Chapter members–click
here to access the full newsletter.  You will be directed to our
private Yahoo group and you will need to sign in. 

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I am so excited to say that I actually finished the Temari ball that
Laura B. taught last month. It was a great project and may be something that
I revisit again, maybe as Christmas ornaments. I hope we have lots of them
to share at the meeting. Now back to the smocking from the July meeting.
 
Next weekend we are co-hosting Carolyn Standing Webb who will be teaching
the Diamond Pomegranate workshop. This is what we hope will be the start of
many workshops shared with San Diego ANG chapter. There is open stitching on
Sunday, September 16, at the Scripps Ranch Community Center from 1:00 to
5:00. Please plan on joining us in this comfortable well lit location.
Carolyn will be presenting a lecture on White Work for our September meeting
and requests that members bring any of their white work pieces to that
meeting.
 
We need volunteers for the nominating committee. Three people who can be
persuasive about all the advantages of serving on the board of our dynamic
stitching group as it charts the course of where our imagination will take
us next. (OK, so we have a lot of fun at board meetings and we want to have
some new ideas.) This is a great way to volunteer some time, because it is
only until the slate of officers is presented at the October meeting for
voting at the November meeting.

Please consider purchasing an Opportunity Ticket for a framed print of
Jan Jellins’ “Golden Retriever”. Tickets sell for $5.00 each or 5 for
$20.00. Drawing will be held at the PSR Fall Region Meeting in November.
Proceeds will go to the preservation and exhibitions of the incredible
collection of stitch paintings by Jan Jellins that are now owned by PSR.

Drum roll please…the Group Correspondence Course with the most votes is
Liesel-Schwalm.  We are planning on starting in January 2013. We’ll be
collecting the money and sending in the paperwork in October so that we will
have all the supplies ready for our January meeting. The kit cost per person
is $50, and we are still discussing how the teaching fee will be funded. The
plan is that the project will be stitched over 6-8 months, before being sent
in for evaluation from the instructor.

Also, you can still own magnets or charms of our “Legends of Needlework”.
This PSR fundraiser is providing funds for the 2014 EGA National Seminar. We
have the sign-up form at the meetings. Each magnet or charm is $8, or you
can purchase a set with commemorative tin for $48; plus tax.

Soldier Kissing Pillows will be on their way to Washington State before
the meeting. Bookmarks are in Ina’s custody for the readers at PQ library.
 
Keep those needles flying and you’ll have lots of UFO’s completed in no
time.

Heather

Other News

• Upcoming meetings (held at the Live Well Center, 4425 Bannock Ave., San
  Diego, CA):
  • September 17, 2012:  Whitework lecture by Carolyn Standing Webb. 
  • October 15, 2012:  Finish those UFOs!  Bring those projects
    you are trying to push over the finish line by the end of the year.   
• Save the Date: September 15, 2012!  Diamond Pomegranate taught by
  Carolyn Standing-Webb–the kit includes gold-washed congress cloth, silk
  threads, Accentuate, gold purl, metallic threads, and beads. The stitches
  include satin stitch, couching, fly stitch, and Algerian eyelet. 

Chapter members–click
here to access the full newsletter.  You will be directed to our
private Yahoo group and you will need to sign in. 

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Well done and keep up the great work everyone! We surpassed our goal of
50 bookmarks for the Stitching for Literacy bookmark project with 53 at the
last meeting. Bookmarks and Soldier Kissing Pillows are great little
projects that you can always have with you when you suddenly have unplanned
time on your hands. They are our continuing Outreach undertakings for our
chapter.

A big thank you to Susan S. for her presentation of smocking at our July
meeting. It was so fun to see the selection of garments that she has made
over the years. They were truly inspirational and you can see how her work
has improved over the years. She has agreed to continue helping those of us
that are still working on the little butterfly piece that she taught, so
there is hope that many of the pieces will end up finished into adorable
needle cases by our November meeting.

Laura B. will be teaching what she assures us will be an easy Temari ball
pattern at the August meeting. She will be providing the balls for those
that have signed up to participate.

