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Teacher: Round Robin
Max: 60 students
Level: All
Description:
Price: $60.00
Scheduled: Wednesday 5:00 - 7:00pm
Here is an opportunity to spend time with 4 talented needle artists who will demonstrate and help you finish a simple, yet special project. Students will begin with one teacher and rotate to the others, leaving with 4 small projects appropriate to give as gifts for friends, family, or to keep for yourself. Hint: One skilled taught will be applied to the other three projects.
Class #101
Meet and Greet the Designers & Organizers of Celebrations
Teacher: All Teachers
Level: All
Description: Meet N Greet, Dessert and Lecture
Price: FREE
Scheduled: Wednesday, 7:00 - 8:30pm
Wednesday evening begins our event providing a "wee bit of fun time" for you to share personal interactions with Celebration teachers and sponsors who are present that evening. They will display their creations and you will be able to register for classes that have openings. Please remember, spaces are always limited so your favorite choice may have already filled. After the "meet" session there will be a light dessert provided during the break.
Please preregister so we know how many to expect.
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- Door Prizes
- Enjoy Visiting With Designers And Friends
Class #200
Hannah Pope Putnam's 1750's Bag, Then and Now
Teacher: Marcia Brown Smith
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $265.00
Scheduled: Thursday 9:00am-12:45pm
Hannah Pope Putnam's beaded bag was created in the mid 1700's and was worn to many social and military occasions. Hannah's father, General Israel Putnam, was an important military figure in the Revolutionary War and she was the wife of Vermont Representative John Winchester Dana. Originally Hannah's beautiful bag was done entirely in jewel-tone beads, featuring traditional floral motifs in roses and blue bells on a deep blue green background. The base of the bag is beaded in a cranberry geometric design. The original bag will be on view during class time.
For today's application, the design is reproduced in luscious silk fibers by Gloriana, J. L. Walsh, and Needlepoint, Inc. on Amsterdam blue 28ct Cashel linen. Today's lady will enjoy a slightly larger bag design adapted with a personalized back panel carrying the upper floral garland and the geometric motifs from front to back. The finished size is 9 x 14 x4 and includes a pocketed silk interior. The project includes 12 silk fibers, a history of the Putman family and their relevance to the Revolutionary War period. A collaboration with Donna Harney Handbags enable each student to take advantage of an exclusive offer for finishing services at a below market value unique to this class only.
Kit includes: 12 colors of silk fibers, linen, stripe silk lining, and ultra suede fabric for bag bottom, color graph, written instructions for stitching and finishing, historic Hannah Putnam information.
Class #201
Mistress L's Sampler of Bands, Emblems and Motifs
Teacher: Lauren Sauer
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $275.00
Scheduled: Thursday, 9:00am-12:45pm
The 17th and 18th century band samplers have always held a fascination for Lauren, she has admired and been amazed by many, beautiful examples of needlework in museums and private collections. Every one is unique and tells a story. Puzzles, riddles and emblems all had meanings hidden within them. You were "in the know" or you could "get the message."
This band sampler has been organized in four sections and it may be embroidered exactly as the original or abbreviated by eliminating a band here or there. Or, the bands may be rearranged. These alternatives will be part of class discussion.
Section one (the first six inches or so) is comprised of 13 narrow bands and two alphabets, and the numbers one through ten.
Section two features several lines spoken by Oberon in A Midsummer's Night Dream, with each line separated by a more involved band.
Section three gives the stitcher a place to get carried away with the use of color and texture, especially in the band depicting the Three Ladies.
Section Four anchors the sampler with areas for personalization.
Lauren's original sampler is stitched on 40ct off white linen using a colorful array of silk and hand painted/over dyed cotton threads with a touch of shimmer provided by Accentuate thread. An interesting variety of stitches are used, the dominant one being the Montenegrin, which is worked over three as it was in the 17th century.
Kit includes: Charts, diagrams, color images, 40ct linen, silk and cotton threads, needles. Remember to bring magnification and lighting if needed.
Class #202
Two for the Price of One
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Teacher: Sue Blomley
Level: Beginner
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $135.00
Scheduled: Thursday, 10:00am-2:45pm
This is an exceptional opportunity to have two projects for the price of one. First, you will have the kit for the Jane Dennis sampler, dated 1817. It is yours to stitch as a small sampler and also includes enough materials and chart to stitch the front display for the Dong book. This Dong book is an ingenious Chinese project book and has five hidden compartments in which to conceal embroidery silks, needles, and tiny scissors or a favorite photograph. You will finish the Dong book in class and the embroidering of the display will take about two hours. A finished project and a sampler kit to take home - two for the price of one!
