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Justice, Katherine
#443 - More Color Play
Location: Beach Room (1st Floor, Music Room)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Constellation Chapter EGA
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Jennifer Riefenberg
Artist Statement: I took Jennifer Riefenberg's More Color Play class in order to explore color interactions
and color harmony. I really enjoyed the way that the layers of colors came together to create this dynamic
piece that reminds me of flying kites with my family on a warm spring day when I was a child.
Kachel, Sofia
#899 - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Location: Beach Room (1st Floor, Music Room)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Original Design | Technique: Surface Embroidery
Artist Statement: An ode to Jimmy Buffett and summertime.
Kachel, Sofia
#900 - Ice
Location: American History (1st Floor Bedroom)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Original Design | Technique: Surface Embroidery
Artist Statement: Using art as a form of protesting the injustices in America in 2026.
For Sale: $50
roamingbarefoot@gmail.com
Kahler, Sally
#102 - Falling Leaves
Location: Garden Room (1st Floor, Cream Parlor)
Division: Senior (70 years and up) | Exhibited by: In Stitches
Category: Original Design | Technique: Surface Embroidery
Artist Statement: I have embroidered for years but nothing gives me more satisfaction than embroidering
on real leaves collected on walks in the woods and from the garden. It is the perfect combination of nature
and stitching. The leaves are preserved with glycerin and embroidered with cotton and silk thread. They
are mounted on stitched watercolor paper and framed.
For Sale: $250
sallykahler@gmail.com, 919-357-7027
Kane, Susan
#770 - Christmas Remembrance
Location: Winter Room (1st Floor, Dining Room)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Counted Thread: Cross-Stitch
Artist Statement: This piece is a companion piece to my first ever needle project, which was a Christmas
candle stitched with yarn on burlap.
Kane, Susan
#771 - To Everything There is a Season
Award: Third Place
Location: Garden Room (1st Floor, Cream Parlor)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Quilting
Artist Statement: I love these verses from Ecclesiastes! I am also of the age that it reminds me of the folk
song recorded by the Byrds in 1965, "Turn! Turn! Turn!" I personalized this piece with buttons from my
collection.
Kavanaugh, Erin
#773 - Poisonous Plants
Location: Halloween Room (2nd Floor Landing)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Counted Thread: Cross-Stitch
Thread Count: 28
Artist Statement: I’ve loved plants and especially toxic plants for a while, I was very happy when I was able
to stitch a piece like this.
Kavanaugh, Sarah
#774 - Guardian of the Woods 28
Location: Halloween Room (2nd Floor Landing)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Counted Thread: Cross-Stitch
Thread Count: 28
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Witchy Stitcher
Artist Statement: Leshy is a Slavic demon that protects natural spaces. It doesn’t exactly hate humans but it
can be mischievous and “tricksy” if you step off the prescribed path. I think the design is darkly beautiful! :)
Kearney, Alison
#790 - Arrival of Spring
Award: Third Place
Location: Garden Room (1st Floor, Cream Parlor)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Gail Stafford
Artist Statement: A companion piece to "Dusting of Snow", this version shows the arrival of spring, with
blooming trees and shrubs. It reminds us that spring brings a renewed sense of hope after the cold and dark
of winter.
Kearney, Alison
#791 - Dusting of Snow
Location: Winter Room (1st Floor, Dining Room)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Gail Stafford
Artist Statement: This piece was designed by Gail Stafford, based on a photo she took of a gazebo near her
home. This depiction is of the gazebo in winter, after a snowfall coated the building and surrounding bushes
and trees with a light coating of snow.
Kee, Eileen
#200 - Nova
Location: 1st Floor, Center Hallway
Division: Senior (70 years and up) | Exhibited by: Potomac Chapter ANG
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Genny Morrow
Artist Statement: This was such a fun pattern to work. Each square takes about 45 minutes to an hour to
complete. Since there are 396 squares, it takes time. It's a piece that you can do a square or 2, stitch some
other project, then come back to. There are 396 quilt blocks on 18 mono canvas shading from light to dark.
