Here are the best needlepoint tools and supplies you can buy:Best needlepoint stitching frames: American Dream Products Adjustable Oak Lap FrameBest needlepoint thread organizer: D&D Floss OrganizerBest needlepoint needle threader: DMC Aluminum Needle ThreaderBest needlepoint yarn snips: Fiskars Crafts Premier Ultra-Sharp Thread Snips Best needlepoint lighting and magnification: Brightech Lightview Pro XL Magnifying Glass
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The needlepoint erases its maker; the poem about the needlepoint, though borrowing its formal idioms, restores Aunt Jennifer and her pain.
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Mattai's "Her Early Gains" features embroidered needlepoint on canvas mounted atop a pixelated print of the same image that appears in the needlepoint.
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It's not just your grandmother's needlepoint of delicate flowers in soft pinks and blues: Since needlepoint is worked by stitching in one direction, the canvas can become misshapen very quickly.
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On a red wingback chair sat a white needlepoint pillow.
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The four needlepoint samplers on view are variously American, German and Spanish.
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She did knitting and needlepoint, played bridge and golf and collected shells.
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There's a circular necklace, which I think is really important with a needlepoint.
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What really strikes us about Nutman's needlepoint, though, is that it's incredibly inclusive.
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" She leaned on a needlepoint pillow that read "It Ain't Easy Being Queen.
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I have two dogs, read a lot of books, collect houseplants, and enjoy needlepoint.
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The pixelated reproduction of the needlepoint image gains authority in its size, but loses clarity.
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Plato emoticons had to be styled by hand, with meticulous backspacing, like screen-based needlepoint.
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Maybe he buys a fleshlight and takes up a hobby like needlepoint or Krav Maga.
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Earley told the audience of a needlepoint piece from his grandmother, an invaluable item he lost.
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There are references to early sideshow banners, commemorative wreaths, needlepoint samplers, teen longing, and American heartthrobs.
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One booth offered kits with instructions and materials for making pillows, bracelets and necklaces using needlepoint.
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"He's here," Conrad wrote on an Instagram, posting a photo featuring a needlepoint drawing of her family.
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Examples include (but aren't limited to!) Lea Wait's Mainely Needlepoint series and Barbara Ross's Maine Clambake mysteries.
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Threading a needle with thick needlepoint yarns can be exasperating unless you have the DMC Aluminum Needle Threader.
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There was Anna Kendrick playing your cat lady cousin Martha and Grandma Myrtle, a needlepoint sweater wearing Anna Camp.
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Picture a pair of black leggings with a vintage T-shirt, a leather jacket, and needlepoint, leather-lined slippers.
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Needlepoint projects can be time-consuming and expensive, so you need the right tools for a successful finished piece.
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Start by securing the needlepoint canvas in an American Dream Products Adjustable Oak Lap Frame for a timeless keepsake.
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Why work with bulky scissors when Fiskars Crafts Premier Ultra-Sharp Thread Snips are perfect for your needlepoint projects?
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Since 2014, she's been teaching herself needlepoint techniques, and supports larger works by selling her tiny textile renderings online.
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Walls were often papered right over the plates, and needlepoint kits were available for creating little stitched cover-ups.
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It was the Party Animals Needlepoint Coaster Set, made by Smathers & Branson, not the Table Tiles set by Bower.
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The last thing Arya is ever going to do is sit around and needlepoint, unless needlepointing actually is stabbing people.
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At one point, Offred finds herself desperate to do needlepoint, thinking of paintings that she'd seen, of harems and concubines.
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The unsentimental gift shop stocks cheeky T-shirts, mugs, needlepoint and barware, as well as artistically crafted soaps and jewelry.
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Today, lo and behold, he designs furniture, including chairs with needlepoint nature scenes that have put him on an international stage.
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From afar the farm looks as pretty as a needlepoint sampler, with its belching chimney, stacks of corn and quaintly dressed figures.
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Her fine-as-needlepoint skewering of Vogue editor Anna Wintour holding editorial meetings in a downscale New York deli was a keeper.
