Carolinas Region
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Spring Splendor Teacher: Kay Stanis
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Finally, after that long cold winter and the long cold drizzle that melted the gray snow and rinsed the earth clean, comes the time of generous sun. Blossoms play in the golden light and spring walks among us again. The foundation for this bouquet is Dupioni silk, and the silk threads used are soft twist silk and silk sewing thread. These threads combine with pearl purl, check purl, Japanese Twist, Grecian twist, passing thread, Japanese golds, to create the butterfly, blossoms, and leaves. The stitches include vertical, radiating, horizontal, voided, and diagonal satin; long and short over padding and split stitch; normal and pattern couching. Students will also learn how to transfer their own patterns and twist flat silk. The focus of the class will be on couching, filling areas with purls, and blending long and short over padding. Project: Framed picture Size: 8” x 10” design on 13.5” x 18” silk foundation Fabric: Dupioni silk Threads: Silk: five skeins of soft twist silks, four values of red, one of gold; Silk sewing thread. Metal: #1 Pearl purl; #6 Bright check purl; #1 Gold, Sterling™, 07; #5 Passing thread; #5 Japanese Gold; #3 Japanese twist; Medium Grecian twist; #8 Braid, preferably Coronet Braid™ Colors: Student’s choice, sample is in reds Threads: Edmar Brazilian Embroidery thread Proficiency Level: Intermediate to advanced Prerequisites: Some experience working with silk |
Fee: $175 per group (paid by Carolinas Region for Region Members) Text Fee: $30, more than 50 pages, all color Supplies: (Approximate) $55, if provided by teacher. |
Time Period: Twelve months, six working sessions |
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Dresden Kitty Teacher: Wanda Linsley
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The ultimate graphic art technique in Dresden Kitty is an adventure into pulled work, also known as drawn fabric, a type of counted thread whitework. Pulling the working thread to compress the ground threads gives this work its lacy appearance and texture. Pulled work is composed of variations on a few basic stitches: double backstitch, four-sided stitch, crossed stitch, straight or satin stitch, wave stitch, faggot stitch and composite stitches. Dresden Kitty provides the opportunity to learn all of these stitches, beginning with basic stitches and progressing to more complex. The opportunity to design a unique background is an option. This piece is based on the teacher’s cat Patches, a Manx, a uniquely tailless breed. Her “patches” worked well for becoming Dresden Kitty. Dresden Kitty is worked on 24- to 28-count evenweave linen, such as Zweigart® Dublin Linen, with DMC® #12 pearl cotton and DMC® #80 crochet cotton. Project: Pulled thread Size: 5” × 7” design area Color: Student’s choice Supplies: 24- to 28-count evenweave linen such as Zweigart® Dublin Linen, 11” × 13” white, ivory, cream of natural; pearl cotton #12 and cotton for crochet #80 in a color to match the linen Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced Prerequisite: Ability to read and apply a graph to fabric threads |
Fee: $175 per group (paid by Carolinas Region for Region Members) Text: $20 per student, unbound, two-pocket folder Supplies: (approximate): $20 or less depending on type of linen. Purchasing the linen by the yard as a group will reduce the expense. |
Time Period: Four months with meetings left to the discretion of the group. |
