With a full moon, it will be a bewitching night at Boo Mansion. The weary stitcher must beware, because the ghosts, spiders, tombstones and bats are preparing for a haunting good time. To help bring in the creepy night, the student will use the follo...see morewing stitches: Criss Cross Hungarian, Cashmere, Couching, Eyelet, Victorian Step, Coral Knot, Oriental, Herringbone and Serendipity. see less

This tiny impressive jewel suspended among the soft pink blooms is stitched using cotton floss and random long and short stitch on shantung silk. Other stitches used to create the fine detail are split stitch, running stitch, stem stitch, straight s...see moretitch, trailing stitch, bullion knots, and satin stitch. see less

Come into the Garden and enjoy the smell of the flowers and the soft buzzing of the bees! Using silk ribbon stitches and other surface embroidery techniques, we will create an old-fashioned bee skep in a garden of bee-loving flowers. The design will ...see morebe stitched on a 13” x 13” congress cloth background with a watercolor transfer. see less

Elizabethan-era embroidery uses a variety of flamboyant stitches rarely seen elsewhere. The Full Metal Flowers class showcases a wealth of these stitches in a metal-thread-only design typical of late 16th and early 17th century English coifs, forehea...see mored cloths, and nightcaps. Full Metal Flowers is a sampler of twenty-four (24) distinct Elizabethan surface stitches worked in six shades of metallic passing thread on high-count white linen fabric. see less