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Christa Evans
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- Birmingham, AL
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Goldwork Group
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Needlepoint Group
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Design
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Just finished stitching on mine. Will post photo, paste, and put in mail to Mary Alice this weekend. Great class! Christa
Hello Everyone,
The Japanese Embroidery Center out of Atlanta posts a list of instructors across the USA on their website. I took a quick peak and it looks like Kay Stanis and Dianne Nicholson are out of Washington state. They can be contacted fro...
A fantastic job - beautifully done!
New Post on Blog - Please comment, this group has wonderful ideas and comments. Christa
This is absolutely gorgeous. Your shading and stitch angles are amazing.
This is beautiful, your stitching and colours are just perfect!
Oh Sue, the sense of accomplishment when finished is huge. Cant wait to see yours when finished.
Its beautiful I am nearly there just the leaves and stems to do :-)
Thank you all so much for all the nice compliments. I'm so glad to find a virtual community to share the Art as well as learn from. Betty, the Painted Bunting is one of several bird classes I had the honor of attending. Audrey has discontinued her...
This is beautiful. Amazing that it's all made from stitches.
Comment Wall (9 comments)
- At 5:47am on December 5, 2009,
Mary Alice Sinton said…
- Way Cool that you have a finished Fan. Helen Allen is shipping her sto me also!
- At 1:15pm on September 6, 2009,
Iris said…
- Hi Christa,
Thankyou for your kind words about my work.
I am loving how your design for the challenge is developing and am looking forward to posting my design this week when time allows. So will definitely appreciate some feedback when that happens. And I love for people to be brutally honest as it is the only way to learn, so don't hold back.
I have a couple of friends coming from interstate in two weeks to do their phase 4 beading with my tutor, and I will be stitching alongside them, continuing on my Crane, so may have some progress photos then. Even though I work best in quiet on my own, it is always great to get together with other stitchers - it is always a fun time and it keeps the motivation going.
What independent phase study were you planning?
By the way - I absolutely adore the autumnal colours of your Sake Boxes. I am a real 'autumn' person.
Cheers for now,
Iris
- At 11:49am on September 3, 2009,
Iris said…
- Hi Christa,
Love your photos. I have always wanted to do Hiogi Fan, but did Suehiro and Ven Friends instead. Have finally just completed phase 4 Embroidery Sculpture. Even though I loved stitching it, I had put it aside for a while as it was a rather epic piece (376 hours), and stitched other pieces for some relief. Maybe, I should have done Karahana instead. That is also very beautiful and I love the box couching on the petals.
Just put in my first stitches on phase 8 Crane with Reeds the other day - yippee. I love starting a new piece.
Now, to catch up with your design blog....
Cheers,
Iris
- At 1:58am on September 1, 2009,
Sue Noble said…
- Thanks whoops missed read your address, will let you know how we get on. Thanks Sue
- At 9:23pm on August 31, 2009,
Carol-Anne said… - Great to see pics of your Phases and the Painted Bunting. Your stitching is just beautiful.
- At 7:20am on August 31, 2009,
Sue Noble said…
- Hi Christa Not sure if you know but a group of us will be at the Craft show at the Gmax Centre in manchester next weekend, so if you are coming please come and say hello. :-)
- At 2:38am on August 24, 2009,
Jane said… - A belated welcome to the JE group Christa, hope you enjoy your stay.
Jane
- At 10:45pm on August 16, 2009,
Sue Noble said…
- Hi Christa welcome to this group and I look forward to chatting to you.
- At 5:37am on August 16, 2009,
Carol-Anne said…
- Hi Christa, welcome to Stitchin Fingers and to the groups you have joined. It is always a pleasure to meet another Japanese Embroidery but our little group is growing rather nicely now :-)
We would love to hear about your stitchery and see some pics, if poss :-)
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- What aspect of textiles are you interested in?
- Needlepoint, Cross Stitch, Petite Point, Japanese Embroidery, Hardanger, anything with a needle and thread...
- Where did you learn your textle skills?
- From mom and grandma originally, since then many instructors and sensai
- Blog:
- http://lilystitch.net
- Website:
- http://lilystitch.net
- Second Website
- http://lilystitch.etsy.net
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Been too long!
Hello fellow Stitchin Fingers members! Sorry to have been away from posting to my blog for a little while. One of my favorite sayings is "Life gets in the way of your plans" and that has certainly been true for me. Nothing too exciting to tell other my career has kept me very busy these past weeks with lots of travel. Now that the holidays are near things are calming down and I'm looking forward to getting back to JE stitching.
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Posted on November 11, 2009 at 11:14am — 2 Comments
Challenge Piece has a name....
sometimes the design tells you the name right off the bat, other times you have to wait for for it to speak to you. Today, one of the inspiration designs let me in on this little secret. This site not only gave me a glimpse into how the background fabric will affect the design but also gave me the name of a Japanese Bush Warbler: "Uguisu".
Plum in Japanese is "Ume".
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Plum in Japanese is "Ume".
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Posted on September 1, 2009 at 4:30pm — 5 Comments
Inspiration and Color
Now that I have a design in mind its time to find inspiration with a theme and color. For this project I went through all of my Japanese Embroidery and general embroidery books to pick up ideas. Because plum and the bush warbler are both symbolic of spring, it was very easy to choose it as the theme. Also, although I am very attached to fall colors I am currently working Saki Boxes in fall colors so it will be a nice break to work in what I consider the opposite colors - pastels.
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Posted on September 1, 2009 at 2:48pm — 6 Comments
JE Stitch Challenge 2009 - Design
The JE Group Challenge -- Design
The challenge piece gives us the option of incorporating one or more fans provided. We can use all or one of them, make them larger, smaller, and have creative license with color and patterns with a preference of traditional Japanese techniques. This challenge immediately piqued my creative side and the need to take a small rest from the phase piece Sake… Continue
The challenge piece gives us the option of incorporating one or more fans provided. We can use all or one of them, make them larger, smaller, and have creative license with color and patterns with a preference of traditional Japanese techniques. This challenge immediately piqued my creative side and the need to take a small rest from the phase piece Sake… Continue
Posted on August 31, 2009 at 11:33am — 3 Comments
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