The Gift of Stitching 2006 09, Haft Krzyzowy
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ONLINE MAGAZINE FOR CROSS STITCHERS
Issue 8 September 2006
TWISTED OAK DESIGNS THE VICTORIA SAMPLER
PINE GLEN DESIGNS *WIN FROM VIOLARIUM*
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Editorial
Contents
Hello everyone,
Page 2
Designer Profile - Thea Dueck from
The Victoria Sampler. Includes
Stained Glass Ornament project.
Page 14
Column - From Test-Tubes to Chart-
Packs by Jacinta Lodge
This month has been one of the busiest
months of my life. We have spent the last
three weeks settling into Australia and its been
busy, frantic, and crazy all at the same time,
but all in all, I still feel excited to be living in
this wonderful country where it is sunny nearly
every day!
On top of everything, the magazine must
still go out and I am thrilled to give you the
wonderful patterns in this issue. You will have
to excuse the absence of my own column due
to the above. The feature pattern is from
Twisted Oak Designs. If you have a young
one, then this would make a lovely birth
sampler. We start a new mystery series to get
you warmed up for Christmas. Four Li’l
Christmas Angels will be released over the
next four issues. Enjoy the first one.
The highlight for me was interviewing The
Dueck from The Victoria Sampler. She is a
wonderful designer and she has provided us
with a Christmas ornament pattern.
Have a wonderful month stitching.
Page 15
Product Profile and Competition
Violarium - Online shop specialising
in French cross stitch.
Page 6
Be Joyful by Olive Hope Designs
Page 7
New Section - Beth K. Hendzlik
Trends - Vintage Style Part 1 - Colours
and Fabrics. Includes pattern called
Have You Any Wool?
Page 16
Geometric Bookmark by Wild Card
Design Studio
Page 17
From Six Strand Sweets - Dance to
the Beat of Your Heart by Jessica
Willis Burr.
Page 9
Feature Pattern - Welcome the
Whisper of a Baby’s Breath by Twisted
Oak Designs
Page 18
Stitch Diagrams
Page 11
Column - Blackwork by Lynne
Herzberg - Dangerous Curves Ahead
Kind regards,
Kirsten Edwards
Editor
Page 12
Mystery Li’l Christmas Angels by Pine
Glen Designs - Part 1
In our next issue we
feature Rosewood
I would like to thank the following people for their contribution
to this issue:
Andrew Edwards - Proofing, The Dueck - Designer, Judith
Tuttle - Designer, Lynne Herzberg - Designer, Jacinta Lodge
- Writer, Dodie and Lorrie from Pine Glen Designs, Shannon
Colbow - Designer, Olive Hope - Designers, Beth K. Hendzlik
- Designer and Writer, Violarium.com - Supplier and Jessica
Willis Burr - Designer and all those who lent me their Internet
connections during our long move!!
This magazine has been written in Australasian English.
Any queries regarding this magazine should be sent to the
Editor, Kirsten Edwards at editor@thegiftofstitching.com
Copyright: The Gift of Stitching 2006. All patterns in this
issue have been published with permission from the designers.
This magazine is under copyright. It is illegal to republish or
distribute it in print or electronically, either in part or whole.
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Manor and interview Martina Webber.
Designer Profile - Thea Dueck - The Victoria Sampler
This month I had the great pleasure
of interviewing Thea Dueck from the
Victoria Sampler. I was thrilled when
she agreed to the interview despite
her busy schedule.
Thea is an enormously popular
designer who is known for her
beautiful timeless samplers that are
of heirloom quality.
Many of her designs incorporate
different stitches and the charts always
feature clear instructions.
Thea has provided us with an
exclusive pattern called Stained Glass
Ornament which you can stitch in
time for Christmas.
Thea Dueck was born in
Amsterdam, Holland, but moved to
Victoria, Canada when she was a
young girl. She had to learn English,
but enjoyed settling into her new
country. “Being Dutch and an
immigrant in my school had its
benefits. I was raised a Catholic so
our nuns made a fuss over you if you
were from a different country. Most
of my friends thought I was pretty
exotic at the time!”
During her young life, Thea was
surrounded by embroidery of some
form. In the evening she often sat
with her mother as she stitched and
mended. There she also watched her
grandmother and aunties embroider.
