NJNA/ANG Member Blogs

• Melita’s Blog
• Brenda’s Needlepoint Studio

Favorite Merchants

• Ridgewood Needlepoint
• Foxview Needlepoint
• The Edwardian Needle
• Needlepoint in Paradise
• Needleworker’s Delight
• Rittenhouse Needlepoint
• Quail Run Needlework
• Old Town Needlework
• Be Stitched
• Bead World

Designers

• Needle Delights Originals (Kathy Rees)
• Laura J Perin Designs

Other ANG Chapters

• San Bernardino Chapter
• Cyberpointers

Related Needlework Groups

• Shining Needle Society
• Skylands Stitchers
• Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventures

Alphabets

• Tink Boord-Dill’s Americana (http://www.tinkbd.com) – Seasons16 is lovely stitch alphabet for free as a pdf. It’s a superb example of what’s available in Tink Boord-Dill’s alphabet and monogram books. It’s also a great alphabet for needlepoint. 
• Caption Generator (http://www.crosstitch.com/captionmaker) – free version cross stitch only. Enter a phrase and get a Backstitch chart, centered or not. There is a paid version with more options.
• Times New Roman (http://www.yarntree.com/036alpht.htm) A 14-stitch tall version of this elegant typeface. Both upper and lower case letters.
• Subversive Cross Stitch Alphabets (https://shop.subversivecrossstitch.com/search?q=font) has free alphabets from this creator of unconventional cross stitch kits.
• French Alphabet (http://nuts-about-needlepoint.com/three-french-alphabets-free-vintage-charts/) A lovely vintage embellished alphabet (like on old linens) for needlepoint or cross stitch. There are also several alphabets for free embroidery on the site.
• Medieval Alphabet (http://www.dragonbear.com/uncial.html) two medieval alphabets in two chart formats.
• Carnie’s Creations (http://www.freepatternsonline.com/xscharts/alphabets.htm) has over 40 alphabets, mostly small and simple, available on-line. There is even a Greek upper case alphabet for sorority and fraternity initials.
• http://www.stitchpoint.com/eng/tool/alph/cross-stitch-writing-tool.php is an interesting site for a cursive alphabet chart.
• Letters of Welcome is more of a pamphlet or chartpack than a book. It includes 16 alphabets designed to give you the tools you need to vary the basic alphabet charts and create an endless variety of new charts.

Graph Paper

• http://www.printablepaper.net/category/graph – This printable graph paper (also known as grid paper) features squares of various sizes, from 1 line per inch to 24 lines per inch.  Variations include index lines (heavier grid lines) and the size of the paper (legal, letter, ledger, and A4)
• www.stitchpoint.com is another helpful site – If you go to their home page and click on Tools at the bottom, one of the tools is graph paper templates. You can choose anywhere from 5 to 20 lines per inch.
• http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ – This site allows you to tailor your graph paper to meet your exact needs.
• www.cyberstitchers.com – print free cross-stitch graph paper under Stitching Tools and you can print it in, 6, 7, 10, 11,12,14,16,18 and 22 to the inch grids.

• For needlepoint graph paper showing the weave of mono, visit http://www.susangreeningdavis.com/. Unfortunately you cannot change the mesh size

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• ANG Facebook Page
• Shopping for Needlepoint Facebook Page