Alice Vantrease Needlepoint Design

12/30/2025

Savannah’s Lynda Baker outdid herself needlepointing these stockings for her grandchildren. I can attest that it was a work of love for her!

11/22/2025

11/22/2025

Mary Walker stitched this stocking this past year and it will be a gift for her recently widowed sister-in-law. What a wonderful gift!

11/22/2025

Savannah’s Lynda Baker has been busy this year stitching the last three stockings for her grandchildren. She has 15!

03/06/2025

03/06/2025

Two of our shell designs. Thanks Geri Arnold Gaynor for sharing your lovely work with our s!

03/03/2025

My dear friend Carol Cermak Cowsar is a prolific needlepointer and just shared this photo with me of her collection of pieces in my Coastal Designs series. Didn’t she do a fabulous job stitching them!

Thanks for sharing, Carol! The crab pillow is the last piece she’s finished.

01/15/2025

If you have extra (completed) needlepoint canvases in your stash and are wondering how to use them…

Room divider? Quilt? Here was Judy Greer’s solution:

11/26/2024

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His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister has leukemia.
And with everything that has happened, Keanu Reeves never misses an opportunity to help people in need. When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants; One cried because he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 and on the same day Keanu deposited the necessary amount in the woman's bank account; He also donated stratospheric sums to hospitals.
In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery and bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him.
After winning astronomical sums for the Matrix trilogy, the actor donated more than $50 million to the staff who handled the costumes and special effects - the true heroes of the trilogy, as he called them.
He also gave a Harley-Davidson to each of the stunt doubles. A total expense of several million dollars. And for many successful films, he has even given up 90% of his salary to allow the production to hire other stars.
In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.
Most stars when they make a charitable gesture they declare it to all the media. He has never claimed to be doing charity, he simply does it as a matter of moral principles and not to look better in the eyes of others.
This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought: To be a good person.
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11/26/2024

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

11/22/2024

How much is your happiness worth? $5? $10? $100? Priceless?

When you reach my age, it’s worth a lot. And, while you may not be able to measure happiness in dollars, chances are you can measure it in happiness.

One way I measure my happiness is through needlepoint. Not through finished projects, but through friends I’ve met along the way. Lasting friends. Good friends. True friends.

For me, nothing beats hanging out with stitching friends sharing anecdotes about the events of the day, or commiserating about missing our now grown children, or mourning the loss of a friend. Stitchers always seem to understand the moment and help lift the pain.

But one of the most important features of needlepoint is that these enduring friends often help you put life in perspective. Sort of like Elon Musk when a snarky reporter at a rocket launch asked “What are you building?” And, after looking at the snarker incredulously, Musk answered… “Ah, a spaceship.” (A simple answer to what could have been a complex issue.)

Wouldn’t our life be easier if we adopted the same attitude? I believe it would.

Examples:

Q: Why did your marriage end in divorce?

A. A lengthy explanation…or the truth…
B. Because we couldn’t stand each other any longer.

Q: Why haven’t you finished that needlepoint piece?

A: A lengthy explanation…or the truth…
B. Because it made me sick to look at it.

Q: Why do you spend so much money on needlepoint projects?

A. A lengthy explanation…or the truth…
B. Because of the happiness it gives me.

If we count our stitching friendships, the price of a canvas is minuscule when you count the happiness you gain.

Yes, it is only one of the choices we make in life, but for me, needlepoint has brought me happiness. A happiness that is priceless.