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Onward Reserve, a preppy men's store, sells Yeti coolers alongside Smathers & Branson needlepoint belts and Barbour jackets in its Washington, D.C., location.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: When I lived in New York City and we ordered things by telephone, Saks offered three needlepoint pillows.
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The bride, 31, is an owner of Harding-Lane, a company in Dedham that produces needlepoint apparel and accessories, including hats and belts.
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Needlepoint has a way of making people feel especially cozy—and that feeling intensifies tenfold when embroidery hoops are of the miniature variety.
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"Little Room" is a pithy and circular homily on the anxieties of the creative life; it might almost be a piece of needlepoint.
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Related: Embroidery Artist Weaves Memes with Modern Feminism These Skeleton Embroideries Give Instagram Life A Self-Taught Embroidery Master Brings the Greenhouse to Needlepoint
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"I can't do anything else," said Jenny Henry, 43, their creator, referring to needlepoint, out of which she has built a 20-year career.
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She has art on the walls, including a pair of Guido Manerba crushed shell paintings and a framed needlepoint of a prehistoric-looking bird.
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"When I was little, my mom stitched a needlepoint picture with a saying on it for my room," Patterson tells PEOPLE of her favorite present.
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Since then, she's been pretty low-key, sharing only one Instagram post since his birth (the birth announcement in the form of a custom needlepoint).
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Related: A Self-Taught Embroidery Master Brings the Greenhouse to Needlepoint These Hand-Embroidered Scenes Tell Mysterious Stories Embroidery Artist Weaves Memes with Modern Feminism
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They pulled on the custom aprons, stitched with the stall's name in needlepoint on the front, that Paola Fernández made them out of old jeans.
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Using needlepoint, which is associated with grandmothers and the old-fashioned, Tam plays with outdated worldviews, depicting the separation and alienation that judgement and hierarchy produce.
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And if you're trying to relieve stress, there are tons of ways to do that, which don't involve buying and plopping down on a needlepoint mat.
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She stood in the kitchen as a contractor discussed the rebuilding timeline, a needlepoint Home Sweet Home sign still hanging above the door to the hallway.
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Her rich and vibrant circular tableaus bring new meaning to a realm of artistry that recalls parlor needlepoint done by aristocratic daughters and wives of yesteryear.
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I started to feel like I could be pregnant; I found my hands magnetically drawn to my belly, where I'd hold the possible needlepoint-sized zygote.
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Gulnora Odilova is a recognized master of a striking and less familiar variety called Shakhrisabz, which is similar to needlepoint and yields a dense allover pattern.
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To ponder a life made better with the purchase of a needlepoint cushion featuring the mopey mugs of Bosco and Orso, Mr. Michele's Boston terriers ($22,2700).
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She gestured toward a lone memento that would remain in his bedroom, a life-size needlepoint portrait of her only child, woven in shimmering gold thread.
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An American Dream Products Adjustable Oak Lap Frame is lightweight enough to be portable but sturdy enough to keep your needlepoint in its original shape and size.
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She holds needlepoint "in my lap like a sleeping cat," knowing she should impress a suitor with her cross-stitched daisies, but can't bring herself to care.
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Bernstein said, mentioning a Hasidic friend who sells needlepoint designs, another who sells strictly kosher gluten-free and other health foods, and a third who sells Judaica.
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On a kitchen wall are a couple of folk-art kettle holders decorated with needlepoint ducks — souvenirs of the many summers she used to spend in Maine.
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Related: [Exclusive Video] Witness a Year of Embroidery in One Minute A Self-Taught Embroidery Master Brings the Greenhouse to Needlepoint Embroidery Artist Weaves Memes with Modern Feminism
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Related: Embroidery Artist Weaves Memes with Modern Feminism A Self-Taught Embroidery Master Brings the Greenhouse to Needlepoint Let Creepy-Cuddly NSFW Embroideries Put You in a Halloween Mood
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Related: Incredible Insect Embroideries Take Needlepointing to New Levels [Exclusive Video] Witness a Year of Embroidery in One Minute A Self-Taught Embroidery Master Brings the Greenhouse to Needlepoint
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In this building, too, was the Afro-Caribbean-inspired Broken Shaker, a rooftop bar with batik-patterned cloth wallpaper, tiki mugs, miniature 1950s dance party scenes and nautical needlepoint.
