Monday, April 2, 2012

Four stitchery classes in 2 days!!

 This past weekend our local stitchery guild put on 4 free learn-to-stitch classes that were 3 hours each.  I signed up for 3 of them and helped with the silk ribbon embroidery class. They were all very enjoyable & it was great to see so many new faces and enthusiastic stitchers.  The first class was Saturday morning from 9 to 12:00 & the project was this cross stitched biscornu.  I had made one before and welcomed the opportunity to stitch with others and start another one.
 This is the collection of hoops from those who took the silk ribbon embroidery class.  Everyone was delighted with their ribbon roses and design.
 One of the talented members of The Regina Stitchery Guild is also a designer and she offered one of her canvas work projects.  This can work into either a scissors case or fabric bowl.  Of course I'd like to do both but I'll try to make this into a fabric bowl first.  I thoroughly enjoyed practising the ribbed wheel and Norwich stitches plus I love the colours!

The 4th class was one in needle felting.  I hadn't done anything like it before, loved it and thankfully didn't even stab myself!  This is as far as I managed to get in 3 hours.  My flower & leaves still need more work but I'm very happy with how they are turning out. 

8 comments:

  1. Sounds like a wonderful weekend! What fun!

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    1. It was a super weekend and it was also a wonderful way to spend my birthday :) Now though I have 4 more projects to work on!

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  2. WOW! That is a lot of wonderful stitching and learning and spending quality time with like minded souls. Your stitchery is beautiful.

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    1. Thank you so much!!! I hope it won't take me forever though to finish all my newly started projects.

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  3. That was a well spent weekend! Great projects.

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  4. What a busy weekend! All projects look great!! I've never done a biscournu, but would love to try one. Belated Happy Birthday too!!

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    1. Thanks Linda! If you're interested, the biscornu that we started is one of the free patterns found on the Victoria Sampler website. There are so many wonderful patterns and beautiful designs available. In between life, quilting and TAST, maybe you'll find time to make one ;)

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  5. ooooh, thanks! I'll check out the Victoria Sampler site.

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