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
EGA National has introduced a new method of membership renewal! For the first time ever, primary members will renew online via the EGA website. The process if very simple! Plural members and life members will continue to renew through their chapters. For details, read this article on the EGA National website: https://egausa.org/step-by-step-how-to-renew-your-ega-membership-online/
The CAR’s Spring Retreat will take place at Lake Junaluska, NC, from April 26 – 28, 2024. In addition to enjoying a weekend of stitching, we will hold our spring Board of Directors meeting.
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!
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).