Computer Clip Art meets Needlework

[Karen C - California]

My German cousin has been doing this since we were kids, and it's just taken a
new twist with the acquisition of computer clip art, because now those of us
who can't draw can do it, too.

Every Christmas she draws a very basic outline of a tree, star, angel, etc.
Using that as a pattern, she pricks holes about 1/4" apart in a piece of
colored cardstock. With colored waxed cotton or metallic thread, she stitches
across the shape. (Think Spirograph designs.)

Because each figure is only made up of a few dozen long stitches, she can
stitch several of them an hour, and because they're so simple, her
developmentally disabled daughter can do as good a job as my cousin.

When she has all the "sewing cards" completed, she glues them to the front of a
folded piece of white cardstock. Then her daughter rubber stamps the Christmas
greeting inside, while my cousin signs the family's names.

Those wonderful people at Dover put out several books of holiday designs with a
CD-ROM in the back. When you all get green metallic shamrocks in the mail next
month, you'll know who to blame!

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[Mary M. Riedel]

What a great contribution. Thanks. Dover has wonderful books and makes an
invaluable contribution by publishing so many patterns.

[LBachrach]

>
>What a great contribution. Thanks. Dover has wonderful books and makes an
>invaluable contribution by publishing so many patterns.

Do you know a place -- preferably a website -- where I can get a complete
listing of available Dover publications? By coincidence (before I read this
thread), I went to www.doverpublications.com this morning only to find that
they are currently upgrading their website.

Thanks.
Lee

[Karen C - California]

>where I can get a complete
>listing of available Dover publications?

The tech support website for the CD-ROM books is www.zedcor.com, but don't know
if they'd have a list.

[Bea]

Hi Lee,
The last I heard Dover didn't have a website. Thanks for posting that
they do. I love Dover books. Great designs, inexpensive. In fact,
when I was browsing through a bookstore's needlearts section I came
across an "Erte Fashion Paper Dolls of the Twenties" book for $4.95.
Looked through it, put it back, looked through it again and bought it.
No, I'm not into paper dolls, but the Erte designs were so incredible I
couldn't resist. I can visualize someone sweeping into a room in one of
these elegant outfits (I'm the one in the black dress, white apron and
cap holding the canape tray of course).
Bea

[Mary M. Riedel]

Dover isn't web-oriented. But they publish a complete catalogue which you
can request by phoning them and giving them your name and address, the old
fashioned way. Once you're on the list you'll get intermittent catalogues
of new items and then another complete one when they publish it. I love
going through their catalogues and usually order their books, discounted,
from Amazon.com.

[Michelle Donald]

Hi Lee

I would suggesting doing a search at amazon.com for the publisher
Dover - that would give you the whole list :-)

>Thanks.
>Lee
>
>

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BFN
OOROO
Michelle
Northern Beaches
Sydney, Australia
and sometime Oz-stitch Admin person
http://www.crosswinds.net/~ozstitch/index.html

[Kim Brown]

Bea wrote:
>
> Hi Lee,
> The last I heard Dover didn't have a website. Thanks for posting that
> they do. I love Dover books. Great designs, inexpensive. In fact,
> when I was browsing through a bookstore's needlearts section I came
> across an "Erte Fashion Paper Dolls of the Twenties" book for $4.95.
> Looked through it, put it back, looked through it again and bought it.
> No, I'm not into paper dolls, but the Erte designs were so incredible I
> couldn't resist. I can visualize someone sweeping into a room in one of
> these elegant outfits (I'm the one in the black dress, white apron and
> cap holding the canape tray of course).
> Bea

Gee, alt.binaries.clip-art has just had a spate of Erte postings! I'm
just about to unsubscribe from there because I just can't keep up!
However, you often get great Nouveau/Deco clips posted and I'd hate to
miss any...
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Trish {|:OI}
Newcastle, NSW, Australia

[Elbg23]

<< where I can get a complete
>listing of available Dover publication >>

go to www.amazon.com and get on "book search"...enter in Dover Books in the
publisher's area...their format has changed, so I hope it will still be
there...AOL is being silly so I can't check it out, hope it works, Betty