From: jill@super.org (Amelia J. Scott-Piner)
Subject: In stitches....
Keywords: cross-stitch
Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:26:28 GMT

Here's a few more of my stitchery projects:

        I'm also working on a Jeanne Christine pattern _The Cat_.
It's a wild cheshire cat with paisley designs in bold colors done
in mostly floss & blending filament combinations.  I finished one
of her masks _Orchid Mask_ for a good friend a few Christmases ago.
I love this pattern, but I have three others which demand my time
because they have deadlines.  I bought 4 of the Jeanne Christine 
line patterns when they first came out: _Orchid Mask_, _Star Mask_,
_The Cat_, and _The Mouse_.  There was also a peacock pattern that
included a peacock feather to stitch into the work.  I haven't seen
it in a long time and I'd love to have it.  I hope this line isn't 
out of print.
        I'm also working on _Ming Orchids_.  This one won an award in 
1987 (I know because my copy has a gold seal with this information
emblazoned on it).  The Ginny Award, I think.  I don't remember the
company off-hand, maybe Carolyn Meachem's Serendipity Designs.  I 
have many of these designs.       
        I do own all of the Theresa Wentzler graphs up to the issue   
of _Father Christmas_.  She keeps improving.  Her newest works have
been _Castle Sampler_, _Night_  & _Day_, some Christmas Victorian 
thing with a tree.  I don't own these yet.  I've already put in my
request for the newest one _The Peacock Tapestry_ at my local 
needle junkie shop :).  I haven't actually started any of the  
Wentzler pieces yet, because I've been working on too many others.
        I own all of the Marbek angel series.  The designer (is it
Margaret or Martha) just keeps getting better with time.  Her new one
_Arcadian Angel_ is a recent addition to my collection.  I've always
dreamed about stitching her angels and making a wall-hanging quilt  
out of the entire group.  
        Another series that I'm fond of is Lavender & Lace.  I own 
most of these graphs.  I've just noticed several new ones in the 
collection for this Christmas. 

        I'm not doing as many stitched projects as I did in 1987-
1990, because I started weaving.  I've also started creating my own.
I'm stitching a color wheel right now for one of my Weaver's Guild
programs.  The color wheel is enclosed in a black border with a 
border design of my creation and a figure of a smiling sun in the 
center of the wheel.  It's pretty simple, but very colorful, and 
it's one of my favorites right now.  Probably because it's *my*    
design.  
        I decided a long time ago that graphs were inexpensive for 
the amount of pleasure that I get from going through them.  I buy 
many that I probably will never actually stitch, but you never know
when the urge to start something new will hit.  I keep a small stitch
box in my purse with a project in a plastic Zip-lock baggie.  The 
color wheel is my current purse project.  I've done Christmas ornaments,
dollhouse miniature stitched rugs, and full-size pictures as purse
projects in the past.  The only bad thing about doing this is that I 
worry about muggers.  (Please, Please, take my money, but leave me my
stitchery!)    

        Yep.  I have a *serious* needle habit.
                                        jill@super.org (^_^)
                                        Jill Scott-Piner

(They usually finish up in batches, too, since I work on so many
simultaneously.)

 


From: lisa@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Lisa Kent)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:11:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Knitting magazines
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO