Love Needlepoint? Looking for inspiring ideas, organizing tips, information about techniques, threads, materials, or stitching? Look no further, the answer is in Needlepoint Trade Secrets. Whether you have been stitching for a lifetime or are brand new to needlepoint, Janet M. Perry's great new book will make your stitching better, easier, and more fun. She has gathered tips from needlepoint professionals, teachers, and stitchers like you and combined them with her encyclopedic knowledge of needlepoint into a book which will fire your stitching from start to finish. The first edition was hailed by stitchers everywhere for the wealth of information. The new second editon is expended and improved. Small to fit with projects, this is an indispensable part of your stitching toolkit.
Janet M. Perry is the Internet's expert on needlepoint & counted thread. Her books, stitch guides, ebooks, and on-line classes explore exciting new uses for this new old craft. She puts into practice her motto to make needlepoint fast, fun and affordable.
Janet is constantly stretching the bounds of needlepoint and then applying these ideas and techniques to projects which are for beginning and intermediate level stitchers. Some of the things she has adapted include paintings by Piet Mondrian, depression quilts, Celtic knotwork, tartans and fence railings. To her the sources for great designs are everywhere and she has several notebooks of ideas to prove it!
She has published two books on needlepoint, Bargello Revisited and Needlepoint Trade Secrets (both available from Amazon). Currently she is publishing ebooks and creating innovative email classes on threads, stitches, and other techniques, which showcase her talents. She has also written a beginning needlepoint class, taken via email, which has been given to almost 3000 people.
She works with designers, shops, and thread manufacturers on new products and regularly reports on trends in needlepoint. All about Needlepoint (http://www.aboutneedlepoint.com), her reference and information site, is a leading source of needlepoint information for all kinds of stitchers, Her blog, Nuts about Needlepoint (http://www.nuts-about-needlepoint.com), is the most quoted blog on the subject.
Janet has never met a thread she didn't like and is constantly doing or thinking about needlepoint. She makes her home on historic Mare Island in the San Francisco Bay with her husband and three black cats.
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