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Barbara Jackson
Tristan Brooks

Barbara Jackson is well-known throughout the needlework industry for her love of traditional Early English and American design She is a graduate of the National Academy of Needlearts teacher certification program in crewel and holds a Certificate "with Distinction" from the certification program of England's Royal School of Needlework. Barbara has taught for many organizations over the years and markets her own original designs under the Tristan Brooks logo. Her work has been featured in Crewel A-Z published by Inspirations magazine as well as in several editions of the magazine. The cover of the March 2007 issue of Needle Arts, the EGA magazine, will feature one of her crewel designs.

 

 

Class #217
The Tea Time Basket
Class is SOLD OUT

Teacher: Barbara Jackson
Max: 24 students (Min: 8 students)
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece

Price: $185.00
Scheduled: Friday 2:00pm - 6:45pm

The kettle is hot! Come sit with me so we can visit while creating our own exquisitely stitched tea time baskets. The motifs are reminiscent of those seafaring days when tea was a luxury. Barbara has arranged her motifs around two tea time sayings, but you can rearrange to your liking. The embroidery was designed to fit inside an adaptation of a Nantucket shopping basket. It's just the thing ladies carried when they visited their friends for tea. The sailing ships, mermaids and delightful colonial maids are all ready to grace your project as you create your own needle story on 36ct Edinboro linen. There are a wide variety of silks but you may bring more from your own inventory. The basket measures approx.11 x 8 x 6.

Kit includes: Basket, Chart, Directions, Needle, Photo, linen, and silks.

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Class #309
The Succulent Strawberry
Class is SOLD OUT

Teacher: Barbara Jackson
Max: 25 students (Min: 8 students)
Level: Intermediate
Description: Exclusive Teaching Piece

Price: $118.00
Scheduled: Saturday 1:00pm - 5:45pm

Join me in creating a generous five inches in length strawberry. It makes a wonderful Pin Cushion or object art for your stitching accessory collection. Twirling vine with buds and berries springs to life on this Elizabethan strawberry. A wide variety of traditional crewel stitches including, twisted and raised buttonhole bars, bullion stitches and trellis work all add extra dimension to these fantasy flowers and leaves. Stitched in beautiful Heathway hand-dyed crewels with touches of silk for accent, the background fabric is Strathaven linen with felted wool for the strawberry leaves. Complete and simple instructions are included for finishing the strawberry.

Kit includes: Chart, instructions, needle, linen, felted wool, all materials to complete the project with the exception of the stuffing.

Bring basting thread, straight pins, and 10 x 13 stretcher bars.

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