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Food, Beverage and Kitchen

Needlepoint patterns featuring food and beverages, or kitchen themes.

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Shamrock Medallion Needlepoint Pattern

This pretty pattern features two-toned shamrocks on a framed scotch stitch background.

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Reversed Mosaic Stitch

The Reversed Mosaic stitch is a textured, decorative stitch worked in small blocks. It's perfect for background areas and borders, or for filling large pattern areas. Worked similarly to standard...

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Halloween

Halloween needlepoint patterns, including decorations, pillows, ornaments and more.

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Nuveau Blossoms Needlepoint Pattern and...

This French-inspired needlepoint pattern features Fleur de Lys flowers on a striped background. It can be worked in tent stitch, or straight stitch.

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Yellow Daffodils

Stitch a garden of pretty yellow daffodils for Spring.

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Needlepoint and Tapestry Needles

Tapestry needles have a blunt point and an large eye and are used to stitch a design on needlepoint canvas.

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Meet Needlepoint Designer Barbara Elmore of...

Meet Needlepoint Designer Barbara Elmore of Arizona

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Diamond Ray Stitch - Working the Diamond Ray...

The Diamond Ray Stitch is a textured needlepoint filling stitch. It is similar to standard Ray Stitch but is worked vertically.

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The Straight Florentine Stitch

The Straight Florentine Stitch is a filling stitch worked in horizontal rows of straight stitches.

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Crossed Gobelin Stitch

The Crossed Gobelin Stitch is a highly-textured filling stitch, comprised of a straight vertical stitch topped by a crossed stitch.

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Encroaching or Interlocking Gobelin Stitch

The Encroaching Gobelin stitch, also known as the Interlocking Gobelin stitch, creates a smooth elongated stitch that is perfect for filling areas both large and small.

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The Framed Scotch Stitch

The Framed Scotch Stitch is a variation of the popular Scotch Stitch. It features Scotch Stitch blocks framed by tent stitch border.

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Pre-Columbian Art Needlepoint Patterns

These patterns - the first featuring a stylized monkey framed by a striped border, and the second a winged bird framed by in chevron border, were inpired by Pre-Columbian art from Guatemala.

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Oblique Slav Stitch - Working the Oblique Slav...

The Oblique Slav Stitch is a textured filling stitch related to the Gobelin Stitch.

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Garden Zinnias Pattern

Designer Elizabeth Lay shares her colorful Garden Zinnias needlepoint pattern

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Tapestry Needles

Tapestry needles have blunt, rounded tips with larger eyes than crewel or embroidery needles, which are necessary to accommodate the thicker yarns used in needlepoint. The blunt tips pass easily...

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Meet Needlepoint Designer Jane Nichols of...

Meet Needlepoint Designer Jane Nichols of Ocala, Florida.

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Needlepoint Finishing Instructions

Finish your needlepoint pieces by transforming them into pillows, stand-ups, bags or appliques!

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The Moorish Stitch

The Moorish Stitch is a needlepoint filling stitch worked in stepped, diagonal rows.

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