One Stop Needlepoint Kits – Product Review

I don’t think my expectations were too high. If a manufacturer loudly proclaims themselves to have “needlepoint you can stitch and finish yourself,” you as the purchaser have a reasonable expectation that you will be able to do that.

But if you buy a kit from One Stop Needlepoint those expectations are far too high.

I have been wanting to try these products since reading about them last year. I read good things about them in a local shop’s newsletter.

Here is the grand sum total of what was in one kit: a painted canvas of the ornament, two skeins of floss, some lengths of unlabeled metallic, a piece of cardboard with foam on it, and the finished back for the needlepoint. All in a generic plastic zipper bag.

No label.
No picture of the finished design, although the company has every design pictured stitched on their website.
No finishing instructions.
No needle.

If I believed their hype and thought this would be a great way to learn needlepoint and finish something, I’d be up the proverbial creek because I have gotten no help whatsoever. I don’t even know where to call if I have a problem because the company could not even bother to put a business card inside the package.

Excuse me!

The kit looked like what a project looks like after you have taken it apart, thrown away the labels, and put it in your own project bag. Except that you would have kept the finishing instructions.

I feel like the lady in the Liberty Insurance commercial who says “Hey Insurance Company . . .” But I want to say “Hey Needlepoint Finisher, not everyone knows how to do the already.”

Perhaps you are thinking this is just a fluke and not all the kits could be this bad. I actually bought two kits and they both came without one written word.

This company is not ready for selling, no matter how great the idea may be (and it is a great idea). At a minimum, every kit needs to have:

• label or other identification of the company
• a color picture of the finished project
• basic stitching instructions
• finishing instructions
• a needle

Then the kit would truly be one stop, then it truly would be needlepoint made easy.

I am going to stitch up one of the kits I bought (which are not cheap by the way) and will post again to let you know how to finish them.

In the meantime I feel cheated and cannot recommend this product to anyone but folks with experience stitching and they don’t need it.

Please note: These kits were bought at full retail price for testing and review purposes.