Last week or maybe two weeks ago, Jane at Chilly Hollow posted this link: http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-profile-of-brigid-berlin-straight.html.
… What a fascinating lady…wouldn’t it be fun to have a stitch-in with her for the day. My favorite quote is: “…I don’t want one of anything. I don’t know what the word ‘one’ means.” Brigid Berlin
I relate to this but don’t we all!
It got me to thinking, who would you like have over for a stitch-in (living or dead) and why? Barbara Bush? Cameron Diaz ? Julia Roberts? Drew Barrymore? Mary Tyler Moore? Loretta Swit? Kaffe Fasset? Rosie Greer? Julie Eisenhower? Mary, Queen of Scots? Marie Antoinette? Queen Elizabeth I? Martha Washington? Grace Kelly? Betty Ford? Erica Wilson? Mary Martin? Ann B. Davis (Alice the housekeeper on The Brady Bunch? Janet Leigh? Joan Rivers? Or just the friends down the street?
Notice that many on this list are no longer with us and that is what will happen to our art if we do not share it with others. I know that it is not an inexpensive art…but you can keep the costs low by using floss and perle cotton. Do you think your friend, daughter, son, granddaughter, grandson, niece or nephew will care if you use cotton floss or silk? You can buy small frames or make one out of foam core…or just stitch it in your hand.
Do you have a piece of needlepoint that you can carry around and stitch while waiting in a doctor’s office, waiting for an airplane flight, on an airplane flight, watching a game (kids, grandkids or professional). Instead of reaching for the phone to access the internet, try reaching for a small needlepoint piece. People will ask you what you are doing. Educate them.
Offer to teach someone to needlepoint. I am including a basketweave documents that you can print and share with a new needlepointer (If you would like a PDF version just email me (email address to the right). Please teach someone to basketweave, because when they do become addicted (and most will) they will want to take those fabulous classes that use those fabulous threads and stitches. BUT the 
teacher teaching the class will assume that the students know how to basketweave.
Think of basketweave as the foundation of the needlepoint house you are building…with a good foundation a needlepoint will stand for years. I always think of basketweave as learning to walk before you can run.
It fall in the Midwest and beautiful and still baseball season, Go Royals (stitching my second baseball and will probably start third and maybe forth before “The Boys in Blue” win the World Series.) I hope you are enjoying the season no matter where you are, but think seriously about teaching someone to needlepoint.
Thank you for stopping by, I hope you find time to stitch today! ttfn…sue
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I know I’d enjoy a stitch-in with you, Sue–absolutely certain I’d learn a thing or two! And congrats on the Royals’ sweep!
The Boys in Blue thank you…Very nice, these young men deserve this, they are truly a first class bunch of men.
I would enjoy stitching anything with you but your skies are to die for.
Would be thrilled to stitch with Judith Baker Montano 🙂
I’d love to be in the audience while you stitch with such a talented group. As for leaving something to another generation, I have lots of pillows, ornaments, and the like. But when I was pregnant with my last child, some years ago, I got it in my head that I’d like to make my husband a bargello vest for Christmas. In order to keep it secret, I only stitched on it at the doctors’ office. They were all interested in the progress and then they wanted to know how he liked it. He wears it every Christmas. I have 3 boys so I hope they don’t argue over it!