Kit includes: 40ct cream linen, Pearsall's silks, full instructions and stitch explanations. Please bring paper scissors or craft knife and cutting mat, large glue stick, and metal ruler.
Class #203
Winter White Sampler
Teacher: Eileen Bennett
Level: Intermediate
Description: Published Design
Price: $138.00
Scheduled: Thursday, 10:00am-3:45pm
The 17th century was a fruitful time for women who stitched lace collars, cuffs and cravats along with other items to wear or decorate their homes. Some of these wonderful laces can be seen in the portraits painted by European artists of the period. Like paintings of the masters, these glorious lace patterns and stitches have stayed with us for centuries. We love them even in our technological times.
An alphabet and classic pattern bands are worked of white thread and comprise this diminutive 2.9" x 7 .8" design. Your initial in Lacis, a needle-lace technique, is the final flourish for this charming tribute to the period and this fun-to-stitch class is an introduction to White Work. Using DMC flosses and Size 80 Special Dentelles threads, you will focus on 25 "olde sampler" stitches: cross, double cross, long arm cross, Belgian cross, 2 sided Italian cross, flat (satin), satin stitch blocks, stroke (back) stitch, double back stitch, Colonial knots, Williamsburg stitch, queens, half queens, buttonhole bars, forbidden stitch, chain, fern, knit, small rice,3 insertion stitches, 2 pulled thread stitches which include four-sided and satin stitch filling and the lace making technique of Lacis. To learn the technique of Lacis, the class will make a scissor fob in addition to the sampler.
This small sampler was designed for a popular cross stitch magazine. Printing space always limits the amount of directions given: this class expands the needlework instructions.
35 count linen is provided but students may bring their favorite count to work upon. The design is 59 stitches wide x 136 stitches high. When supplying your own linen, add 6 inches to each measurement for framing and/or finishing.
Kit includes: 2 pieces of 35 count linen, 4 skeins of DMC, 1 ball of Special Dentelles, #24 and #26 needles, a 25 page instruction booklet which includes charting, stitch diagrams, with instruction sheets and numerous stitching hints, photo, washing instructions and a 3 page bibliography of sampler stitching. Bring an extra 6" hoop if preferred.
Class #204
Beginning Hardanger Bookmark
Teacher: Julie Norton
Level: Beginner
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $115.00
Scheduled: Thursday, 10:00am-12:45pm
Learn the basics of Hardanger while stitching on a lace-edged 18ct bookmark. Julie will teach you basting techniques along with kloster formation and placement. First time cutting fears will be eased by the simple approach being taught. Class time will be spent on design formation and placement on a sample cloth. You will work in a stress free atmosphere at your own pace.
Kit includes: #5 and #8 pearl cotton, DMC floss, basting thread, needles, bookmark, instructions, chart, photos, sample cloth and fibers kit. Bring sharp embroidery scissors and light magnification, if needed.
Teacher: Elizabeth Talledo
Level: Beginner / Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $235.00
Scheduled: Thursday, 11:00am-3:45pm
This quaint 5" x 6" maritime sewing box of 32ct linen is designed to house a miniature pair of scissors and a mother-of-pearl ruler. Students will paint and dye the linen panels of the box. You will start the flat finishing of the inserts of the box and all of the finishing and stitching instructions will be discussed in class.
Kit includes: Linen, paint and paint sponges, gloves, scissors, ruler, silk lining fabric, interfacing, double sided tape, 2 ply and 4ply mat board, vintage ribbon, over dyed fibers and magnets. Please bring fabric scissors.
Teacher: Barbara Jackson
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece – a Premier Event
Price: $175.00
Scheduled: Thursday, 12:00-3:45pm
Otherwise sensible women in the 18th century loved geegaws that looked pretty and had secret uses to amuse and delight their guests and themselves. Here we have a rather overly developed strawberry that opens up to reveal needle and pin pages accompanied by tiny scissors. The outside plumpness makes a perfect pincushion while attending to your stitching. The top hinge is covered with embroidered felted wool, while the berry, composed of 36 count linen, is sprinkled over with an array of strawberry sampler motifs. The stitching is all in silk with silk ribbon bows to act as closures. Very definitely an heirloom in the making! Finishing techniques will be thoroughly demonstrated in class, with the mat board and lining included in the kit.
