Greater Pacific Region Seminar 2024
Seminar Class List
Crown of Pearls Sampler
2 Day Class - Intermediate/Advanced
Pulled Thread Embroidery
The ultimate lace gallery! Eighty-one stitches and patterns showcase your skill and provide a lasting, heirloom-quality needlework reference. If you ever need a delicate filigree, you are sure to find it here. And once you take this class, you wil...see more
Strawberry Fair Sampler
1 Day Class - Intermediate/Advanced
Counted Thread Embroidery
Our favorite summer fruit, the strawberry, is the theme for this motif-styled sampler. The fruit's recognizable shape is such a fun motif to interpret in various counted thread techniques. Chosen are queens, half-queens, colonial knots, back stitch...see more
Little Red Strawberries Sampler and Tin Topper
2 Day Class - Intermediate/Advanced
Counted Thread Embroidery
Little Red Strawberries Sampler is a historic style sampler featuring 25 bands designs and an abundance of strawberry motifs worked in the top random motif area. Measuring approximately 4-inches wide by 10-inches high worked on 36-count cream colored...see more
Ode to the Honeybee
2 Day Class - Intermediate
Stumpwork
Where would we be without the honeybee? Succulent strawberries, juicy blackberries and sweet blueberries are just a few of our favorite fruits that rely on pollinators such as the honeybee. In turn, the honeybee needs a "balanced diet" and depends ...see more
Fall Daze
1 Day Class - Beginner/All Levels
Stumpwork
Celebrate autumn with this elegant Stumpwork ornament. Sun kissed acorns hold tightly to the mighty oak while golden leaves prepare to fall. Rust velvet ribbon tied festively into a bow tops it all.
Berried Treasure
2 Day Class - Intermediate
Stumpwork
What a treasure you'll create stitching this elegant Stumpwork ornament! Plump and juicy berries nestle gently against surface embroidered and detached leaves. In this class, you will learn intermediate Stumpwork embroidery while couching wire, cr...see more
Monet Kimono
2 Day Class - Intermediate
Canvas Embroidery
Inspired by the beautiful Impressionist paintings of Giverny by Claude Monet this is the seventh in the Artist's series of kimonos following the previous kimonos: The Wright Kimono, Mackintosh Rose Kimono, Klimt Kimono, O’Keeffe Kimono, Starry Star...see more
Noel
1 Day Class - Intermediate
Canvas Embroidery
Noel, is an amusing small holiday design. The "O" in Noel is done with a fun "stitching button"; it has 64 holes and will be stitched with a Jessica filled with beautiful red drop beads. The "e" is also a cool swirly attached button. The rest of the ...see more
Larry the Patchwork Lion
2 Day Class - Intermediate
Canvas Embroidery
Larry is a ferocious Patchwork Lion that explores many different stitches to create a happy addition to your needlework decorations. He is the third in a series of Patchwork animals; the first was Elliot the Patchwork Elephant followed by Gertrude th...see more
Porthole
2 Day Class - Intermediate
Stumpwork
"Porthole" to the sea designed to embrace our precious ocean. Create this majestic piece of stumpwork on a background of silk using Au Ver a Soie silk threads, cottons, specialty fibers, and embellishments for your own glimpse into the sea. Explore ...see more
Daffodils and Violas
3 Day Class - Intermediate
Stumpwork
Cheery and bright daffodils and viola worked on a background of silk. Worked with Au Ver a Soie silks and cotton fibers to create a lifelike bouquet ready to be enjoyed. Numerous stumpwork techniques will be covered in class including padding, wired...see more
A Garden View
2 Day Class - Basic/Intermediate
Silk Ribbon Embroidery
Join me in creating this delightful silk ribbon garden, a surface embroidery study in Perspective and the Knotted Stitch. There are 10 knotted-stitch variations used in the design, as well as the ribbon stitch and the straight stitch. Overdyed silk...see more
Wildflower Fields/Monogram
1 Day Class - All Levels
Silk Ribbon Embroidery and Canvaswork with Bead Embroidery
Come join me as we stitch this charming monogram design while learning some silk ribbon embroidery, canvaswork techniques, and bead embroidery. Dimension is created using textual stitches with beads. The monogram will be the student’s own choice from an Abigail Cecile Alphabet.
Butterfly Sunset
2 Day Class - All Levels
Silk Ribbon Embroidery
Join me in stitching this delightful silk ribbon sunset garden! The focus of the class will be to apply the techniques of silk ribbon embroidery to a photo transfer. The student will learn to create dimension and texture by using a variety of silk threads and ribbons.
