SOUTH CENTRAL AREA:
Lone Star Chapter

Stitched by: Lone Star Chapter
   
Project: Houston Past and Present
Location: Julia Ideson Library, Houston, Texas
Designers: Carroll Corson, Pat Blailock, Sue Stewart, Billie Spicer, Dot Slator, Judy Lehman, Jean Graves, Judy Grant 
Description: 8' x 8' wall hanging consisting of 24 blocks surrounding the City of Houston Seal. The blocks depict fashion, architecture, entertainment, landmarks, occupations and future strivings. The four corners are composed of collages representing Houston's culture, sports, landmarks and business, energy and economics.
Presented: 1986
   
Project: Three Victorian-style three-piece Lambrequins
Location: Pillot House, Houston, Texas
Designer: Marjorie Littlejohn
Description: The floral pattern is executed in Berlin work technique
Presented: 1991
   
Project: Twenty-two Chair Seats
Location: Lady Bird Johnson National Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas
Designer: Vicki Fallon
Description: The center was established under the direction of Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson, in an effort to "beautify" America. Each chair seat has a botanical design of wildflowers indigenous to various places in the nation. The background reflects the stonework found in the buildings at the Center.
Presented: April, 1999
   
Project: Rienzi Rug
Location: Rienzi Museum, Houston, Texas
Designer: Vicki Fallon
Description: In 1959, Houston arts patron Harris Masterson III talked his wife, Carroll, and other members of his family and friends into making a needlepoint rug. In a year’s time, they created 27 squares with designs of family heraldry and floral arrangements, and combined them into a vibrant embroidery 14 feet long and 6 feet wide. The rug was integral to Rienzi, the Masterson family home on Kirby in River Oaks, where it lay on the floor for four decades. As might be expected, the rug suffered wear and tear. In 1991, the Mastersons announced their decision to bequeath Rienzi and its contents to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Eight years later, the family home opened to the public as the museum’s wing of European decorative arts, but the rug, too fragile to remain in place, was put in storage. Then in August 2001, the American Needlepoint Guild, Lone Star Chapter, offered to replicate the carpet. More than 72 volunteers, 40 months and over 1 million stitches of Persian yarn later, the re-created Masterson carpet is on view at Rienzi, 1406 Kirby Drive.
Dedicated: December 4, 2004