Once again I've changed the look here at Blogspot. I decided that the black letters on a green background might be hard on the eyes and I was pretty sure that the title didn't show up well against the green spring dogwood photo I used behind it. I've been studying the changes I made last week on various computers, and certainly things looked better on some monitors than others. But on some the changes I made to increase legiblity actually decreased it. Then I started thinking, this is a needlepoint blog, so why not use images of NP?
So I rummaged around, looking for photos of completed pieces which were the right dimensions for the header (which I can't change unless I grow better HTML skills than what I currently possess) and came up with the Anne Jerlow geishas stitched for the ANG Auction last year in Baltimore. The design is an outlined canvas by the late Anne Jerlow. Five of the geishas are above. I gave them all names and identities as I stitched them.
So I rummaged around, looking for photos of completed pieces which were the right dimensions for the header (which I can't change unless I grow better HTML skills than what I currently possess) and came up with the Anne Jerlow geishas stitched for the ANG Auction last year in Baltimore. The design is an outlined canvas by the late Anne Jerlow. Five of the geishas are above. I gave them all names and identities as I stitched them.
They are, left to right, the spoiled little rich girl Willow Geisha (the stitching of whose kimono gave me fits), the Tomboy Geisha with her plainer outfit based on male kimono patterns, The Bride in her fancy kimono modeled after Klimt's paintings and fancy headdress, the Yellow Fan Geisha who is the Bride's best friend, and the elegant Famous Geisha whose purple kimono is the fanciest and most expensive of them all.
The Famous Geisha is the successful best friend of the black Mother of the Bride Geisha canvas below that serves as my profile image. The Famous Purple Geisha and the Mother of the Bride Geisha are identical in Anne's canvas outline drawing but I stitched them as totally different people.
They were a lot of fun to stitch and now live with Barbara Hayden in Texas who placed the winning bid at the ANG Auction.
Hope you like the changes, but even more importantly, I hope they are easy on the eyes!
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