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A series of articles, “From our Mind into a Design” were published in American Needlepoint Guild’s (ANG) Needle Pointers magazine by Debbie Deem in the 1980s. Debbie takes a thistle sketch and leads you through the process to develop a very creative interpretation of the sketch (not pictured here). I’d love to stitch it. Here is how a thistle stem became a border. Very ingenious.

From a google search, I see Ann Strite-Kurz took a Color and/or Design class from Debbie. Debbie started a blog in 2009 but it didn’t last long (artneedlethreadstitches). She shows how she paints a canvas and a few designs in classes she was teaching, including Starship Needlepoint and Stitching Sudoku, both of which appeal to me. I haven’t seen her book, but she and Mary Anderson published Stitchery Under Southern Skies Eleven Needlepoint Designs for the Creative Canvas Embroiderer. I don’t know any more about Debbie. If you know/knew her, please leave a comment and share a memory.

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