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- Path: sparky!uunet!super!jill
- From: jill@super.org (Amelia J. Scott-Piner)
- Subject: A stitch in time.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.144346.20015@super.org>
- Keywords: cross-stitch
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- Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:43:46 GMT
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- This morning got off to a rushed start. I woke up late and
- raced out the door without my homework for my class tonight
- (Discrete Math, ick) or the stack of x-stitch patterns that
- I wanted to bring in with me to work today. I was going to
- post the name and address of the company that creates the
- Tiffany reproductions since I've received a ton of mail
- begging to know where to find these and the Renoir reproductions.
- I've received a *lot* of mail from people who would love
- to hear about some of the more intricate things that others are
- doing in x-stitch. Based on the replies I've gotten back, I can
- draw an assumption that cross-stitch is _the_ most popular craft
- out there these days :). This is for Pauline, Julie, Anne,
- Margaret, and all the others that I've seen.
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- I'm down to the last 4 french knots, the last inset
- picture-corner, and the writing on the Bride's Ketubah by Barbara
- Ann Richter. This is promised to a pair of friends who married
- about 2 years ago. I started it a year before they married, but
- since I'm an off & on stitcher, it's just now winding down to a
- close. It's so much a part of my life right now that I'm really
- in some mental pain about giving this to friends. I hope they
- love it as much as I do. I may have to do another one of these
- for myself. I'm not Jewish, so the Hebrew script in the center
- will probably become a poem. Barbara's work is incredibly
- beautiful and intricate. The inset pictures of Jerusalem are
- fabulous little stitched versions of those hand-painted miniatures.
- I've seen more of Barbara's work in Cross-Stitch & Country Crafts
- magazine before it was sold to Better Homes & Gardens (which ruined
- a fine magazine IMHO by splitting it into two). Now she appears
- in the _Treasures in Needlework_ magazine which grew from the corpse
- of CS&CC. She was on the cover this month (well, one of her designs
- was). Those are a little less complicated than her religious patterns.
- I wonder if we could ask her to do some of those Italian rennaissance
- miniatures in cross-stitch? By the way, this piece is 2 feet x 18
- inches in size.
- I'm also working on _South Battery View_ by Barbara &Cheryl
- Presents... . I finished the sister piece _Queen Street Alley_ some
- time ago. I'm about half-way through the Battery piece. Both pictures
- are watercolors of (I believe) Charleston, South Carolina street scenes.
- _Queen_ is a small quiet street of town houses. _Battery_ is a gazebo
- beside a garden next to a small group of the colorful town houses.
- Each of these pieces is 12"x12" on 14-count Aida completely stitched.
- There are 28,224 stitches in each. Very detailed.
- I could finish this in 6 months (or less) if I stitched only it, but I'm
- also working on several other projects.
- I'm stitching a Color Charts design _To Have & To Hold_ by
- Deborah Campbell. It's for another pair of friends who are getting
- married in July, but I didn't want to do another mammoth project that
- would break my heart when I had to give it up. It's a lacy thing of
- mostly blackwork background with stitched corner pieces and a small
- grouping of blossoms next to the name statement in the center. The
- model
- uses pearl gray for the blackwork, but I thought it faded into the
- canvas, so I used Kreinik's metallic gold blending filament (2 strands)
- to stitch the background. I've been working on it for about 2 weeks and
- it's half-done (I love blackwork!). Has anyone else bought this
- pattern? Did you notice that they left out part of the personalization
- alphabet? Time to write the company.
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- I'll continue this later.
- jill@super.org
- Jill Scott-Piner
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