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Needlers stitching toward completion of fourth embroidery

Stitch by stitch, knot by knot–for more than 40 years, a group of women Needlers have gathered weekly to embroider giant art works illustrating history and faith. Dedicated in 1974, "Churchmen in the New World" depicts the first Thanksgiving. "Christmas Radiance" and "The Renewal of Life" were completed in 1992 and 2002 respectively.

The fourth and final 16-by-25 foot embroidery, "The Summer of the First Amendment," will be completed in 2012 and be hung in Guild Hall of Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis.

Designed by the late Pauline Baynes (an illustrator known for her work on Chronicles of Narnia), this embroidered work of art will complete the cycle begun when the first embroidery was hung in Guild Hall in 1974.

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Changing the embroideries, April 2, 2012; Christmas is stored away (with its cover signed by Needlers who worked on it) and Spring arrives.

Below: Mary Carson, who started these embroideries in the 1960s, stitched the American Goldfinch at left; the image at right shows one of the seams from the five panels that were sewn together on March 23, 2012.