We have ten people signed up for the Diamond Pomegranate workshop that
will be held on September 15, 2012, and taught by Carolyn Standing Webb. We
are hosting open stitching on Sunday, September 16, at the Scripps Ranch
Community Center from 1:00 to 5:00. Please plan on joining us in this
comfortable well-lit location. Carolyn will be doing a lecture on White Work
for our September meeting and requests that members bring any of their white
work pieces to that meeting.

This is your final chance for selecting a Group Correspondence Course
that we are planning on starting in January 2013. From your feedback at the
last meeting, Jean has narrowed down the possibilities to four. We will have
the sign-up sheets at the next meeting and ask that all interested members
choose their first and second choice. Whatever the final choice, I will be
the coordinator for this GCC. We’ll be collecting the money and sending in
the paperwork in October so that we will have all the supplies ready for our
January meeting. The plan is that the project will be stitched over 6-8
months, before being sent in for evaluation from the instructor.

Please consider purchasing an Opportunity Ticket for a framed print of
Jan Jellins’ “Golden Retriever”. Tickets sell for $5.00 each or 5 for
$20.00. Drawing will be held at the PSR Fall Region Meeting. Proceeds will
go to the preservation and exhibitions of the incredible collection of
stitch paintings by Jan Jellins that are now owned by PSR.

Also, you can still own magnets or charms of our “Legends of Needlework”.
This PSR fundraiser is providing funds for the 2014 EGA National Seminar. We
have the sign-up form at the meetings. Each magnet or charm is $8, or you
can purchase a set with commemorative tin for $48; plus tax.

Hope you have a very tall, cold drink of your choice and a nice cool spot
to stitch so that you can keep those needles flying.

Heather

Other News

• Upcoming meetings (held at the Live Well Center, 4425 Bannock Ave., San
  Diego, CA):
  • August 20, 2012:  Temari–too hot to stitch?  Try wrapping
    instead.  Laura B. will show us how. 
  • September 17, 2012:  Whitework lecture by Carolyn Standing Webb. 
• Save the Date: September 15, 2012!  Diamond Pomegranate taught by
  Carolyn Standing-Webb–the kit includes gold-washed congress cloth, silk
  threads, Accentuate, gold purl, metallic threads, and beads. The stitches
  include satin stitch, couching, fly stitch, and Algerian eyelet.

Chapter members–click here to access the full newsletter.  You will be directed to our private Yahoo group and you will need to sign in.

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We’d like to congratulate all the winners from the just concluded San Diego County Fair. Margi supplied pictures of the winning entries, which are on the following pages. She also did an incredible job on the shared booth, showing off all the varied stitching that was done by our members. Gini attended the Fair’s awards reception, representing our chapter, and met our ribbon winner, Robyn. We hope that Robyn will attend our meeting and bring her masterpiece for all our members to see.

Our chapter got a very nice thank you note from the president of the Evergreen chapter in Washington State for our contribution of 44 Kissing Pillows. Now their chapter has sent out a plea to EGA members far and wide to send them Soldier Kissing Pillows for the next major deployment by military members of Ft. Lewis/McCord. Their request is for 4200 pillows by October. Please continue to stitch these little pillows that mean so much to our military families, and we will send whatever we can finish by the end of September.

We are well on our way to our goal of 50 bookmarks for the Stitching for Literacy bookmark project. As of the last meeting we have gathered 38, and I know that there are quite a few being worked on for the next meeting. There are kids that have heard that there will be bookmarks and they can’t wait to be able to get one. This is such a great outreach program that we may just keep going with it as long as the ribband holds out. Each bookmark is bagged and a sticker is on the bag saying that the bookmark was “handmade made by a member of the Muchas Manos chapter” and EGA’s and our website are listed on the label so that recipients or their family members can look for us on line.

Susan S. will be teaching smocking at our July meeting. I can’t believe that it has taken me so long to have the opportunity to try this, especially after seeing all the beautiful pieces of clothing Susan has shown us over the last couple of years.

At July’s meeting we will have the final sign-up sheet for ordering a thread wrapped ball to be used in the August meeting. Laura B. will be teaching an easy Temari ball pattern at that meeting, but participation requires having the ball so that you are ready for stitching instructions.