Kit includes: Linen, Gloriana and au Ver á Soie silk, felted wool, lining, interlining, mat board, scissors, instructions, and needles.
Students bring: light and magnification, if needed.
Teacher: Jackie du Plessis
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $168.00
Scheduled: Thursday, 1:00-4:45pm
The popular "Busy Lizzie" is an undemanding, strong growing plant that blooms profusely. The botanical name "Impatiens" comes from the explosive and impatient way the seeds are expelled from the seed pods. This is a characteristic of the Balsam family, of which Busy Lizzie is a member.
As a child Jackie would spend many hours looking for, finding and then squeezing the Impatien seed pods. To her great delight, these seed pods would pop into a rounded shape. She has recreated this exploding seed pod into a functional etui. The plant's crisp leaves are oval in shape and slightly pointed and are created as the three outside stitched linen panels attached to the silk panels. The interior is stitched with tiny Impatien blooms in hand dyed pink and green silks. The fibers and soft silk fabric allows the etui to explode in size to store all your favorite tools.
Kit includes: All supplies to complete this project including color finishing instructions.
Class #208
AEIOU Sampler with Needlework Sewing Roll
Teacher: Susan Greening Davis
Level: All
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $125.00
Scheduled: Thursday, 1:00-3:45pm
Join Susan for this marvelous class to make a needlework sewing roll. You will construct the holder and learn seven stitches for the project while working on 28 Count banding from Germany. Rich burgundy threads from Gentle Art will complement the receptacle and the hand dyed wool is the perfect finishing touch.
Kit includes: All supplies to make the carrier, including wool felt, linen banding, floss, button and ribbon.
Class #209
Knitter's Sampler Needle Necessity
Teacher: Marcia Brown Smith
Level: Beginner / Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $135.00
Scheduled: Thursday, 2:00-4:45pm
Another needle roll, but this time for the knitter! Marcia's project holds 11 sizes of needles with an additional pocket for accessories all closed with a coordinating ribbon. This colorful needle roll features a traditional sampler with woolly sheep, a border on the outside panel and additional personalized blackwork patterning on the interior flap creating a guard for the needle tips. There is a stitched linen ribbon showing the needle sizes to hold each variety in its own slot. The preassembled linen/fabric outer panel is a combination of a vibrant tropical pink 28ct Cashel and a very high end designer cotton stripe in pinks, greens, blues, and yellow-gold.
Kit includes: 8 silk colors, stitchable linen ribbon, grosgrain ribbon, 3/4" twill tape for binding, complete stitching and finishing instructions and graphics that will be discussed in class.
Class #210a
2013 Show Preview Night - Members
Emcee for the evening: Susan Greening Davis
Level: All
Description:
Price: FREE
Scheduled: Thursday, 6:30pm
This year's Show Preview will take place on Thursday evening at 6:30pm in Salon A. Susan Greening Davis will introduce our list of vendors and explain each one's specialty and what their featured or limited item will be. This is the time to take notes in the Show Booklet provided so that you can easily find all those specialty items. As soon as Preview introductions are complete, you are invited to move to the show floor for two hours of shopping (7:00-9:00pm). This evening event adds a great deal of excitement to an already fun-filled week and you must preregister for this event on your registration form. Free to all members!
Non Members: $15.00 includes show booklet, entrance to preview and two hours of shopping that evening and one daily admission on Friday.
Class #210b
2013 Show Preview Night - Non-Members
Emcee for the evening: Susan Greening Davis
Level: All
Description:
Price: $15.00
Scheduled: Thursday, 6:30pm
This year's Show Preview will take place on Thursday evening at 6:30pm in Salon A. Susan Greening Davis will introduce our list of vendors and explain each one's specialty and what their featured or limited item will be. This is the time to take notes in the Show Booklet provided so that you can easily find all those specialty items. As soon as Preview introductions are complete, you are invited to move to the show floor for two hours of shopping (7:00-9:00pm). This evening event adds a great deal of excitement to an already fun-filled week and you must preregister for this event on your registration form. Free to all members!
Non Members: $15.00 includes show booklet, entrance to preview and two hours of shopping that evening and one daily admission on Friday.
Class #300
"The Story of Cassandra Austen and her Sampler 1773 - 1845" Lecture
Teacher: Sue Blomley
Level: All
Description: Lecture
Price: $20.00
Scheduled: Friday, 9:00-10:00am
The Cassandra Austen sampler hangs in the Jane Austen House Museum because Cassandra was Jane Austen's older sister. Jane Austen has become a fascinating and favorite author and we enjoy the many movies of her novels. This lecture will paint a picture of the life and times of the sisters when this sampler was stitched. Join Sue to learn more about a time in history that will become a legend for TV and the movies.
