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Stitcher’s Hideaway
KINDRED SPIRITS RETREAT
Friday-Saturday, October 3-4, 2014
in Mystic, CT
featuring
Ann Pettit
of Brightneedle
 We're happy to welcome back Ann Pettit of Brightneedle Designs. Ann was one half of Brightneedle (Liz Knudsen being the other half) for years until Liz came upon a full-time position she couldn't pass up. Ann figured she could keep Brighneedle open if she concentrated only on teaching pieces, designing a new one every year or so. Besides designing and teaching needlework, Ann keeps her hand in nursing as a private duty nurse and also recently joined 19 women in opening a knitting shop (FiberArts in the Glen) in Watkins Glen, a small, bustling, tourist town in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York. When she's not working or driving to Jersey to visit family, she driving down to New Orleans to continue doing her part to help the city get back on its feet, one refurbished house at a time.
Ann lives at the north end of Seneca Lake in Geneva with her husband Ned. They have three adult children.
Ann started designing counted cross stitch through the back door of sorts. Liz had started designing a few charts for Brightneedle and realized she was going to need some help so she asked her BFF to join her. Ann had designed quilts for years but her only experience with cross stitch was designing and stitching the edges of a set of pillowcases when she was in high school. For all the fiber related hobbies and artistic pursuits Ann had explored up until 1999, counted cross stitch was not one of them. But Liz was confident and so they began ... and Ann hasn't stopped yet.
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