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Beginner Stitch Night

Beginner Stitch Night

Mackenzie chats about TCS beginner stitch classes and recaps the success of our first class in September!

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Chicago Needlepoint

Opening Day- Thank you!

It is crazy that TCS has been open for just over three weeks now. Running the shop and our full time jobs has been as wonderful and exhausting as we planned! Mack is at the shop this weekend, so I finally took a few minutes to sit down and recap our Opening Day!  At noon sharp on 8/14, we did a little ribbon cutting and popped a bottle of Veuve to toast to our new venture! I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I was a little nervous that there were only two people besides the needlepoint dudes and...

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Local Needlepoint Shop Third Coast Stitches Featured in the Air at Chicago O'hare Airport. Lycette Designs.

Flying with Needlepoint!

Tips to help flying with your needlepoint project go smoothly!

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Third Coast Stitches shown stitching a local needlepoint canvas. Lycette Designs. KC Needlepoint. Needlepoint.com

Needlepoint Projects on the Move

 I'm sure that we're not the only ones - we’ve been doing a lot more traveling in the past two months than we could have foreseen about a year ago! With that, we’ve needed to change our WIPs up to make sure we can pack them along on our trips - plane, train, or automobile, we’ve been loving some smaller canvases that are packable and have that bright, summer feel!  The Alice & Blue Zephyrs canvas shouts summer - our friend Katherine stitched the ocean in a variegated fiber and we just adore how it turned out!  This sunglass case...

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