Teacher: Barbara Jackson
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $168.00
Scheduled: Friday, 9:00am-12:45pm
Tiny bunnies and birds hover around a beautiful bargello heart that is the centerpiece of this wonderful stitching purse. The iconic heart is stitched with eight values of Soie d'Alger silk, both solid colors and overdyed. Open the purse up and you will find a very proper verse about staying busy, surrounded by wonderful flower motifs and smooth satin bands. Inside the purse is tucked a sweet little needle holder and scissors case plus fob, all continuing the heart theme. A wide array of stitches are used, including bargello, eyelets, petit point, Smyrna, queen, cross, and double running. Thirty six count linen is the background and silks are used for all the stitching. This is a purse of heirloom quality, a project to treasure for years to come.
Kit includes: Linen, Silk, and all the supplies for creating and finishing.
Students should be prepared to do some "over two, under two" basting at beginning of class to set up stitching areas.
Class #302
Summerfield Smalls: Part I
Teacher: Lauren Sauer
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $158.00
Scheduled: Friday, 10:00am-1:45pm
This series of smalls was inspired by two things: Lauren's love of flowers, especially the summer ones - the cheery black-eyed Susan's, the stately sunflowers and a pattern she discovered on the inside of a security envelope.
This set includes a 3 inch square scissor rest, a scissor fob and a tiny felt lined box to hold your treasures.
Each small works up quickly using a variety of well-known stitches. The Nun's stitch is used to finish elegantly and to join layers of linen together. The smalls will rest inside the little box when they are not in use.
Kit includes: Chart, color images, 30ct off white linen, Sampler and Simply Shaker threads, needles, balsa wood box, ribbon, finishing materials. Bring extra magnification/lighting if needed.
Class #303
The Cassandra Austen Sampler
Teacher: Sue Blomley
Level: Beginner
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $125.00
Scheduled: Friday, 10:00am-12:45pm
We are pleased to offer a wonderful opportunity to stitch the Cassandra Austen sampler, measuring 11.5" x 1" on mushroom 28ct fabric. It was stitched by literary giant Jane Austen's elder sister Cassandra and this sampler hangs in the Jane Austen House Museum. In beautiful colours ranging from beige and tan to blues and greens, it is an exciting sampler suitable for both beginners and experienced stitchers alike. Grateful thanks to the Jane Austen House and Museum for permission to reproduce this sampler. It is a must for all who treasure old samplers by famous people and anyone who treasures the work of Jane Austen. Be sure to sign up for the lecture exclusively about this sampler.
Kit includes: 28ct fabric, Pearsall's silks, charts and full instructions.
Teacher: Elizabeth Talledo
Level: Beginner / Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $215.00
Scheduled: Friday, 10:00am-2:45pm
This uniquely shaped etui is stitched on 30ct pale pink Baby's Breath linen using The Gentle Art and Weeks Dye Works hand dyed fibers with vintage double-sided silk ribbon accents. The pyramid-shaped box is held closed by magnets at the top of the panels. The inside of the etui has a sheath to hold scissors and a mother-of-pearl ruler. The box is big enough to store other sewing essentials. Each of the three ladies has a symbol of virtue and humility in their hand. In class students will start constructing the base of the box and will begin to stitch the panels. The details of stitching and finishing will be covered during class time.
Kit includes: Linen, scissors, ruler, silk lining fabric, interfacing, double sided tape, 4 ply cotton mat board, silk ribbon, fibers, wool, cotton batting and magnets. Please bring fabric scissors.
Class #306
Chrysanthemums in Autumn Accessories
Teacher: Marcia Brown Smith
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $165.00
Scheduled: Friday, 10:00am-1:45pm
Add a trio of charming accessories to your Chrysanthemums in Autumn painted box. A handsome honeybee waxer keep is housed in the custom made turned wood thread waxer designed especially for the box. The keep is stitched on 32ct antique white linen with Gloriana and Victoria Clayton silks on a background of honeycomb blackwork in light gold. The keep is assembled by hand with beaded edging as a special touch. The woolly bear caterpillar sits on an autumn leaf to form a compatible scissor fob for the ensemble. He is stitched in a dimensional fiber to create his woolly coat and has a wire insert to form his silhouette. Also, a charming chrysanthemum needle nest is made from autumn-toned wool felt with the receptacle base stitched in basket weave and edged in dewy opaque beads.
