Tricia writes:

 

I am excited to report on our education mission of this project today and tomorrow. When we started the project we felt that it could be used as a focal point to bring new people to the embroidery community. I am happy to be able to introduce you to one such new convert – “Laura the Intern.” (To see Laura’s first completed project this summer, CLICK HERE.) For those who have worked on the project over the summer, you have all met Laura, a summer intern at Plimoth Plantation. Laura has been so incredibly helpful. Anything, and I mean anything that we needed to have done, Laura would do it and with a smile so wide you can’t believe it. She came into the project not a stitcher. And here is her first finished project on Trinkets™ sewing cards. The motifs are drawn from the EC band sampler in the collection at Plimoth. She loved it and plans to do more. We are excited to have transferred our love and excitement over embroidery to her!

Everyone who has come in contact with the project on-site has started to ask for small scraps of silk and fabric and I am constantly finding staff members trying out stitches and becoming proficient. And being the summer, we have some staff members’ children around…they are now stitchers too. Just look at 11yr old Lilia’s embroidery below – she was working on a hand-drawn carrot when I snapped this picture. Just what we wanted to inspire! Shaina, a new tailor in the department, is now a full fledged stitcher and is working on the jacket too. I am thrilled to have so many new people working on the piece.

Karin, the curator of the collection and holder of the antique samplers on-site is working diligently to learn the stitches that she sees everyday. Others who have come to work on the project have also reported that their embroidery has improved dramatically while they have been on-site. Well, four days of private class will do it for you! Hope you can join us too.