Creative Needle Magazine - Sept/Oct 1994

It takes a special person and a lot of love to create stitched heirlooms – just like it did nearby a century ago.  It’s a caring, patient process that cannot be hurried.  Creative Needle helps you master hand and machine techniques to create artistic refinements so individual that your one-of-a-kind will be your personal expression.  This magazine is from a nonsmoking home. It has no mold or mildew smell.

This issue contains the following:

Antique Textiles – Evaluating, caring for and using antique lace yardage

Smoking Horizons – A 40,000 year-old craft to add sparkle and texture to smocking

Duplicate Stitch – Holiday sweater designs by Delbra Moore

The Old Fashioned Baby – Instructions for both hand stitched and machine stitched tucks

Buttons of Boise – 15,000 buttons in a collection

A Basic Guide to Color and Embroidery – Contrasting fabric borders on dress bodices and skirts are embellished with floral embroidery.  Includes designs and instructions

Deciding Factors – How one designer approaches each new sewing project.

Changing colors, Changing Seasons – A new approach to some of your favorite smocking plates just might yield this year’s Christmas outfit

Patterns – Machine embroidered a pillow, Shadow work Christmas Collars, Smocked Christmas Tree and Appliquéd ornaments

Signs of Christmas – Holly, brightly wrapped packages, gingerbread men, colorful tree ornaments and Christmas candies

Christmas Morning and Santa Claus Collar – Two designs in shadow work

New “Old” Stitches – Duplicating Great-grandmother’s hand embroidery on today’s sewing machines

Smock Plates: Christmas Candy, Holly Bow and Tesa’s Tassels

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