Are you up for the ONN Challenge? When the Ontario Network of Needleworkers get together, they like to show off what they can do. This year, the Challenge is “Gathering Together”.  This could mean a group project. Or did you think of smocking? Or ???

The Challenge projects from all the Guilds will be displayed together at the Annual Meeting of the ONN on October 26th. Are you up for the challenge?

The Gallery has been updated. Class info is updated. Registration Form and Supply lists can be downloaded from the Classes page. Member Information (including all dates) can be downloaded from the Resources page.

We will be exhibiting at the Aberfoyle Fall Fair (57 Brock Road S) on Sat Sept 8th, all day. If you haven’t had a chance to see our work, do pop by our table and be amazed!

Your next opportunity to see work from our Guild will be at the Black Sheep Festival of Contemporary Fibre Art. That will be on Sat July 7th at the Elora Centre for the Arts from 10 am to 6 pm. Check it out! There’s lots to see and do!

We’ve received an email from Anne Kelly letting us know about her Travel Tags project, which was in London, England. If you are interested in participating the Canadian show, have a look at Anne’s blog for the details. If you include your address, tags will be returned to you once the show is over. You may still have the tag you made at Guild last year and it may match Anne’s template (10 cm x 6 cm). It’s a small project with lots of potential for fun!

Here’s a little item that might interest you:

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 on July 7 in Elora. We’ll have displays at both events.

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 if you can get it to her at the AGM or at Open House. It’s always a shipping problem to get machines & supplies to the north so this is a great opportunity to send some much-used tools to remote communities.

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 website for details. Registration deadline is April 15.