I chased the UPS guy down yesterday to retrieve this box.
Chandail Needlepoint Shop in Houston helped me finish it. I had seen the LOVE canvas finished into a pillow just like this one on Raymond Crawford's website.
I think this is about the most fun pillow I have ever seen. It may just take me a few days of staring at it to work up the resolve to send it to my friend's daughter, as promised.
Enjoy!!
Jane
I've finished the border now, and I'm starting to do the gold lines. I have one missed stitch to do and I'll be finished.
Starting Tuesday, a significant amount of my time will be toward the EGA Regional Meeting, which starts with Region Day on Wednesday. I'm going to pick up 3 teachers at the airport on Tuesday and then go help get prepared-- like helping put out all the things for sale in the boutique or stuffing the goody bags, or whatever. Once I get there, I'm sure there will be something for everyone to do.
We had our last committee meeting yesterday and everything seems to be in order.
I'll be staying at the hotel on Wednesday and Saturday nights -- I think I'll likely come home the other nights. We'll see. Wednesday night there is a joint meeting between this year's committee and next year's committee for an idea exchange. Saturday night is the banquet, so there's no point in driving home so late, when I need to be back at 8:30am.
There are 20 or so classes and some well known teachers - Carole Lake, Dorothy Lesher, Tony Minieri, John Waddell. I understand that this EGA Regional seminar is the best attended one in the country with 250 participants, and I think I'm remembering correctly that is the first time this region (anyway) is 4 full days. There are several 4-day classes, Carole Lake's St. Basil's Cathedral and Tony Minieri's Tagasode, to name a couple.
Next year's Regional Meeting is in Dallas -- the theme is UFOs -- all about bringing an unfinished project and finishing it with help at the meeting. Some teachers are helping only with prior classes they've taught, which seems interesting.
I'll have my computer with me at the meeting since I'm the treasurer -- so maybe I'll have time to post a couple of times while there.
Later. Happy Stitching.
When I got to the committee meeting this morning for the EGA Regional Seminar that starts this week, I had 1/4 of a block left to be finished. During the meeting, I think I stitched it and ripped it out 3 times. But it's done. I'm ready to do the borders and be on to the next gig.
There are actually a couple of nods to God and the Amish in this piece. The whole thing is "perfect enough" for me. Once we have it incorporated into a fantabulous pillow, who will know what I do about what might have been the ultimate state of perfection?
Would you really want to live there? The expectations once you claim it are just so oppressive!!! It's not for me!!!
Well, we're moving right along. I used a gingham stitch for the dark block lower right. I'd never used it before. After I had it 1/2 way finished, I remembered I had picked up a Dinky Dyes thread for that part that is slightly overdyed. Very pretty. But decided not to rip it out to have the slight variation. Not sure if that would have looked good, anyway.
One thing I've been thinking about while I've been working on this piece is the Amish quilting tradition of making one square in the quilt a bit "off" -- imperfect. They see it as a reminder that only God is perfect. I love that their precision is such that they KNOW how to make it imperfect. Me -- it just happens naturally. I can do my ABSOLUTE BEST on ANYTHING and always be able to point out mistakes in it.
When I'm done with this, I'm probably not going to ask you to look for my imperfect block. But I guarantee that one is there, and that I'm ok with it. It's my nod to the Amish.
I am going to ask you what your absolute, all-time favorite stitch is. I've tried to figure that out as I've worked on this piece. I think I have a tie between criss cross hungarian and byzantine. What's YOURS???
Mark left for California early yesterday morning, and gets back late tonight. In the meantime have I been doing spring cleaning? laundry? even picking up after myself??? That would be "NO" on all counts. I've been stitching and organizing and shopping and running errands and just in the last few minutes starting to realize I need to get a couple of things done before he gets home. The procrastinator in me says I've still got 7 hours before he gets here. Gee, I wonder which twin -- the neat one or the evil one -- will win out!!
Next week the Regional (South Central Region) EGA Seminar is being held here in San Antonio. This is the gig that i got involved in last year. I started out in the position of liaison with the hotel for meals, etc, and then the Treasurer's position came open so they asked me to take that. Luckily a couple of months ago I had a flash of wisdom which made me realize there's no way I should start another project, so I backed out of whatever I was signed up for and opted for Studio Time. At the regional, it's just a room where you can go stitch -- unlike the National, where there's a faculty member in there helping you with your project. That's a very good thing. I need to finish this thing for Quinn and get it off to the finisher.
Also, I now have 3 -- yes, 3 -- Kelly Clark Santas in the wings. July, August and September are all in the closet, and as you know, I haven't put the last touches on the June one.
You can see that the LOVE canvas is coming along. Maybe, just maybe I can get this done this week and then work on other things -- KC Santas -- next week in Studio Time.
Happy Stitching from very warm Texas.
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