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Ms. Midler brings such comic brio — both barn-side broad and needlepoint precise — to the task of playing with her food that I promise you it stops the show.
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There are businesses of a sort seen less and less, or hardly at all: camera shop, independent hardware store, needlepoint store, ballroom dance studio, marzipan maker, cinema with retro marquee.
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Conventions are a prime opportunity for host cities to show their flair, and popcorn and chocolates notwithstanding, no vendor within the convention perimeter has anything on Wool and Willow Needlepoint.
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While announcing a new arrival via People magazine is anything but new for celebrities, Conrad used her own Instagram account to announce the news, too, in a decidedly old-school way: needlepoint.
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In the last year, I started doing needlepoint while drinking a gin and tonic; currently nothing holds my interest like "The Great British Baking Show" and its explications of self-saucing puddings.
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Find a small arts and crafts supply store in your area and purchase everything you'll need to create a masterpiece: think yarn and needles for knitting, needlepoint kits, or paints and canvases.
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The secretaries I knew seemed happier than the doctoral students I knew, and when they left work at the end of the day, the secretaries had plenty of time for gardening and needlepoint.
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Cliff Lee deployed his unique brand of needlepoint pitching for four teams but nowhere was its impact more heartfelt than in Texas, which hadn't employed a legitimate ace since 40-something Nolan Ryan.
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Many people's introductions to needlepoint — a type of embroidery that uses different colors of thread and needle on a canvas — is through their grandmother, with cute images like flowers, or birds, or cats.
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The second chums the water with a one-word prompt (essays on golf, say, or needlepoint), then casts its net into the literary ocean and publishes the scattered haul, whatever it may be.
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The lips in question graced the 21-year-old beauty mogul's Jonathan Adler Lips Full Dose Needlepoint pillow, which immediately sold out after being spotted on Jenner's couch and now has a massive waitlist.
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Made in velvet, linen and needlepoint, they are sold custom-made or off the rack and retail from about $450 to $1,000 a pair — available at the Stubbs & Wootton store in Palm Beach, Fla.
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Like the forced sterilization series, which are portraits produced in needlepoint, the abortion series is emotionally crippling to observe due to the complete lack of humanity shown to these women during their most vulnerable moments.
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But the biennale's curator, Anita Dube, also chose to show the works of Bapi Das, a little-known artist from Kolkata, who drives a three-wheeled taxi and sews needlepoint scenes of daily life there.
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A comfy sense of humor goes a long way, but the show's real power is its calm precision, its richly developed world that still has these believable moments of hurt and beauty, like photorealistic needlepoint.
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He brushed past my grandfather and shuffled in his slippers to the "Throne of Elijah," a wing-backed chair with a needlepoint footrest and a view of the best table, where the big money changed hands.
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While other feminists of their era were embracing "central core" imagery related to the womb or vulva and reclaiming traditionally female crafts like needlepoint, these artists demanded attention the way men did — through shock and awe.
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The couple's sprawling Georgian-style mansion contains its fair share of Wonder Woman memorabilia, such as a needlepoint pillow on the living room sofa, a bobblehead on a kitchen shelf and dozens of photographs on the walls.
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Her father remarried and moved to Florida, and most of the time when she hears from him it's a forwarded e-mail from his new wife about her craft shop, where she sells dirty-silly ironic needlepoint.
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And, as the daughter and granddaughter of committed craftswomen who crocheted, knitted and did needlepoint well into their 80s, I suspect that most of us could benefit from actual hands-on activities as a welcome antidote to keyboards.
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The majority of the viewer's time is spent in a sitting room doing needlepoint, with brief interludes of talking to random neighbors, and even briefer interludes of flirting with Edward Ferrars, who is fine but kind of a dullard.
