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PLEASE NOTE: This project is no longer being taught, however, there are still some kits available for purchase. Cost is $75 or $25 for directions only. If interested, please email Carole for more information.
| Class Length: | 2 days | |
| Proficiency Level: | Intermediate | |
| Technique: | Canvas | |
| Kit Fee: | $75 | |
| Pre-stitching required: | Some counting of interior areas to set up the canvas for class: 3-6 hours | |
| Size of stitched area: | 6" x
12" |
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| Ground: | 18 ct. mono canvas, Sage Green | |
| Description of Project: | The deep canyons, rock palisades, high mesas,
and open desert of the Four Corners area were home to a remarkable group
of agricultural people we today refer to as the Anasazi -- the ancient
ones. Dotted across the southwestern landscape are the dramatic remains
of tens of thousands of dwellings made of rock and mud. These, along with
bits of broken pottery and scattered fragments of tools, provide silent
testimony that humans lived and worked and played here long ago. The
Anasazi are gone, leaving us to dream in stitches of their lives, their
world and the traces they have left for us. Essentially a stitch sampler, this piece is inspired by the idea of the Anasazi, with a mystical feel and colors of the rocks and desert that are all we have left of their long-ago lives. It includes a variety of composite and pattern stitches, with the feel of ethnic. Geometric stitches include Burden, Altered Byzantine and Walneto. Threads used reflect the unique colors of the Four Corners area, where the mesas and canyons reflect the clear desert southwest colors in my palette. Stitched on Sage Green 18 ct. canvas, Anasazi Dream is worked with Arabian Nights Watercolours, Kreinik #8 braid, Heathway merino wool, overdyed floss, Impressions, Soie Cristale, Waterlilies, Flair, Grandeur and Elegance. |
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| Student to Supply: | 10" x 16" stretcher bars and usual stitching supplies. |
