Description

By Diane Scott

Registration Dates: January 1, 2024 to April 30, 2024 (4 months)

Note:  This project is only available for the duration of the registration period.

This is a delicious little pear stitched on 18 count mono canvas. It is designed to please, whether you like your fruit green and crispy or gold and ripe, so it is available in two colorways, tones of green and brown or tones of gold. It is made up in six panels of canvaswork stitches, and is completed in a variety of fibres. It is part of the Five Servings a Day series of canvaswork fruits.

The pear is finished as a 3 dimensional object stuffed with fibrefill and pellets. A finishing lesson is included.

Techniques used in the project: Canvaswork stitches worked in 6 panels. Assembling into a 3D object.

Stitches used in the project: Pavilion diamonds, Scotch, Dutch, Brick, Palace

Size of Design Area: 3” x 4” x 3 1/2″ finished size

Supplies needed: 18 count mono canvas; Watercolours and Waterlillies by Caron; DMC perle cotton; Splendor silk floss; ribbon floss; Kreinik metallic braid; Silk Serica. (Plastic stuffing pellets and ultrasuede patch is included with the kit)

Students supplies:

• 9″ x 12″ stretcher bars
• size 24 and 22 tapestry needles
• thread conditioner (beeswax or Thread Heaven), optional
• laying tool
• fibrefill stuffing
• 4″ doll needle

Skill Level:  Intermediate

Text:  18 pages available electronically (PDF) or hardcopy

Fee:   10 Options

Option A:  Electronic delivery of instructions only – $35 CAD

Option B:  Kit, postage and electronic delivery of instructions to Canada – $110 CAD

Option C:   Kit, postage and electronic delivery of instructions to US – $115 CAD

Option D:  Kit, postage and electronic delivery of instructions to international addresses – $120 CAD

Option E:  Hardcopy delivery of instructions to Canada – $45 CAD

Option F:  Hardcopy delivery of instructions to US – $50 CAD

Option G:  Hardcopy delivery of instructions to international addresses – $55 CAD

Option H:  Kit, postage and hardcopy delivery of instructions to Canada – $120 CAD

Option I:  Kit, postage and hardcopy delivery of instructions to US – $130 CAD

Option J:   Kit, postage and hardcopy delivery of instructions to international addresses – $140 CAD

This course is available to EAC/ACB members only. If you are not a current member, please apply online.

Note: No Refunds once registration is complete.