New Designs from Kelly Clark Studio!

What's New from 2016 January TNNA MARKET?

LOTS of NEW DESIGNS!

Kelly Clark & Brenna Pollok of Colonial Needle

at the Kelly Clark Booth

All the new designs are loaded onto the web-site

www.kellyclarkneedlepoint.com

check out the new finished pieces on the front page slide shows!

Then click on the What's New link and peruse through 

the photos of over-80+ new items!

I am very excited to announce my new color palettes for

Presencia America., available thru Colonial Needle Company

HALLOWEEN & HOLLY

These are available pre-packaged in Finca Floss

Perle No.8, &  Perle No.16.

The packaging makes it so simple to toss in your travel bag for an 

Ornament Project!  Quick and Easy without the worry of pulling alot

of threads.  The Floss packages come with 3 skeins of each of the 6 colors!

Have your Local Needlepoint Shop call and order for you today!

But first, I wanted to talk about Perle No.16...

It is my new favorite skinny thread!

FAVORITE!

Check out how cool these stitches look in Perle No. 16:

Color #8069 for the Diagonal Long Stitch

 Colors #4228 & #4799 for the Laid Vertical Channel Stitches...

just look how that skinny thread creates just a whisper of Background!

I LOVE it!

Color #8069 is used in two different stitches here.

On the left it stitches the open reverse slant Scotch in the background.

On the right it is a Double Elongated Cross at the intersection of diagonals created by the Velvet.

Color #4812 wraps the wire stem and frames the leaves.

And here are some additional Pictures of new items:

The Winter Village is available with Stitch Guides!!!!!

Item numbers from left are:

KWV 7-18, KWV 4-18, KWV 1-18, KWV6-18, KWV 11-18, KWV 2-18 and KWV 3-18

KCA 29-18 Folk Art Flower Sampler

Available with Stitch Guide, Accessory Kit for all the wire and Appliques and a 

Presencia Thread Kit of all cottons used!

Chubby Pears Front and Back views!

From left: KCA 1426, KCN 1428 & KCN 1429

Available with Stitch Guide & Presencia Thread Kit!

And from the Tiny Basket Series:

 KCB 01-18 Shells at the Seashore

 KCB 03-18 Halloween Tricks

 KCB 02-18 Christmas Baking

Now, quick go check out ALL the new Items on the website!

Here is that link again:

www.kellyclarkneedlepoint.com

Happy Stitching All!Kelly

Indian Brave is STITCHED!

HOORAY!

After a grueling 32 hour Marathon stitching & writing session,

(which began in earnest Friday evening after Olivia's Brownie Meeting)

I just now put the final stitch in!!!!

This was my Eveready Bunny piece...it just kept going and going!

I am so HAPPY he is done!  

He is rather Handsome and well adorned!

Lesson 6 will be e-mailed to the Elegant Thanksgiving Stitch Clubbers tomorrow!!!

Details to follow....

I am now going to get some much needed sleep!

Happy Mothers Day everyone!!!!!

Indian Scout is coming to life!

Wampanoag Scout

Well I know y'all thought I had fallen off of the Planet!

In a way I did...

but we won't get into that now.

Suffice it to say that life got in the way for awhile, and I have had

very little time or energy for any of the Fun stuff, like stitching,

blogging and writing.  

However, as you can see from the above picture,

I am Back!

LESSON 4

Is the first Lesson on our Scout.  The lesson has been written,

and the kits for Lesson 4 are winging their way from Austin!
The Scout is well under way.  The past 24 hours I got alot of stitching in,
as I was in Galveston, TX at the lovely Historic, Hotel Galvez for the
Lonestar Guild's Annual Stitcher's Retreat.
Great Friends, fantastic food,  amazing stitching at a fabulous location!
What could be more relaxing?
A Stitcher's idea of Paradise!

 These Tall pines are stitched differently than background trees on Rebekkah.

I was so excited to work the beading that I just had to start here!

Bad news, though.  The beading will be in Lesson 5!

So everyone has to wait!

Sorry, all.  There is just too much background work to do first!

The Ground is a bit different than Rebekkkah, as well.

The corn cobs are highly padded prior to beading. 

Oh what a difference some beads and
a length O'Silk Ribbon Makes!


Well, that is all for now.
I promise not to wait so long to blog again!
Happy Stitching, All!