Kit includes: Silk fibers, silk fabrics, skirtex, silk gauze, wool felts, beads, linen, written instructions, graphics, and specialty fibers.
Teacher: Jackie du Plessis
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $135.00
Scheduled: Friday, 1:00-4:45pm
Join Jackie to finish a palm-sized etui in the shape of an acorn, stitched on 30 count linen with hand dyed silk fibers. A beautifully finished with two linen panels and additional pockets for storage that snap into a silk storage interior baggy. Needle pages cut from "doctor cloth" can be found when the two linen panels are unsnapped.
Kit includes: All supplies to complete this project including color finishing instructions.
Class #308
Her Faire Hand Sampler
Teacher: Eileen Bennett
Level: Intermediate
Description: Unpublished Design
Price: $145.00
Scheduled: Friday, 1:00-4:45pm
Clothing of the 17th century was richly embroidered. White work techniques replicating the time-consuming handmade lace were often teamed with the colored band designs.
Her Faire Hand Sampler is a combination of multi-colored bands, white-on-white embroidery and is a teaching tool for recreating 27 of these old and sometimes forgotten stitches of the period. Nineteen counted thread stitches are teamed with 8 pulled thread skills creating an English band sampler style of the period. For class purposes, a miniature stitch sampler has been created for learning the many techniques before applying thread and needle to the sampler project.
Stitches taught will be: cross, double cross, small cross, long arm cross, Belgium cross, marking cross, flat, (satin), flat stitch variation, stroke (back) stitch, double back stitch with bars, Colonial knots, four-sided, knit, queens, half queens, ribbed spider, woven spider, buttonhole bars, forbidden (Pekinese Stitch), and 8 pull thread stitches, including Algerian filling, cobblestone stitch filling, coil filling, Italian hem, satin stitch, satin stitch filling, thicket filling and window filling stitch.
This fun-to-stitch 6.2" x 9.0" sampler pattern uses rich shades of reds and blues plus a special white thread for the white work portion of the sampler. A 27 page instruction manual includes numerous stitching hints and a 3 page sampler bibliography.
Kit includes 2 pieces of 35ct linen, 12 skeins of DMC flosses, 1 ball of #80 Special Dentelles, #24 and #26 tapestry needles, the instruction book, photo, washing instructions and a bibliography. Bring to class a 4-5" hoop if used and the usual supplies.
Teacher: Susan Greening Davis
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $115.00
Scheduled: Friday, 1:00-4:45pm
Susan has chosen the most luscious tones of deep rich blues with black and rose/purple over dyed fibers to make a perfect match for the 20 count star sapphire linen you will be working on. Be ready to try hemming, a touch of hardanger and drawn thread in this adventurous journey into needlework types.
Kit includes: Linen, threads, wool, calico, and a "Snappy".
Class #310
Prayer Horn Book
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Teacher: Julie Norton
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $148.00
Scheduled: Friday, 2:00-4:45pm
This design was inspired by the horn book of the 1500s. Stitched on 32ct cream linen, the coverlet displays two all-time favorite prayers. Vintage chain stitch vines accent the cross stitch verses. The horn book is hand made from maple and each side has a stitched design and there is room for personalization. Class time will be spent mastering all the specialty stitches while you work on a small needle fold.
Kit includes: Linen, horn book, Sampler Threads, DMC floss and #5 and #8 pearl cotton, felt, needles, basting thread, vintage buttons, satin ribbon. Bring sharp embroidery scissors and light magnification, if needed.
Class #311
Memories Under Glass
Teacher: Lynda Keske
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece Debut
Price: $85.00
Scheduled: Friday, 2:00-4:45pm
Lynda is so excited that she was able to get these lockets for a class project. The locket will become an heirloom piece that you will not find elsewhere. The manufacturer was contracted to make this for one company and they have discontinued it from their line. After this class there will be no more. The quality far exceeds those on the needlework market. The frame surrounds tempered beveled glass on the front and flat glass on the back, is nickel plated with a lobster claw closure. You can display your stitched piece on one side or both. The advantage of this locket is that is that it can be opened and closed many times to change your stitched piece. It can be worn as a necklace or it can be made into an ornament. There is plenty of room on the inside for two stitched pieces and is roomy enough on the front side for size 15 seed beads.
