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Delightfully Dainty Fingertip Guest Towels presented by Cindy Foose Want to be invited back? Present your hostess with a pair of fingertip towels as a thank-you gift and you’ll surely garner another invitation. These little linen guest towels showcase a variety of hand heirloom techniques including hemstitching variations, unique embellishments created from lace and tatting, a bit of embroidery, a collection of fun edge finishes. Mix and match the selections for unlimited variations; they are all easy to do and quick to master. You’ll like dainty creations so much you will have to have some for your own home! One towel will be completed and the highlights of the other techniques examined and explained.
Teacher Profile
For over three decades, Cindy Foose, an internationally-known teacher, has served as an instructor in children's clothing construction, smocking, and related classes at SAGA Regional and National Conventions, for numerous specialty sewing schools, sewing guilds, shops and weekend seminars throughout the United States. Cindy also traveled to Australia to serve on the faculty of the "Beating Around The Bush International Embroidery Convention" in 2000 and 2003. A former secondary school teacher, Cindy's needlearts classes allow her to combine her two favorite passions - teaching and the needlearts. She describes herself as in constant pursuit of new ideas to expand her knowledge of construction and stitching techniques to share in her classes. Her published patterns, original designs, and fun, informative classes reflect her keen interest in vintage children's wear as well as knowledge gleaned from her extensive research and studies in the British Isles, Madeira, France and the United States. As a featured contributor for Creative Needle Magazine for over sixteen years and a member their creative staff as Associate Editor, her contributions were among the magazines all-time favorites. With her friend and business partner, Hope Carr, Cindy co-authored the book, Designer Template Smocking and obtained the original patent for “The Smocking Board®”. She made five trips to the islands of the Eastern Caribbean as a needlework instructor for women's development programs sponsored by USAID. Cindy is especially proud of her two fine grandsons and spends as much time with them as possible. She confesses to being torn between her sewing and knitting socks. There just isn’t enough time in a day to get it all done thereby confirming her motto of, “What’s life without a needle and thread?”
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