Now he makes stitches by the tens of thousands. So far, 125,000 and counting. He is one of the most unlikely needlepoint artists you’ll ever meet. The Arlington native has been an administrator ...

But bands of underground grannies have started stealing stitches online, rocking the genteel world of needlepoint and threatening to tie the industry in knots. Their numbers are probably in the ...

Nancy Schurman will keep you in stitches — she will make you laugh and also teach you how to do some of the finest ...

needlepoint on canvas, and appliqué with cloth shapes. It emphasizes the importance of texture in embroidery, which is influenced by the choice of yarn, stitches, and arrangement. Supreme Court ...

While the most popular among the many needlepoint stitches is the diagonal tent stitch, which she describes as going in one direction "like hatching". Needlepoint has a wide-reaching history that ...

needles and classes to a small but growing group of needlepoint devotees. On one side of Tangley Street, Frances Jue’s Stitches in Time is dominated by a weathered wooden table where her ...

“Needlepoint was a way to keep my hands busy ... bats and Native American symbols, many different stitches, and an array of straps and handles. A large pink handbag in the center of the ...

As their works progress, stitchers advance into learning more of needlepoint's repertoire of 200-plus stitches, but Pletsch and her angels are careful to caution them not to be in a hurry.

Elizabeth Redleaf is in the business of keeping hands — and minds — busy at her new needlepoint store in Sag Harbor. The Splendid Stitch is a "full-service shop that provides everything you ...