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
HURRICANE HELENE RELIEF: As those of you who live in our region know, Hurricane Helene had devastating effects on parts of North and South Carolina. Two shops in our region are supporting the residents of some of these areas by offering the patterns for ornaments designed especially to raise money for this purpose. The Proper Stitcher, working through Cross Stitch & Crafts in Tennessee, is selling her ornament pattern, “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” through November 9. See her explanation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tflr1fsHpv4&t=268s
Jackie du Plessis has designed a Hurricane Helene Charity Ornament called “Rise Above the Waters” and Cathe Ray (Needle in a Haystack) is offering a thread keep, both of which are available from Sassy Jacks Stitchery: See information at https://www.sassyjacksstitchery.com/ornament/
The CAR SPRING 2025 retreat will return to Lake Junaluska, NC, for the weekend of April 25-27, 2025, for our retreat and region meeting. Details will follow as the plans become finalized.
Why don’t we have our next Region Seminar in the works? The answer is simple: To run a seminar, you need to have a Seminar Director to oversee the process and keep the plans moving. To date, this role remains unfilled. If you are interested in taking on this challenge, contact our region director, Gail Smith, at regiondirector@egacarolinas.org.
The Carolinas Region started updating its mailing list last fall. 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 or announcements!
Chapter Presidents: The CARPZ meetings with Gail Smith, our Region Director, have been changed for November and December because of the holidays. Instead, the November and December meetings will be combined and will take place on December 4 at 7:30 PM. 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!
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).