Evenweave work

What's the difference between evenweave work and surface embroidery?  One requires an even grid, one can go anywhere.  The Farmgirl Sisterhood entry isn't bad, but we can go better.

Requirements:


1)  Complete a sampler using every stitch listed in the Victoria Sampler stitch library.  These include evenweave stitches, hardanger, and pulled threadwork.  (For the silk ribbon work see the Embroidery entry.)


2)  Complete the Beyond Cross-stitch series, levels four, five and six.


3)  Complete one large sampler from that site.

Quilting

Finally, one from the Farmgirl Sisterhood has some merit.  Their quilting entry has some depth going there.

I'm going to eliminate the education requirement since most of my friends here already know how to quilt, and the ones who don't live on the other side of the country.

Requirements:


1) Complete one baby quilt, using a simple pattern and tying it together.  There is a minimum of a three hour time commitment.


2)  Complete a larger wall hanging or table square, using a different technique from the one used above and hand-quilting.  There is a minimum of a twenty hour commitment.


3)  Complete a full-sized or larger quilt, using a different technique again, and have it machine quilted.  There is a minimum of a fifty hour commitment.


4)  Enter them all into the county fair.

Sewing

The Farmgirl Sisterhood entry has the same problem as before.  I'm sorry but putting together a sewing kit ought to be a requirement, but not enough to earn even part of a badge.  You don't get points toward a camping badge for buying your gear.

Requirements:


Make one each of the following and enter them into the country fair:


- Man's shirt
- Woman's shirt
- Child's dress
- Tote bag
- Stuffed toy

Embroidery

The Farmgirl Sisterhood entry on embroidery runs into the same problem as the one on food storage.  It's not challenging for anyone past an outright beginner for one.  Which is fine but a merit badge should push you to become an expert.  And I shouldn't have to buy her book for another.  In addition "vitamin ball" embroidery looks to be anthropomorphic vegetables, cute but it does kind of lock you into a style.  A true merit badge should allow for some personal expression while fulfilling the requirements, so you can have something useful after.

So here we go.

Requirements:

1) Complete a sampler using every stitch listed on the Needle And Thread website.  (Needle and Thread is run by Mary Corbet, an established expert on Ecclesiastical Embroidery and a student of the Royal School of Needlework.)

2) Complete The projects in each of the The Royal School of Needlework's  Essential Guides:  Stumpwork, Blackwork, Silk Shading, Whitework, and Crewelwork.

3)  Complete the Beyond Cross-stitch series level two (silk ribbon embroidery).

3)  Complete a smocking sampler and smock a child's dress.

4)  Complete a chicken-scratch apron.

5)  Using the techniques from 1 & 2 complete at least one pillow and one wall hanging.

6)  Enter all of the above in the county fair.