Fall is in the air here in Chilly Hollow, with deer and turkeys strolling through the yard and stink bugs trying to get inside to spend the winter. At least they are larger and slower than lady bugs that invaded five years ago!
It's a good time of the year to move the computer next to the kitchen door and settle down in a comfy chair to browse the Internet and wait for more deer to show up (including the darling little fawn we've watched lose his spots over the last three weeks) so I can pop out of the door like a Jack-in-the-Box and scare them away. Besides, there is a lot to see online.
The Embroiderers Guild of America has posted their 2010 Seminar classes online, and we can spend a lot of time browsing the photographs and enjoying the designs and skills of the teachers. Click on the first photo and a new window will open with navigation arrows to browse the designs in a better picture. Click on Events: National Seminar in the left hand column for more information.
http://www.egausa.org/html/sem10.html
Nordic Needle's newest newsletter is full of information about magnets. I thought I had seen every type of magnet available but it turns out those who stitch from charts have a huge variety of magnetic items to help them stitch that us painted canvas folks should browse. How about a darling little magnetic elephant on your stitching table to hold your needles until you are ready for them? Or magnetic sheets that roll up for portable chart holding on the go? Or magnet sets that are the front and back of cute animals? As an added bonus, many of the magnets they describe are on sale at the shop, plus some of Laura Perin's fabulous charted designs are on sale, too. This is a Don't Miss newsletter issue!
http://www.nordicneedle.com/newsletters/stash/36.shtml
If Mary Corbet's tutorials on long and short stitch I mentioned last month didn't interest you, how about learning how to stitch lettering on your designs? This is the first lesson. Mary will publish several that will give you the tools you need to monogram a piece or do a great name on that Christmas stocking.
http://www.needlenthread.com/2009/10/hand-embroidery-lettering-text-1.html
Hope everyone has a fun Halloween and a warm and cheerful fall!
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
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