If you have been following Plimoth Plantation's stitching of their reproduction 17th Century jacket, you will have been a bit shocked to find the museum is laying off staff and isn't going to display it as planned. But they are scrambling to get the jacket finished, are going to have it displayed at two unnamed museums, have transferred the blog describing the action to another owner, and are generally busy as little stitching bees regardless. This thing is going to happen, economy or no.
http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2009/03/16/project-changes/
In happier news, Sue reports on the NAN exhibit in Kansas City. She also shares her own entry (second link).
http://sudukc.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/wonderful-world-of-needleart/
http://sudukc.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/my-nan-entry/
The latest award winners aren't up on the NAN website yet but if you aren't familiar with their work, please take a tour. This is a fabulous resource for free patterns and for wonderful pieces of stitching art to explore.
http://www.needleart.org/
If you are feeling a little down with all the things going on in the world today and with the long winter not really over yet, how about we do something totally different and visit with a seamstress in Kyoto? This week she reports on the doll festival that celebrates girl children. It's wonderful, as always, and a good antidote to the blues. The photo above is a Hani Matsuri doll, by the way.
http://www.wabei-mono.com/blog/2009/03/20/and-a-happy-belated-girls-day/
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2009/03/16/project-changes/
In happier news, Sue reports on the NAN exhibit in Kansas City. She also shares her own entry (second link).
http://sudukc.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/wonderful-world-of-needleart/
http://sudukc.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/my-nan-entry/
The latest award winners aren't up on the NAN website yet but if you aren't familiar with their work, please take a tour. This is a fabulous resource for free patterns and for wonderful pieces of stitching art to explore.
http://www.needleart.org/
If you are feeling a little down with all the things going on in the world today and with the long winter not really over yet, how about we do something totally different and visit with a seamstress in Kyoto? This week she reports on the doll festival that celebrates girl children. It's wonderful, as always, and a good antidote to the blues. The photo above is a Hani Matsuri doll, by the way.
http://www.wabei-mono.com/blog/2009/03/20/and-a-happy-belated-girls-day/
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
