September 3, 2008 the EGA (Embroiderers Guild of America) celebrates it’s 50th anniversary with (among other events) National Stitch in Public Day. Thias is such a fantastic idea and I’d love to see people everywhere taking up their needles and thread and showing the world what we are made of. I’m a big fan of stitching in public and stitch just about everywhere I go. In fact one of my friends and I often go to lunch and she knits and I stitch at our favorite cafe. They suggest that their chapters organize public stitching whether it be a group in the park, the coffee shop, on the bus, at work during lunch, etc. I came up with many ideas doe where you could have events: Is there as place in your area where you can linger, or where you see people knitting in public? There’s a cafe in my
Monthly Archive:: April 2008
Here’s a fun way to make Bargello, create a pattern which is mostly vertical instead of horizontal. This little heart has a line which has single stitch steps in a zig-zag pattern. I used six shades of overdyed silk from Northern Lights and you can see how the color merge and diverge. It took me a long while to get going on this, but I stitched almost half the heart in one evening of TV watching. I added a big crystal heart as an accent. I’m going to finish it as a flat ornament, but it could also be a great pillow insert or front of a needlebook. I love the modern look of it, I think it kind of looks like a Missoni knit dress. It’s just one of the great projects in my upcoming book, Bargello Revisited (out in June)