Diane Herrmann holds Level 2 Teacher Certification in canvas embroidery from the National Academy of Needlearts (NAN), where she is currently Assistant Director of Teacher Education. She has taught for local and regional guilds and chapters, and has received several prestigious awards and honors for her work. Diane often uses mathematical concepts as inspiration for her designs and presentations. She is a contributing author of Crafting by Concepts: Fiber Arts and Mathematics.
Diane will be joining us for the first time in 2019 on the Escape to Bermuda, teaching her popular Walking the Water’s Edge piece with an exclusive pink sand canvas only available to our group! Diane recently shared a little bit about herself with the Stitchers’ Escapes team:
My husband Andy and I live in Chicago and are both retired academics who taught collegiate mathematics. I have been a cross stitcher since I was in Brownies, and got seriously re-involved in needlework in the mid-nineties after attending some Spirit of Cross Stitch Festivals in Des Moines. I joined our local Windy City EGA chapter, and learned all kinds of needlework I’d never even known existed, and settled on canvas work as a favorite. After teaching math for so long, I found that teaching for my chapter was truly enjoyable, so I enrolled in the National Academy of Needlearts (NAN) Teacher Certification program and graduated in 2011. I like to put mathematics in my designs when I can, and I also love designs that incorporate ethnic patterns.
I like to garden, and I love to sing. I’ve been in a barbershop quartet and my husband and I have done a “choir tour” in England with a group called Village Harmony. We love to travel, and I was lucky to spend some time teaching math in Paris before I retired.
I’m looking forward to being able to teach the Walking the Water’s Edge piece on the cruise. I’ve had many, many students, but I never tire of teaching this piece. It is exciting to watch the wave come to life on the canvas, and to teach a few new skills to eager students. And I can’t wait to see the pink sand, and to see how the wave piece looks with a pink Bermuda beach.