A beautiful boquet of violets, Quaker Ladies and Tic-Trefoils clustered together over a white lace doily in a silver and pewter Tussie-Mussie make this glorious "Victorian Nosegay". A great selection of stitches are used in the piece including Rhodes, Jessicas, Fleur-de-lis Crescents, Cast on Buliions and more. Pullled Work and Needlelace are two techniques taught in this piece.

Tony writes: "Aren't we a lucky group of people to have found such an all-consuming passion as fine art needlework. We have been given the opportunity to create beautiful pieces of artwork using thread as our medium and leave a wonderful legacy of our time on earth. I have the added privilege of being a national teacher who gets to touch on many stitcher's lives and become a part of their stitching education. I take my job very seriously but hope not so serious that my students aren't having fun while they learn.

A big thank you to Rosalyn for this wonderful website."
 

This piece depicts a magnificent Edwardian Lady coiffed in Gibson Girl style and dressed in elegant tones of white and cream accented with auburn and olive. This is the first in a series of period dress masterpieces by Tony. The ground fabric for the piece is 24 count congress cloth with the finely shaded face worked on silk gauze. The dress and background are stitched predominantly in silks with touches of lace, metallic, charms, ribbons, and feathers.

 

Patterns within this design are from fabrics of China, Japan and Korea and are worked with silk and with gold metals and metallics. “Patterns of the Orient”is stitched on 24ct. canvas, using an unbelievable selection of silk threads and stitched in some wonderful composite stitches including Bargello, flat chevron, vertical couching, overlapping lattice, cashmere, Gobelin and elongated Hungarian. You'll love stitching this phenomenal piece.