| Date/Time: | 03/10/2002 1:30 - 4:00 | | Type: | General Meeting | | Location: | Glen Ellyn Library | | Teacher: | Lauren Sauer |
 Lauren Sauer will be teaching her piece "Anna's Hart". The kit fee is $18.00. The kit includes 36 or 40 count linen, soie D'alger and Sampler Threads. Stitches include cross, Smyrna cross, padded satin, Palestrina knots, stem, eyelet and Gobelin. The finished project will fit a 5 x 7 inch frame or box lid.
Sign up for the workshop by the February meeting, either in person at one of the guild meetings or by mail. See the workshop signup procedures for detailed registration instructions. Please indicate whether you want the 36 or the 40 count linen when you register. A check for $18.00 must accompany your signup.
There will be no teaching fee in addition to the kit fee. All are encouraged to attend the presentation whether or not you decide to do the project. Lauren will be giving background information on the original sampler from which the project motif was taken. Highlights | Twenty-seven members attended the March general meeting where the program was presented by Lauren Sauer. The meeting began with a report from our membership chair, who said that we now have 105 members. We also had a report from the treasurer followed by a review of the upcoming program schedule by the program chair. If you haven't sent in your membership dues yet for 2002, there's still time. We have lots of great programs coming up! Click on many of the images below to see a larger picture.
| |  |  Leslie Lewis talked about the 2002 project, the Spot Sampler. If you have not yet started the sampler, be aware that there is an error in the instructions about where to start the first motif. The instructions say to start it 5" in and 3" down. If you do this, you will have less than a 1" margin on the right side of the sampler. Leslie guesses that the instructions were written for a larger piece of linen. Make sure you center the design yourself on the linen.
If you have already started the sampler and have this problem, please share your solutions on our message board. Or share any other experience with the 2002 project.
| | | Our first show and tell item was from Pat Carlson. She attended Mystery Night at Jeanine Koons' seminar in Williamsburg. The project, presented by Merry Cox, was titled "The Courtship". Wonder how Pat got it finished so quickly!
| | | | Next, Kelly Borsberrry showed us her "Oui Pocket". This project was from the French Stitching Fantasy presented by CA Wells and Marcia Brown on Cape Cod in October 2001.
| | |  Marilyn Vanover encouraged everyone to sign up for the Flax Sampler class. She highly recommends the teacher, Eileen Bennet. Marilyn brought in here finished Flax Sampler for us to admire. | | |  Our program "Anna's Hart" was presented by Lauren Sauer. We learned that the motif on the sampler was taken from the lower right corner of a larger spot motif sampler stitched in Finland in 1747. The original was on 53 count linen stitched over two. Thank goodness the kits we got were on 35 or 40 count linen!
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 Lauren had several pictures of other samplers where the same tree appears including the one on the cover of Sue Studebaker's "Ohio Samplers" book. The earliest example she has found of the tree is on a German sampler from 1720 that is in the collection of Margariet Hogue. Lauren has also found the tree in a book on illuminate manuscripts from the 13th century.
Lauren encouraged us to have fun with the project. She said: - Substitute a different stitch
- Change thread colors
- Don't be a purist about mixing fibers - try it!
Lauren also brought along many of the items she has designed so we could take a close look. The items are available on her website at: http://www.forgetmenotsinstitches.comhase.htm | |
| | Remember to bring your needlework projects to the next meeting so you can show others what you've accomplished!
Don't miss the April meeting -
Eileen Bennett presents "Going for the Blue Ribbon"! |
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