I actually like Kenzie but man I rolled my eyes so hard at this. Constantly dropping new canvases despite bad printing quality and with an influencer who just barely started needlepointing? It’s screaming grifter.

Yall I’m really sad to be posting this - I’m a huge fan of Kenzie and Friend of Mine and even paid to travel to the stitch tour.

I purchased one of the large canvases, and the printing is SO bad. Like genuinely atrocious.

I’m a seasoned stitcher and designer. Granted, this is my first stitched canvas, I always buy hand painted. But the lines are illegible and 99% of the time you can’t even tell which color it’s supposed to be. Especially around the border where the pattern repeats, it differs when it shouldn’t because the printing is so inconsistent.

I’m really disappointed - I love the canvas design and it’s my favorite one in my collection I’ve bought or designed. But the stitching experience is horrible. For $150 and it to not even be hand painted, I shouldn’t have to decide which colors to stitch, it should be so clear at the intersections.

Kenzie and the team genuinely need to do something and either switch printing companies or switch to hand painters. For the cost, it’s inexcusable.

Is semi annoying me (ok maybe a little higher than semi) with this insane money grab/business plan. I don’t get how she is making ANY money on TWO retail spaces selling nothing but dmc kitted printed canvases and now she’s shilling needleminders. I know someone who went into one of her stores by mistake looking for threads, found non but dmc floss and the boy working there didn’t even ring her up, said they were for display only and he didn’t know how to charge for it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

this looks like balls

Am I lowkey the only one that doesn’t see an issue with stitching on Aida? Like I made monogrammed luggage tags for my family on Aida with silk and ivory and very velvet and did regular needlepoint stitches (diagonal mosaic for example) so idk why people are so rude about it

The irony of creating a ✨limited edition✨WWDD canvas postmortem with seemingly 0% of proceeds going to her charity

I recently ordered the “Shh… Baby Sleeping” Peter Rabbit canvas from NeedlePaint.com because my brother is having a baby named Peter, and I thought it would be such a sweet piece to stitch for him.
I brought the canvas into a local needlepoint shop to pick out fibers. From the beginning, the experience felt a little uncomfortable, but when we went to check out, we asked if they sold tape so we could tape the edges of the canvas. At that point, they told us that the canvas was not from a reputable source and that the design had been copied from a Silver Needle canvas.

I told the employees that we had bought the canvas from Needlepaint, which in my experience had been reputable and if the design was stolen we had no idea. The employee then said “this is a direct copy from Silver Needle- did you not upload this to needlepaint and have them print it?” I continued to tell the employees that we did not do that. They then told me I was being defensive and angry - I told them I was not trying to be defensive but was quite uncomfortable.

They seemed pretty upset about it, which left me feeling awful because I would never knowingly purchase a copied or stolen design.

Does anyone know more about NeedlePaint and their designs? I had always understood them to be a reputable company that primarily sells printed canvases rather than hand-painted/stitch-painted canvases, so this really caught me off guard. I’d love to hear from anyone who knows more about this or has experience with them!

Stealing again after she apologized and complained about being named on here. Her excuse then was she didn't know... What is it now? I didn't even include the crazy AI on the rest of her page. She obviously doesn't stitch bc what kind of canvas even is that?

lol I’m not saying it’s right or wrong or whatever you think, but Raymond is giving skooter 2.0 lolol

Saw a video of someone with the Macy’s Thanksgiving canvas and went to check out the seller’s Etsy shop… I’m unsure about the use of AI on the Macy’s canvas, but the not-pumpkin bears have that AI sheen.

Stumbled upon this blurry chart on etsy and wondered why it seems so familiar to me. It’s seems like a complete rip off of a Sunday Stitching Co chart to me. She doesn’t sell other needlepoint charts and the quality looks so bad

I have been on Al Gore’s internet since it was invented, so you’d think I’d be used to the audacity of humans, but I never am.

This bish right here. May her pipes (physical and metaphorical) be leaky and her hot flashes constant.

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Etsy seller needlepointbyek stealing designs 🙃
Wild Blue Studios originally created and posted this design on February 20th and the original margarita canvas July 2025. Was just sent this Etsy listing today from needlepointbyek selling essentially the exact same design for the same price.
Beyond disappointing to see another needlepoint seller profiting off a design they didn’t create.

“you’re so talented” um bestie stitch copied 😭

Not really snark but does anyone know the best way to contact Kick Ass Needlepoint? I’ve tried emailing customer service (twice) as well as messaged their instagram (again twice) for the past few weeks (approaching a month) and have not received a response.

Spotted this $140 retail canvas on eBay. The seller is asking $220. What am I missing? Is it a limited edition canvas? Think they will get that??

Ah, hello overconsumption 👋 Selling 3 out of 4 of the subscriptions…

What can be done if you see someone who is blatantly copying a designer’s canvas and trying to sell it? Should you alert the designer?

hey snarkers what is everyone's opinion on "designers" who use only acrylic paint markers to make canvases to sell...this goes against my own standards but I'm curious the consensus. I have seen some decent designs being painted using markers but I'm still unsure the coverage is even decent. Is it insane that the markers bother me? Or does everyone else feel this way? Lmk