I've been having fun emailing back and forth privately with Peg Dunayer in Texas this last week. Peg is a counted thread designer who has a new website up and running. I've known her for a while and have had the pleasure of seeing her Marissa's Weathervane at ANG Seminar win a first place in the Class Projects/Professionals division. It's magnificent in person, by the way. You'll find it almost a third of the way down this page. Look for Lee McLeron's name. Click on the tiny photo for a better one.
http://www.needlepoint.org/WhatIs/2007/index.php
Here is Peg's website. "Needlepoint should be as fun as eating chocolate." LOL My kind of designer.
http://www.pegdunayer.com/
Although Peg is more well known for her charted designs that are based on traditional quilt patterns, I am particularly fond of her etui boxes. The gazebo is a particular favorite, but if you are a long time subscriber to Needlepoint Now, you saw the adobe house in the January/February and May/June 2003 issues. David's Star adorns Blog this morning since in the Christmas season we Christians tend to forget everyone has different traditions. Besides, Peg is a Star in the NP world herself!
http://www.needlepointnow.com/back_issues/2003/2003.html
We were both amused when I found this blog entry from a New Zealand stitcher who took the Circling Doves quilt pattern design Peg did for the Cyberstitchers classic quilt pattern book fund raiser and made a biscornu shape from it. Very creative, Jocelyn!
http://pinsneedles.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/ok-so-im-years-late-making-one-of-these/
If you want to know more about biscornu, here's a nice explanation with photos of how they are assembled.
http://www.prettyimpressivestuff.com/biscornu.htm
Peg says she has designed a new pattern intended to be made up into a biscornu called "Bees-cornu" because it has four bumble bees, stitched in Fuzzy Stuff and Flair. It's not on her website yet but will be soon. Peg also plans to add kits to the site over the holidays when she hopes to have more time so that folks can buy buttons and threads if they don't have good local sources. Right now all her designs are chart packs only but that will change.
By the way, if you need something more on your Christmas list, you might want to buy a copy of the charted quilt designs book from ANG's Cyberstitchers chapter. You'll have the pleasure knowing you are helping support a chapter in cyberspace for those who can't make it to a local (or not-so-local) chapter in real life.
http://www.cyberpointers.org/quilt-book.html
Congratulations on the new site, Peg. And on your designs circling round the world all the way to New Zealand!
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