Workshops
Zelda the Zebra by Toni Gerdes
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2 days
Zelda is an exuberant Patchwork Zebra with her stripes of many colors. She is the fourth in a series of Patchwork animals; the first was Elliot the Patchwork Elephant followed by Gertrude the Patchwork Giraffe and Larry the Patchwork Lion. The jewel tone color palette makes Zelda exquisite. Zelda’s “false” eye-lashes will have her flirting with you. Several Rainbow Gallery metallics, Caron threads, Straw Silk, & Planet Earth Threads, along with beautiful beads will be used to create her captivating design. The stitches will include old favorites, as well as a few surprises. The background will be a white-on-white diagonal pattern that emphasizes the design and enhances Zelda’s whimsical personali-ty.
Design Size: 11” x 9”
Kit Content: Line drawn on 18 count white mono canvas, threads to include metallics, overdyed, and silk threads with beads and false eyelashes, and print-ed instruction.
Students to Provide: Stretcher bars or frame (13” x 15”), tacks or staples, lay-ing tool, usual stitching supplies, light and magnification, if desired.
Kit Cost: $215.00
Registration Deadline is August 1, 2025
Zelda is an exuberant Patchwork Zebra with her stripes of many colors. She is the fourth in a series of Patchwork animals; the first was Elliot the Patchwork Elephant followed by Gertrude the Patchwork Giraffe and Larry the Patchwork Lion. The jewel tone color palette makes Zelda exquisite. Zelda’s “false” eye-lashes will have her flirting with you. Several Rainbow Gallery metallics, Caron threads, Straw Silk, & Planet Earth Threads, along with beautiful beads will be used to create her captivating design. The stitches will include old favorites, as well as a few surprises. The background will be a white-on-white diagonal pattern that emphasizes the design and enhances Zelda’s whimsical personali-ty.
Design Size: 11” x 9”
Kit Content: Line drawn on 18 count white mono canvas, threads to include metallics, overdyed, and silk threads with beads and false eyelashes, and print-ed instruction.
Students to Provide: Stretcher bars or frame (13” x 15”), tacks or staples, lay-ing tool, usual stitching supplies, light and magnification, if desired.
Kit Cost: $215.00
Registration Deadline is August 1, 2025
Autumn Kaleidoscope with Lorene Salt
February 7 and 8, 2026
Virtual Workshop
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“Autumn Kaleidoscope” is a study in String Art and “Spirograph” type stitches. When the design is finished it begins to take on the look of shards of coloured glass, which one would see while looking through a Kaleidoscope. The student will put the Star Stitch/Smyrna grid in place as pre-stitching. There are over 50 different
stitches including various types of Jessicas, Amadeus, Sprats Head, Balloon, Waffles, and Chilly Hollow in this piece. Techniques include Bargello, Diaper Patterns, and Laid Fillings. The piece is further embellished with Swarovski crystals
and pearls. This class will appeal to those students who would like to try new techniques while challenging themselves by mastering complex canvaswork stitches.
This is for the Intermediate/Advanced stitcher.
Threads used include Kreinik and Threadworx Metallics, Vineyard Silk, Caron Impressions,Perle Cotton, Overdyed Perle Cotton, Rainbow Gallery Neon Rays, Neon
Rays+, Silk Lame Braid 18, Very Velvet, Petite Frosty Rays and Soy Lustre Shadows.
The colour palette is Autumn colours of orange, yellow, copper, purple and turquoise.
Design Size: 9-1/4” x 9-1/4”
Kit Content: 18 count black canvas, threads to include metallics, overdyed, and silk
threads with beads and embelishments, and printed instruction.
Students to Provide: Stretcher bars or frame (15”x15”), tacks or staples, laying tool, usual stitching supplies, light and magnification, if desired.
Kit Cost: $278.00
Registration Deadline is September 27, 2025
stitches including various types of Jessicas, Amadeus, Sprats Head, Balloon, Waffles, and Chilly Hollow in this piece. Techniques include Bargello, Diaper Patterns, and Laid Fillings. The piece is further embellished with Swarovski crystals
and pearls. This class will appeal to those students who would like to try new techniques while challenging themselves by mastering complex canvaswork stitches.
This is for the Intermediate/Advanced stitcher.
Threads used include Kreinik and Threadworx Metallics, Vineyard Silk, Caron Impressions,Perle Cotton, Overdyed Perle Cotton, Rainbow Gallery Neon Rays, Neon
Rays+, Silk Lame Braid 18, Very Velvet, Petite Frosty Rays and Soy Lustre Shadows.
The colour palette is Autumn colours of orange, yellow, copper, purple and turquoise.
Design Size: 9-1/4” x 9-1/4”
Kit Content: 18 count black canvas, threads to include metallics, overdyed, and silk
threads with beads and embelishments, and printed instruction.
Students to Provide: Stretcher bars or frame (15”x15”), tacks or staples, laying tool, usual stitching supplies, light and magnification, if desired.
Kit Cost: $278.00
Registration Deadline is September 27, 2025
Moon on the Water by Wendy Moore
March 29 and 30, 2025
Find peace watching the water ripple the reflection of a large, romantic moon. With the twinkling of the night sky, the moon’s reflection comes to life in small crescent stitches and Silk Lame braid. The moon’s craters take shape with Bargello twist in soft silks. Stitch the glow with long stitches on canvas the color of night sky. A small spit of land, a duck, and a tree give shadowed perspective to the design and use unique versions of crescent stitches to create the sparse foliage of the tree’s silhouette.