Melitastitches4fun's Blog

Over the past month, I got back to stitching on Magical Color by Jennifer Riefenberg. It’s quite a variety of warm and cool colors being added on each row and it’s interesting to see how they combine with each other and differ depending on the painted base color.

Patty W, the editor of ANG Needle Pointers, asked me to review an article she was writing on a small painted canvas she had just stitched discussing her perspective on thread and stitch selections. It reminded me that I was doing the same thing for my posts regarding the canvas, Morning Glories by Lani. My first post shows the canvas and threads from my stash. It also discuss...

My issue arrived in the mail and the Timeless Treasures from the Archives article in the May/June 2026 issue of Needle Pointers Magazine explores butterflies. There is lots to explore from past articles by Margaret Kinsey, Debbie Rowley, and Linda Reinmiller.

I learned how to make my butterflies in Flowers Along a Rhode from Debbie Rowley’s Explore and Design class ...

Next up is Faith from The Cabochons Series by Susan Portra. It’s on a lovely Lavender canvas. Most of the thread colors are in Rhapsody. The blue Fyre Werks is the outlier but all work together nicely.

I got the center column of Rhapsody in before Saturday and added the outlines during our Stitch-in. I would have gotten more done except for having to remove my ...

Knowing several of my pieces of beeswax had served me well for far too many years, I quickly ordered a package of Petites, the original morsels, when Mary Corbet announced their availability at Needle ‘n Thread.

As always, Mary provides a wealth of information about her hand-crafted beeswax at