My Needle's Worke

Count thrice, stitch once. ~ Me

Great needlework sites
Shops & companies
Designers
Link collections

Historical needlework
Lace & filet crochet
Weaving & quilting
Snippets and orts

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Great needlework sites

Kathy’s Counted Cross Stitch, Needlework, and Stitchery Page The best site ever!
Rec.crafts.textiles.needlework FAQs and Documents Absolutely everything you’d ever want to ask, already answered and waiting for you right here.
Lily Abello’s Sewing Resource Guide W O W !

Shakespeare’s Peddler An online shop
with “plenty good stuff” to read
Martha Beth’s Needlework Tips-n-Tricks Great ideas
Skyhooks’ Homepage More ideas
Vintage Stitchers Chapter of the EGA
A wonderful chapter; I was a long-distance member for a while
CameoRoze’s Stitcher’s Studio
The newsgroup rec.crafts.textiles.needlework is wonderful

Online shops, “malls,” companies

The Elegant Stitch (California)
Shakespeare’s Peddler (North Dakota)
Wyndham Needleworks (Connecticut)
Nordic Needle Specializes in Hardanger (North Dakota)
Heritage Shoppe (Wisconsin)
Creative Hand Shoppe (Minnesota)
Thistle Needleworks (Connecticut)
The Scarlet Letter A proper online presence at last! Kits for reproductions of 17th through 19th century samplers, and related books (Wisconsin)
The NeedleArts Mall with stores, articles, and so on
Needlecraft Showcase
with stores and designers
DMC Articles, featured designers, free charts
Mill Hill See each treasure or bead, and all the kits and leaflets they publish
The Caron Collection Articles, featured designers, free charts
Rainbow Gallery Pictures and a list of designs using their threads, and a chart for cross stitch usage
Hoffman Distributing The place to browse through leaflets on the Web!

Designers I like

(who also have Web sites)
The Drawn Thread Deliciously wonderful old-style samplers
Victoria Sampler - Thea Dueck Designs More gorgeous designs
Lesa Steele Designs A wonderful designer
Wooly Dreams Design Delightful handpainted needlepoint designs
Lattuca Designs Unusual, striking needlepoint designs

Told in a Garden by Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum; she’s also
Lavender and Lace, & Butternut Road
The Stitcher’s Habit Rustic or folk designs
with a Northern emphasis (as in Canada)
Ross Originals, if I could ever find the web site again!

Good collections of resources

FiberArt.com Lists and links for guilds, shops, organizations, events, and fiber sources
Arachne’s Web Server 16th and early 17th century laces, and
lacemaking in the Society for Creative Anachronism

Counted cross-stitch: The People, The Stores, The Software Software descriptions & links, needleworkers’ pages, RCTN cookbook
Cross stitch and needlework links A broad collection,
hosted by the Ability Project

Clara Fitzgerald’s needlework tutorials Illustrated, and even animated!
Johanna Needlework Stitches Stitch encyclopedia and tips
Celtic Art & Illumination Really nice, helpful, inspiring

Medieval, Renaissance, and earlier needlework

A Stitch Out of Time: Medieval embroidery for the modern era Photos and information on 9th through 16th century needlework!
Simply Samplers Books, designers, and historical samplers;mostly Renaissance and later samplers.
The Scarlet Letter Kits for reproductions of 16th
through 19th century samplers
The Elizabethan Costuming Page
Cathy’s Jacobean Embroidery Page
Joyce Miller’s Medieval Embroidery Charted patterns
Textile work in pre-Norman Britain Articles on techniques; part of the Web site Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History
Viking embroidery stitches and motifs Seriously!

Lace, filet crochet, crochet

Lacis
The Lacemaker
Crochet Designs by Sand Castle Designs - Filet Crochet Patterns
Crochet Guild of America

Weaving & quilting

Handweavers Guild of America
ShuttleLinks Weaving-related links
The Weaver's Hand Especially tablet weaving, kumihimo, and more
Fancy Fibers A weaving site to inspire beginners
Welcome to QuiltNet
Got A Quilting Link

Snippets and other orts

CATS: Creative Arts & Textiles Shows
RCTN web page (RCTN is the newsgroup rec.crafts.textiles.needlework)

Interweave Press Home of wonderful magazines:
PieceWork, Handwoven, Spin-Off, Herb Companion, ... Classic Stitches magazine

EGA: The Embroiderer’s Guild of America
South Central Region EGA
CyberStitchers Chapter — EGA
ANG: American Needlepoint Guild

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