Bargello Needlepoint

My family was has been briefed on my Christmas list since October. They know to the last detail what I want for Christmas¬¬¬¬¬¬—everything Bargello Needlepoint! There’s multi-colored silk threads, 18-mesh needlepoint canvas (my favorite), Bargello needlepoint books, and anything else they can find at the local needlepoint store on my list [...]

One of the most exciting finds of this Christmas season has been the Threadband Headband Needlepoint Kits from Pepita Needlepoint. You can finish a headband in just a few days. The kit contains everything you need to create a beautiful and stylish headband [...]

Designed by Carolyn McNeil for Stitch-opedia, Boris The Boxer is an easy project to work. It consists of two stitches – long stitch (sometimes called the Bargello stitch) and brick stitch. These are both straight stitches. Long Stitch is considered the easiest stitch to work [...]

Many designs in this sampler are related to holidays, beginning with January’s choice of Good Cheer to celebrate the ringing in of the New Year. This is followed by February’s Love Knot to celebrate Valentine’s Day, March’s Double Irish Chain for St. Patrick’s Day, May’s Mother’s Fancy Star to Celebrate Mother’s Day, etc [...]

One doesn’t often come across painted or stamped Bargello designs on canvas. In many cases these designs are charted to be used with blank canvas and your choice of threads. However, the other day I came across these two Bargello Kits in Jeweled Tones worked in a combination of needlepoint borders and frames along with bargello or Florentine embroidery designs in the centers [...]

First presented in the premier issue of Needlepoint Now (March/April 1999), Tony’s Minieri’s Persian Tile is a delightful geometric design. Twelve different color combinations are provided — or choose your own from goodies in your Bargello needlepoint stash [...]

This great Bargello needlepoint ornament was designed by Sue Kerndt, (one of my favorite teachers and designers). Designed for Needlepoint Now Magazine, Garland Twist was designed as a beginner’s project to introduce some fundamental canvas techniques. It uses basic threads and examples of different stitch types [...]

It has been said that quality materials and quality workmanship provide immense pleasure and satisfaction to the stitcher while adding tremendous value to the entire stitching experience. One of the worse things that can happen is to work a Bargello needlepoint project with poor quality materials and/or workmanship. Here are some pointers you can use to consistently produce quality stitching results.

One of the few Bargello needlepoint treasures I still own is my interpretation of this hand-painted canvas of three beautiful women. I like to think of them as three sisters for they remind me of my sisters and me. Stitching this canvas was loads of fun as I tried to capture a bit of our personalities in the stitching [...]

It has been said that there’s a little of the designer in everyone who stitches needlepoint or embroidery. Most stitchers like to use needlepoint to put their personal stamp on gifts, accessories and home décor items. The more needlepoint items you make, the more you may choose to design your own. If you’ve reached this point, here are two things to keep in mind [...]

Bargello needlepoint is very therapeutic. Several years ago while recovering from major surgery, I took a weekly class on how to make hand-painted needlepoint designs come to life. Each participant selected a unique canvas, threads and embellishments. I chose a “cute camel” designed on 14-mesh needlepoint canvas (I think it was painted by Liz of Tapestry Tent; but I’m not sure) with a gorgeous Middle Eastern color scheme of dark blue, red, gold, brown, and green [...]

This article is from my French friend and fellow Bargello needlepoint stitcher, Odile Berget. Odile writes that she discovered a Bargello fabric in a very small museum in La Chapelle des Marais – France (South of Brittany). This village is in a Natural Park of a marsh region with thatched houses and saltern places [...]

This FREE needlepoint design by Laura J. Perin was originally designed for Blackwork, a form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched with black thread on evenweave ground fabric. Since the pattern for this design comes with a template drawing which [...]