New Kelly Classes & Clubs!

I am most excited to tell everyone about the Classes I am teaching and the

New Club that I designed.

 Starting with Alison's Club...

A Winter's Village II

for Alison Hodgkiss at A Stitch In Time in San Marino, CA.

It is the sequel to the First Winter Village:

They were actually designed to be one Large Winter Village,  

with 9 gourgeous buildings and 5 charming small pieces.

However, for the sake of our Stitcher's

sanity, Alison and I decided to split them into two different Clubs!

Just image all of these wonderful pieces on a buffet in your dining room at Christmas!

SIGN UP TODAY!!!!!

http://www.needlepoint-knitting.com/a-winter-village-ii.htmor call 626-793-5217

Classes I am Teaching:

**Monday April, 18, 2016**

A Tisket, A Tasket, Fill Your Own Basket

at Nimblefingers in Houston, TX

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http://nimblefingerstx.com/NimblefingersTx.com/Welcome.html   

713-722-7244

**Thursday June 9, 2016**

Teaching to Member Professionals at the Summer TNNA Trade Show

Washington, DC.

Retailers, click link below and sign in at TNNA to register for this Class!

http://www.tnna.org/?SummerClassesTH

Summer Stumpwork Wreath (T207T)

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	Start:	12:00 p.m.
	End:	6:00 p.m.
	Room:	209A

Presenter: Kelly Clark 
Sponsors: TNNA, Lee's Needle Arts/Colonial Needle, Rainbow Gallery, and Planet Earth Fiber

This lovely summer wreath has fabulous dimension created by unique stumpwork techniques. Students will learn picot needle weaving, needle lace, needle felting, ribbon work, and applique techniques. 

**Tuesday & Wednesday June 14-15, 2016**

Summer Stumpwork Wreath 

at In Stitches in Atlanta, GA.

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Hurry, class filling quickly!

Phone: 404.816.4612

Address: 3137 E. Shadowlawn Ave

Atlanta, Georgia 30305

Email: Shop@InStitchesAtlanta.com

**Friday, Saturday & Sunday November 4,5 & 6, 2016**

The Wellesley Needlepoint Collection 781-235-2477 http://wellesleyneedlepoint.com/index.shtml

Kelly joins Cindy Mathews and Friends for a delightful workshop in the gorgeous enclave of Wellesley, Mass.

There are private lessons on Friday and the workshop piece is

Kelly's Stumpwork Flowers 

(See blogposts on Sunday December 13, 2015 and Friday January 15, 2016)

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Hurry, class nearly filled!

So I am nearly maxed out for my teaching schedule for 2016...but there are a few
other programs in the works!
I hope to see you at a class or workshop soon!

In the mean time,
Happy Stitching All! 

A Tisket, A Tasket a TEENY, Tiny Basket!

Time for a True Confession:

Some of you may or may not know this, but

I am a Basket-aholic...A Truly Obsessed Needle Weaver...A complete Basket Case.

What started as a fun addition to painted canvases has morphed into

my new line of

Teeny, Tiny Baskets:

:

A Christmas Cookie Basket

A Beachy Shell Basket...

Notice the dazzling Swarovski Starfish Crystal 

in basket at left...

Halloween Tricks & Treats Baskets:

 Halloween Tricks Basket, woven but not finished and filled!

 

 Halloween Tricks Basket,  finished                       and filled!

Halloween Tricks...

Be-ribboned and Framed!

 Halloween Treats...

sorry about the focus...

not sure what went wrong ?

 Valentine Basket Work in Progress!

There are 8 Tiny Baskets in this series:

Christmas Cookies

Christmas Lights, Stars & Toys!

Valentines

Shells

Puppy Love

Halloween Treats

Halloween Tricks

Stitching Basket

In November, I will be teaching a Tiny Basket Workshop at 

The Wellesley Needlepoint Collection.

The Canvases will be available with Stitch Guides and all the tiny Accoutrement

for the January TNNA Market!

Happy Stitching All!

How to Fill an Empty Basket!

 Basket Inspiration!

I started the Sweet Pea Sampler in Early July.  One of the first dimensional finishes,

on the Sampler piece, was my woven Basket in the lower right-hand corner.  It remained empty, 'cause I just could not decide what I wanted to put in it.  As I was working on the rest of the piece, I would look at the empty basket and think:

"Hum, what kind of basket are you?"

"Are you a Stitching Basket?"

This is the basket on my Classic Stitching Santa.   When I painted the

Sweet Pea Sampler, I modeled the basket after the one above, thinking

it would be another stitching basket.

