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The Art and Tradition of Needlepoint

This favorite quote of Deb Hoskins relates to what all of us are about: creating. "We all like to create," she says. And Hoskins's gift is needlepoint, an art not seen as much as it once was, but timeless just the same. For many it is hard to find the time to pursue creative passions, so how does

Publication: Today's Woman

A needlepoint champ takes a classical turn

If you've ever wondered why people take up needlepoint, spend an hour or two with Despina Pantos, winner of the best in show award last year when the Women's Educational and Industrial Union revived its needlework exhibition. Not one to do things by halves -- "I love a project" -- Pantos took a

Publication: The Boston Globe

Bush, With New Zest, Steps Into Foreground - New York Times

LEAD: A needlepoint pillow on a love seat outside George and Barbara Bush's bedroom in their oceanfront house here offers a good summary of the President-elect's approach to life: ''Enthusiasm the inscription says, ''is the greatest asset - more than power or influence or money A needlepoint pillow

Publication: The New York Times

Textiles express: New York Market watch. (includes related articles)(Brief Article)

NEW YORK--At last week's market, Katha Diddel Home Collection, a supplier of needlepoint decorative pillows and accent rugs, reported it has signed a license with the New York architecture and design firm Goralnick Buchanan for a collection of furniture-inspired designs. Styles include Chairs,

Publication: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network

The original `Cosmo Girl' steps aside At 74, Helen Gurley Brown yields her editorship reluctantly

The floor, still covered with leopard-print carpet. The walls, still draped with pink French silk. A pearl-necklaced teddy bear still sits on the gray-and-pink striped couch, along with a tasseled, needlepoint pillow reading "Good Girls Go to Heaven/Bad Girls Go Everywhere." A pair of turquoise

Publication: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Ranch was a major part of his life ITS FURNISHINGS AND KEEPSAKES PROVIDE A PEEPHOLE INTO WHO THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS

Ronald Reagan's Water Pik is on the bathroom counter. A throw pillow with the needlepoint message "Roommates" rests in the bedroom Nancy Reagan decorated. An orange Naugahyde chair faces the fireplace in the den. The furnishings and keepsakes, kept at the Reagan ranch in Santa Barbara, form a

Publication: Chicago Sun-Times

John Waters. (Sound and Vision).

Why would anyone deliberately make something so ugly? The question, one of many actual responses to the pillow seen here, is the stuff John Waters's dreams are made of. This needlepoint creation played a starring role in Hair in the Gate --a recent exhibition predominantly composed of photographs.

Publication: Film Comment

COSMO GIRL CREATOR LEAVES MAGAZINE.(LIFE)

Byline: JENNIFER WEINER Knight-Ridder News Service For the first time in decades, Helen Gurley Brown is not at the helm of the free-spirited women's magazine, Cosmopolitan. The floor is still covered with leopard-print carpet. The walls are still draped with pink French silk. A pearl-necklaced

Publication: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)