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Dyed and Gone to Heaven – An Online Magazine and Needlework Resource |
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Designer Spotlight on the Dynamic Duo –
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ONLINE CLASS Let the CARON Collection's threads do their magic in this beautiful design compliments of Carole Lake and Michael Boren. Choose from 6 different colorways use CARON's exciting variegated , hand-dyed Watercolours and Waterlilies threads – Tahiti (shown above), Scheherazade, Monsoon, Nile Sundown, Forest Fire and Williamsburg. This free online class is beautifully diagramed and provides complete instructions, so even beginners will have no problem completing the design.
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Carole grew up in Texas and has lived there her whole life. She has loved to do handwork of all sorts, but in the early 80s realized that needlepoint was her passion. Having been going to the EGA and ANG national seminars since 1983; she finds that being surrounded by hundreds of other stitchers is stimulating and inspiring. She says "It's like finally being in a group of people that speaks my language!"
Michael, on the other hand, grew up in Texas, too, but as he puts it "escaped." After toiling in the political thickets of Capitol Hill in Washington for years, he moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. His avocation switched from music to stitching decades ago and for the last 12 years, it has become more serious, as he first started to design and then teach. Since moving to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, he helped found The Shenandoah Valley Chapter of ANG and has been actively involved in its development. He, like Carole, enjoys interacting with stitchers from all over the world, both in person and online. Their new venture allows them to do more of just that.
In the past year, Michael and Carole have teamed together and started a new company called StitchPlay Designs. They have (and will still be) teaching in person together, but have found a niche in online cyberclasses. They have taught several classes already though the Shining Needle Society and will be doing more. Visitors should check out their cyberclasses and take advantage of this new opportunity to learn some new techniques and stitches, from these two masters, and all from the comfort of your home. Please enjoy our interview with these two great designers and make sure you take advantage of their CARON Collection, online class, BALI HA'I.
Spring is just around the corner and what better design to help you welcome the new season. Tulips is the first in The CARON Collection's series of designs using a traditional quilt block for the center. It is 13" square on 18 count canvas or fabric. The center, when worked on 13 count canvas, is perfect for Sudberry's boxes with a 5" opening. Tulips uses the CARON Collection's amazing hand-dyed threads.
Learn some new stitches and expand your stitching horizons. There is the Double Fan Doubled, Diagonal Mosaic, Reverse Tied Scotch, Fancy Double Upright Cross, Amadeus Stitch, the ever popular Smyrna Cross, Tied Oblong Cross with Small Cross Stitch, Norwich Stitch and many more stitches, all carefully executed and diagramed so they can easily be followed by our visitors
Visitors can experiment with the Colorways provided or pick their own color palettes to suit their fancy. When you are done, send us photos of your stitched pieces and we will post them on the site in a special follow-up feature. For your convenience, Carole and Michael have created a PDF file of their class that makes it a breeze to print out. Please take advantage of this special class and try it out, then try one of their new cyberclasses!
