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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 9726729, member: 111"]I started doing needlepoint as a kid, spending hours in needlework shops, sifting through yarns and canvases, designing my own pieces, and becoming proficient enough to stitch samples for a local kit designer/manufacturer. Should mention that some canvases were preworked with the design, leaving the gros point background to be worked by less skilled hands, often these were intended for use as seat cushions. </p><p><br /></p><p>This piece is on a penelope canvas (also called berlin canvas), a double thread construction that allows petit point worked over every thread with a strand of the tapestry yarn, and the gros point over every pair of threads - this is a clear image showing a preworked canvas with both petit point and gros point, ready to have the background filled in: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]472630[/ATTACH]<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/668969958/vintage-preworked-needlepoint-canvas?gpla=1&gao=1&" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/668969958/vintage-preworked-needlepoint-canvas?gpla=1&gao=1&" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/listing/668969958/vintage-preworked-needlepoint-canvas?gpla=1&gao=1&</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This site has some great information and images on penelope canvas and berlin work:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.jenisandberg.com/blog/2021/11/20/a-beginners-guide-to-penelope-canvas-for-needlepoint" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jenisandberg.com/blog/2021/11/20/a-beginners-guide-to-penelope-canvas-for-needlepoint" rel="nofollow">https://www.jenisandberg.com/blog/2021/11/20/a-beginners-guide-to-penelope-canvas-for-needlepoint</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 9726729, member: 111"]I started doing needlepoint as a kid, spending hours in needlework shops, sifting through yarns and canvases, designing my own pieces, and becoming proficient enough to stitch samples for a local kit designer/manufacturer. Should mention that some canvases were preworked with the design, leaving the gros point background to be worked by less skilled hands, often these were intended for use as seat cushions. This piece is on a penelope canvas (also called berlin canvas), a double thread construction that allows petit point worked over every thread with a strand of the tapestry yarn, and the gros point over every pair of threads - this is a clear image showing a preworked canvas with both petit point and gros point, ready to have the background filled in: [ATTACH=full]472630[/ATTACH][URL]https://www.etsy.com/listing/668969958/vintage-preworked-needlepoint-canvas?gpla=1&gao=1&[/URL] This site has some great information and images on penelope canvas and berlin work: [URL]https://www.jenisandberg.com/blog/2021/11/20/a-beginners-guide-to-penelope-canvas-for-needlepoint[/URL] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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