Craft Night: Thankful Embroidery + PUSH Stitchery Celebration

Note: RSVPs will open for this Craft Night on 10/28.

For this week's Craft Night, we will be celebrating, PUSH Stitcheries (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1600597874?ie=UTF8&tag=etsy-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1600597874), a new book that profiles the cutting-edge creative work of 30 top stitching artists from around the world. Joetta Maue (http://www.etsy.com/shop/joettamaue), an Etsy artist featured in the book, will be leading a special embroidery project centered around the theme of gratitude. With Thanksgiving approaching and a fall harvests blooming, this is a theme that's on our minds.

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"Let's be Thankful" Gratitude Sampler

Make your very own hand stitched sampler expressing gratitude and thanks just in time for Thanksgiving and the holiday season. Each participant will decide on one word or a short statement that expresses gratitude in one way or another. With your own hand you will build this statement out of stitches into a wonderful piece of art. Two basic stitches, the satin stitch and split stitch, will be demonstrated. This is a great project to capture the rewarding meditative quality of embroidery and to make a unique object for your home or as a gift to give away

I love working on found and vintage linens and encourage participants to bring a found or inherited handkerchief, tea towel, or small linen doily to work on.

When is it & what should I bring?

Join us on Monday, November 7 for hourly demos held at 4:15, 5:15, 6:15, and 7:15 p.m. At each demo Joetta will walk us through the process. Then you'll have time to hang out and work on your own project.

Please bring along a found or inherited handkerchief, tea towel, or small linen doily to work on.

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Who is tonight's guest teacher?

Joetta Maue is full time artist, curator, and arts writer. Her most recent body of work is a series of embroideries and images exploring the conflicts and contradictions that exist within intimacy. Joetta’s work resides within the realm of the everyday, everyday objects, autobiography, and the female. She is especially interested in the role of personal relationships in our lives, seen in our most intimate moments and spaces. Joetta’s work has been shown throughout galleries and museums across the country. Joetta authors the textile arts blog Little Yellowbird (http://littleyellowbirds.blogspot.com/). More of her work can be found in her Etsy shop (http://www.etsy.com/shop/joettamaue) and on her website (http://www.joettamaue.com/).

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