Filed under: Embroidery Guild of America, Mid-Atlantic Region, Overdyed Spools THaP
Today’s 3-hour class at EGA’s Mid-Atlantic Regional meeting was fun and challenging. There were 31 students – larger than anything I’ve done on the chapter level. Everyone was wonderful.
The piece labeled original was done for a purse for my sister in 2015 and the second for the ANG 2017 Chapter Project Book.
I started stitching it for the third time in order to refresh myself. It is intended to be a small project where many (about 20) of the students then go back and teach it to their own chapter. The main idea is to manipulate an overdyed thread in 2 areas to create a striped effect and place color randomly in the other 2 areas. I shared other pieces where I manipulated overdyed, demonstrated a quilter’s knot, and how to find the repeating color sequence.
I sent this photo out to get people excited. After class, the best comment I heard was, “I’ll never look at overdyed threads the same again.” That’s wonderful to hear and fun to open up possibilities for people.
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Loved taking this class when you taught it to Delaware’s Seashore Chapter. You are an excellent instructor and designer. Kudos.
Comment by brendasneedlepointstudioblog October 17, 2021 @ 7:17 amThanks Brenda. It’s always a pleasure to visit your chapter. Yours turned out lovely as did Lucille’s who arrived for the afternoon meeting and brought hers.
Comment by melitastitches4fun October 17, 2021 @ 8:04 am