Amy Bunger Strikes Again

It's the first of the month and Amy Bunger has the June newsletter up on her website.
http://www.amybunger.com/current_enewsletters.html

As usual there's a stitcher's profile, a stitch of the month diagrammed for you, a glimpse of Amy's own stitching (the elephant for the Kelly Clark Nativity set she is doing as a monthly club class is amazing), and much more. I grabbed a typical before and after image from the What's New section of her website to illustrate this article as an introduction for those who aren't familiar with Amy's stitching. The top is the bare canvas and the bottom canvas is what Amy did with it. The canvas is by Beth Hunt/Damarj and can be purchased from the Oriental canvases page if you are interested. I think all Beth Hunt canvases come with a stitch guide by Amy so you can recreate the effect yourself and learn something interesting from a master stitcher.

Jane/Chilly Hollow
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Two Pet Guardian Angels Are Finished

Now that the glue has finally dried on the parts of my pet guardian angels, I am starting to assemble them. My goal is to finish one a night until all six are made up as ornaments and ready to head off to the ANG Auction at their Milwaukee Seminar this fall. I'm putting them together in the order in which they were published so I'll show them off in the same order. Above is the Medieval Cat whose lovely patterned skirt is just as lovely as when I stitched it last November and whose green eye and head shape I love above all the others, except maybe the rabbit's.

The Renasissance Rat is next--I added whiskers to her little face before I made her up. I love her braided halo and the red wings but the best part of this angel is the bargello pattern on her skirt and the flying ends of her Kreink braid belt.



The back side of each angel is black felt. Here's the Medieval Cat from the back.

I wrote up instructions on how to assemble the angels as I went through making the Medieval Cat into an ornament. I took more photographs and edited my instructions as I worked through the Renaissance Rat. After I finish the editing I'll check the instructions against tonight's angel, the Tudor Dog. My goal is to have a complete set of instructions ready to send out this week to all the other pet guardian angel stitchers so we can make up our angels and get them all to me by the last week in June. Tight deadline but these are pretty easy to do. I think it takes me about 4-5 hours per angel and that's only because I am doing six and making a lot of trim for the edges.

Stay tuned for more angels.

Jane/Chilly Hollow
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