Designed by Genny Morrow. Although I took the class in over 20 years ago, I finally had the time to finish it
during the last 3 years.
Kee, Eileen
#208 - Monet Kimono
Location: International Room (2nd Floor, Pink Bedroom)
Division: Senior (70 years and up) | Exhibited by: Potomac Chapter ANG
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Toni Gerdes
Artist Statement: I love working pieces by Toni Gerdes. Always learning something new. Since I also love
Monet, I really enjoyed stitching this piece. Also had to decide to how to finish to display it properly.
Kee, Eileen
#209 - Christmas Caper
Award: Third Place
Location: Winter Room (1st Floor, Dining Room)
Division: Senior (70 years and up) | Exhibited by: Potomac Chapter ANG
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Thread Count: 13
Artist Statement: I love Charley Haper artwork, and my son loves raccoons, so I did this as a gift for him.
The hardest part was creating the popcorn that looked like popcorn. I tried many techniques over a month's
time before settling on the gathered ribbon.
Kee, Eileen
#210 - Art Deco Tree
Location: Winter Room (1st Floor, Dining Room)
Division: Senior (70 years and up) | Exhibited by: Potomac Chapter ANG
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Commercial Pattern/Designer: ANG Neddlepointers
Artist Statement: This was a Potomac ANG Guild chapter project. Deborah Reichert designer and
instructions in Needle pointers magazine. The instructions were not good, so it was a challenging piece. It'
was helpful to do as a group. I love a challenge which made the peice fun to work.
Kee, Eileen
#220 - Mystery of Life
Location: Winter Room (1st Floor, Dining Room)
Division: Senior (70 years and up) | Exhibited by: Potomac Chapter ANG
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Sue Reed
Artist Statement: I'm Irish and love Celtic designs. This was an intricate pattern to keep interwoven areas
correct. Got to choose color pallet so you were able to play and choose fibers. I had a gold brushed with red
molded frame and it fit perfectly.
Kee, Eileen
#222 - Zelda the Zebra
Location: 1st Floor, Center Hallway
Division: Senior (70 years and up) | Exhibited by: Potomac Chapter ANG
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Toni Gerdes
Artist Statement: This was stitched for my Grandson's first birthday as a companion piece to Gertrude the
Giraffe. These designs by Toni Gerdes are just fun pieces to stitch and look at.
Kee, Eileen
#223 - Patches
Award: First Place
Location: 1st Floor, Center Hallway
Division: Senior (70 years and up) | Exhibited by: Potomac Chapter ANG
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Nancy Cucci
Artist Statement: This was a design by Nancy Cucci that we also had to adapt to make our own. My last
name is Kee so I designed a key in one section. I'm Irish and had a Celtic wooden attachment so I used that
in another. Added my own attachments and beads to make flowers. Such fun to stitch and design as well.
Kee, Eileen
#224 - Gertrude the Giraffe
Location: Pets Room (2nd Floor, Blue Bedroom)
Division: Senior (70 years and up) | Exhibited by: Potomac Chapter ANG
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Toni Gerdes
Artist Statement: I did this piece for my first grandson's nursery as a welcome to the world gift. He loved
looking at it while he was being held the first 6 months of his birth. I think the colors and friendliness of
giraffe made him happy. It was so much fun to stitch. The false eyelashes bring it to life with glass eyes.
Keller, Maggie
#735 - Formula One Helmets
Location: American History (1st Floor Bedroom)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Surface Embroidery
Commercial Pattern/Designer: RaceCraft
Artist Statement: My family are big F1 fans, and so when I found a designer who created patterns out of the
creative helmets that drivers often change from week to week, I couldn’t help myself. I have more patterns
for more drivers, and will be adding to the helmet collection as soon as I have time in my stitching schedule.
Formula One driver helmets for George Russell (blue, from 2023) and Lando Norris (yellow, from 2024).
Keller, Maggie
#736 - Summer Sampler
Location: Garden Room (1st Floor, Cream Parlor)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Surface Embroidery
Commercial Pattern/Designer: The Hoop in Hand
Artist Statement: This piece is part of a series of four seasonal samplers from Tamara’s online embroidery
shop. I look forward to completing the rest so I can use the to decorate my home seasonally year-round.
