America 1776 — A Diamond in the Rough

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One Day
Intermediate
6.7" x 6.7"
$65.00 US

Class Development

This 1-day class is the result of my experiments with the diamond shape.
I began playing with star and diamond shapes for another class and it spilled over into this one. As a counter point to my larger pieces, which are often asymmetrical, this piece is symmetrical both side-to-side and top-to-bottom. Then when I used my favorite color scheme — red, white, and blue — it just seemed perfect for Philadelphia, where I taught it for the first time.

Class Goals

• proper execution of stitches
• experimenting with some new stitches
• learning ways to expand traditional stitches

Stitches

• Rhodes star
• overlapping crescents
• Rhodes diamond, some with metallic wrapping
• lozenge filling stitch
• feather diamond
• "Jessica" diamond
• Smyrna diamond with fan overlay
• Bargello
• Norwich diamond with metallic overlay

Comments

Due to the hand-crafted nature of the applied color the individually airbrushed canvases will have slight variations in color.

The colors offered are :
    blue congress cloth with red, white, and blue
    green congress cloth with brick red, cream, and green
    brown congress cloth with coral, turquoise, and brown

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