We think it’s a good one…
Let’s get together and embroider. After all, that’s why we joined EGA in the first place.
Catch the details on the Stitch-A-Long page and join the party here
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We had an idea…
It’s Part 3 of the stitch-a-long, step 2 of the Garden Path directions – time to get the design’s focal point into position. Basically, this means attach the big marguerite crystal and surround it with leafy beads. Sounds simple…and it would have been simple if I’d been embroidering in my usual way, which . . . → Read More: The Garden Path — Part 3 (flower and bugle path)
I sometimes think that one of the reasons counted-thread techniques are so popular these days is that there are no hurdles between assembling the materials and putting the needle into the ground fabric—because if you’re not counting or doing free-form, free-association embroidery, then you’ve got to get a design outline onto the ground . . . → Read More: The Garden Path — Part 2 (transfer and lettering)
Every day I cast my proverbial net across the Internet. It’s a shallow net, but a fairly broad one. Several days may pass before I haul anything that piques my threadbending interest, today, however, was special…
My first catch… Interweave Press has announced the publication of a free e-book that will focus on . . . → Read More: A Banner Day on the Interwebs… 
So…the Sun Region’s first Stitch-A-Long is Marie Campbell’s Garden Path, a bead-embroidery piece worked on a stiff ground fabric. It can be finished as a pin or pendant, with or without a name-tag portion. Marie has put together a reasonably priced kit ($21), but when we were communicating last week she said that . . . → Read More: The Garden Path — Pt 1 (intro)
A bit of shiny color for a rainy Sunday afternoon…
(From Elizabeth Braun’s “Sew In Love” Blog) Needle Arts Mentoring: Welcome!.
A website with something new and totally worthwhile in the way of generational Outreach and threadbending projects! The Sand Dunes chapter is signing up students for Mary Long’s Cleopatra’s Cat GCC, which they’ve scheduled for late this year. This will be a Sun-Region subsidized GCC, so registration is open to all Sun Region members on a first-come, first-serve basis until October 8, 2011. Visit our . . . → Read More: Sign up now for Mary Long’s “Cleopatra’s Cat” GCC
The Indian River chapter is signing up students for Marion Scoular’s Beginner’s Hardanger GCC, which they’ve scheduled for late this year. This will be a Sun-Region subsidized GCC, so registration is open to all Sun Region members on a first-come, first-serve basis. Visit our Region GCC page for more information
The Sea Grape chapter is signing up students for Kay Stanis’s Spring Splendor GCC, which they’ve scheduled for late this year. This will be a Sun-Region subsidized GCC, so registration is open to all Sun Region members on a first-come, first-serve basis. Visit our Region GCC page for more information
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