Category Archives: Philadelphia 2012 Seminar

Aug25

First Timer’s Reception

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Hi, Everyone —

Sue C and I attended the first timer’s reception tonight.  The ANG officers and area reps did speed dating at each table to tell us about the seminar and their particular responsibilities.  Also, my name was pulled out of a bag and I won a door prize!  By far, the highlight of the event was a spectacular naked biking parade!  We were on a mezzanine and had front row seats to this annual Philadelphia event!  I don’t think I can post the video on the blog — sorry!

Naked Bike Parade in Philadelphia

My class called “Asian Collage” with Debbie Steihler started this morning.  It’s been a lot of fun and the stitches are unique and interesting.  Lots of influence by Jane Zimmerman.  Sue Rossi — I met Sue Wardrep and Toni Goetzman — they are both in the Asian Collage class with me.  Very nice ladies!

You probably saw the photo of Sue and I scouring the Reading Terminal Market for our lunch.  We had yummy sandwiches from an Italian deli and wonderful tea from a booth that specialized in scores of types of tea,

After the first timer’s banquet we met Heidi and went to dinner at a restaurant that some of our seminar colleagues had recommended called Cariboo Cafe.  It was about a four block walk from the hotel and was an interesting mix of mostly French cafe cuisine.  (I had steak tartare — one of my favorites!)

After I send this post out into cyberspace, I may try to tie off a few of my “tails” from today’s project before I hit the sack.

These are very busy days — I haven’t even found time to visit the store or exhibits.

Looking forward to seeing more NJNA members soon!

Cheers!  Rosie

Aug25

I made it!

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Wow, I am here and ever so happy to be here.  Thanks to Sue  C. , who babysat my luggage while I found a parking spot for my car, I was able to check in without any mishaps.  After unpacking I immediately hit registration and the needlepoint store to pick up the necessary items I needed for my class tomorrow, and a few extra goodies.  Once situated, I met Sue and Rosie to go to dinner.  We went to a wonderful spot, the Carabou Club, for a delicious dinner, but more importantly terrific company and conversation about stitching and bigger issues.  I know I am in a city because I was completely oblivious to the naked bicyclists streaming by the hotel.  I have yet to understand what their cause was, freedom of some sort.

Aug24

Arrival in Philadelphia

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Hi, Everyone —

Sue C and I arrived in Philadelphia around 5:00 PM and before we even settled into our room, we hit the ANG registration booth.  Lots of goodies.  We have decided that we need to make a one page schedule because there are so many activities going on this week — I swear that there is something every night.

So after reading our program cover to cover, we settled in to our room.  I think we’ll be very cozy here for the week!

It turns out that there are quite a few restaurants in the area.  The Reading Terminal Market was closed, so we didn’t get a chance to scope that out yet.  We decided to go to The Melting Pot for dinner — it was literally just across the street.

After dinner, we scoped out the meeting floors and stumbled upon a group in the open stitching area (it’s open 24 hours in case someone has trouble sleeping!).  What fun!  Jo Ippolito Christensen was sitting with folks from Syracuse, NY; San Diego, CA; Easton, PA; and Mendham, NJ.  Someone immediately knew Mendham as “Where Mrs. Stitches is!”  They thought I was lucky to live within walking distance — some of these women have to drive an hour for stitching supplies.

Good night all!

Cheers — Rosie

Aug23

My Pre-Work for Seminar

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My “pre-work” started on Monday. I had no stitching to do, just assembling all the supplies that Joni Stevenson requested for Andalucia. I went to get the letter she sent me and it was not where I thought it was. I spent the next two hours going through all my needlepoint piles on two levels of my house. No letter found. I am now in panic mode. I called the ANG in Madison Wisconsin and left a voice mail. Now in more panic, I called Karen Barras, Seminar Coordinator in Lexington, KY, who was ever so kind. She promised to help before she left Kentucky the next day to head to Philly. About four hours later, I got an email from Joni Stevenson with the missing letter attached. My thank you reply was so profuse, she probably is dreading having me in her class for three days. This misadventure did lead to me cleaning out and organizing many of my needlepoint supplies, and I even found my magnetic expandable needle finder, which I will bring with me to Philly.

Aug22

Pre-Work For Seminar

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I, too, have been very busy doing pre-work for seminar.  I just yesterday finished drawimg 29 canvases for the class Ben’s Kites.  One look at the design and you wouldn’t think it was tough to draw.  But, if those kites don’t meet correctly in the middle, your whole canvas is out of whack!  Yikes!  Luckily, I had an epiphany and figured out how to best approach these.  Now they are drawn, packed and ready to go!

I arrive at seminar on Sunday just in time to see everyone for the Welcome Banquet.  It is such a great time to see people you have not seen all year and to make new friends.  It is such a great thing to have all these people around who have a common passion.

See you all in Philly!  Susan

Aug22

Seminar Pre-Work

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Hi New Jersey Needle Artists —

As many of you are aware, I had been hoping to have our new website up and running prior to seminar.  I am pleased to report that there has been tremendous progress on this endeavor, but that some features (mostly pictures) are still not working correctly.  Soon.

Meanwhile, I’ve created this second WordPress site so that our members who are attending seminar will be able to blog about what they are doing, who they are seeing, what they have bought, and other fun stuff!  Attendees can e-mail me (rlunde@att.net) with their updates and/or I will also try to set a place and time where I’ll be with my laptop.  I’ll also bring my camera so that we can include some photos!

This pre-seminar post is allowing me to figure out how this blogging stuff works.  I’ve already had a few things I could use a boo-boo stick for!

I am enrolled in two classes for seminar.  The first four days I will be doing “Asian Collage” which doesn’t have any pre-work; this will be my first experience with Congress Cloth and the piece includes a stitch called Double Alternating Nobuko.  Nobuko is my favorite stitch, so I can’t wait to find out what this variation is all about.  The second class is called “Illusions” and I am very happy to say that I finished my 8 hours of pre-work on Monday night!  I’m going to post a picture of it even though it is white on white.  I’m really just trying to figure out how to insert a picture in the post.

Pre-work for Illusions

Maybe someone else who is doing pre-work can send me a blog post so that I can try uploading that as well!  Or if you want to try to author a post directly into the blog, I’ll change the permission on your invite.

More soon!  Cheers!  Rosie