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
NEWS FLASH! The CAR Fall 2024 Retreat has been moved to a virtual format! We will still meet over the weekend of October 25 – 26, but all events will be held on ZOOM. We are offering 3 sessions to sit and stitch with your friends and a special presentation about the America’s Tapestry project by Stefan Romero. We will hold our Board of Directors meeting that Saturday morning. To see the details and to register for any of these virtual activities, click on this link: https://www.egacarolinas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Broadcast-Virtual-Retreat-Schedule-10_4_2024.pdf
Hot off the press! The latest issue of RegioNews, the CAR newsletter, is now available! Click on this link (https://www.egacarolinas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024_RN_3QTR.pdf) or search for RegioNews in the Quick Links menu on the right side of this screen.
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 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).