Chapter Program Ideas
Videos
Color and Design
Finishing
Needlepoint Basics
Specialty Techniques
Shay Pendray Videos
Shay Pendray Videos – Seasonal
General Interest
Slide Shows
Chapter Program Ideas – Videos
Color and Design
Color Confidence by Jinny Beyer, 40 minutes long. This popular video guides you through a diverse variety of color selection examples. Jinny's approach is to select, shade and combine colors to add interest, depth, and dimensionality to your work. She works with a device that she made called The Portable Palette, which is commercially available.
Design into Stitch, 90 minutes long, but in two parts so that you can watch a 45 min. long segment for a meeting. This is a video by the unique and well known needle artist Jan Beaney. Learn how to analyze a scene and sketch it simply. Try painting your fabric in simple shapes to give a background for your stitches. You can add appliqué pieces or use machine embroidery if appropriate. This is an inspirational video that shows you how to guide yourself through a design process so you will end up with successful projects. A how-to on design, not on stitching. Caution - Jan Beaney is an avant garde needle artist and traditional needle artists may not appreciate her style or work. For those with a desire to learn all aspects of needle design, it does get you thinking.
Finishing
Twisted Cord Embellishment, 58 minutes long. This is wonderful demonstration tape about twisted cord by Marcia Brown of the Binding Stitch. Easy to follow instructions will have you on your way to creating all types of wonderful twisted cords. Many people know how to make one and two thread twisted cords, but Marcia shows the technique to making three, four, and five thread twisted cord. Once you see the approach, you’ll want to try this yourself. But perhaps the best part of the whole tape is the last 10 to 15 minutes where Marcia shows you how to sew the cording onto your piece, be it pillow or ornament or whatever, how to hide the stitching and join the end pieces of the cording together so it is invisible - and it is not that hard, you just need to know the technique. An excellent video tape for a chapter meeting program, but have members bring some threads, like pearl cotton, to try making their own cording after they see this tape.
Exquisite Tassels, 50 minutes long (for demonstration of one color and two color tassels.) Again Marcia Brown does a fantastic job of showing you the tricks behind making lovely tassels. This tape can be divided into three parts, the first two parts cover one and two color tassels and is about 50 minutes long. The last part uses a unique monkey knot on the top of the tassel (this lasts another 20-30 minutes), and is for the more adventurous learner. Marcia shows the tricks and techniques behind making lovely tassels - bring a comb with you! She includes instruction on adding beads and buttonhole stitches around the top of the tassel.
Ornament Finishing 58 minutes long. This is wonderful demonstration tape about ornament finishing by Marcia Brown of the Binding Stitch. This is short enough to show at a chapter meeting and practice on your own ornament, and you’ll have many friends willing to help.
Needlepoint Basics
Bring Your Canvas to Life with Susan Portra, 50 minutes long. This is a wonderful video for all stitching levels. And anyone familiar with Susan Portra’s work will enjoy watching this video. Susan briefly shows some tools and yarns and offers her approach to stitching. She shows how to select a painted canvas and ideas to consider for stitching it, with embellishment. She does an excellent demonstration of Turkey work as well as a few other stitches. Susan talks about light play, shading, choices for backgrounds and how to approach needlework as an art form. The best part of the video is seeing all of her stitched pieces. It is an inspirational video that would be an excellent choice for a chapter program meeting.
Cross Stitch and More, 64 minutes long. This video is great for newcomers to cross stitch and shows the correct techniques for beautiful work.
Basic Needlepoint: Tent Stitch, 52 minutes long. Marion Scoular demonstrates the basic stitch used in needlepoint. Learn when to use the three different types of tent stitch and how to start and end threads so as not to leave ridges, or bumps on the front of your work.
Specialty Techniques
Silk Ribbon Embroidery, 60 mins. long. This video covers the basic concepts of silk ribbon embroidery with hints for design, ribbon and fabric choices, and background manipulation, plus all the do’s and don’ts of ribbon embroidery. There are many embroidery examples shown and a project. Many silk ribbon embroidery stitches are demonstrated. Judith Baker Montano is a well-known silk ribbon embroiderer and author of The Art of Silk Ribbon Embroidery and Elegant Stitches.
Shay Pendray Videos
The Embroidery Studio IV, #401 Embroidery as Art, 26 minutes long. Shay Pendray visits the studio of Wilcke Smith to share with you her creative process. Wilcke Smith is an innovative needle artist, definitely not your traditional needlepointer. Her work is lovely and unique.
The Embroidery Studio IV, #409 DeGrazia’s Paintbrush to Your Needle, 26 minutes long. Shay Pendray travels to the DeGrazia Museum and Sundance Needlework to bring you the relationship between artist and craftsman. This segment included painted canvases by DeGrazia and Tish, and a few interesting stitch choices for these southwestern designs that have become so popular throughout the country.
Shay Pendray Videos - Seasonal
The Embroidery Series I, Christmas Flowers, 26 minutes long, instructions included. Shay Pendray presents a design by Marnie Ritter, a quick ornament that uses surface stitching.
The Embroidery Series II, Fleur De Noel, 26 minutes long, instructions included. Shay Pendray presents a design by Jean Taggart, a quick, self-finishing ornament.
The Embroidery Series II, A Child’s Winter Dream, 26 minutes long, instructions included. Shay Pendray presents a great little snowman suitable for a child’s project.
General Interest
Embroidery: The Legacy of Needlearts, 30 minutes long. This high quality video provides an historical perspective on embroidery. This is the type of show you would see on something like NOVA. A gift from EGA to ANG.
Chapter Program Ideas - Slide Shows
Seasonal
1995 White House Christmas Stockings, 153 slides with written script included, theme is “'Twas the Night Before Christmas”.
1996 White House Christmas Stockings, 156 slides with written script included, theme is “Nutcracker Suite”
General Interest
NASA Patches, 126 slides with written script included, the original set of mission patches stitched by members of ANG and presented to the John C. Stennis Space Center in May 2000.
Annual Seminar Exhibits for 1990 through 1997, the number of slides varies, a script is included with each set of slides, only ribbon winners are included.
Shady Threads, 45 slides, updated 2004, script included, a study on the effect of shading in needlepoint, how shading enhances a needlepoint piece and how to achieve those effects. Each one of us has struggled, at one time or another, with deciding which thread or stitch to use in a needlework piece. When we look at the needlework pieces from seminar exhibits we are struck at how simple threads and fabrics are combined to create spectacular results. We are left to wonder what approach to take to achieve similar results. Shady Threads is a newly-updated slide program that introduces elementary design and color concepts using threads and stitches, combined with ideas and examples, to help you see the choices before you so that you too may enhance your needlework.