The Needlepoint Mental Health Connection

There is a version of self care that involves candles and bubble baths, and there is a version that involves a needle, some thread, and forty five minutes of basketweave until your brain finally s...

A Late Summer/Early Fall Catch-Up: Mahjong Canvases, Back-to-School Traditions, and a Crisp Martini Worth Batching

Some episodes have an agenda. This one does not. Natasha and Alonsa made a couple of delicious London fogs at Georgie & Lottie headquarters in Richmond, VA and just chatted about fall plans, n...

Parker Posey on Needlepoint, Patience, and Why Slow Hobbies Save Us

There's a particular kind of person who calls Liza Minnelli a friend, quotes Madame Defarge, and still finds time to hand paint her own needlepoint canvases between takes. Parker Posey, the actres...

Carole King: Needlepointer

Carole King hand-stitched the needlepoint on her Tapestry album cover herself, and named the record after it. The story behind music's most iconic needlework.

The "White Whale" Canvases We Can't Stop Thinking About

There is a canvas sitting in Natasha's cart right now. It has been there for months. She has opened the tab more times than she'd like to admit, added it, removed it, added it again, and still has...

Cher:Famous Needlepointer

Everyone remembers the hair, the hats, the gowns that made an entrance before she did. Six decades of Grammys, an Oscar, one half of the most famous duo in television history. What most people nev...

Mary Tyler Moore: Famous Needlepointer

Everyone remembers the hat toss. The smile that turned the world on, the newsroom, the seven Emmys lined up on the shelf. What most people never knew is that between all of it, Mary Tyler Moore wa...

The Best Slow Craft Projects for a Cozy Weekend

It’s Saturday morning. The coffee is excellent. The light is doing that soft, sideways thing that makes your living room look like a painting you’d spend real money on. You have nowhere to be unti...

Why Background Stitches Are the Secret to Beautiful Needlepoint

You’ve stitched your motif. The little floral is complete, the monogram is done, the hand-painted strawberry you’ve been lovingly filling in for two weeks has every last seed properly accounted fo...

Confession Time: We Broke a Needlepoint Rule (And We're Not Sorry)

Natasha has a confession. Somewhere between her sixth and seventh unfinished canvas, she bought two more. If you have ever felt a flicker of guilt for starting something new before finishing somet...

Famous Needlepointers: Mary Martin

Everyone remembers the flight. The green tights, the crow of a boy who refused to grow up, eight shows a week suspended above a Broadway stage. What almost nobody remembers is that Mary Martin spe...

Betty White Had a Needle in Her Hand for Eighty Years

Everyone remembers the laugh and the timing. Almost nobody remembers that Betty White usually had a needle and canvas in her hand while she delivered it. She stitched for eighty years, from a t...