Wee People Fairy

Here's a picture of my wee people fairy that sits on my phone at work.



She cheers me up.

Jane

Salley Mavor has a new blog

Several years ago we got together at a member's house to make "wee folk" out of Salley Mavor's book. I just discovered Salley started a new blog, with plenty of pictures here. I will post the picture of my fairy tomorrow, but in the mean time, all these pictures make me want to make some more fairies. They were so much fun to make!

Jane

My favorite places...

I have some favorite places I like to visit on the Internet.

I like Flickr a lot. My page is here and World Embroideries is here. A basic account is free and you can post your photos there to share. Also, if you have loads of time, there's lots to see. You can start by checking out our Contacts (in the top menu bar).

I try not to shop much, but I often end up browsing at Joggles where they have "everything for the textile, cloth and mixed-media artist." I find crewel supplies at Accomplishments and Wooly Thread. Nordic Needle has an extensive website that is well worth visiting, even if you're not shopping. Last, I have found really cool embellishments at Cartwright's Sequins.

CQ Mag Online is a wonderful resource for crazy quilters. You'll find some great tutorials at Needle n' Thread. I go often to Suzanne Cooper's site when I get stuck in a beadwork project and need a tutorial. And when I have time I love to browse the Antique Pattern Library where you can download vintage needlework books.

Once I got going with this, I realized I have a lot of "go to" places for different things (color theory, stitch techniques, supplies of various kinds, tutorials). Leave a comment with what you're interested in and I'll see what turns up in my favorites list that fits the bill.

At our last meeting

At our last meeting, several members brought their embroidered mugs. We are hoping to be more aware of wasting resources and we thought that avoiding Styrofoam products would be a start. Here are the pictures of the beautiful cups people brought.











Most of the stitching was done on the vinyl insert that comes with the cup. That is really helpful in case some liquid might leak (heaven forbid) into the hollow core. I was amazed by all the different types of embroidery as well. Most of them were cross stitch, but one had darning stitch, and another bargello.

One cup was not stitched by the member, but is from South Africa, and has Ndebele beading on it. Even in providing a cup to use at the meeting, the stitching our members do is fantastic!

Pictures

I was really happy to receive some photos in today's mail. Thanks!

Here's one from Tonia:And two from Pat:These are all chapter projects and really reminded me of the variety of cool things we've done (and do). But you don't need to limit your pictures to chapter projects--send me whatever you wish (as long as it's needlework!).

More to come later on.

Welcome!

Here's our Blog! We plan to post our upcoming schedules, open issues we'd like to discuss and share, events for our group and others in the area, cool places on the Internet, and, last but definitely not least, pictures of our projects.
To get us going, here's a heart I stitched for my hubby. I'm planning to adapt this design for a class project for our 2010-11 year. I'm already hunting down scraps of that ugly mustard yellow felt. That was the basis for this design--to take something ugly and make it glow.This was my original project using this concept. It was for a Pieces of Friendship swap at Pat Winter's Gatherings blog. It's one of the many blogs I enjoy.

So, now it's your turn. E-mail your photos and comments to me and I'll post them for everyone to see.