The best needlepoint kits will come with everything you need to get started: mono canvas to stitch on, a needle, threads, and stitching guides.

Parker Posey (a longtime needlepointer) on everything a beginner needs to know, from the eyeglass-case kits that quickly made Cameron Diaz capable to the 1973 pattern book written by an NFL legend.

Beginners can learn from Grossman-Morris and fellow needlepoint instructor Janet Perry at a Needlepoint 101 series of three needlepoint classes that started last weekend and continue April 6 and ...