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Finishing ideas are available to help you realize your possibilities.
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Welcome to Village Needleworks |
Welcome to Village Needleworks. We are excited to serve you both online and in our shop. In addition to an extensive line of hand painted canvases, we offer fibers to help bring your project to life, instructional books and DVDs , and accessories from scissors to "natural" light lamps and everything in between.
Need help with a new stitch? Want that special canvas you didn't know you needed? Or do you just want to network with other needlepointers? Village Needleworks offers personal assistance in making a selection perfect for your needs and abilities. We also offer classes, trunk shows, and stitch-ins.
Store Notes
Holiday Finishing Deadline is October 1st.
Village Needleworks will be close Labor Day Weekend. We will close on Saturday, August 11th and reopen on Tuesday September 2nd.
Race For A Cure ........ Help us fight Breast Cancer.... CLICK HERE to find out how!
Our Sidewalk Extravaganza has moved indoors and all the merchandise from our sidewalk sale will continue to sell at 50%. You can see all the sale canvases by visiting the sales items section under canvases.
Please contact us via phone at 402-391-1191 or 1-800-391-0603 OR Click here to Email Us
Tips & Tricks
Dye Lot Variations
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve probably heard it a thousand times (well, maybe not a thousand times, but….), there is likely to be a variation in dye lots. We can’t emphasize enough the importance of purchasing enough fiber to complete you’re project. Buy enough to save yourself the frustration of not being able to match a fiber to complete your project. It happened to me and my half finished ornament will either look pretty silly or not be finished and my time and money wasted.
Once you begin your project you should have a pretty good idea as to whether you’re going to have enough fibers or not. Divide your canvas by 1/4 , 1/3, or 1/2 and divide your fibers accordingly. Once you stitch that percentage of the canvas, ask yourself if you have 3/4 , 2/3, or 1/2 of the fibers left to complete it. If not, rush right down to your local needlepoint shop where they’re likely to have the same dye lot left. A year or two down the road there is less change of finding the same dye lot.
You will find that overdyed fibers have the greatest dye lot differences. We have some perfect examples in the shop and they are pretty dramatic. By spending the little extra for another skein or card of fiber you will save yourself more money in the long run.
Many times customers purchase projects they are can’t wait to begin and then realize they have a deadline on one already in progress and put the new one aside.
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