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needlepoint christmas ornament of chicago harbor light, overdyed threads cyberclass from needlepoint expert janet m perry

Overdyed threads changed the world of needlepoint, but how often do you feel perplexed about how to use them? If you do, you’re not alone.

But, as you can see in the glorious ornament from Sandy Grossman-Morris, it’s not hard to use overdyed and hand-dyed threads to create big impact needlepoint.

My new class,beginning in early June is designed to teach you many wonderful techniques you can use with these popular threads. Every thread used in this ornament is hand-dyed or overdyed. In the class you’ll learn how to:

make “stone” walls
use two similar colors to create (stucco)
ways to use these threads with decorative stitches
make an amazing (and easy) sky)

Not only will you learn about the techniques, you’ll try every one of them while making a delightful piece of needlepoint.

Registration for the class is open only until May 23, so don’t delay.

The class, including the canvas but no threads, is $50 and you can register by clicking the button below. (If you prefer not to use PayPal or live outside the US, please contact me for other arrangements.)

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Calloway Gardens 2012 Classes

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

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At Calloway in 2012, you can take a class for this delightful bear!

Calloway Gardens has just posted the class list for their 2012 Needlework Retreat. The descriptions of the classes, including this charming Joan Thomasson bear, are really detailed and make you want to take them all!

Many popular teachers come to Calloway to teach and, you’ll find, among the classes projects that have been taught recently at National Seminars (I saw more than one that is on the list for ANG this fall). They also have classes in other techniques besides needlepoint, including Japanese, embroidery, cross stitch samplers, and embroidery.

Forms are available on the site for registration and for exhibiting.

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DIY Stitch Guide Email Course Now Open

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

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Does the whole process of picking stitches and threads for a canvas confuse you?

Would you like to feel more confident in your stitch and thread choices?

Do you have a canvas you love but have never started because you don’t want to “spoil” it?

Have you abandoned or been disappointed with pieces you’ve done because they seem “wrong” or “too much?”

I’m putting together an email class designed to help you put together your own stitch guides. While each person stitches a canvas differently, there are guidelines, techniques, and tips that will help any one, at any stitching level, create a lovely finished canvas.

I’ve worked and thought and stitched over decades and developed principles that I want to share with you in this pilot cyberclass.

Participants in the class will not only get the five-lesson cyberclass but a selected group of people will get to have a canvas they submit analyzed for stitch guide possibilities. Another group of students will be able to have one stitched or partially stitched “failure” analyzed for how it could be improved.

In the cyberclass I’ll show you, with stitched and unstitched examples, the things no one tells you about. You’ll learn

the different ways designs get on canvas and what they mean for stitching
how to pick threads for different areas for realism, fun stitching, and special effects
the different types of stitches and how to pick them so they fit on canvas
why every canvas needs to have some Tent Stitch on it
how to create a balanced canvas

Not only will you learn the things you’ve always wanted to know but that no one would tell you, but you’ll see the guidelines in action, with my successful canvases, my failures, and even my unstitched canvases. As a bonus you’ll see how, with one canvas, my initial plan got changed as I translated it to stitching.

Needlepoint is so wonderful and creative but for too long have people treated the creation of a stitch guide as a secret.

It’s not, you can learn to do it yourself, and I want to teach you how.

Become part of this exciting pilot cyberclass, beginning May 20 and continuing for five weeks. There will also be a private Yahoo group created as part of the class where we can continue the discussion and share our problems and results.

The class is only $15 and you can sign up today using the PayPal button below. If you would prefer not to use PayPal, please contact me.

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French General Workshop: Dyeing with Woad

by Natalie Zee Drieu

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Kaari from French General in LA has a special event coming up next Saturday, April 9th. The French General Woad Workshop on April 9th from 9am - 4pm is being taught by Denise Lambert, one of the world's few master woad dyers who is coming from the South of France to teach this medieval craft. Denise will teach how to dye with a plant that produces the eponymous French Blue color which can fourteen different shades of blue. Denise was written up in the January 2011 issue of the French magazine Cote Sud, as being one of the few remaining people in the world that are still teaching this magical technique of dyeing. Participants will get the chance to dye anything they like in the four dye vats.

Jenny Ryan will be covering this special all-day workshop here on CRAFT. Look for the story mid-April on our site. If you are in the LA area and interested in joining this special workshop, there are still a few spaces left you can sign up for.

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Overdyed Thread Kimono Class Now Open

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

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overdyed threads needlepoint kimono on-line class by Janet Perry

Overydyed threads are both wonderful and seductive. The colors are great, the textures are lovely. So you buy one to use one your canvas and BOOM! you run into what I call “the overdye problem.” No matter how solid the thread looks, stitch it in Basketweave and suddenly you have diagonal stripes.

The end result is that you swear off these threads forever from painted canvases and non-geometric projects.

