A Needle Pulling Thread Spring 2016 Sampler | Page 3

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ditor's letter

Life goes better with needlework!

Birds, critters, kids and flowers
all come out to play when spring
calls softly, ‘winter is dead’.
Flowers are a refreshing sight for
our sleepy eyes come the spring.
Is it cliché to love flowers so
much? Flowers have been the
beloved subjects of poems,
paintings, photographs, fashion
and so much needlework. Their
interpretation has been stylized
throughout the ages, leaving
artists speechless at their beauty,
letting the flowers express
themselves.
For those with a passion for the
needle arts, flowers are always
in the picture more often than
not. Threads come in so many
shades that it's possible that an
embroidered flower becomes
so realistic. There are so many
flower prints on fabrics to die for,
you know what I'm talking about,
whether it's quilting fabric or that
dress with the awesome flower
print just so...

In this issue, you’ll find several
interpretations of spring flowers
to herald in the season, using fun
tools to make the task easier and
many skills to help you make the
flowers ‘bloom’. Skills include:
learning how to add shading
to petals and leaves of a rose
using DMC threads, making 3D
daffodils and periwinkles with
yarn, making fabric flowers using
flower makers, joyful blooms
expressed in quilt blocks and
rows and rows of blooms sewn
with fine machine embroidery.
I hope you enjoy this issue
inspired by spring flowers and the
joyful sun that helps them grow.
Cheerfully,

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
– Claude Monet
A NEEDLE PULLING THREAD

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Spring 2016

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