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 #302CHARLESTON LARIAT & BEAD TASSEL LINDA CHIRBY BEADWORK Proficiency Level: Intermediate Students of this workshop will learn a 1920’s open weave technique, circular peyote, surface embellishing and fringe design. The length of the Charleston is a comfortable scarf length with our signature bead tassel at the ends. You will start your circular peyote signature bead in class and on your own. Creating a drawstring closure on your beaded beads, surface embellishing for accent and fringing your tassel will be demonstrated. These are all the finishing techniques you’ll need to make your tassel sparkle. Some pre-work. Materials in Kit: Full color pattern & photo, instructions and step-by-step diagrams, Japanese and Czech seed beads, thread, beading needles, beeswax. Kit Fee: $52.00 |
 #303DRAGON LYNN PAYETTE A Dragon worked in gold and black, To stitch and wear upon your back. Proficiency Level: Beginner to Intermediate Design Size: 6 ½” X 8 ½” Dragon is a mixed-media piece worked (on a frame), in student’s choices of gold and black threads, fibers, fabrics, sheers, and beads, techniques and stitches. Student provides garment or fabric (from silk to denim) on which to stitch. Transferring design, stitch and cut appliqué, padding with overstitching, couching, squared filling, beading as well as many other stitches and techniques are taught. Materials in Kit: Working frame, sheer black and metallic gold fabrics, netting, opaque black and metallic gold fabrics, bonding tricot, fiber fill, felt, fibers and threads, black and gold metallics, and a variety of beads. All are in black and gold. Kit Fee: $48.50 |
 #304FIVE FRIENDS JOAN THOMASSON CANVAS Proficiency Level: Intermediate Design Size: 8” X 8” Five young friends are gathered for a bridal shower. The bride-to-be is dressed in festive red with her long hair braided. All the girls are dressed in their holiday best, a symphony of small patterns, blackwork, and beaded accents against an open bargello background. Stitch the friends in floss, over-dyed floss, Fil Or, Fil Argent and Kreinik metallics while listening to stories about life in their Russian Village and gossip about the local nobility. Materials in Kit: Hand-drawn canvas (24-count Congress cloth), DMC floss, Needle Necessities over-dyed floss, Medici wool, perle cotton, Fil Or, Fil Argent, Kreinik metallics, and beads. Kit Fee: $85.00 |
 #305FEUILLES D’ARGENT JANE D. ZIMMERMAN CANVAS Proficiency Level: Advanced-Intermediate Design Size: 11 ½” X 11 ½” This advanced-intermediate course explores original multi-layered trellis patterns worked in silk, various metal threads and beads. Historic darning patterns are used for some of the fillings, these original variations designed to incorporate the use of metal thread. The 11 ½”-square counted design, adapted from a 19th century piece of whitework, is executed on #18 gray mono canvas in white silk and silver Japan braid, ribbon and tambour in addition to silver-lined crystal Japanese “Delica” hex-cut beads. The student must fully understand the principle of compensation. Materials in Kit: #18 gray canvas, white silk, silver Japan braid, ribbon, tambour, Delica beads, needles, instruction book and color photos. Prework: approximately 10 hours. Kit Fee: $98.00 |
 #306GOLDEN TREASURE BOX MICHELE ROBERTS BURDENWORK BOX Proficiency Level: Advanced-Intermediate Design Size: 2 canvases @ 3 ¾” x 3 ¾” and 3 canvases @ 3 ¾” x 5 ¾” In the spirit of the famous 17th century caskets, this burdenwork box is actually a 21st century cherry wood photo keepsake box. What an opportunity to mix traditions spanning half a millennium! Very traditional muted colors are paired with various types of English gold, worked over gilded canvas. A shaped gold bow stitched with gold bullion ties “ribbons” from all the sides together on top of the box. The tramé lines in the burdenwork are English Gold Twist. The burdenwork is done in five traditional Renaissance Bargello patterns. The design area dimensions are the ones which perfectly slide into the 5-glass fronted display areas of a Bombay Company photograph keepsake box (not provided). Students should feel free to change the dimensions if they plan to use a different box. Materials in Kit: Five gilded 18-count mono canvases (8” x 8”), 5 working frames, one plain practice canvas, practice frame, all gold, all threads, needles, padding materials and other items, and complete color instruction booklet. Kit Fee: $125.00 |
 #307GORDIAN KNOT RACHEL ATKINSON CANVAS WORK and PULLED THREAD Proficiency Level: Intermediate Design Size: 11” X 11” Lustrous, glittery threads of cotton, rayon, nylon, and metallic composition combine with beads to create this fascinating interlaced knot. Its satin-like appearance contrasts nicely with the 18-mesh canvas ground, which is ornamented with pulled thread stitches. Emphasis is on working units of pattern in diagonal rows. Students are offered a color choice – blue-green threads with silver accents on gray canvas or mauve threads on eggshell canvas. The finished piece measures 11” x 11”. Materials in Kit: Canvas, DMC #5 Perle cotton, Kreinik #16 Braid, Flair, Neon Rays, Watercolors, Seed Beads, Assorted Needles, Spiral-bound Instruction Booklet with Colored Photo. Kit Fee: $40.00 |
 #309IN CLASSIC STYLE MARNIE RITTER CANVAS Proficiency Level: Intermediate Advanced Design Size: 6 ½” X 8” Canvas patterns galore create this geometric design. These eight patterns incorporate Marnie’s concepts of intriguing color combinations that create this unique puzzle that fits together precisely. Triangle Garden, Encroaching Diamonds, Flower Tiles, Grid By Golly and her own Squares and Tassels are some of Marnie’s patterns offered. Amethyst, Scarlet, Seafoam and secret color combinations will allow the needle artist an opportunity to learn as well as enjoy. Color and how it works is definitely one of the messages of this class. Threads are all silk as well as some metallic with the addition of the special rose medallion and beads. Materials in Kit: Complete kit, instructions, 18-count cream canvas, threads and beads to finish design. Kit Fee: $55.00 |
