The Northern Virginia Chapter meets on the second Monday of the month at 7:00 PM at:
The Hermitage
5000 Fairbanks Avenue, Alexandria, VA
Turn Right at the second light, Beauregard Street
Turn left at the first light, Fillmore Street
Turn left at the first driveway onto The Hermitage grounds.
Parking is on the right in the visitors lot.
Turn at Beauregard St
Turn right at the second traffic light, Fillmore St
Turn left at the first driveway onto The Hermitage grounds
Parking is on the right in the visitors lot
You will learn how to apply paint to paper with brushes, sponges and other "implements" and transfer the de-sign to canvas using a heat transfer method. The area can be left unstitched or you can stitch over part of it to add dimension to a piece. No artistic talent necessary!
Time to clean out the stash and make room for new additions. You bring in your no longer loved items, sell them to another member, replenish your oun stash from others' once loved items and socialize.
Tea has been touted lately for its medicinal qualities. Did you know that it also makes a great dye for threads? We will have numerous samples of died thread (black tea, green tea) and the bowls filled for you to try your hand at dying. There will also be stitched examples showing the numerous ways you can use the threads for shading. We will use white cotton and perle threads; you bring any color you want to try out the technique. Be Creative.
Do you get stiff and sore while stitching? Feel like you would like to stitch for longer periods of time but the back, elbow, wrist just refuse to co-operate? Mary Ann Mongillo will show us how to sit, correctly position ourselves for stitchjing and by the end of the evening you will have a wealth of knowledge. You'll be able to stitch for longer periods of time; finish more projects and buy more for your stash.
JUNE MEETING - Stitchers are creative. They have an innate sense of color and design yet on occasion a canvas just doesn't work, their internal doubt mechanism kicks in and they know the color isn't right but can't seem to get past the doubt to the correction. Jo will discuss color theory, using the color wheel, you'll be able to articulate your color problem and love that problem canvas again. Bring your problem canvas with you, follow along with Jo's lecture and the color wheel and make the corrections to "that" canvas.
Join Ann Caswell for three hands-on thread classes at the regular chapter meetings on Monday evenings. The classes will be full of useful tips and information for both beginning and advanced stitchers. Ann will acquaint students with ways to identify the most important properties of threads, how to select threads for specific projects, and which types of threads to use with various types of stitches. The class instruction manual will include information on the threads covered in class, stitch diagrams, and thread and stitch tips. Students will furnish their own supplies. The September meeting will cover silks, wool, and silk/wool. In November the topic will be metallics, synthetics, and novelty threads. The final class in March will cover cotton and linen.
The Northern Virgina Chapter named and tagged 500 frame weights and sold them at the 2001 National Seminar. A donation of $2,500 was made to the Susan Koman Fund from the proceeds.
Over 40 of the Chapter members donated their time and talents to stitch four (4) banners for VA-TF1, part of the Fairfax County Virginia Fire Department. Three hang in the stations where the team is based and the fourth in Chief Dewy Perk's office.