But, as I worked, it was telling me it did not want to be a stitching Basket!

"Are you a Fruit Basket?"

Like Rebekah is carrying to the first Thanksgiving.

It could be filled with stumpwork appliqued and beaded fruit?

or

"Are you a Vegetable Basket?"

Like the Wampanoag Indian Squaw is carrying to 

the First Thanksgiving.  It could be filled with stumpwork, appliqued 

and beaded Vegetables?

or

"Are you a Springtime Flower Basket?

It could be filled with realistic Silk Ribbon-work Flowers,

like the Seasonal Basket above?

The problem was that the Basket was answering,

"NO"

to every thought, or idea or suggestion that I had!

 The rest of the Sampler was nearly completed, and still 

it was a 

VERY EMPTY BASKET!

YIKES!

Market was coming in less than a month and the crunch was

on to finish and frame this piece!

"What should a stitching gal do?"

Then

on January 9th, 2013

Carolyn Hedge Baird posted this picture on Facebook:

It was stitched by Dr. Margot, one of her students.

I just about fell over! 

GORGEOUS!  

LOOK at that Bike Basket Brimming with Flowers!

Finally, 

my Basket just screamed at me,

"This is it!  This is what I want to be!"

THANK YOU

to Carolyn Hedge Baird and Dr. Margot! 

I now had my inspiration...and couldn't wait to get started

filling my basket!  But it was a Saturday night and I didn't have

alot of the right beads...well I'll scrounge in my stash, dig

through the girl's craft beads, pilfer my jewelry beads,

and see what I can do...

here was what I did that night:

 It was skimpy, and it wasn't the right combination of beads...

but it was Exactly What The Basket Wanted!

Hooray!  The next day I sourced out glass floral beads,

e-mailed with Carolyn Hedge Baird just to be sure,

she said:

"Yes, pile on the beads is what I would call it!  Pile them on in an 

artistic manner!  Looked at your picture and the basket is beautiful, 

just needs more flowers so just add a bunch more and maybe 

some loops of green silk ribbon 4mm hither and thither." 

I was sooo excited to get Carolyn's advise!

That Sunday Night, I ordered beads.  When they arrived on Tuesday,

 I had already torn out the first set of beads and had an empty basket

waiting to fill!

Hooray!  It is done!

My Gorgeous Beaded Glass Flower Basket!

I could now finish and frame my Sweet Pea Sampler!

Thanks for viewing!

and Happy Stitching, everyone!

Kelly

Kelly's New Sampler, Stumpwork, naturally!

Have you seen my new Sampler?

Below is the painted canvas.

Canvas KCA 021-18

Just wait 'til you see the Dimensional stitching!

 I have published a 20 page Stumpwork Work-book for the Sampler.   

It is designed so you can see and learn the various

dimensional techniques.  No, not a Traditional Stitch Guide.

It shows the steps to create the dimensional elements, and it also has

some thread suggestions.  Also, there are 4 pages of Ribbon-work 
techniques and diagrams.  
As far as background stitches...choose what suits.  
Copy my stitches, or pick your own. Have Fun! PLAY! 

This guy gives new meaning to the term a Snail's Pace!

And Don't you just Love the Koi?  He is Fun and magnificent!

Here are the same images stitched on my Gigantic Stumpwork Sampler:

This picture reminds me that I need to add the little Seed beads to Blue Snails feelers!

Some Lucsious Fruit!  At right is the Strawberry on the large Sampler.

A Fabulous Basket!  

Now comes the fun task of filling my Basket with goodies!

I think this may have to be a little Red Riding Hood Basket filled for Grandma?

Hum?  Decisions, decisions!

On a previous canvas I created a similar Basket and filled it with Stitching tools:

This Stitching Basket is from my Classic Stitching Santa.

(KCN S 100 F, available with Stitch Guide)

Don't you just love the Silver Stork Scissors?

More Berries and some Sweet Peas in a Pod!

This Berry/Peapod is actually taken from a different Sampler I did.

This Bees Skep is also taken from the same Sampler.

For the new Sampler, I am thinking of a different twist...'The Bees will be stitched the same,

but I am thinking of Needleweaving the Bees Skep, naturally.

I'll post a pic when that is done!!!!

In case some of you are curious about the Big Sampler,

Here is a Picture:

There is no painted canvas here.  

I just started stitching, and this is what Grew!

I will leave you with one Fantastic Close-up shot:

I just LOVE this Berry Vine!

And on that Note,

HAPPY STITCHING, all!

Kelly