Remember that registration for the Diamond Pomegranate workshop closes July 15, 2012. The cost is $110 which includes the kit and teaching fee, and she is allowing ghosts for this piece. Even if you are not attending, mark your calendar for open stitching on Sunday, September 16, and plan to attend the meeting on September 17 with Carolyn doing a lecture on White Work.

Please take a moment to look over the Group Correspondence Courses that are available from EGA. Jean has narrowed down the possibilities to six. We will have sign-up sheets at the next meeting and will ask members to choose their first and second choice. We’d like to make the final decision at our July meeting, and we are planning on starting it at our January 2013 meeting and it will probably be stitched over 6-8 months depending on the chosen project.

Hope you have a nice cool spot to stitch so that you can keep those needles flying.

Heather

Other News

• Upcoming meetings (held at the Live Well Center, 4425 Bannock Ave., San Diego, CA):
  • July 16, 2012:  Smocking!  Come see learn the basics of the beautiful work that Susan S. does.
  • August 20, 2012:  Temari–too hot to stitch?  Try wrapping instead.  Laura B. will show us how.
• Save the Date: September 15, 2012!  Diamond Pomegranate taught by Carolyn Standing-Webb–the kit includes gold-washed congress cloth, silk threads, Accentuate, gold purl, metallic threads, and beads. The stitches include satin stitch, couching, fly stitch, and Algerian eyelet.

Chapter members–click here to access the full newsletter.  You will be directed to our private Yahoo group and you will need to sign in.

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Our chapter’s outreach programs are well underway. Today was mailing day for the 44 Soldier Kissing Pillows our members have contributed for the last 7 months. They were each packed in an individual plastic bag with the Muchas Manos “thank you” enclosed, and sent off to Washington State to be used in the next Ft. Lewis/McCord AFB deployment. Please continue to stitch these little pillows that mean so much to our military families.

I’m so pleased at the response to our Stitching for Literacy bookmark project. We hope to have a bunch turned in at the June meeting. I think that we are well on our way to having over 50 bookmarks by the end of June. We will continue to have patterns and ribband available at the meetings, since the bookmarks will not be awarded until the end of the summer reading program, there’s still time. Our chosen library is the Rancho Penasquitos branch where Ina is the new youth librarian.

We are still looking for a dog-free home where Carolyn Standing-Webb can stay when she is teaching in September, otherwise the chapter will be paying for a hotel room for her comfort. Registration is progressing for the Diamond Pomegranate workshop that she will be teaching. Cost is $110 which includes the kit and teaching fee. The cut-off for signing up is July 15, 2012, so Carolyn will have enough time to make up the kits for this beautiful project. Even if you are not attending, mark your calendar for open stitching on September 16, and plan to attend the meeting on September 17 with Carolyn doing a lecture on White Work.

At the San Diego County Fair, our chapter ribbon, with the one year free membership to EGA and our chapter, has been awarded to a beautiful cross stitch sampler stitched by Robyn. We hope that Robyn will attend our meeting and bring her masterpiece after the fair closes. If you haven’t signed up for demonstrating at the Fair, Margi has the calendar for working the Fair and there are still spots available for demonstrating. There are new displays this year and there should be good traffic in the Home and Hobby area. It’s fun to get the word out about all the guilds when you talk to people. Next month we will have more information on who won what with their Fair entries.

Please take a moment to look over the Group Correspondence Courses that are available from EGA. We’d like to decide on one by our July meeting, and we are planning on starting it at our January 2013 meeting and it will probably be stitched over 6-8 months depending on the chosen project. We’ll discuss the possibilities at the meeting.

Lastly, please take a look at the information for San Diego ANG’s workshop, Kay Stanis’ Initial Illumination. It has just the right amount of goldwork and blackwork, with Kay supplying lots of tips for turning out your own masterpiece.

Keep those needles flying.

Heather

Other News

• Upcoming meetings (held at the Live Well Center, 4425 Bannock Ave., San Diego, CA):
  • June 18, 2012:  Work will continue on the PSR Corrugated Metal Bracelet.
  • July 16, 2012:  Smocking–Susan S. will be sharing the basics of all the beautiful work that she does.
• Save the Date: September 15, 2012!  Diamond Pomegranate taught by Carolyn Standing-Webb–the kit includes gold-washed congress cloth, silk threads, Accentuate, gold purl, metallic threads, and beads. The stitches include satin stitch, couching, fly stitch, and Algerian eyelet.
• The San Diego County Fair is also underway.  It opens on Friday, June 8, and closes on Wednesday, July 4. This year’s theme is Out of This World. Our local chapters of EGA and ANG share an exhibit table in the racetrack’s grandstand corridors, where the Home and Hobby contest entries are displayed. At the fair, we also share our space with our friends in the Creative Sewing Guild.

