OUR NEW NAME !

There was a vote to change the Embroiderers' Guild NSW Constitution recently, and we are pleased to announce that the Guild voted to allow our Group to choose it's own name. So from 1st January 2015 we will be called Junior Stitchers Group or Junior Stitchers for short. This will make it easier for people to know who we are and what we do at a glance, and avoid confusion with a Group who may have come from the town of Young in New South Wales, Australia. We hope you like using our new name and look forward to using it at the Sydney Royal Easter Show and at various Craft shows throughout 2015. We will also be celebrating our 20th Birthday in April 2015 so you can look forward to some special celebrations events being announced throughout the year. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and we look forward to a fabulous 2015 with Junior Stitchers. Christine McKenna, Convenor Junior Stitchers Committee

Workshop September School Holidays 2014

We don't have a photo of the finished piece, but Peggy Molchanoff and Sue James will be running a school holidays workshop on Thursday October 2nd from 10 am till 2 pm at Guild headquarters at Concord West, NSW. Students will be making a Christmas Gift Bag, based on "Don't do Cutwork" by Susan Barker. It sounds difficult, but there is a secret to this work and it really is magical !! Come along and have a go, YTFG members pay $20 for the session which includes all materials. Non-members can attend for $25, all everyone needs to bring is enthusiasm and food and drink. Limited places are available so please phone asap to book your place, Chris or Janet on 9743 2501 in Sydney

Sydney Royal Easter Show workshop 2014

Wow, what a triumph we had at the Sydney RES ! We had planned a small workshop making this shooting star in felt and glitter scrapbooking card. Christine bought 10 felt craft squares and 2 large pieces of glitter card from the scrapbooking aisle at Lincraft. Some threads, beads and tinsel pipe cleaners were the final pieces to pull from the stash at home. On the day 3 ladies turned out to offer the kids a taste of stitching fun. We began at 11am on our Guild display in the Arts and Crafts hall. At first we thought we were in a poor location, but this soon changed as the day got warmer and people started coming into the air-conditioned pavilion for respite from the heat. We were just near the flower section so mums were bringing the kids in to see the flowers and soon we had a full table. With only 8 seats available we had to send some kids away for half an hour till a chair was free. By 2 pm we had used up all our supplies and all our energy too ! Some 30 plus children had made a shooting star out of felt and most had attempted a few stitches on them too. We gained a new member for Concord West on the spot and gave out lots of information about YTFG and the Guild in general. Diane Edwards also ran an adults activity on a frame where visitors were asked to add a stitch or two to a "garden" of flowers on hessian. A very successful day all around, will try to repeat next year ! Christine

We are still very active..

It's been quite a while since our last posting, so sorry to any visitors who were disappointed that we weren't more up to date. Our small Committee has been very busy lately with too many jobs needing our attention and not enough people to go around. In the next week we plan to update the site with information about our July 2014 school holidays workshop for kids, and details of the Convenor's Challenge which is running at the moment. The main Guild website, see sidebar, has more information. Please visit again soon !!