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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.
Amanda Lawford Trunk Show
June 27 - July 11
If you like color and great designs this trunk show is for you. Amanda Lawford offers a distinctive, nationally know line of hand-painted canvases. Her designs include creatures, holidays, sea and shore, floral and fruits and now includes 3 other artist besides her own. Constance Coleman's wonderful animal portraits came to needlepoint in in 1998, Martha Murphy's whimsical creatures from her watercolors in 2001, and Mariko King's humorous cats in 2006.
Amanda's Giant Santas and decorative borders are her trademarks. Mark your calendars, because this is one trunk show you won't want to miss.
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Tips & Tricks
Cleaning Needlepoint
Recently we've had a couple of customers bring by completed needlepoint projects that had been taken to the dry cleaners. One lost the vibrant colors of the flowers and something in the process damaged some of the fibers. The second experienced dyes that ran.
Manufacturers of today's fibers cannot guarantee colorfastness since the FDA has prohibited the use of ingredients which would "set" the dyes, such as lead. Therefore, prior to cleaning you would need to check your fibers to see if they are colorfast. Immerse a sample of each fiber in water and lay them on white fabric to judge whether they are going to "bleed". If the project is complete you could lay a dampened piece of white fabric on the stitching to see if any color transfers.
A pillow can be "air" cleaned in the clothes dryer. Make sure you set the dryer to the "air" setting and tumble with a towel for a few minutes can help release dust. For vintage pieces vacuuming may be the answer. Cover the end of your vacuum hose with a piece of nylon stocking or light mesh. Starting on the front of the needlepoint, vacuum keeping the nozzle just above the piece. If the piece is a pillow with an insert, turn the needlepoint cover inside out and repeat the process on the backside of the needlepoint.
To prevent a project from getting dirty make sure you have clean hands when you begin stitching. If the project is large and you roll the top and bottom, take care to roll the stitched canvas to the inside to keep it protected. There products on the market which are washable covers of stretch knit fabric to protect your stitched canvases while on stretcher bars or on scroll frames.
When in doubt err on the side of caution.
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Please contact us via phone at 402-391-1191 or 1-800-391-0603 OR Click here to Email Us
Shop Hours
10 AM to 5 PM Tuesday - Friday
10 AM to 3 PM Saturday
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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