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Two paintings of embroidery are especially personal: the original needlepoint of an American flag by her great-grandmother who was a suffragette; and one of the Irish phrase of allegiance, "Erin Go Bragh," that hung in her grandmother's house.
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We looked at a statue of Hatshepsut and discussed how the legacy of this female pharaoh had been created and maintained, and we spoke about American 19th-century needlepoint and how textile designer Candace Wheeler created the concept of decorative arts.
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Dark planks had been sunk in the plaster ceiling to give the impression of half-timbering, and there were plastic cuckoo clocks over the bar and the empty fireplace, where they competed for space with a needlepoint of a cluster of snowy firs.
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Donald Trump promised to create a huge number of jobs, and he was probably following through on that promise when he jump-started the "nasty woman" novelty T-shirt, novelty hoodie, novelty tote bag, novelty mug, novelty pin, and novelty needlepoint micro-economy.
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Although these books seemed to be read mostly by middle-aged ladies who used needlepoint bookmarks, for a certain generation of girl readers they provided a palatable introduction to "grownup" fiction in the same way that science fiction did for many of their male counterparts.
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In one, he learns how to "pivot" white acquaintances away from subjects like Peruvian politics, only to repel them with talk about needlepoint; in another, his lecture of a white "lacrosse bro" goes horribly awry when it turns out that his target is a light-skinned Colombian.
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The last study of public participation in the arts carried out by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2012 revealed that 13% of adults have engaged in weaving, crocheting, quilting, needlepoint, knitting, or sewing in that same year — more than any other art form, including music.
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The cotton candy sculptures that dominate Boobroom are deceptively precious—that is, until Wang draws parallels between the frenetic, subjectively violent, and stabby process of needlepoint felting and the hidden physical and psychological violence involved in her own plastic surgery and surgeries she has felt pressured to undergo.
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In looking at "The Fifth Day" (1980), a combination of pigment and thread on a sandy brown needlepoint canvas, a nude, male figure seemingly steps from a place at the bottom of the composition where an abstract tile pattern meets three flowing currents of white, red, and green waters.
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When the Ford and Reagan campaigns were engaged in a delegate-by-delegate fight for the nomination, they mainly relied on thick paper dossiers stuffed with every knowable fact about their targets, from whom they married to whether they liked to play bridge or do needlepoint in their spare time.
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The Park Avenue apartment where Mr. Kagan lived with his wife, Erica Wilson — a needlepoint queen whose public-television show presaged the Martha Stewart era of do-it-yourself home improvement — was a wild, quirky monument to his career, complete with seemingly every major piece of furniture he ever put his stamp on.
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Run by Claudia Rossi Liacho, an Argentine woman who arrived in Formentera in the early 1980s, the shop is draped to the rafters with maximalist tribal cotton and silk textiles and accessories from Rajasthan, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, featuring floral block prints and needlepoint beasts and birds in vibrant pinks, greens and blues.
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"We've never had anything like this here," one of the owners said, seemingly not worried about the possibility that Champagne glasses sweating in the late afternoon sun might leave rings on mahogany side tables, nor about the risk of someone spilling something on the zebra-pattern needlepoint seat of an armchair from Versailles.
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As a hardcore devotee who has virtually interacted with the pop star a grand total of three times over the course of a decade, I can confirm this obsession as fact; a few years ago, when she retweeted my praise for Ryan Adams' full-album cover of 1989, I had the moment immortalized in needlepoint.
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But there are reasons that she recently chose to invite a reporter into her home, which is decorated minimally with nods to her family history: a needlepoint pillow bearing her mother and stepfather's initials here, a photo of her mother holding her as a days-old baby in the front seat of a Mercedes there.
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After 22 hours of bidding on 163 lots, the auction of the late decorator Mario Buatta's belongings — a giddy assortment of dog paintings, porcelain fruits and vegetables, needlepoint pillows, gilded door knockers, Chinese jardinieres and a thousand other pieces delivered in 19 trucks — fetched $7.6 million, more than two and a half times its estimate.
