Kelly Clark is collaborating with Needle Works in Austin on a class called Elegant Thanksgiving. The canvases she designed for the class depict Indians, and Pilgrims, and a big fat turkey. Kelly's incorporating a lot of stumpwork techniques on the first canvas, the Pilgrim Maiden. You can see some of Kelly's work on this first piece on her blog, and you can read about the class and how to sign up in the September Needle Works newsletter. Scroll down to July 22nd to start reading about the magic on the first piece.
http://kellyclarkneedlepointhandbook.blogspot.com/
Even if you aren't wild about Thanksgiving pieces, it is fun to see what Kelly's up to and the newsletter has a fabulous stitch for fish scales diagrammed out for you along with a neat variation. It isn't often that a painted canvas designer stitches her own pieces (SharonG is the other main example of a designer who also stitches fabulous pieces of needle art) so this is a unique glimpse into the creative mind.
http://theneedleworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/201109newsletter.pdf
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
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