Kempton, Debra
#800 - Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler
Location: 1st Floor, Center Hallway
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Thread Count: 18
Artist Statement: I took this class at my first ANG Seminar.
Kempton, Debra
#906 - Watermelon Bracelet
Location: Beach Room (1st Floor, Music Room)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Beadwork
Artist Statement: I like to wear this in the summer.
Kempton, Debra
#907 - Blue Crystal Bracelet
Location: Beach Room (1st Floor, Music Room)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Beadwork
Artist Statement: I love the sparkle of this bracelet.
Kinne, Mandy
#737 - The Circles
Location: Beach Room (1st Floor, Music Room)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Original Design | Technique: Surface Embroidery
Artist Statement: The Circles is my hand-spun yarn couched onto white cotton twill with vintage sewing
thread. I started this piece to highlight the colors in the three circles that comprise the focal point of this
piece. However, the brown handspun I couched for the background and the dimensionality of it seem to
have stolen the show. The brown wool is locally grown and processed and this piece proudly earned a
Chesapeake Fibershed Sustainable Cloth certification.
For Sale: $600
mandy.kinne@gmail.com
Koenig, April
#704 - Take Me to Church
Award: Eleanor Custis Lewis Award, First Place
Location: Garden Room (1st Floor, Cream Parlor)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: Self
Category: Original Design | Technique: Counted Thread: Blackwork
Thread Count: 32
Artist Statement: Walking the footpaths of Norfolk England I came across this village church. I was struck
by the contrast of the darkness of the entrance to the light stone of the exterior and fell in love with the flint
filled gothic windows. Worked from an original photograph taken by myself on 32ct linen. The outline was
sketched onto the fabric with the details worked in varying thickness cotton and silk threads. Each pattern
for the fill was chosen to help depict the texture and depth of each element.
For Sale: $250
stitchingapril@gmail.com, 540-376-8687
Koontz, Ann
#156 - Abstract Inspiration
Award: Second Place
Location: International Room (2nd Floor, Pink Bedroom)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: In Stitches
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Traditional
Thread Count: 18
Artist Statement: My design and stitching are simple and many gave me interesting suggestions to fill spaces
to provide balance. But I feel off balance and in the end ripped out motifs to fill in spaces. The off-kilter
nature of the piece reflects how I am feeling. My field of work (humanitarian response and conservation) has
been gutted. The treatment of immigrants, including dear family and friends, tragic. The lack of civility a
tragedy. I encourage people to take positive action and support each other.
Koontz, Ann
#157 - Istanbul
Location: International Room (2nd Floor, Pink Bedroom)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: In Stitches
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Canvaswork: Multi-Stitch (4+)
Thread Count: 18
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Painted Pony
Artist Statement: This abstract design caught my eye and was out of my usual style and comfort-zone. I plan
to use it a "vase" for fine silk hydrangea blooms which will not grow in my garden, but which I can enjoy
inside.
Koontz, Ann
#158 - Please Wake Up
Location: Halloween Room (2nd Floor Landing)
Division: Adult | Exhibited by: In Stitches
Category: Original Design | Technique: Counted Thread: Cross-Stitch
Thread Count: 22
Artist Statement: I stitched this for a wedding present for my son and daughter-in-law, who is from Turkey.
They first met in Istanbul and were married in Turkey in 2025. I used a wide variety of fibers to capture the
vibrant landmarks, shimmer of the waterways, and rich blue sky that makes Istanbul such a beautiful city.
Kyle, Claudia
#230 - Three for Tea
Location: 1st Floor, Center Hallway
Division: Senior (70 years and up) | Exhibited by: Molly Pitcher Stitchers
Category: Commercial Design | Technique: Counted Thread: Cross-Stitch
Thread Count: 36
Commercial Pattern/Designer: Mirabilia
Artist Statement: Three lovely fairies in beautiful dresses enjoy sips of tea. I used overdyed silk threads and
changed colors of dresses and hair.