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| Christmas in the City |
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| Kit Cost: $80 Proficiency Level: Intermediate and above. Fun for everyone Ground: Congress Cloth + 30 count silk gauze Size of Piece: 17 Length of Class: 4 days | |
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Description: Christmas in the City is inspired by the the numerous Christmas villages so popular with collectors today. Charming business establishments line festive city street, and beckon the shopper to come inside to make her Yuletide purchases. Or . . . she can indulge in lunch at the tiny French cafe or stop for some quiet time at the city church. The town's folk have erected a Christmas tree to illuminate the chilly winter day. Shop windows are decorated for the season with Christmas trees and wreaths and garlands and many glowing candles. Each building is richly adorned with fancy windows and doors, and charming fences and wrought iron work. Picturesque lamp posts complete this lovely cityscape. Stitches chosen to depict the buildings are appropriate both in color and size, and the texture seeks to express bricks and stucco. Much attention is given to small details which serve to make this a most winsome project. | |
| Tribute to Vincent |
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| Kit Cost: $105 Proficiency Level: Intermediate and Up Ground: Ecru Congress Cloth Size of Piece: 8 Length of Class: 2-4 days | |
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Some years ago I attended an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago; it was entitled Van Gogh and Gauguin: Studio of the South. Here I became fascinated with Van Gogh’s work, and particularly with his renditions of vases of sunflowers. Van Gogh did several of these, so enthusiastic was he about the abundant sunflowers that grew about this home in Arles France. Tribute to Vincent is my interpretation of this same theme; it is based on Van Gogh’s work, but is interpretated in needlework. It is also a study in analagous colors, and is a sampler of raised techniques to effect texture. One flower will be worked in detached needleweaving. Anotheris rendered in bullions. Other stitches are employed to give depth and dimension to the design, all the while working in glorious values of yellow and its analogues. This happy design will hang happily in a summer home, or a Florida room, or can even brighten up a corner in the far north. | |
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