Chapter members–click here to access the full newsletter.  You will be directed to our private Yahoo group and you will need to sign in.

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As we are stitching our way through the year, everyone should have received their renewal notice for the year. Membership is due by the May meeting and Angelina will be at the meeting to collect your check if you have not already sent it in.

Registration for our joint workshop—Diamond Pomegranate, taught by Carolyn Standing-Webb, is now underway, and closes July 1, 2012. Cost is $110 which includes the kit and teaching fee. Carolyn is graciously allowing ghosts at this workshop, as long as they have contact with a stitcher attending the workshop to answer any questions that may come up. Lunch is on your own to help defray costs. We are still looking for a host home for Carolyn’s stay. Her request is for a dog free home.

Please bring in any finished Soldier Kissing Pillows that you have to the May meeting. It’s OK to just have the stitching finished. I promised to send whatever we have done to the Evergreen chapter right after our meeting as they are preparing for another deployment.

Our own Stitching for Literacy bookmark project is well underway. My personal plan is to stitch like crazy in June, so I can have at least three done by the June meeting. We are hoping to have at least 50 bookmarks by the end of June. We will continue to have patterns and ribband available at the meetings. Ina will be entrusted to pass our works of art to program participants.

I’m looking forward to the San Diego County Fair this year. This was the first year that the Fair entries were totally done on-line, with our county finally joining the rest of the state. Margi has the calendar for working the Fair and there are still spots available for demonstrating. It’s fun to meet with all the people looking over the Home and Hobby area and tell them about all the guilds that they could join.

Next month we will have information on the winner of our chapter’s ribbon.

Thanks to Gini M. for the great job she did teaching the April program. Chicken scratch turned out to be something I really enjoyed and I will actually have a finished project for the May meeting. Jean will be teaching the PSR bracelet for those who purchased the kits at the next two meetings. She is taking care of putting a sealant on the galvanized beads before you get the kits so that we will be ready to bead immediately.

Hope everyone is looking at the Group Correspondence Courses that are available from EGA. We’d like to decide on one by our July meeting, and we are planning on starting it at our January 2013 meeting. We’ll discuss the possibilities at the meeting.

Keep those needles flying.

Heather

Other News

• Upcoming meetings (held at the Live Well Center, 4425 Bannock Ave., San Diego, CA):
  • May 21, 2012:  We will be starting on the PSR Corrugated Metal Bracelet.
  • June 18, 2012:  Work will continue on the PSR Corrugated Metal Bracelet.
• Save the Date: September 15, 2012!  Diamond Pomegranate taught by Carolyn Standing-Webb–the kit includes gold-washed congress cloth, silk threads, Accentuate, gold purl, metallic threads, and beads. The stitches include satin stitch, couching, fly stitch, and Algerian eyelet.
• The San Diego County Fair is also approaching.  It opens on Friday, June 8, and closes on Wednesday, July 4. This year’s theme is Out of This World. Our local chapters of EGA and ANG share an exhibit table in the racetrack’s grandstand corridors, where the Home and Hobby contest entries are displayed. At the fair, we also share our space with our friends in the Creative Sewing Guild.

Chapter members–click here to access the full newsletter.  You will be directed to our private Yahoo group and you will need to sign in.

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At our April meeting we will be receiving any final personal donation checks that our members would like to add to our chapter contribution to the EGA Legacy Scholarship Fund in Shirley F.’s name. I trust that this is something that Shirley would have liked since it gives stitchers scholarships to further their stitching education.

If any member has crazy quilt pieces that we can display at the May Quilt, Craft, & Sewing Festival, please bring them to the April meeting. We are trying a new booth theme. It’s all about the hand embroidery that is part of some quilting to see if it will attract more people to our booth. Items will be returned at the May meeting.