 #311SAMPLING MONET’S GIVERNY SUSAN GOODMAN SAMPLER ADAPTATION Proficiency Level: Intermediate Design Size: 5” X 7” “Sampling Monet’s Giverny” is a set piece that was developed from photographs taken at Giverny, France. This Sampler class is for those students who would like an introduction to transferring their favorite photos to fabric and canvas while stitching a sampler on congress cloth. A demonstration of several transfer methods will be described, including use of the scanner and computer. Students in this class will concentrate on how to use sampler stitches plus embroidery to change a photograph. They will learn how to interpret the picture in appropriate stitches for the congress cloth. Materials in Kit: Congress cloth transfer printed with “Sampling Monet’s Giverny”, threads, “photo-transferred” paper with design, extra white fabrics, paint brush and instructions with color photograph. Kit Fee: $50.00 |
 #312A Sixteenth Century Needlewoman: Mary Queen of Scots CAROLE LAKE MULTI-MEDIA LECTURE/CANVAS Proficiency Level: Advanced Intermediate to Advanced Design Size: 12” X 12” The life and needlework of Marie Stuart, popularly known as Mary Queen of Scots, are the backbone of this history class. A multi-media presentation complements a stitched piece on canvas based on her own needlework. By doing a small amount of advance reading, students will already have a basic understanding of Mary’s life and world before coming to class. This class will study the life, art and influences of the sixteenth century as evoked by one of history’s most famous needlewomen. Mary herself worked primarily in tent stitch with professional embroiderers to assist. In this class we will not only consider her techniques, but also how she might have interpreted her 16th century designs with access to today’s materials and knowledge. Drawings used by Mary to develop her own stitching are combined for this class using modern stitches and contemporary threads. The core of the class will be the symbols Mary used in her needlework as messages. Elizabethan emblems and symbols are fascinatingly obtuse to the modern eye. This class explores that world. The class project contains the symbols most important to Mary: her cipher, the thistle of Scotland, the Tudor rose and the lily of France, and, of course, the crown over all, claiming her right to be Queen of each of the three countries. Materials in Kit: Kit includes pre-basted 18ct. dark green canvas, all threads needed to complete the piece, needles, full size color picture, notebook pages and bibliography. No pre-stitching, but some suggested (but not required) reading. Kit Fee: $88.00 |
 #313THE SORCERESS DOROTHY LESHER CANVAS Proficiency Level: Advanced-Intermediate to Advanced Design Size: 14” X 16” This companion to The Wizard begins with a creation of the brilliant sunrise using watercolor pencils on pale blue Congress Cloth. Golden sunbeams swirl, while hair of fine black silk and a cape of appliquéd Sensuede of dark red-violet fly in the wind. The challenge of the class is centered on the optical shading of 12 hues of Chinese Silk in the robe which changes from the deep purple of night to the brilliance of the morning’s sun. The sea, rock and lichen growing on the rock are stitched with over-dyed flosses enhanced with watercolor pencils. Materials in Kit: Congress cloth with design, set of watercolor pencils, instructions with color copies, silks, metallics, beads, over-dyed threads, gold, and flosses. Kit Fee: $145.00 |
 #314STRAWBERRIES AND CRÈME DAKOTA ROGERS SAMPLER Proficiency Level: Intermediate and Up Design Size: 6 ½” X 28” This linen and silk sampler begins with blackwork bands from antique samplers and adapts them to a strawberry theme. The blackwork will be embellished with a variety of stitches. Between blackwork bands are areas of hemstitching and drawn thread. No cutting of threads will be necessary with this technique. Some double running, basting and minor hemstitching pre-work is necessary. Minimum requirements are given in the pre-work text. The student letter will address substituting different linen which is possible. Materials in Kit: 12” x 36” 32-count teal linen, silk floss, instructions. Some pre-work required. Kit Fee: $95.00 |
 #317 WINSOME WIND ELSA M. PARRISH CANVAS Proficiency Level: Advanced-Intermediate Design Size: 13 ½” X 18 ½” In this rectangular design an interesting array of stitch techniques will be explored. Included in the project will be surface, dimensional, exposed canvas and an unique free form experience. Special attention will be given to the beginning and ending of the working threads. Thirty-five different stitches will be used to enhance these techniques and encourage agreement with the pictorial and perspective needs of the design. The student will be encouraged to select and place several different motifs into the design, making each project a true original. Color manipulation, shading and dimensional effects are created with 45 hues of thread, over-dyes, attached objects and ribbon. Materials in Kit: 18-count white mono canvas, assorted threads, fabrics and materials, Prismacolour pens, needles, instructions and color photo. Kit Fee: $65.00 |
 #300STUDIO TIME Enjoy relaxed time to stitch on your own project. Teacher: None Materials in Kit: None Student Provides: Whatever they wish to work on. Pre-work: None Kit Fee: None |