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MYSTIC ONE
Friday-Saturday - October 21-22, 2011
Jeannette Douglas
of Jeannette Douglas Designs
 We are so pleased to have Jeannette Douglas teach at a Stitcher’s Hideaway Retreat once again!
Jeannette Douglas lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with her husband Dale. Their two daughters are at university. Up until about 2 years ago, Jeannette worked as a psychiatric nurse for many years. She is also a singer and sang with the Calgary Philharmonic Choir for 20 years. She now devotes all her time to the stitching world.
Jeannette Douglas Designs began in 1998 after a family trip to the Rockies. That summer, during one of her family’s many trips through the mountains, Jeannette literally “saw” the majesty of the mountains in stitches. Passing gorgeous scenery, she was flooded with ideas -- mountains in bargello, pulled work for icy waterfalls, leaf stitched pinecones, trees in a variety of stitches. Later, she had what she came to call her “light bulb moment”. She grabbed a pen and the only paper she had -- a chequebook -- and wrote as she drove, furiously jotting all her ideas down. The Rocky Mountain Sampler was born out of that experience, and the Canadian Journey Series followed it.
Stitching has almost always been a part of Jeannette’s life. She started as a teenager and has enjoyed many of the different kinds of needlework. For 10 years floral designing and folk art painting taught her much about colour and the design process, but her love remains counted thread. “Somehow I think that those 10 years did give me a great basis for needlework designing as it incorporated both design and colour sense.” She puts a great deal of research into her designing efforts, and has a unique way of capturing geography in stitches.
Since 2002, teaching has been a big part of Jeannette’s business. In addition to sharing stitching techniques with students from coast to coast across the North American continent, she has taught in England and in Holland (in Dutch). Her warm personality and wonderful sense of humor has captured the hearts of her many students.
Among many other teaching experiences, Jeannette has taught at four Stitcher’s Hideaway retreats and designed a beautiful sampler for each retreat location (Northwoods Sampler, East Coast Sampler, Bay State Sampler, and the Sunshine State Sampler). She calls these her “American Journey Series.”
For the Mystic 2011 retreat, Jeannette has dreamed up the Four Seasons of Mystic, which is a four panel creation depicted the wonderful New England seasons!
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