding among the flowers and leaves. A new Pippin dozen canvas features wooden chairs in a red, white, and blue palette. Gone Stitching’s canvases reproductions of famous paintings now include Klimt’s Kiss and Van Gogh’d House in Auvere.
CBK’s licensed artist Ginny Diezel has half a dozen of her Christmas animals on new mini-socks. Best known for her many realistic flowers, Jean Smith has a wonderful canvas covered with simpler zinnias in a summery pink, yellow, and green color scheme. A colorful new Alice Peterson canvas has five cats with colorful patterns in stripes. They also have new 4″ rounds featuring candles and ornaments. Charley Harper’s popular Space for All Species is now available in 18 mesh and is perfect for finishing as a purse.
JP Needlepoint has two new traditional brick covers, one featuring a bee and one a crown. a. Bradley has a series of spooky cocktails, each featuring Halloween fun, including bloodshot eyes, pitchforks, and ghosts. New Kelly Clark birdhouses feature crows, either singly or as a trio. Strictly Christmas Etc. has a silly canvas of a lady with 0a chicken on her head (trust me, it’s hilarious). The canvas, from licensed artist Debi Hubbs, won’t be available until January but can be ordered now.
Judi & Co has canvas with blocks of color perfect for showing off stitches. The canvas, “Stitching at Starbucks,” is available in three colors and comes with a butterfly chart for the center. Painted Pony has added Steamboat Springs to their Max & Oscar line of destination canvases. Janice Gaynor canvases from Fleur de Paris have several lovely ladies in hats of flowers in a single color. Canvasworks has a new canvas featuring the names of many cities in a rainbow of colors.
The Meredith Collection has new gift tag canvases available for several holidays and celebrations. Patricia Sone’s mini collection of 2″ square designs feature many holiday ornaments, packaged and ready for giving. If you stitch one as a gift, use the packaging for that as well.
Rainbow Gallery has three new colors of Grandeur: indigo, dark wedgewood, and dark pistachio. The new colors of Rainbow Angora are barely peach and bubblegum. Painter’s Thread has added Soie Perlee (similar in size to Pearl #12) in their distinctive colors. New perforated paper kits from Mill Hill have six designs by Jim Shore, including three Santas.
Please note: You will not find links in my new products articles. That’s because not every company updates its website and many announcements on other platforms are not accessible to the public. Rather than subject you to this frustration, Nuts about Needlepoint does not include product links in our new product articles.
About Janet M Perry
Janet Perry is the Internet's leading authority on needlepoint. She designs, teaches and writes, getting raves from her fans for her innovative techniques, extensive knowledge and generous teaching style. A leading writer of stitch guides, she blogs here and lives on an island in the northeast corner of the SF Bay with her family
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