The front design has 10 stitches from Lynda's line of Sym-Stitching and the back design is a monogram (full alphabet provided). Sym-Stitching is short for symmography or you may be familiar with string art. Lynda has adapted this art to be used on fabric. You will be using silk floss from Carrie's Creation and Rainbow Gallery Petite Treasure Braid. Lynda will first teach you the stitches on large count fabric. If you are not crazy about the three linen color choices, you are invited to bring your own to substitutes.
Photos are difficult with beveled glass so the front pictures were taken from the back side and the beveled side is shown opened.
Kit includes: Locket packaged in a padded box, chart, easy to read instructions and diagrams, Fabric Flair in 2 sizes (28 and 36), Carrie's Creation silk floss, and Rainbow Gallery's Treasure Braid PH02, needle and surprise goodies.
Please bring to class: Small stretcher hoop, scissors, 6" x 6" cut of even-weave linen fabric for practice (25 or 28ct). Aida fabric will not work for the specialty stitches.
Class #312
"The History of the Sarah Drafgate Sampler" Lecture
Teacher: Sue Blomley
Level: All
Description: Lecture
Price: $25.00
Scheduled: Friday, 3:00-4:00pm
The Sarah Drafgate sampler dated 1688 is the oldest sampler in the Hampshire Archives, located in Winchester, the ancient capital of England.
This gorgeous sample uses a variety of stitches, including Holbein, Algerian eye and Montenegrin, to name just a few. The colours are just beautiful, even today. The original measures 40cm x 15.5cm and is stitched on 28ct linen. The history of this sampler is filled with information - we know how many children she had, who her husband was and even what career one of her sons had. Set in a fascinating period of English history this lecture will not only inform you but enthrall you with details.
Class #313
Woodland Forest Tool Box
Teacher: Pam Reed
Level: Intermediate
Description:
Price: $125.00
Scheduled: Friday, 2:00 - 5:45pm
This beautiful hinged primitive box will look so elegant when you construct the box bottom and lid liners with complimentary colored taffeta style. Your will be an especially attractive with the engraved wooden name plate. You will complete the lined box in class and then begin the small cube with tassel and twisted cord hanger and the needlebook. Stitching will be done on 32 count summer khaki with over dyed flosses. Register early so we can send you a prestitch kit.
Kit includes: tool box, floss, linen, lining, directions, diagram, needle and pewter colored scissors.
Class #314
Round Robin 1 - Tickets Required
Teacher: Round Robin
Max: 60 students
Level: All
Description:
Price: $55.00
Scheduled: Friday Session 1: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
The two Round Robin classes are among the most popular classes we offer. It is your opportunity to receive four kits from four of our talented teachers. Each teacher will rotate to the classroom explaining the kit and any specialty stitches and offer ideas for finishing. Imagine four teachers and four kits in an hour class! Even more exciting is the chance to sign up for another Round Robin and double your fun and double your stash of projects to do at your leisure. Please note that due to time constraints finishing is not included, but the kits you take home will contain suggestions or instructions for completion. Bring a notebook to class. Sign up early - this too can be a sold out event.
Class #315
Round Robin 2 - Tickets Required
Teacher: Round Robin
Max: 50 students
Level: All
Description:
Price: $55.00
Scheduled: Friday Session 2: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
The two Round Robin classes are among the most popular classes we offer. It is your opportunity to receive four kits from four of our talented teachers. Each teacher will rotate to the classroom explaining the kit and any specialty stitches and offer ideas for finishing. Imagine four teachers and four kits in an hour class! Even more exciting is the chance to sign up for another Round Robin and double your fun and double your stash of projects to do at your leisure. Please note that due to time constraints finishing is not included, but the kits you take home will contain suggestions or instructions for completion. Bring a notebook to class. Sign up early - this too can be a sold out event.
Class #400
The Harvest Band Sampler
Teacher: Eileen Bennett
Level: Intermediate
Description: Unpublished Design
Price: $155.00
Scheduled: Saturday, 9:00am-12:45pm
Band sampler flourished in several European countries during the 17th century. The German two column style is lesser known than the long narrow format commonly worked by the English sampler makers. This project emulates the German style and is worked with a wide assortment of counted thread stitches in garden shades of greens, pinks, reds and browns. This class will allow format choices and ample linen is provided to work the design horizontally as photographed or vertically, in the English tradition.
