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2002 Lifetime Achievement Award: Mary-Dick Digges

Here are several samples of Mary-Dick's lovely embroidery. Click on a small picture below to see a larger image.

		Blackwork, a step within the Counted Thread Master Craftsman program of EGA, requires precise execution of double running stitch as well as other blackwork patterns. Mary-Dick was an exquisite stitcher who achieved a very high level of mastery in this piece.

		Mary-Dick designed and taught the EGA Individual Correspondence Course entitled "Jacobean Crewel Embroidery." The piece pictured is the example she stitched for this course.

		"Sake Boxes" was originally a Phase V piece in Traditional Japanese Embroidery and it contains a great deal of superimposed work as well as a myriad of chrysanthemum blossoms. Currently it is considered a Phase IX piece by the Japanese Embroidery Center. Mary-Dick stitched this piece as her Phase V and it hangs proudly in her home.

		This is an example of Japanese Rozachi work that Mary-Dick stitched.

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