It doesn’t have to be that way. INn my upcoming on-line class you’ll be learning about handling overdyes and hand-dyes, how to use them in different stitches and easy ways to control the thread (as opposed to the thread controlling you).

In this class you will have the opportunity to work with five different overdyed threads. You’ll learn ways to manage them for Tent Stitches and Tent Stitch equivalents, how to color match and how to cut threads at the repeating point.

The four-lesson class, beginning October 15, with the printed canvas is only $27.50. You can sign up right now via PayPal.

The charming canvas is from Patt & Lee and is the fourth (and last) in my series of technique kimonos. The class is open to only a limited number of students because it is a pilot.

There will be a partial thread kit available for the class that contains all of the overdyed threads, including two silks. It is $25.00 including US shipping. Please email me before Oct 1 if you want the kit.

Join today to learn how to use these threads!

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Non-Profit Basics

by Lish Dorset

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i3Detroit's Ed Platt has a great post on non-profit basics, from definitions to status requirements. A quick read for anyone interested in getting a craft group started down this path.

Via i3Detroit

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DIY Bookbinding Class in NYC

by Becky Stern

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New York City hackerspace NYC Resistor is holding a DIY bookbinding class next weekend at their awesome space in Brooklyn.

Learn everything you need to start making your own artist's books or hand-bound journals! In this class, learn techniques and tips to make your own hand-bound books. We'll go over a bunch of stitching methods, page-folding, and book cover options. Materials will be provided, if you want to bring some special paper you have, we invite you to do so.

Instructors: Alicia Gibb, Shelby Arnold

DIY Bookbinding

Saturday, August 14, 2010 from 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (ET)

NYC Resistor

87 3rd Ave Brooklyn, NY

Class fee (including materials): $60

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Blackwork Accessories Class – Last Day to Sign Up

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

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blackwork crazy quilt fill pattern change purse class designed by Janet Perry for Counted Wishes

One of three projects in this class

Blackwork can be done on any countable ground, linen, needlepoint canvas, or evenweave fabric. It’s historic, easy and fresh.

In my new on-line class, beginning, August 1 (that’s in 2 weeks), you’ll learn Blackwork, whether on fabric or canvas, while making three charming accessories: a change purse, pictured above, a checkbook cover, and a photo album inset.

The class is done via email and Yahoo group, so you can take it at your own pace. You’ll pick your own fabric and thread, so the finished projects will be unique.

In the class you’ll learn:

history of Blackwork
how to select the correct thread for Blackwork
methods for stitching Blackwork on different types of grounds
techniques for using overdyed and hand-dyed threads
three methods to transfer designs
shading
different types of fill patterns
Blackwork borders

The class is only $20. Participants will get all lessons, bonus patterns and instructions in the Yahoo group and an opportunity to buy discounted ebook versions of my book, Blackwork Beauties, packed with more projects and patterns.

You can sign up for the class today using the button below:

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Blackwork Accessories Class

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

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shaded blackwork checkbook cover for on-line class designed by janet perry

Learn how to create shading in Blackwork with this checkbook cover

Blackwork can be done on any countable ground, linen, needlepoint canvas, or evenweave fabric. It’s historic, easy and fresh.

In my new on-line class, beginning, August 1 (that’s in less than 2 weeks), you’ll learn Blackwork, whether on fabric or canvas, while making three charming accessories: a change purse, pictured above, a checkbook cover, and a photo album inset.

The class is done via email and Yahoo group, so you can take it at your own pace. You’ll pick your own fabric and thread, so the finished projects will be unique. In the Yahoo group there will be several bonus patterns created for the class.

In the class you’ll learn:

history of Blackwork
how to select the correct thread for Blackwork
methods for stitching Blackwork on different types of grounds
techniques for using overdyed and hand-dyed threads
three methods to transfer designs
shading
different types of fill patterns
Blackwork borders

The class is only $20. Participants will get all lessons, bonus patterns, and instructions in the Yahoo group and an opportunity to buy discounted ebook versions of my book, Blackwork Beauties, packed with more projects and patterns.

You can sign up for the class today using the button below:

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Joy of Counted Canvas

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

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Get on over to Mary Corbet’s site where she has a delightful guest post by Sara Leigh Merrey about counted canvaswork. It’s simply delightful and you’ll love the close up pictures of the projects as Sara tells her tale.

Then you can follow more of her stitching adventures in her blog, Confessions of a Remedial Stitcher, and see her on-line store, The Scarlet Thread.

On her blog she’s stitching Florentine Fancywork, an ANG Correspondence Course. ANG’s CyberPointers chapter is currently having registrations (through August 22, 2010) for this lovely project. You have to be an ANG and chapter member to take the class.

And if you want more charted canvas, check out charted favorites Laura Perin, Orna Willis, and DebBee’s Designs, the many Jean Hilton projects at Stitches from the Heart and the inventive designs at Needle Delights.

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