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| Darning Patterns and Filler Stitches |
One of the main objectives of the ANG is education, expanding the stitching horizons of its members. This goal is met in a number of ways:
- National Seminars
- Online Correspondence Courses
- CyberWorkshop Courses
- Workshops By Mail
The Online Correspondence Courses are one-on-one with an instructor. You register either online or by mail. Once the text arrives you get a certain amount of time, usually six months, to complete the piece and mail it to the instructor for evaluation. Most of the listed courses expired on October 31, 2006. If finally sunk in that they would no longer be available after that around June. So I started the two courses a month purchase plan. This added a February finish, three April finishes, a June finish, and an October finish to my imnmediate queue. On of the April and the June finishes do not allow an extension on the completion date which will put a real crunch on time since I also have some EGA pieces due in the same time frame. I plan on adding some of the new courses as time and finances allow.
The CyberWorkshops and Workshops By Mail don't get turned into the instructor for evaluation, so can be done at a more leisurely pace if desired. They have online mail lists for the instructors to send out lessons beyond what is in the text and for students to ask questions. I keep copies of all the lessons and emails to use when I actually get time to do the piece. I have three in the queue from 2006 with at least two for 2007 to be added.
I have six Correspondence Courses in the works currently. Finished so far is Mostly Milanese by Nanette M. Costa, By Request by Susan Reed, and Silk Pageantry by Kay Cline. Darning Patterns and Filler Stitches by Marylyn H. Doyle is currently being stitched. On deck is Peeping Tom by Dakota Rogers, due in June and Heart of My Heart Sampler by Barbara Radosnik, due in October.
I also have three CyberWorkshops in the queue: Pink Champagne by Jim Wurth, Jewels by Dakota Rogers, and Opulent Edgings by Susan Sturdivant. Opulent Edgings may be moved over to my beading page as it is beaded edges for finishing ornaments and other small hanging pieces.
I will be working with a group of other ladies in the ANG on Chottie Alderson's Furth Sampler. It is six inches wide by nine feet long with 29 pattern sections divided by small borders. The original was stitched in the mid 1800s and brought to the USA at the beginning of WWII. Chottie was allowed to study and copy it. She turned it into a teaching piece and her family had the instruction set revised for publication after her death. It is a beautiful and complicated piece. It was in the style of shop samplers of the time. These samplers were used before the time of published patterns for ladies to pick patterns and threads to stitch. It was usually kept rolled and under the counter until needed. I haven't yet decided how mine will be finished/displayed. I will have to determine that before starting it, as there is a nameplate that has to be charted for either horizontal or vertical display.
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