From the Mountains to the Sea
Welcome

From the Mountains to the Sea
By Laura Smith
www.Stitch4Fun.com

Greetings!

We’re glad you stopped by for a visit, and we’d love to have you join our embroidery journey. The Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA) is open to stitchers at all levels—beginning, intermediate, and advanced. If you admire embroidery or enjoy doing it, you have found the right place! We invite you to check out this friendly organization of embroidery enthusiasts.

Our purpose is to educate people about embroidery, the art of using a needle and thread to decorate fabric. We promote the study of the history of embroidery. We teach the stitching styles of a variety of cultures, as well as design and color as it relates to fabric and thread. See Education for more information on EGA’s learning opportunities.

The Carolinas Region offers a newsletter, RegioNews. It is published 4 times a year and is accessible on this website. The newsletter provides updates about our events including stitching seminars and retreats, online lectures, classes, and needlework shop tours, announcements from chapters, and outreach to those in need.

The Carolinas Region includes 15 chapters located in North Carolina, South Carolina, and parts of Georgia and Virginia representing about 300 members. See Membership for more information on what it means to be a member of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America Carolinas Region (CAR).


What’s Happening

Registration for the Carolinas Region retreat at Lake Junaluska, near Waynesville, NC, will close soon, but the good news is that we still have space for you!!  The facility at Lake Junaluska one of the most beautiful and interesting meeting places we have ever visited!  We will have a huge ballroom all to ourselves with a balcony and rocking chairs overlooking the lake and mountains.  There are walking trails and various amenities, like the Crepe and Custard Cafe and the Gifts and Grounds shop on the property which offer breakfast, crepes, custard ice cream, coffees, and sandwiches.  Just minutes off our site are lots of fast food restaurants, and Waynesville (10-15 minutes away) offers many restaurants and dining venues, not to mention a rich variety of shops on their main street, all eminently walkable.  You can visit Anabella’s, a cross stitch, embroidery, needlepoint, paper crafting, quilting shop just 5 minutes from Lake Junaluska.  Be sure to make that a stop, when you are out.  Registration for this retreat will close on March 26, so don’t delay!  To find out more information about the retreat and to get the registration form, click on this link to the registration packet: https://www.egacarolinas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-Spring-Retreat-Final-final.pdf

For more information about restaurants near Lake Junaluska, click on this link: https://www.egacarolinas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Restaurant-Guide-2023-Junaluska.pdf

Don’t miss out on what’s happening in the Carolinas Region! Click on this link for the February 2024 issue our newsletter, RegioNews: https://www.egacarolinas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024_RN_1QTR.pdf

The Carolinas Region is updating its mailing list.  We sent out an email on August 6, asking you to sign up and then to confirm your submission. If you have not yet subscribed to our new system or if you were not able to confirm your information, please send a message to website@egacarolinas.org.  We will be using this new system from now on, so it is important for you to sign up.  You won’t want to miss any of our upcoming events!

Chapter Presidents:  The schedule of meetings with the RD (CARPZ – CARolinas Region Presidents on ZOOM) will meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 7:30.  If you can not attend, please ask one of your other members to attend in your place.  There is a lot of information to share!


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The mission of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America is to inspire passion for the needle arts through education and the celebration of its heritage.

The Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA) is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment for stitchers of any experience level, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or other background to develop their skills and express their creativity through the needle arts.

EGA affirms the commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA).