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It’s done. Daisy and the Chipmunk – a fun Jacobean style story pillow of Daisy chasing a chipmunk around a blueberry bush.  Daisy and the Chipmunk, crewel pillow in the Jacobean style Continue reading Crewel Stitching Project – Part 3 Finishing the project as a pillow Continuing from Part 1: In the last week I have drawn the design onto linen, chosen several colors and stitches and started the stitching. This past week was Thanksgiving and with the time spent visiting there was a lot of opportunity to chat and stitch.
 The stitching project that got me hooked a few years ago. Framing needlework and textiles happens fairly frequently in my shop but in the last few years I have begun to work in stitching myself. So it follows that creating an original from concept to pattern to completion is my latest challenge. In keeping with the idea of art combined with family story I have chosen a family vacation to pick a memory from and create a story pillow. A couple of summers ago we were invited for a visit to family on Lake Winnipesaukee, NH. It was everything a vacation should be, catching up with family, relaxing and we were invited to bring our dog, Daisy, who spent the entire time alternately chasing critters and dispensing unconditional love to the humans. Her favorite quarry was chipmunks—abundant and speedy. My plan is to create an image to transfer to linen and stitch in a Jacobean crewel style, my current stitching favorite. While I am fairly new to serious stitching the freedom of crewel embroidery should be a good fit for my first design experiments. On to my subject: Daisy chasing chipmunks. Continue reading Crewel stitching project Part 1. Creating an heirloom of a family vacation. Chandler Designs has been a fine art and picture framing company since 1984. As the owner and main labor force I have been creating pieces “from scratch” for just the right accent to finish a framing display. From hand-making marble papers to embellish mats which we provided to the Janis Aldridge Gallery (formerly of Georgetown) for 17th century botanicals for almost 20 years to the custom milled moldings created by Ed, doing the milling and shaping, and me, doing the finishing there has always been an element of the hand-made in pieces from Chandler Designs. Continue reading Fine Art and Fine Craft Why do we humans love story so much? Reaching into our past for a story is part of all our lives. The collective story of a country or culture gives insight on current events and helps us navigate our own times. Your family history—oral or documented—adds dimension to cultural traditions which otherwise might languish as dull repetitive motions.
Mats on paper art are a relatively new innovation in the care and display of art. Paintings and tapestries predate paper for wall display by centuries. 14th century broadsides are some of the earliest European examples of art for the pleasure of a wide audience via the use of wood blocks to make multiple and inexpensive copies of an image. By the 1600s the use of copper engraving was employed to illustrate books, particularly for renderings of scientific aspects of plants – formally known as botanicals.
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