Filed under: ANG Main Line Stitchers Chapter
My ANG Main Line Stitchers chapter was fortunate to have Cleo from Busy Lizzy in Chadds Ford visit us. I believe she does more finishing now but has canvas & threads. She is busy working out of her home. So, I think it’s more by appt even though I heard come visit anytime.
In just an hour and a half, I was feeling pretty good about my ribbon French Knots (done two different ways). And, the lazy daisy was fine (nothing too tricky except playing with the twist). I forget the name of the second to the left flower on the top. That was the hardest because I kept pulling too tight.
It was great to learn something new & demystify ribbon embroidery even just a little! Thanks so much to Patrick for driving her. And, to Cleo for donating the cloth & ribbon for 12 of us!
A friend of mine has decided to part with her thimble collection. We were lucky enough to see them all in person when she brought them to our ANG Main Line chapter meeting last month. They’ll be on auction April 18, 2015. You do not have to be there in person to be to bid. All directions are listed on the website. There are many lots going on auction that day but if you search the word ‘thimble’, you’ll see the 18 lots. I counted 470 thimbles in various size lots. Here is the website: http://www.wiederseim.com
With her permission, I can share photos of several sample lots:
Filed under: ANG Main Line Stitchers Chapter
My ANG Main Line Stitchers Chapter set up our own exhibit yesterday afternoon in 2 large glass cases in the Marple Township Library which is at 2599 Sproul Rd in Broomall. If you are in the area anytime during the month of April, please stop by – no charge!! No April Fool’s Day joke.
And, we’d love to have you join us at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, on the second Monday of the month at 7:15 pm. GPS: 203 North Valley Forge Road, Devon, PA.
For more information, email us at: ANG.MLS.needlepoint@gmail.com
My Main Line Stitchers chapter has been working with open canvas projects more this year. So, this month’s exercise will be to create our own pattern. I selected Pattern 37 from Jean Taggart’s Laid Fillings for even weave fabrics. 
The key is not only to start and end threads under other threads but move around the canvas under threads that are already in place. To show this, I placed a flashlight under the canvas. 
Here’s my pattern. 
Getting a different look.
Filed under: ANG Main Line Stitchers Chapter, Pansy Secret Garden by Laura Perin
My ANG Main Line Stitchers chapter is stitching various designs from Laura Perin’s Secret Garden Collage series for our spring project. I couldn’t decide between California Poppy, Daffodil, Daisy, and Pansy. So, I bought several & am starting with this one.
I had a harder time remembering to stop for the small squares on the outer border than all the counting required to get the smaller areas outlined correctly! But, it is correct. And, Area 1 is done!
This is the best photo I could get because the colors of the boxes are dark blue & purple with a splash of green. We have been in a deep freeze (for Philly) & thinking about spring helps!
I forgot to post this & since writing that, I made progress on the pansy. This section reminds me of cross-stitch days when I had to pencil off what I stitch as I stitch it. Slows me down but increases my accuracy. Spring is even closer now that daylight saving time is here!
Filed under: ANG Main Line Stitchers Chapter
These just arrived from needlepoint.com ‘s recent give-a-way! It includes Claudia hand painted cotton threads (3-ply), a brand I have not seen in Pennsylvania! The selected Impressions & Mill Seed beads match perfectly. I am Programs Chair for ANG Main Line Stitchers in Devon, PA (outside Philadelphia) & will figure out how to share this with them. Thanks needlepoint.com!
Although I have been a member of the ANG Main Line Stitchers for years (since about 2003), I just finished our chapter name tag.
I was told since we meet near a suburban train line that runs into Philadelphia, that’s how they came up with the design.
I’ll be “finishing” this one myself. When I cleaned up, I found the necessary instructions & supplies except for ultrasuede which I just ordered from eBay.
Filed under: ANG Main Line Stitchers Chapter, ANG Seminar 2014, Cloth Ornaments
When I was at Designers Desk in Geneva, IL at seminar, I picked up extra cloth ornaments as Christmas gifts for Board members of my ANG Main Line chapter. These were all the various heart patterns that they had for sale. I couldn’t share them until after our Christmas dinner meeting.
We also did a polyanna Christmas “steal” with lots of various needlepoint related items & I got a gift certificate to use at Needle Me in Havertown, PA!
More gift tags! Since the ANG Main Line chapter meeting is Monday, I doubt I’ll get any more done.
Medieval Mosaic 
F-106 
Jacquard Palace Pattern 
Ribbon 
Shrubbery 1 
Sand 12 
Since I can’t remember where I found it, I don’t know the name of it. 
Nellies Needlers at Woodlawn first introduced me to gift tags when they stitched them to raise money (https://melitastitches4fun.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/woodlawn-roadtrip-2014/). So, I suggested to my ANG Mainline Stitchers that we stitch some over the next year to give to the gift shop to raise money as our next charitable project. We selected A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children where one of our members (Marnie) worked.
Marnie has volunteered to take the stitched patterns and make up the gift tags. So, these are my first tags.
This one is also going to be the basic pattern of the water for my next original design. I saw someone use the pattern on Facebook’s Needlepoint Nation for snow and liked it immediately for water! It is the Snow 20 from Stitch Landscape which is almost identical to the Water 25 pattern except that water is completely symmetrical but I prefer the asymmetrical Snow pattern because water is more unpredictable. No wonder I saw water even though it was “snow”!
Here are the rest:
Double Hungarian Ground 
Pavillion Boxes 
Original Helen’s Lace 
Checker Filling 
Tied Windmills 
Mosaic Square Modified 
Sirna Star 
Milanese 
Triple Cross I 
Byzantine 
Sand 25 
Soil 11 
These make great purse projects! Get time waiting at a doctor office, 10 minutes of lunchtime, when ever & where ever!!
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