Remember, the San Diego County fair entry deadline is May 2 and it is on-line entry only. Delivery of registered items is May 21 and May 22 from 12:00 to 8:00.

Already, people have turned in bookmarks in our own Stitching for Literacy bookmark project. We are hoping to have at least 50 bookmarks by the end of June. We will continue to have patterns and ribband available at the meetings. We are going to entrust our works of art to Ina. She will ensure that whichever library branch she is working with this summer will understand the value of our hard work, and that the bookmarks will find loving homes among the participants of the summer reading program. Please continue to look for patterns to share.

Gini M. is teaching April’s program. It’s chicken scratch, embroidery stitched on gingham fabric that ends up looking very lace-like. I seem to vaguely remember my mother dabbling with it when I was little, but I don’t remember any finished pillows or my clothes having been decorated.

Jean and I will be going to the spring Pacific Southwestern Region meeting on April 14. We’ll be picking up the bracelet fund-raiser kits that our members have signed up for. We are dedicating a meeting to actually working on this beautiful bracelet since quite a few people are participating.

Save-the-Dates: Our joint workshop, Diamond Pomegranate, taught by Carolyn Standing-Webb, will be on Saturday, September 15, at the Scripps Ranch Community Center. We are still working on final pricing and seeking a host home for Carolyn to stay (no dogs). We have added an open stitching date on Sunday, September 16, from 1 to 5 p.m. that is open to all members, at the Scripps Ranch Community Center.

We’d like to have a chapter Group Correspondence Course decided on by our July meeting. We are thinking that the actual stitching will not begin until the January 2013 meeting. We’ll discuss the possibilities at the meeting.

Keep those needles flying.

Heather

Other News

• Upcoming meetings (held at the Live Well Center, 4425 Bannock Ave., San Diego, CA):
  • April 16, 2012:  Join us in learning “chickenscratch” or embroidery on gingham.
  • May 21, 2012:  We will be starting on the PSR Corrugated Metal Bracelet.
• Save the Date: September 15, 2012!  Diamond Pomegranate taught by Carolyn Standing-Webb–the kit includes gold-washed congress cloth, silk threads, Accentuate, gold purl, metallic threads, and beads. The stitches include satin stitch, couching, fly stitch, and Algerian eyelet.
• The Del Mar Quilt, Craft, & Sewing Festival will be held Thursday May 17th, Friday. May 18th, and Saturday May 19th. Please contact Margi to sign up to volunteer or loan your pieces for the show. All items to be displayed in the booth are needed by the SDANG program meeting on May 8th.
• The San Diego County Fair is also approaching.  It opens on June 8th.

Chapter members–click here to access the full newsletter.  You will be directed to our private Yahoo group and you will need to sign in.

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Just prior to our meeting last month we received the sad news that our member Shirley F. had passed away. We will no longer be able to gaze upon her beautiful stitched pieces and enjoy her presence in our midst. Several of our members were able to attend her memorial service. Highlights of her contributions to our chapter are in this newsletter. The board has voted to donate $100 from the chapter in Shirley’s name to the EGA Legacy Scholarship Fund. This fund gives scholarships for EGA members to study the art of embroidery. We thought this was a fitting remembrance because of Shirley’s love of taking classes. If members would like to make an additional personal contribution we will include it in one check from the chapter.

This month we return to our normal chapter meeting place. We’d like to express a big thank you to Karen K. for hosting us at her home the last two meetings. Last month’s pot luck and day of stitching was especially relaxing and gave everyone a chance to work on their Tubular Bead Fob, or a bookmark for our outreach. We also got to spend time with our newsletter editor, Shelly, who took advantage of the long holiday weekend to visit her old stomping grounds.

We tried Stitching-In-Public the last Sunday in February at two different Barnes & Noble locations. Maybe not the best venue for attracting new stitchers but it never hurts to try new things. We also have new business cards with all our contact information. Members are asked to carry a few with them and pass them out to anyone that expresses an interest in stitching. You never know who might want to learn more about our wonderful world of stitchery.

Our Stitching for Literacy bookmark project is underway, so we’ll have supplies to share along with patterns at this month’s meeting. We are still looking for free bookmark patterns that you could share. If you have any, bring a few copies along with you. This project will be our Outreach for the year along with the on-going Soldier Kissing Pillows.