Highland Circle
2 Day Class - Basic/Intermediate
Counted Canvas
An abstract geometric, Highland Circle features a circle of batik fabric appliqued to the canvas. A variety of stitches, including laid silk Chenille thread, are used to produce movement within the design. Threads include Gloriana silks, Vineyard Sil...see more
Beaded Bermuda Reef
2 Day Class - Intermediate
Counted Canvas and Bead Embroidery
Create your own reef with a variety of threads, textured stitches, and beaded embroidery. Layers of threads and stitches create the triangular areas around the "reef" of beaded embroidery. Students will be given instructions to reproduce my beaded de...see more
Holiday Box
1 Day Class - Basic/Intermediate
Counted Canvas
Designed to be a box insert or large ornament, Holiday Box is a combination of squares and triangles, diagonal and woven stitches. The contrast in texture of threads as well as stitches provide interest during the stitching process. Choice of colorways: Christmas, Hanukkah, or Halloween
The Dickcissel's Prairie Ort Box
2 Day Class - Intermediate/Advanced
Surface Embroidery / Box Construction
This class will concentrate on color theory relating to landscape, stitch technique including soft shading, and stitching bird forms. Students will also learn how to make self-cords and the actual construction of the box will be covered in depth with visual aids provided. Design area 3" x 13"
Boxes Galore!
1 Day Class - All Levels
Embellished Box Construction
In this one day class, we will make an unembellished 4"D x 4"W x 2 ½"H fabric covered and lined box with a tab closure. The purpose of this class is to show the construction process, after which you can create beautiful embellished boxes on your ow...see more
Diminutive Rose
2 Day Class - Intermediate
Crewel Embroidery
This class will have three areas of emphasis; a.) To make a seamless and even transition of color using soft shading. b.) To give the illusion of a third dimension on a 2 dimensional plane. And, c.) To give the illusion that a shape, like a leaf or a...see more
Twice the Taste
NOT AVAILABLE
4 Day Class - Intermediate
Elizabethan Raised-Work
Do you collect unusual stitches? Have you wanted to learn some Elizabethan-style metal thread embroidery? Then this 4-day Intermediate level class is for you. This 4.5" x 4.5" sampler has about 25 distinct, though often closely related, stitches. It...see more
Flecked Flowers in Hearts
NOT AVAILABLE
1 Day Class - All Levels
Blackwork and Surface Embroidery
Two flowers worked in flecked blackwork each appear within a golden 3" x 3" heart. The Plaited Braid, Ceylon, and Woven Wheel stitches are worked in gold passing thread, and the rest in silk, in your choice of color or black and white. It is suitable...see more
Lanterns
NOT AVAILABLE
4 Day Class - Intermediate
Silk and Metal Thread Embroidery
Leaves dance on the wind and fall, waving to lanterns in the trees, and on the ground. Harvest lights the moon.
With a main foundation of Congress Cloth, the student will be introduced to silk and metal thread embroidery techniques including:...see more
With a main foundation of Congress Cloth, the student will be introduced to silk and metal thread embroidery techniques including:...see more
Pinwheel Pleasure
NOT AVAILABLE
1 Day Class - Basic/Intermediate
Silk and Metal Thread Embroidery
Metals and silk combine to make this lacy pinwheel a pleasure to stitch. The transparency of the silk interlock ground and close couched wire allow open filling stitches to raise over the interspersed blades of couched wire and braid creating a dimen...see more
Starfish Heart Pendant
NOT AVAILABLE
2 Day Class - Basic/Intermediate
Soutache and Bead Embroidery
Select a one-of-a-kind heart from "The Mending Pile" – a series of handmade polymer clay cabochons made by Amee. Pair it with a "Soutache & Bead Embroidery" kit and get ready to learn a special version of the "Flame Stitch" – appropriate for Adve...see more
Indulgence Earrings
NOT AVALABLE
1 Day Class - Basic
Shibori Ribbon and Bead Embroidery
A great Beginner class for folks who are curious about Bead Embroidery and working with Shibori ribbon. Kits will be offered in a variety of color-ways. Project may be completed in class.
Aperture Hi-Low Lariat-Style Necklace
NOT AVAILABLE
2 Day Class - Basic/Intermediate
Soutache and Bead Embroidery
Adventurous Beginners will learn the Basics of "Soutache & Bead Embroidery" while creating a stylish, contemporary, lariat-style necklace.