Frankly My Dear

Needle Nook of La Jolla has details of their latest monthly club up on their website. It's a series of small canvas by Maggie that reproduce the childlike and sophisticated art of Frank Bielec. They call it Frankly My Dear.

http://www.needlenookoflajolla.com/events/frankly/index.html

Not all the canvases in the series are up yet but you can browse his Maggie designs on their website to get a general idea of what you might be signing up for. Most of the canvases are slyly funny. Check out the Three Wise Men on page three. The title of their portrait is First Christmas Shoppers. LOL This is pretty typical of the designs, which are not nearly as child-like as they first seem.

http://www.maggieco.com/html/drill.php?category=&pg=1&q=@Frank%20Bielec

They lend themselves to fancy stitches and threads, so if you like your humor subtle and your canvases embellished, this might be the club for you!

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

Blogspot is Sick

I apologize to those who read Blog via Blogspot for the odd things that are happening to the data in the right hand column of this page. Everything has been pushed down to the bottom of the page, then popped back up where it belongs. The list of blogs I follow disappeared, then reappeared. Odd things are happening!

All we can do is wait patiently for Google to figure out what's going on and fix it. Anyone bothered enough by this can visit Blog at the Yahoo 360 address below. I post identical information both places just for this reason.

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

More Hearts, No Flowers

I've continued to add diagonal rows of hearts to Holi's underskirt. In order to anchor the nylon perle and Trabizond silk perles I'm using for the hearts, I started putting the tent stitches (yellow Splendor floss) around each row. That seems to hold the slippery nylon threads better. By the way, the purple heart on the right which isn't done yet is a hand dyed thread Odette sent me from South Africa. It's a very nice nylon perle, dyed an intense purple, that is even easier to work with than my Patina. I have to double it, as it is around the size of #12 perle, but I do like it a lot. The thread is from House of Embroidery and the label says is it rayon and 100% Viscoss. The color is #34 Lavender. Here is their website.
http://www.houseofembroidery.com/h_page.asp

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow