CYBERSTITCHERS EGA
 

CyberStitchers is the only online chapter of The Embroiderers Guild of America, Inc. We were chartered in March of 2000. We currently have approximately 250 members. We are a full-fledged EGA chapter, and our members are entitled to all the benefits of EGA and chapter membership.

Chapter meetings are held by email through Yahoo groups.  The meetings are held in odd-numbered months (Jan., Mar., May, etc.).  They begin on the 2nd Thursday of the month and run through the following Tues.  Board meetings are held during the same time period in even-numbered months.  Attendance is taken by poll and members attend at their leisure/convenience.

CyberStitchers is dedicated to furthering the knowledge of needlework through various classes throughout the year.  Group Correspondence Courses (GCCs) are a very popular aspect of membership in CyberStitchers, as we generally offer 10-12 of these courses every year.  GCCs offer a wide variety of stitch techniques at varying levels of skill, so there is something for everyone.

We are also dedicated to outreach in our communities.  As a cyber chapter, our members are spread literally across the world, so there are countless potential opportunities to reach out to our friends and neighbors around the globe.  This wide reach presents a number of projects for our members to participate in.  Three that are offered as chapter outreach projects are the Breast Cancer Ornament Auction held every year at The Attic Needlework in Arizona, Project Literacy (stitching bookmarks for various libraries that offer literacy programs), and Kissing Pillows (a simple patriotic design stitched up and sewn into a pillow, then given to the children/family of deploying troops - the servicemember kisses the pillow and then gives it to their loved one to keep until their return from combat).  We also offer various Outreach for One opportunities, projects that are not organized as chapter projects but are available for our members to explore individually.

CyberStitchers is a lively and vibrant community of stitchers.  We love what we do, we love to learn new things about needlework, and we love to enabl . . ., pardon, ENCOURAGE our fellow stitchers in their pursuits. ;)  If this sounds like you, come and join us!

Bookmarks Made By Joanne M.

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 - 05:13 — Meg

Joanne M made these bookmarks for last year's President's Challenge.  The bookmarks were donated to a local library in Ohio.  Aren't they beautiful?

Bookmarks Made By Mary

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 - 09:52 — Meg

Mary D, one of our members, made this passel of bookmarks for our literacy program.  They're cute and will be loved by the children who get them.  Thank you, Mary, for your dedication and time!

Bookmark Love

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 - 08:54 — Meg

One of the chapter's charities is stitching bookmarks for literacy programs.  The President's Challenge this year is to ask each member to stitch one bookmark and one Christmas ornament for the breast cancer fundraiser.  Here are six! bookmarks stitched by NancyAnn W., one of our members.  We will be featuring more of these in the next week, so keep looking.

New Member Contest

Fri, 11 May 2012 - 19:38 — Meg

As announced in the meeting, you have the chance to win this beautiful beeswax heart!

Just complete the "A Little Gem" canvaswork project and post a picture in the Chat4 folder!

Here's the underside:

A bit of background on the heart: It was made in Moldova and was bought directly from the beekeeper.  She molded the heart herself, and you can see from the back that it's truly handmade.  It weighs about a hundred grams and measures two inches across and down, with an inch in depth.

Can You BEE Here?

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 - 14:39 — Meg

As a benefit of membership in CyberStitchers, our members get a discount on one Group Correspondence Course per year.  This is called the BEE program (Big Education Event), and for the BEE, the chapter will pay the postage and course fee for one of the 10 (on average) GCCs we register under this program each year.  We'll begin registering for our 3Q BEE (Big Education Event) courses in the next few weeks.  Our 2Q BEE registrations are now closed.  The ten courses (and the quarter they're offered) this year are...

2Q GCCs (CURRENTLY UNDERWAY) -
Assissi
Cleopatra's Cat
How To's of Swedish Naversom
Roses
Sashiko
Spring Splendor

3Q GCCs (REGISTRATION OPEN - ASK ABOUT SPACE AVAILABILITY) -
Brazilian Embroidery Purse
Embroidery with Mixed Media
Finishing with Flair
Floral Whimsy
Japanese Temari Basics
Spring Splendor

If you want to register for one of these classes AND have paid your 2012 CyberStitchers dues, send an email to our Education Chair, Ellen Sedlak.  Put your name in your email, along with the GCC you want to register for!

Welcome Home!

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 - 10:57 — Meg

We're excited about our new site and hope you are too!  The new site has a lot of features and things to explore, but it's still a work in progress.  As you wander through the site, note what you think is good, what you think could be improved, and give us ideas!  Leave a comment here regarding the new site by March 31st, 2012, and be entered in a drawing for one of four prizes. 

Thank you to Kelly Jackson and Andreas Welch, especially, for getting this up and running!

Update 3/12/2012 - Prize list:  The four prizes are:
1. Sherry Serafini's Sensational Bead Embroidery
2. A packet of six skeins of silk thread.
3. Rosewood Manor's Family Reunion chart.
4. An assortment of stitching tools.

First person to get picked chooses first, and so on.

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