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Her opponent, a taller, older girl named Macy Levitt, her glasses hooked with a needlepoint band, thought at first that Constance wasn't Constance at all, that somehow, in the time between now and before, Constance had been replaced with a different Constance, not the Constance Macy Levitt knew from the past but a Constance from some distant, Amazonian tribe.
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From the mangroves of the Yucatán watching for green-winged teals to the grand ballet of fly-fishing on the Salmon River in Nova Scotia, Mr. Bryant's often-poetic, first-person accounts took readers to many places, but perhaps none more so than the mythical past, when boys went fishing with their fathers, watched rainbow trout hover above the pebbles in a brook and learned that patience, cultivated during hours in a duck blind, was more than a needlepoint virtue.
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Here are our favorite decorations:The best faux tree: National Tree Company's Douglas FirThe best tree stand: Krinner Tree Genie Tree StandThe best ornaments: Shop all ornaments at TargetThe best tree topper: Snowman Tree HuggerThe best wreath for your front door: Woodland Eucalyptus WreathThe best stockings: Needlepoint Stockings from L.L. BeanThe best garland: Home Accents Holiday Pre-Lit Plaza GarlandThe best artificial trees you can buyArtificial trees have come a long way since the '80s, and now they look much more realistic and festive during the holiday season.
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She beats Macy Levitt in straight sets; she makes Macy Levitt cry; she makes Macy Levitt throw off her glasses and stomp them with her Tretorns, losing the needlepoint band in the crabgrass next to the court, its fine handiwork sucked up and shredded by the power mower a few days later, the driver entirely oblivious; she makes Macy Levitt quit the junior-varsity team and years later, when she learns that Macy Levitt has been hospitalized for anorexia, she wonders if she also made Macy Levitt do that.
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These are the best Christmas stockings you can buy:Best Christmas stocking overall: Lands' End Needlepoint Christmas StockingBest vintage-style Christmas stocking: Quilted Christmas StockingsBest Christmas stocking with bling: Gilded Christmas StockingBest Christmas stocking for dogs: Plaid Dog Bone Paw StockingBest Hanukkah stocking: Velvet Happy Hanukkah StockingBest Christmas stockings for NFL fans: NFL-Team Christmas StockingBest elegant Christmas stocking: Jeweled Holiday Christmas StockingBest knit Christmas stocking: Knitted Christmas StockingBest toddler Christmas stocking: North Pole Reindeer StockingBest set of Christmas stockings: Imperial Home Classic Christmas StockingsBest contemporary Christmas stocking: Boho Gray Shag Holiday Stocking
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Here are the best Christmas decorations you can buy:Best faux tree: National Tree Company's Douglas FirBest tree stand: Krinner Tree Genie Christmas Tree StandBest ornaments: Shop all ornaments at TargetBest tree topper: Christmas Snowman Tree HuggerBest tree skirt: Valery Madelyn Traditional Holly Leaves Tree SkirtBest wreath for your front door: Woodland Eucalyptus WreathBest stockings: Needlepoint Stockings from L.L. BeanBest garland: Home Accents Holiday Pre-Lit Plaza GarlandBest advent calendar: Byer's Choice Christmas Tree Advent CalendarThe best Christmas lights you can buyHoliday decorations bring feelings of warmth and cheer even in the darkest and coldest days of the year.
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The set also includes an assortment of these specialty needles:Milliner: sharp point and an extra-long needle to move through several layers of fabric, great for decorative stitchesTapestry: blunt point with a large, oval eye used for needlepoint and crewelworkChenille: sharp point with a very large eye for thick threads and silk ribbonsEmbroidery: sharp point with a long, narrow eye to hold embroidery flossBetween: sharp point, round eye, and short length necessary for quiltingDarner: the tip is slightly curved to help pick up fabric threads, the eye is large to accommodate thicker yarnsEach grouping is labeled so help you select the size and type of needle you need.
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