Design motifs featured in the scattered motif section are garden critters of birds, beetles and snails, plus fruit and flowers, which are also in the band patterns. For class purposes, a miniature stitch sampler has been created for learning the many techniques before applying thread and needle to the project itself. As stitches are the foundation of all embroidery, the 28 "olde sampler" stitches will offer a bit of a challenge but will be a fun experience as well. The stitches will include: cross, double cross, small cross, long arm cross, Belgian cross, marking cross, flat (satin), satin stitch blocks, back stitch, double back stitch, double back stitch with bars, Bosnia, barrier, Colonial knots, four sided, Italian hem, knit, double leviathan, line stitches, oriental, queens, half queens, small Algerian eyes, small rice, two insertion stitches and two pulled thread stitches.
The class bonus will be lots of sampler history from Eileen, the expert.
Kit includes: 2 pieces of 35ct linen, 14 skeins of DMC floss, l ball of #80 Special Dentelles, #24 and #26 needles, a 35 page instruction booklet which shows charting, stitch diagrams with instruction sheets and numerous hints, a photo, washing instructions, historical notes and a bibliography of sampler stitching. Bring to class a 4 or 5 inch hoop if used, plus the usual supplies.
Class #401
Dauphin House Sewing Box
Teacher: Elizabeth Talledo
Level: Beginner / Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $138.00
Scheduled: Saturday, 9:00am-12:45pm
This petite sewing box is fashioned from a historical house in Mobile, Alabama, on historic Dauphin Street. The house is peppered with historic symbols that you will appreciate. You will coffee dye the linen while listening to a lecture about the historic homes on the street and the meanings of these symbols. All stitching and finishing instructions will be covered during class time.
Kit includes: Linen, weaver's cloth, over dyed wool, overdyed fibers, 4 ply mat board, magnets, interfacing, cotton batting, needles, mother-of-pearl buttons, coffee dye, Latex free gloves, double-sided tape, chart, instructions and finishing details. Ruler and scissors are an extra purchase. Please bring scissors to cut fabric.
Class #402
The Sylvan Scenes Basket
Teacher: Barbara Jackson
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece – a Premier Event
Price: $235.00
Scheduled: Saturday, 9:00am-2:45pm
Imagine a band of stitching that tells the story of a sleepy hamlet, from sunrise over the water, the sheep in the meadow, deer in the woods and a home that awaits the strolling man and wife with their ever faithful dog. This charming folkloric basket band is stitched on 32 count Belfast and fitted in a Nantucket basket that measures approximately 12" x 8" x 7" tall.
A plethora of silk threads both over-dyed and plain, are used to create all the fauna and flora. Surrounding the spindly legged animals and flowers are tent stitches that allow the motifs to become a rough square or rectangle. This technique is found in many 18th century pictures which keep all the tiny figures from becoming lost in the surrounding gobelin satin and mosaic stitches.
Finishing techniques for the band are fairly simple and can be accomplished with simple hand sewing. The process will be demonstrated in class and complete instructions will be given in class. 8" x 18" stretcher bars are highly recommended.
Please note: You must sign up before Celebrations begins as the baskets have to be shipped to NH. These baskets are in very short supply so it will be first come, first served. I have room for 24 students only.
Kit includes: Belfast linen, complete instructions, Gloriana, Pearsall's and Au ver a Soie silks, DMC floss, needles and a Nantucket basket. Please bring light and magnification if needed.
Teacher: Julie Norton
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $135.00
Scheduled: Saturday, 9:00am-12:45pm
This exquisite piece is stitched on 26ct linen with DMC Cebelia #10. Although this fiber is typically used crochet and tatting, it will give the project a warm antique feeling. This 8" x 13" sampler is unique in each band design. Satin surface work is one of the formats used to support cut and drawn threads. You will remove and reweave threads to form the drawn thread area. Vintage buttons are yours to choose from Julie's private collection.
Kit includes: 9 x 18" linen, vintage button, lining fabric, Cebelia #10 and #30, basting thread, needles, tension hoop, color photo, instructions with explicit charted design and diagrams. Bring sharp embroidery scissors and light magnification, if needed.
Teacher: Jackie du Plessis
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $175.50
Scheduled: Saturday, 9:00am-12:45pm
This lovely needlework accessory features two completely functional hexagons (with stitched panels and storage pouches) that tie together with fabric and ribbons. Soft hues of silks compliment the hexagon shape with a pleated centered pocket in the inside. Hand dyed ribbons finish this adorable needlework accessory to add to any needle workers collection.
