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Framing Needlework with Monica Pratt of Welcome Stitchery |
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Guest speaker Monica Pratt from Welcome Stitchery Needlework and Frame shop. Monica will give a presentation about the process of framing needlework. She will discuss how good stitching techniques lend themselves to beautifully framed results. Many of you are familiar with Monica and her lovely needlework shop. She is also a framer and has completed courses in framing techniques with Juhl frames. She will use examples to describe the different steps a piece of needlework goes through to be properly stretched and professionally mounted and framed. Please join us for the program. Highlights| The March meeting featured a visit from Monica Pratt from Welcome Stitchery. Monica has been framing needlework for eighteen years. She gave us many insights as to what goes on inside the frame. She described the process of framing a piece of needlework and the many layers required between foam core, and stainless steel pins,spacers, and backing material and the wide range of glass available . She brought many framed examples with a variety of combinations, from shadow boxes to a padded mounting with no glass. She told us cautionary tales of what happens when our projects don't have enough fabric or when they have too much fabric. We all left with a better sense of what to expect from any framer in regards to handling our needlework. There are things we can actually do to prepare our needlework when we are starting a project in order to make a successful framed project. We all had an appreciation for the amount of work involved in stretching and finishing a piece of linen inside the frame to make it last as a treasured heirloom. Monica left us with a much better understanding of the framing process and all the different materials and considerations we can take into account when investing in the perfect framing for our needlework. We ended the meeting with a lovely taste of Irish soda bread. We met a few new associate members. Karyn Pechinski raffled a very charming sewing pocket which she created from the February redwork project and her own talent for finishing and embellishing. Joyce Reid was the lucky recipient of the charming piece. |
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