The front looks beautiful, too! I hope everyone is enjoying seeing how the painting is different on each piece. Each one is unique and lovely! Catherine

Hi Solveig,

Beautifully done! The radiating lines are nice and straight and you finished the tails invisibly. Catherine

Julia, yes, I would like for those of us who did the pilot class to share with your local chapter to help advertise the class.  Registration for the actual online studio class will start March 1 and go until April 5.

finished front 

Hi Patricia and Marilyn,

Thanks for these great suggestions. I am sorry I am just getting back to you, but I missed seeing the comments earlier. Wonderful ideas. Thank you again! Catherine

Hi Elizabeth,

Your stitching looks great! You are right, there are a lot of twists and turns:) Catherine

I’ve managed to finish the whale and waves.  The enlargement greatly helped the ease of stitching.  All those twists and turns in the waves definitely kept me on my toes.

Elizabeth

Hi Marty,

It’s really tricky to get trailing to follow the line drawn on and also keep it looking smooth with no wobbles, but your stitching over the top looks really smart.

Holding the core threads under tension as you stitch over them helps, but sometimes it’s down to the line drawn on the fabric – if you wobbled ever so slightly dra…[Read more]

Well, thanks for checking.  It will have to stay a mystery for us.  But I did think that was one of my favorites from your sampler.

You are welcome!

In the two books I used as reference, I couldn’t find any mention on where the name came from. I did do some additional checking on the internet and didn’t find anything there either. The books are Carolyn Ambuter’s Even More Complete Book of Needlepoint and The Complete Stitch Encyclopedia.

Dear Dawn, I need to admit I have not started this project. I have all of the pages printed out and hope to get to it in the near future. Thank you for sharing this great design.

I’m amazed at how difficult perfection would be!  It seems like it looks pretty good for a while and then it just doesn’t!~