Thea started embroidering during
the late 1960’s by teaching herself
from magazines. After her daughters
were born, she spent many “waiting”
hours sewing and completing other
creative hobbies. One day while
visiting her sister-in-law in Vancouver,
she was shown a lovely shop with
counted cross stitch in it. From that
day on Thea was hooked.
Inspiration to start designing cross
stitch came from an itch to try
something different craft-wise. “One
day while browsing in a craft store, I
found a packet that included some
see through plastic sheets with a
permanent graph grid on it, and a
booklet which showed a bit about
designing for cross stitch. I took it
home, and the rest really is history.”
Thea started with patterns based
on photos from around Victoria.
These she kitted up and sold to
tourists. “I was busy learning
accounting, creating designs, and
selling the kits locally, for at least five
years before I found another love,
samplers. My first sampler was
the Friendship Tree, and it was
designed for a Vancouver Guild
meeting, as a gift from me and the
shop owner I worked for. When I
saw one of the other teachers stitching
it during her breaks, I was hooked
on the idea of speciality stitches, and
within a year I had named my new
business, The Victoria Sampler.”
Thea has now designed for 17
years, and for the last 12 of these she
has incorporated speciality stitches
into her patterns.
Today Thea mainly designs
samplers and takes her inspiration
from many things including antique
samplers, folk art, Elizabethan
flowers, white on white hardanger
and drawn thread designs. She is also
inspired by the “stitcher” and what
is important to them. “I'm usually
inspired by a pithy quote, a small
verse or a saying reflecting what I
think is important. People's special
celebrations draw my ideas like a
magnet. I enjoy designing for a
reason, so that people also have
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Designer Profile continue...
reasons to stitch them. I love themes
like Christmas, birthdays, ann-
iversaries, but also absolutely love
gardens, and I don't need an excuse
to design with flowers in mind!”
A huge influence on Thea’s work
is her desire to teach other stitchers
something new. “I think that I
absolutely love to teach others, so
my patterns often include a few new
techniques... to encourage others to
at least try them. I also design a
number of pieces for teaching and
these designs are being taught either
in person, or online in our
Cyberclasses. We often have students
from many other countries, besides
our Canadian and US stitchers.
Cyberclasses at our website is a
wonderful way to spread the joy of
stitching far and wide!”
For the future, Thea can’t think of
anything else she would rather do
than design needlework! She
encourages people to support their
needlework shops and is looking
forward to continuing her stitcher
friendships and designing for many
more years to come.
“I hope stitchers will experience
their own creativity and sense of
beauty as they are stitching my
designs. I want them to feel happy,
and to feel that the colours they are
stitching is fun and exciting. I hope
they love the variety of different
stitches and fibers, so that they are
always excited by the new blank
fabric.”
VISIT THE VICTORIA
SAMPLER WEBSITE
TODAY!
www.victoriasampler.com
* Read Thea’s Newsletter
Peruse the Detailed Catalogue
- and Shop Finder
* Enjoy Free Patterns and a Free
Cyberclass
* Register and learn in our
exclusive online Cyberclasses
* Find the amazing Animated
Stitches in the VS Club
* Visit our Boutique to check
all our patterns and products
Images in this article include:
Previous page: Photo of Thea Dueck, Silk
Bougainvillea Sampler, Heirloom Wedding
Sampler. This page: Sample designs from
the Hardanger courses.
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Stained Glass Ornament by Thea Dueck
Design Information
Threads Needed
Trebizond TRA #395 - coral
Trebizond TRA #610 - lapis
Trebizond TRA #510 - amethyst
Kreinik #4 Braid #002HL - gold
metallic
Kreinik #8 Braid #042 - fushia
metallic
DMC Floss #321 - red
DMC Floss #5269 - metallic green
DMC Rayon Floss #30552 - violet
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Stained Glass Ornament is designed
by Thea Dueck of The Victoria
Sampler.
Design size: 97 x 121 stitches
Fabric needed: Cut 6” x 6”
(15.5x15.5cm) of 28 count black
Cashel linen
Instructions
See the next page for instructions
on how to stitch and finish the
design.
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