PSR’s fund raiser seems to be a big success. The chapter has placed our order that we will pick-up at the PSR meeting in mid April. We are dedicating a meeting to actually working on this beautiful bracelet. If you still want the kit, you have until the end of the month to order it directly from the PSR website. It’s under fund-raising.

Our joint workshop, Diamond Pomegranate, taught by Carolyn Standing-Webb, will be on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at the Scripps Ranch Community Center. We will have the final pricing and information set by mid-April.

Please look over the Group Correspondence Courses available. We’d like to have one to start on in October. We’ll discuss the possibilities at the meeting.

Keep those needles flying.

Heather

Other News

• Upcoming meetings (held at the Live Well Center, 4425 Bannock Ave., San Diego, CA):
  • March 19, 2012:  Meeting back at our usual location and time.  7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Chapter Meeting at Livewell at 4425 Bannock Avenue — one block south of Clairemont Mesa Blvd and Genessee.
  • April 16, 2012:  Join us in learning “chickenscratch” or embroidery on gingham.
• Save the Date: September 15, 2012!  Diamond Pomegranate taught by Carolyn Standing-Webb–the kit includes gold-washed congress cloth, silk threads, Accentuate, gold purl, metallic threads, and beads. The stitches include satin stitch, couching, fly stitch, and Algerian eyelet.

Chapter members–click here to access the full newsletter.  You will be directed to our private Yahoo group and you will need to sign in.

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This month get ready for a fun open stitching and potluck at Karen Krampe’s home on February 20. Our relaxing day starts at noon. There is no menu, so bring whatever you would like to share, and you are not obligated to spend the whole day. Just come and have a good time stitching with friends. We’ll have the business portion of our meeting late in the day, so everyone can attend.

We’ll continue with the Tubular Bead Fob, Petite Project that Jean taught last month. If you didn’t make it and still would like the opportunity, Jean will have an ample supply of kits in many colors that can be purchased. Several members got through the tube part last month, but didn’t get to all the fun embellishments and assembly part.

February will also kick off our Stitching for Literacy bookmark project, so we’ll have supplies to share along with patterns. If you have any free bookmark patterns that you could share, bring a few copies along with you. This project will be our Outreach for the year along with the on-going Soldier Kissing Pillows. There are lots of choices for the day and you can always work on a project of your choice.   PSR’s fund raiser seems to be a big success. We have sent in our orders and we expect to pick-up the kits at the spring PSR meeting in mid April. We are dedicating a meeting to actually working on this beautiful bracelet.

We have one workshop in the final planning stages; Diamond Pomegranate, taught by Carolyn Standing-Webb. We are trying something new with this workshop and partnering with San Diego ANG to sponsor it. Because of that change, the tentative date is now September 15, 2012. Look for more information soon.

We have something new that we will be trying at our meetings, thanks to Wendy. If you are having problems with a technique or need some help with a project, there is going to be a new sign-up sheet with request for help. We hope to circulate this at every meeting and see it we can get our members to assist each other. Some of you have hidden talents that we want to expose.

Another stitching opportunity that we are exploring is doing a Group Correspondence Course. It has been a while since the chapter chose to do a GCC, so we would encourage everyone to look on the EGA website at those courses that are available and see if there is one that you must stitch starting the end of this year or the beginning of next year. We’ll discuss the possibilities at the meeting.

Keep those needles flying.

Heather

Other News

• Upcoming meetings (held at the Live Well Center, 4425 Bannock Ave., San Diego, CA):
  • February 20, 2012: Meeting at Karen K’s home. There will be a stitch-in/potluck starting at noon, then the meeting starting at 6:00.
  • March 19, 2012:  Meeting back at our usual location and time.  7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Chapter Meeting at Livewell at 4425 Bannock Avenue — one block south of Clairemont Mesa Blvd and Genessee.
• Mary Corbet’s website Needle ‘n Thread features “Tips, Tricks, & Great Resources for Hand Embroidery.”  A recent post featured the work of Muchas Manos’ own Margaret C.!  Go here: http://www.needlenthread.com then look under ‘Recent Posts’ on the left, for ‘Some Gorgeous Needle Painting’.