Thursday, July 30, 2009

Listening to Barbara Bergsten UPDATED



Rcently I've been really enjoying reading Barbara Bergsten's blog
. Barbara designs painted canvases and blogs about her newest pieces and how she is stitching them.
http://createneedlepoint.typepad.com/create_needlepoint/

Barbara's summer intern is busily painting and stitching her first NP design, The Fashionable Lady. It is a delightful elegant woman in black and hopefully a canvas that Barbara will offer one day.Link UPDATE: You can already order Erin's 1930s woman via Barbara Bergsten Designs. Contact information is here.
http://www.barbarabergstendesigns.com/contact_us.htm

And Erin talks more about her experience learning to design and paint a NP canvas (with contact information) here.
http://createneedlepoint.typepad.com/create_needlepoint/2009/07/more-news-from-erin.html

Barbara herself is stitching a poppy pillow that uses what she calls "sister stitches" for the various flowers. Sister stitches are stitches which are very similar and which can also be used in mirror images of themselves. Because they have a lot in common, you can use a large number of stitches to keep from getting bored that don't look like a mess because of their family resemblance. This is an important technique and one that I use when I can. Barbara shows it off very well on her blog.

After you finish browsing, bookmark this site. Not only does Barbara have fun things to see, she is creating two color stitch diagrams of a huge variety of stitches which will liven up your stitching. To see the current diagrammed stitches, look in the left hand column for "bbd Stitch Diagrams." Click there and enjoy!

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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