Nancy Schurman will keep you in stitches — she will make you laugh and also teach you how to do some of the finest needlepoint. Owner of one of Sewickley’s oldest businesses, The Porcupine ...

There are myriad ways to decorate the stockings for this project, so feel free to get creative! This needlepoint pattern is impressive, but it is time-consuming and requires a rock-steady hand.

And years later, she was able to successfully combine all of those skills and passions into the launch of her Eatontown-based needlepoint ... array of largely hand-painted canvases that you ...

The Porcupine’s present location is at 404 Beaver St. The shop specializes in everything needed for a needlepoint project, including hand-painted canvases and the colorful threads in silks ...

We were in Old Town Scottsdale, Ariz., at a needlepoint shop, when he spied a stocking canvas. I bought it and, once again, spent an entire year working on it. As he hung his stocking that holiday ...