- You rarely, if ever, follow a professionally written stitch guide exactly.
- You like to take risks with color.
- You'd like to expand your skills in choosing stitches and threads for your projects.
- Using the Needlepoint Success System is becoming your norm and you're feeling more confident with every project you complete. You've got a really good working knowledge of all things needlepoint.
The purple thread student undergoes the change from ambivalent to confident stitcher. A purple thread student begins to understand the meaning of the gold thread.
✔ I'm SO bored with the same old stitches
✔ I always use the same ones, over and over again
✔ I want to stitch something spectacular
✔ I want my canvases to look like the ones I see on
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✔ Bored
✔ Restless
✔ In a rut
✔ Painted canvases with stitch guides written by other people
✔ Substituting some of your own stitch/thread choices for some of the ones on stitch guides
✔ Writing your own partial stitch guides - making some stitch choices, but with lots of input from others and
still using a lot of tent stitch
Has all of the skills of a stage 1 - 3 stitcher + the following...
✔ Confidently stitches diagonal patterns
✔ Confidently works complicated stitches from diagrams and is comfortable with compensating them
✔ Has worked at least three different techniques on needlepoint canvas, beading, couching, Florentine (bargello), needle felting, open work, pattern darning, silk ribbon, stump work, surface embroidery, thread painting, or turkey work
To move to the next stage, you’ll need to…
✔ Use the Needlepoint Success System to write custom stitch guides for three medium-size canvases; incorporate multiple decorative stitches, at least one diagonal stitch pattern, a special technique, and a variety of threads
✔ Successfully complete the canvases, including having them finished into displayable items
✔ Additional Action Items Coming SOON
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