Walk the Wild River

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Four Day
Advanced
12.2" x 12.2"(center square), 18" x 18"(total stitching area)
$250.00 US ($211.00 US for Virtual Class)

Class Development

Every time I sit down to design a class, I ask myself what I can do to push myself and the students a little further, a little harder. This class continues my experimentation with layering canvas and using unusual materials in combination with the grid.

I don’t usually design specific to a location, but my home city of Portland led me in this direction — a project that incorporates rivers, mountains, architecture, and gardens. I hope students from all over the country will see bits of their own hometowns in this project.

This class will give the students many opportunities for exploration and pushing their own personal stitching envelopes. Besides making some color choices, they will have an opportunity to work with some materials they might not have used before. Plus they will work with layered canvas, and stitching and embellishing between layers.

Class Goals

working with multiple layers of canvas to create dimension
adjusting color and threads to imply structure
learning to use organic geometry to soften a geometric design
working with added materials to change the appearance of the canvas, both to soften the grid and to alter the surface appearance
becoming comfortable in cutting canvas and stabilizing the cut edges to allow additional stitches and effects to be created
exploring carrying stitches and surface treatments from one layer of canvas to another

Comments

Pre-stitching required — 20-25 hours to complete the satin stitch dividing bands. For anyone not able to finish the prestitching a basting chart is included.

Stitches

Scotch stitch
straight stitch interlaced sheaf
modified & layered crescents
interwoven mountains
feather stitch
‘U’ crescent
satin stitch w/ drawn thread
stacked incomplete Jessica & ‘U’ crescent
twisted open chains
Norwich
padded Norwich
mistake stitch
grid
padded zig zag fans
satin stitch
herringbone
woven mountains
eyelets
stacked twisted open chain

3-layer incomplete Jessica
drawn work w/ wrapped bars
diamond ring fillet
round spider web eyelet
round buttonhole edging
mistake pinwheel stitch
layered Cretan
square & diamond fillet
smooth curved crescent
beading
padded woven mountain
square Jessica
tied oblong cross
Kloster squares & cutwork
double fan
couching
interlaced straight stitch
layered Cretan
Bargello
organza and bead attachments

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