Events and Classes

Mark & Paint on Canvas & Fabric on EGA Lightning Round June 1-Aug 31, 2024

Do you have a drawing or photo that you’d like to make into an embroidered design? In Mark and Paint on Canvas and Fabric, you will mark and paint one design onto needlepoint canvas and one onto silk fabric. Step-by-step instructions are given for painting with acrylic paint and fabric paint or dye (including using resist). The importance of using markers and paint that conform to archival quality standards for fabrics is emphasized. An appendix gives details about specific products and sources. Students may use the three provided designs, but are encouraged to create their own. The annotated bibliography includes design and drawing books, but this class will not teach drawing per se.

The goal of this course is for students to feel confident and competent to transfer designs to fabric or canvas with markers and paint. After you complete the course, the text becomes a reference manual that you’ll use over and over again. Students are encouraged to work in groups to share supplies, but the course may be taken by individuals. This course has launched a number of students to create their own designs, jury into EGA Fiber Forum, and/or begin teaching.

Espalier Bracelet, An EGA Online Studio Class
Registration is August 7-September 24 on EGAUSA.org 

EGA Online Studio will offer Espalier Bracelet, a unique adventure working with two types of soluble fabric and soluble tape. The bracelet is quick to stitch. Once the structure is set up, the stitching is straightforward beading on “fabric.” Then, the last step is to wash the soluble fabric background away!

Registration will take place August 7 – September 4, 2024 on the Embroiderers Guild of America website. I’ll put a link here when the time comes. The first lesson will post on Nov 6 and the second lesson on Nov 13, 2024. Thanks to Solveig Walstrom, Online Studio Chairman; Rand Duren, EGA Electronic Media Coordinator; and pilot stitchers Kathy Morris, Helen O’Mara, Susan Ritter, and Susann Skinner who completed their bracelets.

Batik to Stitch Two Day Class

New York Capital Chapter EGA in Albany, NY will host Batik to Stitch, a two day class, on Friday, October 18 and Saturday, October 19, 2024 at A Space for Art, 60 Remsen St, Cohoes, NY. Class is only five miles from the Albany airport. If you are interested, please contact me for more details.

In 2025, Metropolitan Region EGA Seminar will host Batik to Stitch, a two day class, on Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27 at Montvale Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Montvale, NJ. The nearest airport to Montvale is Teterboro (TEB) which is 13.5 miles away. Other nearby airports are White Plains (HPN) (16.8 miles), New York La Guardia (LGA) (20.5 miles), and Newark (EWR) (26.1 miles). It is 34 minutes’ drive to the New York Botanical Garden and prime time for visiting in late April.

Through the Needles Eye 22nd National Exhibit Embroiderers Guild of America

See EGA’s 23rd National Exhibition Through the Needle’s Eye using the button below. Here’s my work Windows in the Heart, a jewelry set made using Hardanger embroidery with a mixed media finish.

If you are interested in a class, lecture, or event for your group, please contact me using the email icon below on the right (it looks like an envelope). Happy stitching!