From the Mountains to the Sea
By Laura Smith
www.Stitch4Fun.com
Don’t miss the announcements below
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
The CAR SPRING 2025 retreat is now open for registration! We will return to Lake Junaluska, NC, for the weekend of April 25-27, 2025, for our retreat and region meeting. Several new activities are planned. To see the registration packet, click this link: https://www.egacarolinas.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-Spring_FINAL__01-03-25.pdf
Did you know that EGA now sponsors Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in a variety of techniques? Currently running are SIGs in Beading; Metal Threads; Silk, Metal, and Surface; and Surface Embroidery. Starting April 6: Counted Thread. For details, including schedules and contacts for each group, click on this link: https://egausa.org/special-interest-groups/
Save the date! The Carolinas Region will hold its Fall Retreat 2025, “Back to Class,” at the Hampton Inn in Rock Hill, SC, on September 26-28, 2025. We will offer one half-day class and one full-day class. Registration will open after our Spring Retreat (see above).
Have you had any interesting chapter program or projects? Have you found a good way to do community outreach? Writing up these activities for publication in our CAR newsletter, RegioNews, is a great way to share your ideas with other chapters in the region. Submit your articles to website@egacarolinas.org
If you have not yet subscribed to our region’s mailing list, please send a message to website@egacarolinas.org. You don’t want to miss any of our upcoming events or announcements!
Chapter Presidents: The monthly CARPZ meetings of CAR Chapter Presidents with Gail Smith, our Region Director, is scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM. If you can not attend, please ask one of your other members to attend in your place because a lot of information is shared in these sessions.
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).