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One-Day Class (Saturday) August 30, 2008

Class Number: 001
Class Name: Photographing Your Needlework
Teacher: Scott Dam
Technique: Photography
Proficiency Level: All Levels
Kit Fee: $20

A one-day, hands-on, photography workshop, including an introduction to the use of digital editing with your computer. Students will use their digital cameras and laptop computers to photograph examples of different types of needlework, input the information into their computer, and edit their photos. The workshop will include lecture and demonstrations by the teacher and practical work by students. The participants should bring to class their own digital cameras and laptops and a piece of needlework that they would like to photograph.

One-Day Class (Sunday) August 31, 2008

Class Number: 002
Class Name: Bell Flowers. A Study in Rozashi
Teacher: Margaret Kinsey
Technique: Rozashi
Proficiency Level: All Levels
Kit Fee: $70

Bellflowers are blue/purple flowers that grow in semi-shade in gardens all over the world. They are originally from the Orient. They are favorite subjects in Japanese art and with Japanese poets since the Heian period. It is also one of the seven grasses of autumn, a seasonal motif and found as symbols in family crests. In this study, the flowers are stitched in Rozashi techniques on the traditional ro. The colors of the flowers are shades of purple. According to Merrily Baird in Symbols of Japanese Art, “The Seven Grasses of Autumn are one of the most enduring motifs in Japanese Art.” In this study, bellflowers are stitched in Rozashi techniques on the traditional ro. The stitches for this piece are traditional to Rozashi. The kit comes complete with ro attached to frame, all threads, nori sticking paste and a needle.

Two-Day Classes (Saturday - Sunday) August 30-31, 2008

Class Number: 101
Class Name: Butterfly & Berries
Teacher: Deanna Bertelsen
Technique: Stumpwork
Proficiency Level: Basic
Kit Fee: $30

A beginner course in which the otherwise experienced stitcher will learn elements of raised embroidery and will stitch a life-like Monarch butterfly and attach it to a silk background. Students will learn to pad and shade the background leaves and raise beaded blackberries so realistic you can almost smell them! The object is to raise our stitching off the background.

Class Number: 102
Class Name: Leaves of Gold
Teacher: Joyce Lukomski
Technique: Beading
Proficiency Level: Intermediate
Kit Fee: $59

Celebrate the Golden Anniversary with this handsome brooch. Create a graceful spray of flowers in your hand as you learn to manipulate free-form peyote beading into beautiful shapes while working with five values of gold beads. Half-hidden golden pearls and jaunty bow complete this dramatic presentation of luxury.

Class Number: 103
Class Name: Daffodil
Teacher: Lynn Payette
Technique: Mixed Media
Proficiency Level: Basic Intermediate
Kit Fee: $48.50

A non-charted design created with sheer and opaque fabrics, silk ribbons, metallic threads, rayon and metallic machine embroidery threads, beads, and floss. The techniques demonstrated will include the application of fabrics and nettings, layering sheer fabrics for effect, overstitching of fabrics, creating twisted cords for surrounds, and creating a dimensional ‘trumpet’ and ‘bud’ using stumpwork and padding. This piece allows the students to experience the use of a variety of media to create a cohesive design, and will have a heavy emphasis on creating cast shadows and perspective.

Class Number: 104
Class Name: It’s About Time
Teacher: Deanna Powell
Technique: Beading
Proficiency Level: Basic Intermediate
Kit Fee: $63

It’s About Time is a fashion watch that features peyote stitch. The eclectic project is designed to teach students the two-needle peyote stitch and freeform melding of a variety of beads. Special emphasis will be on attaching the beadwork to the watch face. The antique style watch case adds to the charm of the beaded band. The quartz watch comes complete with its own battery. A unique aspect of this class is the special slide closure that disappears into the beading.

Class Number: 105
Class Name: A Townhouse Sewing Case
Teacher: Gay Ann Rogers
Technique: Canvas
Proficiency Level: Intermediate
Kit Fee: $30

An English townhouse opens to reveal a needlebook, needle packets holder and tabs for scissors, a crochet hook and a laying tool. Constructed by using a double Nun’s stitch, the sewing case also includes plaited stitch, double-running stitch, crossed corners, Smyrnas, Rhodes and cross stitch and its variations. The sewing case holds antique tools and the class will include a display and discussion of the tools. The kit fee is for instructions only. The students provide their own materials.

Class Number: 106
Class Name: Golden Gala Beaded Box
Teacher: Carolyn Sherman
Technique: Beading
Proficiency Level: Intermediate
Kit Fee: $ 65

Create a beautiful treasure box as a memory of our Golden Gala. The side of the box is a band stitched with royal blue Delica beads in a two-drop peyote pattern. Glittering gold plated Swarovski crystals are inserted in the band and it is edged with variations of the beaded picot stitch and tiny overlaid beads. The lid band features the words “Golden Gala Louisville” stitched with royal blue and gold Delica beads in odd-count peyote stitch. A lovely golden flower formed from loops of gold seed beads graces the top of the box. Its raised center is created from seed and crystal beads stitched to a fabric ground. A quick and easy box lining will be completed in class. Students should be familiar with peyote stitch.

Class Number: 107
Class Name: Arctic Evening Purse
Teacher: Joan Thomasson
Technique: Canvas/Designing
Proficiency Level: Intermediate
Kit Fee: $75

Take the first steps into designing by creating a 6" by 9" monochromatic piece loaded with textured rings, sparkling beads, and shiny blue threads in floss, overdyed floss, silk, and a variety of metallics. Beginning with stained glass window outlines and a variety of stitch and pattern choices, students can choose to follow the instructor's design exactly, change the design completely or anything in between. Once complete, the design can fit into a box top, onto a tote bag or become the flap of an elegant evening purse. There is plenty of room for discovery and personal design choices within a geometric framework and monochromatic color scheme.

Class Number: 108
Class Name: Ojimi
Teacher: Carolyn Standing Webb
Technique: Blackwork
Proficiency Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Kit Fee: $70

Ojimi are beads that are works of art in miniature. Students will learn a bit about netsuke and ojimi Japanese beads and how they were used as they stitch this piece which combines blackwork and Japanese designs on 32-count linen with lots of gold thread to add balance and sparkle. Each of the beads in the string of ojimi will teach you a different technique for shading blackwork. You will learn how to work more than eight patterns in double running or backstitch and how to track the patterns. Pattern darning and seeding are featured as well as stitches to finish the edges of the blackwork areas. You will learn how to twist silk and metal to create custom threads for the tassel. The goal is to help the student become familiar with blackwork techniques including double running and learn how to create their own paths for the stitches plus how to couch Japanese gold.