Our Open House was a big success with a few hundred visitors who enjoyed the embroidery and packed the Tea Room. Classes will resume in September. If you missed Open House, catch us at the St. Jacobs Quilt and Fibre Art Festival from May 22-25 or at the Black Sheep Festival of Contemporary Textile Art […]
We’ve received a note from St James Cathedral in Toronto about a show by textile and mixed media artist Hilary Rice. The show runs at St James from Thurs May 10 to Sun May 20. For more information check the poster here.
The Guelph Tool Library is putting out a call for sewing machines and sewing tools to go to the far North. For more information, see this Guelph Mercury article. Pat B will be donating. If you also have a machine that you would like to donate, Pat would be happy to deliver it for you […]
Canadian Embroiderers’ Guild London has now opened up their summer workshops to non-members. This year they have 5 days of Crazy Quilting with Judith Baker Montano, 2 days of Nature Narratives with Alice Vander Vennen and 2 days of Indigenous Beaded Artworks with Katherine Boyer. All workshops are in early June. Check the CEG London […]
Meetings and classes begin again on Tuesday, January 16th at 9 am (library/coffee) with announcements/classes at 9:30 am. Most meetings are 2 weeks apart except for one 3 week gap between Jan 30 and Feb 20.
Our Nov 21 meeting will be our 5th class. Stay for the Afternoon Program – the magnetic needle minder. We’ll also have the mobile sharpening service Sharp My Knife outside. We invited SMK so we could get our sewing scissors back to their best. They take cash or cheque only. Nov 28 is an extra […]
Classes have now begun at the Guild. Memberships may be taken out at any time during the year but you should check in to see if a Fall class that is already underway can accept another student. There are still spaces in some Winter classes. Our Afternoon Program schedule has been revised from the one posted […]
A description of all classes is now ready on the Classes page. Scroll down past the general information and you will see the new lists. The newsletter should be out next week.
Ann Bernard sends us this news about her upcoming blog posts: Laura Dobrindt offered me the pieces made by our Guild to display at The Village of Arbour Trails, at 32 Bayberry Drive in Guelph, on July 3. When they arrived here and I was looking through them, I realised that we had all created […]