Join Shannon Zimolong of Greystone Needlepoint and Vaughn Dorrian of The Red Thread Atelier - for a fun, insider trip to Nantucket.  Please register for EACH & EVERY EVENT you plan to attend. This allows everyone to join for as much or as little as they'd like. Closer to the date we will be in touch with all additional details.    *Once RSVPs are made, we are thrilled to offer a 10% discount code for The Faraway Hotel as well as a VIP direct reservation contact to prebook hard to secure dining reservations at The Pearl and Sister Ship!  &n ..read more

Marquin Campbell has been a full time artist for fifteen years, and during that entire time has been needlepointing.  During the summer of 2020, she moved with her husband and two small children to Spain.  While there, she began experimenting on the motifs that would become her initial Needlepoint designs.   Marquin takes her painting subjects and reinterperates them in a colorful, lively way for her needlepoint canvas designs.  She is currently developing products to be released over the next two years and plans to always have a needlepoint category as a part of her ..read more

Janet Blyberg (JCB Stitches) learned to needlepoint as a child, watching her grandmother, great aunts, and great-grandmother stitch. Her first projects were unfinished pieces that her great grandmother left behind when she passed away at the age of 98.  Needlepoint took a back seat to high school, college, and brief affairs with cross stitch and knitting, but in her 20s she took it up again in earnest as a way to occupy her time while traveling for work. She has been stitching for more than 30 years, but only recently began designing needlepoint herself.  Janet lives in Maine with h ..read more

Frances Abel just *knew* that she was meant to be a needlepointer.  Her grandmother needlepointed a full set of dining chairs and many other things, but it took until 2020 for Frances to get started.  In London, and with the pandemic slowing down mail across the Atlantic, she began designing and painting her own canvases.   Frances’s designs focus on the joy of everyday life.  She celebrates her children’s milestones, family vacations and their adventures in London and beyond.  Living down the road from the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, there is serious tennis love ..read more

We’re kicking off the most wonderful time of the year with a collaboration. We are thrilled to announce…. Greystone Needlepoint x Morgan Julia Designs Stitch Along series! In 2021, we launched a Stitch-Along celebrating the Georgette Angel Series and it was such a wonderful way to connect with the needlepoint community. This year we teamed up with Morgan Julia Designs to continue to grow this event. Morgan and I have been working on this for months and no detail has been spared. We wanted to make this Stitch Along truly something special for everyone because #YouCanStitchWithUs.  ..read more

After a lifelong infatuation with interior decor and treasure hunting, Taylor Carver launched I Need A Bigger House in 2020 after finding herself unable to pass up treasures without having the square footage to permanently house them. I Need A Bigger House offers a wide variety of vintage and antique goods on its online site and also works with clients directly to source specific pieces for their homes. After moving to Coronado, CA in 2021, Taylor now operates INABH’s west coast HQ with the support of her husband and golden retriever, Enzo. Her #1 employee and her angel mom, Betty ..read more

My Canvas Conversations today features Laura Rock of Stitch Rock Designs. Stitching genes runs deep in Laura's family. Her mom, aunt, and cousin are all stitchers and have needlepointed everything from pillows, to ornaments, wall hangings, brick covers, etc. Laura's favorite part about needlepointing is the creativity used in every decision from the threads used to the way the design is finished - the options are endless! Laura began painting canvases in the spring of 2019 as a means to have another creative outlet outside of stitching. Her bright modern designs ..read more

Maryland born and raised Ann Kaye has had a number of different careers including teaching around the globe, working in institutional equity trading in Boston, and being a stay-at-home mother. She begun painting about 15 years ago, mainly working on landscapes in oils, and then began painting needlepoint canvases for Susan Battle (owner of the Point of it All) about 10 years ago. This led to Ann's creation of Ann Kaye Studio about five years ago. Ann and her husband have two sons and two labs (one yellow and one black). Her family enjoys Maine, golf, tennis, ice hockey and skii ..read more

Colleen “Coco” Frank, owner and founder of Coco Frank Studio, is obsessed with needlepoint! To her, needlepoint is a meditative stress reliever, a creative outlet, and a way to connect with others. Working in software engineering and UX design by day, she started Coco Frank Studio in 2021 as a passion project to share her love of needlepoint and design with others. As she continues to grow her line of modern canvases and kits, she has also made it her business to make needlepoint more approachable and to inspire others to try new techniques. Coco's canvases are the stars of my Aug ..read more

  North Carolina stitcher, Hannah Kisley, recently finished these two beautiful bunny projects with me. You can find Hannah's stitching patterns and thread colors for each design at the bottom of this post. Hannah grew up in the Raleigh, North Carolina, but moved up north to Carlisle, Pennsylvania for college. After four years of studying biology and running track and cross country in the cold and snow, she migrated back down South. Hannah now works in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, specifically for a company who makes the flu vaccine. Stitching runs ..read more