Member Dues

  Membership Dues 

are being collected at the May Chapter Meeting

by Elaine, Membership Chairman.

Annual Dues are $55.00

Elaine will mail in our

dues on 

MAY 31, 2012.

This is the current breakdown:

$37.00 The Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc. (EGA) 
 No change from last year.

$3.00   Great Lakes Region (GLR) 
Was $1.00 last year.

$15.00 Needle Artisans of Northwest Indiana 
Our chapter dues have not changed.

$55.00 Total


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Questions?
Contact Elaine.

Fund Raiser

Clip the invitation above ---

valid

Monday, May 7 - 19, 2012

Treasures, Part Three

Thx SueD for sharing with us!!!

These surface embroidered motifs

were scattered on a square

linen tablecloth - size probably for a card table.

The floral are satin stitch, lazy daisy,  Buttonhole wheel,  

and buttonhole (blanket) stitch --

Here is an image of the directions ...

Below - an incomplete motif; however, you can see the 

lines on the linen of the overall motif.

Same cloth - another flower basket motif with

satin stitching and chain stitches.

Here is an image of the directions:

This is a corner motif - a charming flower

using the long + short stitch.

Image of the directions:

And another corner flower started ...

Image of the directions:

This is what the directions looked like:

with the suggested fiber colors:

I hope you have enjoyed the vintage pieces.   

Thank you Sue for sharing.

Treasures, Part Two

SueD shares (part two) ...

This beautiful embroidered flower,

is one of many on

this vintage blue linen.

The surface stitches are spectacular!!!

This piece sports TWO different techniques for

finishing.   Two sides have the linen rolled, and hemstitched --

one side is rolled, with a 4-sided stitch.

And look!  The original pattern!

Meeting Reminder

Per Renee R:

2013 Needle Art Exhibit 

Organizational Meeting

Thursday, April 26th

6:30-8:00 p.m. 

@Renee's home

Among many agenda items will be

where future meetings will be held (and when).

Please come to the meeting, along

with your ideas.   All input welcome.

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Comments +/or Questions?

Contact Renee or e-mail Needle Artisans

Treasures, Part One

Sue D was given personal momentos when

her Aunt Roberta passed away.

This envelope was among

embroidered linens, hemstitched cloths,

and a box of fibers.

This envelope

(notice the 1 cent stamp?)

contained this Child's Prayer

pattern:

And, yes ... the linen was

a very colorful purple-berry color!

The linen threads were drawn out, linen rolled,

and beautiful hemstitching around the entire cloth.

White work ....

This is my best

whitework - pulled thread

project.

Thought I'd share a pdf file

that I stumbled upon earlier today ....

Pulled Work:  a Whitework Needle Lace Technique

Class for West Kingdom Needleworkers

Pulled Thread Star

The pdf has information on white work,

pulled thread --- along with photographs,

diagrams and hints for creating

your own pulled thread star.

--

Also, there are several links 

on the Lynx Lace web site with

patterns, diagrams, + tutorials .

Enjoy whitework today ; )

Third week-end each month

Say What?

What is a Hermie???

check it out:

International Hermit + Stitch Weekend

Blackwork ....

Contemporary Blackwork

Call for Artists

The Embroiderers' Guild of America is seeking work for an exhibition of contemporary blackwork
embroidery that will be on display at EGA National Headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky from February 1 - June 29, 2013.

  

All members of the EGA, the Embroiderers Association of Canada, the Embroiderers' Guild UK, the Association of New Zealand Embroiderers Guilds, the Australia Embroiderers Guilds, and the American Needlepoint Guild are invited to enter. For more details and all the specifics, visitegausa.org.

                        

Online Needle Work

The Needlework Show

opens at 2:00 pm

4/19 - 24/ 2012

Dorset Buttons - Embroidered Buttons

Thought I'd share information and tutorial links for embroidered buttons.

- these buttons are popping up

around blog land, and on some

Crazy Quilt  projects.

They are called Dorset Buttons.

If you were interested in making your own,

with knowledge of the Spider Web Stitch, and

button hole stitch -- you can follow the

steps shown in this tutorial, or

this tutorial.

Once you understand the basics,

take a look at the buttons

on the British Button Society web site.

Many possibilities!

1930s Quilts

Tuesday, April 10th

Kankakee Valley

Historical Society will feature

1930s Quilts 

Program at 6:30pm

Kouts Public Library

101 East Daumer Road

Kouts, Indiana 46347
(219) 766-2271

map / directions

per the
NW Ind Times:

"Sandy Strader will give a presentation on quilts and quilting of the 1930s era.  her presentation will include a discussion of the colors, fabrics and fabric styles, as well as quilt blocks and how they were named.  She will show some of her quilts and quilt blocks representative of the era."

Fund Raising Sale

The Perfect Angle

invitation  (above)

is for 10% of your total purchase donated 

to Needle Artisans of Northwest Indiana.

As a bonus, you will receive 10% off

all framing materials for your support of this event.

Valid from

Monday, May 7, 2012

thru

Saturday, May 19, 2912

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Questions?   

contact Renee R

Sign Up - April General Meeting

The sign-up for the Art Institute of Chicago trip 

on Saturday April 21st

 to view "Fabric of a New Nation: American Needlework and Textiles 1776-1840" exhibit

 will continue at the April general meeting.

Art Institute of Chicago

Check the Newsletter or your e-mail for details.

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Questions?   Contact Renee

April 1st is International Tatting Day

International Tatting Day

is celebrated by

eating chocolates

and creating tatted lace!

Tatted lace is made with

shuttles,

needles,

or hooks.

If interested, free on-line classes are available

for needle and shuttle tatting.

See the web sites:   

On line tatting classes

AND ....  

On line

Beginners / new to tatting

for details.