Into the Garden

Name:   Faye Robinson

Designer:   I learned this technique in a class that I took from Susan Goodman when she came to our Guild in Pensacola.

Stitcher's Comments:

One evening while at Bible Class, the gentlemen sitting across from me was reading a beautiful card.  I asked if I could have the card when he finished with it and he went on to tell me about his friend who had died - the card was from the funeral home with pertinent information in it.  He felt he would probably just lose the card in his home so he gave it to me.  I scanned the card, transferred it to heat sensitive paper and ironed it on congress cloth.  Then the fun began as I pulled from my stash of silks, cottons, beads etc.  The important thing in stitching a piece like this is to step back and look at it frequently.  Stitch books also help in diagramming the stitching that can be used.  I used lots of colonial knots, long and short stitches, stem stitches and outline stitches.  Any picture or photograph can be used in this technique and your imagination can take it from there.  The whole picture does not have to be stitched - only as much or as little as you want to do, to create the most beautiful needlepoint.
I will be dropping a note to both Judy Souliotis and Tony Minieri for selecting my piece.  I have taken classes from both of them.  A great stitcher in our guild told me once that I should take all the classes that I can but not to worry about finishing them all.  I stitched for seven days in Nashville and will be doing the same in Tucson.  I took a class recently in Panama City and am working very hard on my entries for Tucson.  What a great hobby this is.  We will be moving into a Continuing Care Retirement center in the near future and that will include housekeeping as well as one meal a day.  I look at it as more time to stitch.  I have more ideas than I have time to create my own pieces.

Excerpt of Conversation between Tony Minieri and Judy Souliotis about this piece
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