I love to visit my friend Patti and her darling husband Mark and their very cozy and beautiful home. It is one of my favorite homes as it is filled with little meaningful treasures and family heirlooms and is decorated so beautifully with lots of chintz and lots of endearing details. Every little thing she has in it is so interesting and nothing is too insignificant to have some charm and with a splash of fun! It is just a little gem box of happiness and love! Again, I will do a multi part post on Patti’s very special home with all her needlepoint.
the LIVING ROOM
Patti and Mark have a spacious living room that is very cheerful and Patti usually decorates the mantle with a seasonal needlepoint garland. (Her Melissa Shirley Designs Valentine garland was on my last post.)
The window seat in the living room holds many needlepoint pillows, some stitched by her sweet Mom.
Patti's mother needlepointed some of the pillows.
Patti needlepointed these 2 window seat pillows, The left is an old Mindy canvas and the right one, depicting the family's Sheltie, from a Dragon's Tale.
A comfy living room chair with a big pillow of a cozy scene-much like Patti's home.
Once in a Blue Moon canvas beautifully stitched by Patti, reminds me of the feeling I get when in her home. We personalized this by adding a button with a Sheltie on it to look like a picture on the shelf.
Patti took this wreath canvas from Happy Hearts and had a footstool made with her initials in the center. (See my yellow shoes on the right!)
Usually decorated with a garland of small needlepoint ornaments, these are from Melissa Shirley Designs are for the 4th of July. (See a peek of the footstool is on the left bottom.)
The mantle decorated for the 4th of July.
From Melissa Shirley Design's 4th of July children, I wrote a stitch guide booklet for this series.
Patti needlepointed 2 Melissa Shirley Design's patriotic stars to go on the ends of the garland. Above, sitting on the mantle is a stand up from Designing Women which I taught as a class about 10 years ago at Chaparral Needlework.
Piano with needlepointed frames.
Patti needlepoints a Christmas frame every year and puts her most recent Christmas card in it.
Frame canvases are from many artists including Associated Talents and Needle Crossings.
Associated Talents frames hold special Christmas pictures of the daughters.