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From the shown ornament samples it is interesting to see how much more
contemporary and sculptural looking the UK designs are compared to the
more whimsical and traditional Christmas ornaments we US designers
presented to the White House tree last year. It will interesting to see more of the ornaments as you put them up on
the pages.
Your Royal Christmas needlework project like the White House needlework
ornaments shown in the past several years are great boosts to
needleworkers all over the world - giving us a chance to showcase to the
rest of the world needlework is bright, decorative, witty and artistic.
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-I'm delighted to offer my friends on rctn a chance to see
the ornaments that will be hanging on The Queen's tree at
Buckingham Palace. Go to http//www.pathways.org.uk The site isn't quite finished (not all the links are live)
but you can view the ornaments from New Stitches Readers,
Designers and Guilds by typing in an initial letter on the
database. We should have it set up to download in batches
of 10 soon. Also, take a look at the East Berkshire college pieces and those
from the Royal School of Needlework.
The judges favourites will be published on a separate page
soon but it really was an impossible selection to make. There
are so many beautiful pieces. I hope the ornaments inspire
your christmas stitching but do remember that the copyrights
belong to the designers who made them. Sadly, no patterns
are available except for those that were stitched from previously
published designs in New Stitches Magazines. -I discovered that you can call up a few ornaments by entering a single
vowel. Even Shirley's ornament can't be accessed if you don't know to
enter Shone instead of Shirley. - the White House will be using many of the ornaments
again for Christmas decorations this year as they decorate many trees in
the public rooms.
Also, I believe The National Needlework Association (TNNA) has a slide
file of most of the ornaments that shops or needlework groups can borrow
to view the ornaments. |
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