If you read my blog regularly, then you know I been a little lapse on my posts lately...I have been stitching up a storm, working on two new teaching pieces for 2010. Yesterday, I finished model stitching a Christmas Sampler for the Stitcher's Hideaway needlework retreat I will be teaching in Mystic, CT (October 2010). This retreat has a holiday theme, so I have designed a piece called "Pocketful of Peppermint" that can be stitched as a sampler...and the separate sections can be stitched as ornaments! This pieces has ten specialty stitches (in addition to basic stitches). The class will cover stitching the sampler, how to work each of the specialty stitches, three types of ornament finishing, adding beads when finishing an ornament, personalizing your ornaments, and making twisted cord. I am currently in the process of stitching the ornaments, but I thought you would like to take a little sneak peek at the sampler...before framing, of course. Tomorrow, I will be off to the framer with this design and a new piece for February titled "In My Heart". I will have more fun things to share with you soon...
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Stitcher's Hideaway Teaching Design
If you read my blog regularly, then you know I been a little lapse on my posts lately...I have been stitching up a storm, working on two new teaching pieces for 2010. Yesterday, I finished model stitching a Christmas Sampler for the Stitcher's Hideaway needlework retreat I will be teaching in Mystic, CT (October 2010). This retreat has a holiday theme, so I have designed a piece called "Pocketful of Peppermint" that can be stitched as a sampler...and the separate sections can be stitched as ornaments! This pieces has ten specialty stitches (in addition to basic stitches). The class will cover stitching the sampler, how to work each of the specialty stitches, three types of ornament finishing, adding beads when finishing an ornament, personalizing your ornaments, and making twisted cord. I am currently in the process of stitching the ornaments, but I thought you would like to take a little sneak peek at the sampler...before framing, of course. Tomorrow, I will be off to the framer with this design and a new piece for February titled "In My Heart". I will have more fun things to share with you soon...
The sampler is really beautiful. Will it be available for purchase?
ReplyDeleteLove this. Will it be released for everybody at some point?
ReplyDeleteLove this, Belinda!! It makes me all the more sad that I can't go to Mystic.
ReplyDeleteSo cute, Belinda. Love the way you feed all my stitching cravings...samplers, Christmas, ornies...
ReplyDeleteLove the design and hope someday you will release it to everyone, no way my budget allows a trip to Mystic but sounds like great fun!
ReplyDeleteDeb
Stunning Sampler. Happy New Year.
ReplyDeleteMichelle x
Great job! Maybe I'll see you in Mystic...Nancy
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous sampler.
ReplyDeleteHi Belinda
ReplyDeleteI'm loving this new Christmas piece, I hope you will release it in the future. I am in the UK, so cannot attend the retreat, but it would make a great companion piece to Peppermint Twist, which I have nearly finished.
Wow, it's gorgeous, I love it!
ReplyDeleteAdd me to the list of hope it'll be released some day, I love it
ReplyDeleteWhat a cutie, Bel. I absolutely love it!
ReplyDeleteLove this one! Very pretty.
ReplyDeleteThe sampler is beautiful. And I love it when designs are so verstile - "can be a sampler and it can be ornaments". I ditto the comment above about the hope it will be released in the future.
ReplyDeleteTake care!
Lisa D
Did mention how I love the sampler? It is beautiful. I hope it will become a pattern that those of us that can't take your class can get down the road.
ReplyDeleteSherry