From: jill@super.org (Amelia J. Scott-Piner)
Subject: A stitch in time.
Keywords: cross-stitch
Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:43:46 GMT

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.

        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.

                I'll continue this later.
                                       jill@super.org
                                       Jill Scott-Piner