happy, happy, joy, joy

Not listed in order of importance ;-)

98% of Ribbon and Stumpwork panel is finished!!!!!!!!!! Other 2% is deciding what kind of border, if any, to put around edges and type of finishing (framed (myself or by a pro) or as a 'quilt' wall hanging.

Discovering that ribbon work isn't all that difficult, especially if one follows instructions 'not to worry about laying everything straight'

The regional stitching seminar was WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!! Lynn Payette is my kind of teacher -- she talks about a technique and then slowly demonstrates it with students gathered around her. She also uses glue or fusible webbing to attach pieces to the ground or to each other.

After almost a month of worry that it might have lost, the envelope containing another Di Van Niekerk book and several preprinted designs finally arrived from South Africa.

A friend introduced us and I fell in love -- with Soft Dolls and Animals magazine I've borrowed an issue and am currently 'perfecting' my beaded embellishment techniques as I make my own goddess dolls out of scraps of materials and cheap stuff that have languished in containers for awhile.

Speaking of beaded embellising, is anyone familiar with Embeadery by Margaret Ball? It looks like it has step by step instructions.

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anne ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Embeadery ? lol nice term. Glad you are finished, I like ribbon embroidery for things like cards, quickly done and very effective.

I did a ribbon embroidery piece with teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl and made a tray out of it for my younger daughter. Stretched the piece on a very light piece of veneer, well sheltered with cotton, then laid that in the bottom of a boughten tray. Some rarebeting then a sheet of glass to keep it safe. It came out quite well, she liked it and uses it a lot.

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Cheryl Isaak

Bingo! We may have a winner ;-) Putting the piece on a tray sounds good.

What is rarebeting? Is it a technique to add space between the piece and the glass? The only references I found talked about welsh rarebit and I don't want cheese on the piece ;-)

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anne

Said by someone who has children, a husband, gardens, does girl scouts, hockey, computer stuff, reading, stitching, etc., etc., etc. ;-)

I'm blocked for a name for my doll -- as I said before, she's embellished with cheap plastic beads and is my trial run with the techniques. Beadzilla the First or Doodlicious are the closest I've come so far. Got any suggestions?

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anne

I think she meant "rabbeting" which is a way to make a joint, but I like your cheese explanation much better. lol

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Lucille

I think the word you want is "rabbet," which is basically a groove cut into the wood to hold the glass in place.

Best wishes, Ericka

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Ericka Kammerer

Pictures first Though, in homage to the first "plastic" woman, how about Raquel?

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Cheryl Isaak

No, that would be Barbie! :)

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lewmew

Plastica Beadia . Beady Plasica Beady Dolly

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

Childish suggestions coming up: Lucy Lastick, Henrietta Bunn, Annie Versary, Dinah Mite, Eva Sye, Eileen Dover...

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Bruce

How about Mardi? Around here, at Mardi Gras everyone (except me) is totally decked out in cheap plastic beads. They fight to catch them at the parades.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn Mary

No - Barbie was always a doll, Raquel made herself one

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Cheryl Isaak

Are you talking about Raquel Welch???

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Lucille

Pamela Anderson and Anna-Nicole Smith are better representations of "plastic" women - not to mention Joan Rivers!

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Magic Mood Jeep

Or that Trump woman, the one who thought only little people paid taxes.

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Bruce

That was Leona Helmsley, no Trump involved.

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LizardGumbo

I'm not a fan of Trump but that was Leona Helmsley. I met her a few times and FYI, she was the witch they said she was.

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Lucille

I don't think that was her, wasn't it the one who was married to the hotel magnate, can't think of her name now, eminently forgettable anyway.

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lucretia borgia

That's her ! A very Marie Antoinette statement.

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