Workshop Series

Series of "workshop" groups, where different topics, all needlework related - will be taught, talked about, tried out, worked on. Each group will run for 3 months. The last workshop ends Feb 2010

Quilt Project 2009 - The Orangerie Quilt

The theme is "ORANGERIE" - a mix of pictures related to gazebos,fruit and botanicals in bright colors, iron scrollwork in Victorian style, intricate ideas of combining..... 16 designs + one-year project, in a Quilt-Square formate , with a decorative and elaborate border, which can be stitched or not. This group will start in March 2009 and end Feb 2010.

• Moderators:
• LinaFIN

On-line Class 29: 12 Ornaments Group

These designs have been published as so-called "try-outs" in long ended Chatelaine Mystery Groups etc. and were not available later. Here are 12 of them in a first "ORNAMENT" group so those who missed them, can stitch these, be it with their original threads or with self-chosen replacements. Group begins April 2009 and ends March 2010.

• Moderators:
• Gio2002

Christmas Project 2010

24 small designs, which can be used single, as gift-tags for example, but which can be joined to be a pretty Advent Calendar, you can sew bags with one design on front - or make a wallhanging with attached rings to fasten little gifts etc...plus, a set of pretty ornate and luxurious optional frames which can be used repeatedly. Group begins Dec. 25, 2009 and ends December 2010.

• Moderators:
• shell39

On-line Class 31 - Amber Ocean Lights

Sampler sibling to Polar Lights and Rose Lights - colors and themes of the Ocean, but in this sampler lots of BLUES with a counterpart of amber colors, warm tones of earth, sand, stone - and some reds for the Lighthouses... Group begins July 09 and continues through June 10.

• Moderators:
• ladyofstitches

On-line Class 33 - Flower Ornaments & Frame

Features a set of 4 flower ornaments , each in a decorative frame using quite some Special Stitches - and all together arranged to shape a decorative square. Basically these are the 4 "exchange" ornaments which can go into the place where the Fairies of Online Class 32 live - for those stitchers who prefer not to stitch "people. One-time download format. Group begins Sept. 2009 through August 2010.

• Moderators:
• epidote

On-line Class 35: A Frosty Knotgarden

Companion piece to the very first Mandala Design - CHAT 016. The colors and threads are chosen to depict a Tudor Knotgarden in deep winter - all trees bare, and the remaining berries and grasses withered and adorned with sparkling needles of white frost and occasional snowflakes as well as frozen ponds. Beads and Crystals will be used to give an overall "icy" appearance !! Group begins March 2010 and ends Feb. 2011.

• Moderators:
• ladyofstitches

On-line Class 37: Love is in the Air!

A design for LOVE - in muted, antique colors of old parchment, laces and natural linen. The colors and threads are chosen to mimick an "old" embroidery - you will see a cute Amor, roses of course and a place to individualize this embroidery for you and ??? with your own initials ! Group begins March 2010 and ends Feb 2011.