Finishing Friday is here!
Here are some great pieces from our talented stitchers:
Stitched by Anne
Stitched by Cynthia
Stitched by Josephine
Stitched by Linda
Stitched by Maribel
Stitched by Martha
Stitched by Meredith
Stitched by Phyllis
Stitched by Sherry
Stitched by Sue
Stitched by Taryn
Our Edie and Ginger Trunk Show for the month of January is coming to a close!
Get that canvas you've been eyeing before it is gone!
Remember, all trunk show items are 20% off!
Here are some great pieces from them:
Important Announcement:
Anchor is discontinuing Anchor #5 therefore as we run out of skeins we will be switching to DMC #5.
We had Ridgewood Needlepoint's own Judy Morton pick out some of her favorite canvases and their corresponding threads.
Check them out:
Round Ornament:
A handsome ornament to show off your talents.
Neon Rays N01
Ribbon Floss Gold 021
Ribbon Floss Antique Silver 013
Silk Lame Braid SL02
Pepper Pot Gumdrop 100
Pepper Pot Chili 017
Jingle Ornament
A bright, festive ornament. A real standout for your tree.
Coronet Braid 80B
Neon Rays N20
Fyre Works FT12
Nutcracker Ornament
Everyone needs a nutcracker on their tree - he is especially handsome and what fun to stitch!
Vineyard Silk C-041 Monk's Robe
Vineyard Silk C-197 English Ivy
Vineyard Silk C-062 Fern
Vineyard Silk C-004 Chateau
Kreinik 002 Gold
Pepper Pot 114 Cadet
Pepper Pot 145 Navy
Pepper Pot 102 Powerade
Sundance Beads #14 Color 16
Sundance Beads #14 Color 18
We have some new clips in the store!
In the first picture, you can see them in action, holding threads to the top of the bars.
You can get them at the store for $1.10 a piece!
We will be having our February Book Club on
Wednesday, February 22nd
1:00PM - 3:00PM
The book will be Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility.
But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Here are some Works in Progress from our employees here at Ridgewood Needlepoint!
Jennifer
"Here is one of my current WIPs (yes, I have many) I find I get bored with just one project.
This piece I call my no-brainer because it's basically basketweave. It's easy, it's relaxing, it's therapeutic.
I always have a no-brainer project in my stash. It helps me work through my harder projects that take much more time and concentration."
Judy
This is a belt for Judy's son Jack. It was a Christmas present that he was thrilled with even though it was unfinished. It will be done soon!
Sally
"I have two projects going on. Bringing in the tree is more challenging but I am finally making progress. I fell in love with this canvas as I have two sons.
My plan, at least for now, is to make it into a tray. The small folk art canvas is really fun. I am going to frame this, no mat so that I can display in a small easel in my home."
Vanessa
Here are Vanessa's newly completed pieces. They are fresh off to the finisher! Vanessa used all threads from her stash, with the exception of the background.
Its Finishing Friday!
Here are some great pieces from our talented stitchers:
Stitched by Adrienne
Stitched by Bette
Stitched by Beverly
Stitched by Cynthia
Stitched by Gretchen
Stitched by Jen
Stitched by Josephine
Stitched by Stephanie
We are having a CBK Trunk Show featuring Edie and Ginger designs for the month of January!
Remember, all trunk show pieces are 20% off!
Here is a canvas that we pulled some threads for.