LESSON 2

Lesson 2 was shipped way back at the beginning of December.  I have had every intention of posting

the supporting Blog...but Life & the Holidays got in the way.  YIKES!

The Garland 

Here is the finished Garland over Rebekkah.

A few 

Close-Up Shots:

Ultra-suede Oak Leaves and Sweet Little Acorns

 Gorgeous Beaded Pumpkin!

The Two Autumn Gourds                                  Red Tipped Leaf Lettuce and Fabulous Grapes

Ultra -Suede Applique Pumpkin and Cranberry Bog above it!

A Most Elegant Eggplant!

I hope you all are enjoying Rebekkah!

Happy Holidays Everyone

& 

Keep on Stitchin'!

Rebekkha is Done!

Just in time 

to wish you all 

a

Very Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Just think, next year we will have our Elegant Thanksgiving Characters

to grace our Thanksgiving Table or Sideboard!

That Makes me Happy Indeed!


There is still plenty of time to sign up for
The Elegant Thanksgiving 
Stitch Along with Kelly
call
The Needle Works
512-451-6931

Garland Finito!

Hello Stitching Friends!

I am so excited to Report Rebekkha's Garland is finished.  Well, mostly!  I am still debating about whether or not to add more picot needlewoven leaves at top of columns?  What will I do?  I'm sure a few of you will start a bet on Stitcherie!  Hah! 

                  A few more exciting elements have come together, as well:

The columns are worked out!...The top pale gold is finished, the next pale gold

is still needing one additional layer of Long stitches.

The gourds are just wonderful!

Close-up of Left corner!

(See, don't ya think it needs a couple of dimensional leaves under The gourds?)

Well, I must admit, I have been working for two straight days to arrive at this point

on my stitching of Rebbekkha.  A wonderful 2 days of focused Stitching!

My goal is to have her done by next weekend, so that Indian Scout can be started!!!!  

I am just itching to work on him!

  

I LOVE how the water looks like it is rippling and catching the light as it moves!!!!

Here is the ad which just came out in the Sept/Oct issue of the Needlepoint Now Magazine:

So, if you haven't already done so:

call 1-800-851-6931 to sign up

Join Stitch Along with Kelly!  

And, lastly I leave you with a few sneak peeks of the New 

Kelly's Club

which will be starting in March 2012:

   

Anne and I have both been stitching our little fingers off!

What are these cool objects?  When will it be time for the Reveal???

Curious?

Keep checking back!

&

Happy Stitching!!!

Finally, Back to Work on Rebekkha!

Hello Everyone!  

Well Labor Day is nearly over and I was able to log some great stitching hours

over the weekend!  Below is a view of the Garland from a distance. 

I have to admit that I have been a bit stuck on the Garland, so I worked on the sky and clouds and stitching in more background.  As I worked on the repetitive stitching, I just kept looking at her Garland, and thinking about Threads, Stitches & Techniques!  What to do?  The problem was that I loved the work on the right so much, that I was worried that the left side wouldn't meet the high bar set on the other side.  Why, you might ask?

Well, here are the areas that had me stumped:

Pumpkin.  This is the apex of the Garland, and the Pumpkin just has to be spectacular! 

I am still on the fence with the current pumpkin...it is the second one.  Below is my first rejected pumpkin:

                                                         The Long & Short Satin stitches
                                                                   just were not working!

                                         This is the Trapunto Applique Wool Felt Pumpkin
                                                                             
The Little Mum Flowers posed another problem for me.  When I painted these little fleurs, I was envisioning the silk ribbon loop stitches.  When I actually stitched them, they just didn't balance well within the Garland...so out they came, and I went with the 
silk ribbon French Knots:

                    

Gourds...Well, the problem here was the Eggplant on the right turned out soooo gorgeous, how could I make these gourds even come close to that?!!!  Well, they are under way, and I am finally pleased with them:

I am still planning to add more detail stitching over the top gourd in both the orange

and the green areas of the gourd!

Well that's all for now!  Happy Stitching All...and I"ll be posting again soon!

Stump-work Started on Lady Pilgrim!

Another Sneak Peek of Rebekkha:

The Eggplant and Acorns!

Dimension under way!!!!

Join my Stitch Along Club, sponsored by The Needle Works!!!!!

1-800-851-6931

Call today and sign up!  

1st Lesson to ship out on November 1st!