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A few of our ANG Main Line Stitchers (MLS) Chapter members met last night at Buff’s house for a wonderful evening! Food & friends – what could be better? An ornament exchange!! We drew numbers and did the steal (sorry Buff – I swear I won’t steal from you next year). But, I already have a red & green one (center one in picture) that this will go great with!!
It was great to see Nancy, Marnie, and Carole who have been absent for various reasons for a couple of months. We always appreciate the effort they make coming from Delaware & New Jersey! Patrick, Yvonne, Linda, Buff, and I completed the group last night.
We decided to go with “unfinished” ornaments so we could finish in whatever manner we preferred. The designs were all from the Kick Back & Stitch series by Terry Gifford (someone donated a variety of different instruction booklets). We distributed them last summer so people could work on them. Not everyone participated (which is fine) and the 2 “finished” ornaments pictured below were augmented by some handy stitching supplies.
We were happy to welcome Kristen and Kathy this year to MLS. Best wishes for a healthy and happy year to all our members! Hope to see you and more new members in 2017. Please join us at 7:00 pm on the second Monday of the month at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church. GPS: 203 North Valley Forge Road, Devon, PA.
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A few of us at ANG Main Line Stitchers chapter started the 2012 Stitch of the Month which is the 40th Anniversary Heart. Area 3 is a composite pattern. It’s so tough to get the right color of lavender/purple & the small Kreinik x s aren’t sparkly enough in the photo.
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November’s portion of Susan Hoekstra’s Feuilles d’ananas (Pineapple Leaves) are giant diagonal mosaic stitches alternating with small mosaic stitches. Again, I centeted the giant mosaic to start. This worked up quickly.
I can tell we’ll have a lot of couching Kreinik next month. Plus, there are beads to add.
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With the new year kicking off last month, we started the 2012 Stitch of the Month from ANG’S website. That’s the 40th Anniversary Heart design. Several of us are doing it in red and one in another colorway. One person is doing a quatrafoil instead of the heart.
Here’s September’s (T-stitch) & October’s (Criss-Cross Hungarian) areas completed.
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October’s portion of Susan Hoekstra’s Feuilles d’ananas (Pineapple Leaves) are Daisy eyelets, upright satin, herringbone, and more Daisy eyelets. In fact, I have 136 eyelets!
I centered the eyelet in the middle rather than starting with a complete full unit on the left. There has to be a symmetrical arrangement to please my eye!
Our second year-long project at my ANG Main Line Stitchers Chapter will involve each member choosing a small painted canvas and bringing it to every meeting. Each member will have an opportunity to ask the rest of the group to suggest stitches and threads for a specific area of his/her canvas. I look forward to watching and learning from each other’s canvases. Then, we can stitch the area discussed before the next meeting. At the end of the year, each member will have a completed piece based on the suggestions of the group. We’ll also explore selecting background stitches.
A review of some tips on canvas embellishment for painted canvases will be shared at October’s meeting to kick off our painted canvas project. I have Julia Snyder’s new book “Keys To Canvas Embellishment” and “Painted Canvas Embellishment: An Idea Book” by Carole Lake and Michael Boren. If you have books specific to this topic, please leave me a comment & let me know your favorite book(s). By all means, if you are in the area, please visit us! At 7:00 pm on October 10, 2016 (second Monday of the month) at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church. GPS: 203 North Valley Forge Road, Devon, PA. For those who can, please join us for dinner at 5:30 pm at Minella’s (320 W Lancaster Ave).
I don’t know who the designer of this canvas – if you know, please leave me a comment. And, if it’s not a snail shell, please let me know! And, if you’d like to make suggestions for an area, please do!! I haven’t done many painted canvases (mainly do counted designs) & hope to learn a lot this year. I have a few painted canvases & want to do something nice with them.
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September’s portion of Susan Hoekstra’s Feuilles d’ananas (Pineapple Leaves) is the Nobuko. It’s a great stitch and easy to compensate once you get the pattern established.
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August’s portion of Susan Hoekstra’s Feuilles d’ananas (Pineapple Leaves) are the Brighton and Thread Couched with Crosses. It’s always interesting to see composite stitches come together.
July’s portion of Susan Hoekstra’s Feuilles d’ananas (Pineapple Leaves) are Triangles. Coming along nicely.
June’s portion of Susan Hoekstra’s Feuilles d’ananas (Pineapple Leaves) is the Giant Brick Stitch.
I decided to compensate over 5 canvas threads instead of stitching twice over a single canvas thread.
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