Kit includes: All stitching supplies with 30c Legacy linen, hand-dyed silk threads and Au Ver A'Soie silks, hand-dyed ribbons and finishing supplies, color pictures and instructions.
Teacher: Sue Blomley
Level: All
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $210.00
Scheduled: Saturday, 12:00pm-3:45pm
The Pilgrim Etui is stitched on 35ct Edinbugh linen using Gloriana threads in blues, greens and gold. This is a lining for an antique sterling silver cigarette case which is provided for you. It has pockets for scissors and other related necessities. Sue has taught this class before and it has been sold out. We are offering it again because of the many requests and are thankful Sue has a renewed supply of antique silver cases.
Kit includes: Fabric, Variegated ribbon, Skirtex, Pellon, Wadding, Ultra Suede, padding, doctor's flannel, and random designs of antique cases, instructions and photos of work in progress.
Please bring paper scissors, scotch tape and normal stitching supplies.
Class #406
Needlework Keeper Basket
Teacher: Pam Reed
Level: Intermediate
Description:
Price: $95.00
Scheduled: Saturday, 1:00 - 3:45pm
Pam has designed a special flannel lining and a colorful band design to enhance the attractive Nantucket Basket. (3½" dia x 4½" high). You will construct and install the basket liner during class and begin the design on 32 count natural 1½" banding. Knowledge of over one stitching and Smyrna stitches in necessary.
Kit includes: flannel, banding, overdyed flosses, basket, diagrams, instructions and needle.
Class #407
Summerfield: Part II
Teacher: Lauren Sauer
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $158.00
Scheduled: Saturday, 1:00-4:45pm
Lauren never knows what is coming out of her fingertips next! One thing led to another and we have the case with the pocket for a package of needles and the bee's waxer envelope.
Each of these small afterthoughts works up quickly and uses the same familiar stitches used in Part I. The thread palette has been broadened a bit to include two shades of Simply Wool. Materials and instructions for a drawstring bag are included in the class as well.
Kit includes: Chart/diagrams, color images, 30ct off white linen, fibers, needles, cotton fabric, ribbon, and most finishing materials. Bring two one inch in diameter mother-of-pearl buttons with two holes.
Class #408
Zen Rabbit Sewing Purse
Teacher: Elizabeth Talledo
Level: Beginner / Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $145.00
Scheduled: Saturday, 2:00-4:45pm
This lovely sewing purse measuring 4" x 5" and accessories are stitched on 30 count pumpkin linen and features silk lining fabric. Students will create the scissor case for the rabbit scissors in class using ultra suede with a "back-to-back" finishing technique. The opening of the case will be pouches with an attractive green knitting fiber. All stitching and finishing details will be covered in class.
Kit includes: Mother of pearl purse handles, linen, yarn, ultra suede, seed beads, silk lining fabric, interfacing, plastic, vintage buttons, scissors, magnet, dyed cotton fibers, wool roving, and complete instructions. Please bring fabric scissors.
Teacher: Jackie du Plessis
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece
Price: $215.00
Scheduled: Saturday, 2:00-4:45pm
Here is a "Beautiful," a needleworker's companion that folds and holds treasures, tools, and even a hoop or two. The traditional alphabet can be personalized and used as a reference for future stitching projects. The entire piece can be folded and carried as a drawstring carrier. This project is stitched on 30 count linen with hand dyed silk fibers and silk ribbons.
Kit includes: All supplies to complete this project including color finishing instructions.
Class #410
Saturday Night Event
FULL
Teacher: Susan Greening Davis
Max: 60 students
Level: All
Description:
Price: $65.00
Scheduled: Saturday 6:00pm - 9:30pm
The Saturday Night Event is a spectacular sold out evening of fun, food, and frolicking. It begins with a tasty dinner buffet to relax you and fuel you for a fast paced schedule of entertainment. Susan Greening Davis, our emcee, has fashioned a unique kit just for this event that you will definitely want to finish and use. She will explain the design and any specialty skills required to stitch and complete the construction. The Silent Auction to benefit breast cancer research will present designs, products, and accessories and more - all donated by our generous vendors, manufacturers, designers, teachers, and exhibitors. This display of enticing items brings out the friendly rivalry that our guests enjoy as they compete to donate to a most worthy charity. Later there will be time for the drawing of the winners of the Raffle Baskets. As you depart we will wish you "happy stitching' and look forward to seeing you at our next event. If you are unable to attend, be sure to check the winner list when the event concludes for the evening. Join us in standing up to cancer!
