2024 Programs
May 7, 2024
Dawn Cook Ronningen with Collector with a Needle
Project – Ladies Waist Pockets
Lecture Description (PowerPoint): Learn the history of lady’s waist pockets from the 18th and 19th centuries. See examples from Dawn’s private collection up close as we discuss many details that help make these rare examples special. Examples include pieced and embroidered examples made from silk, linen and cotton. The lecture is about 45 minutes long with 10-15 minutes allowed for questions and discussion.
Exclusive Guild Project Description: Mary Ann Bickerton’s Tudor Rose Pocket – the perfect size for your workbasket or to display with some antique needlework tools. The full color exclusive chart (.pdf download), includes finishing instructions. Designed for 36 Count linen with thread key for silk or DMC to be worked from stash. The chart will be available for order by members on the TRSG website by March 17th. It will be emailed to purchasers in early April 2024. An optional finishing kit will be available for pre-order directly from Dawn’s Etsy site.
At some point later in the year (after the lecture), we will review the finishing steps as a group.
June 4, 2024
Becky Noland with Lucy Beam and Megan Shepherd with Lapin Loops
Discussion on how they got started in the business.
Come join us for a fun evening to listen to a mother/daughter duo and how their lives landed them in the needlework and linen community. Becky, the mom, has really fun designs and has quite the following. It will be fun to learn why she named her company Lucy Beam and the influence of her family. Maegan, Becky’s daughter, with Lapin Loops creates beautifully dyed fabrics to die for (no pun intended). She started out in a bit of a different focus and then determined this was her thing.
You won’t want to miss this! Come prepared with questions for them.
There will also be a MAGIC update so members participating can show their progress. Looking forward to seeing lots of beautiful stitches!
July 2024
There will be no meeting in July as many people enjoy their vacations and are traveling.
August 6, 2024
Cyndi S. of TRSG
Project – Tudor Rose Beaded Scissor Fob
Cyndi S., TRSG Stitcher Extraordinaire, is working on a lovely Tudor Rose based beaded scissor fob project. The picture shown is a work in progress. The background will be black and be shaped like a banner. The outer edge all around will be gold beads like the ones in the center of the rose which will really make it pop. What a fun project and opportunity to potentially learn something new!
Kits will be offered for ~$12. This will include all supplies to make the fob, directions, and pattern.
September 3, 2024
Sylvia Stecker of Running With Needles & Scissors
Project – TRSG Button Ensemble
Sylvia is a TRSG member and dipped her toes in the cross-stitch designer world in late 2022 and debuted at Market in March 2023. She’s never looked back. Her ‘Beloved’ is a stunner!
Our project will be one of her button ensembles with TRSG and a Tudor Rose emblem, similar to the picture shown below. How special and unique this will be just for our wonderful TRSG guild. Stay tuned for ordering information as this meeting gets closer.
There will also be a MAGIC update so members participating can show their progress. Looking forward to seeing lots of beautiful stitches!
October 1, 2024
Topic – Share Your Best Stitching Secrets
We all have different ways of doing things and different stitching techniques. This meeting will be dedicated to sharing tips & tricks you’ve learned along the way. Come prepared to share your secrets!
You don’t know what you don’t know!
November 5, 2024
Cissy Baily Smith with Gentle Pursuit Designs
Project – 2024 TRSG Holiday Ornament
Cissy will be designing the TRSG 2024 Holiday ornament. Cissy always has amazing pieces and we can’t wait to see what she has in store for us!
Stay tuned for more details…
December 3, 2024
Topic – 2024 Holiday Ornament Exchange
Each year members sign up to stitch and finish a holiday ornament for a secret someone. During this meeting each ornament will be shown along with the reveal of their secret stitcher. This is a really fun evening even if you choose not to participate in the exchange. You will go away being enabled!
April 2, 2024
Christy Baty and Erin Moody of Relics in Situ
Topic – Legend of the Tudor Rose
Roses show up in embroidery all the time, and many will recognize a double-petalled rose as a “Tudor Rose.” But what is a Tudor Rose and where did it come from? How are they depicted in needlework and how to are they different from a regular rose. This lecture will explore the sometimes violent history that was the origin of this flower, and the importance of this image in English iconography and embroidery.
An optional kit will be discussed during the presentation. This kit, sold separately after the April meeting for $52, is a recreation of a Tudor Rose applique canvas-work artifact from the 17th century. The original is 2 ½” by 2 ½” was worked in a variety of flat polychrome silks. Though the front of the original is faded and soiled, we are able to view the back of the piece to match colors to the original brightness. As was done in period, this is not a charted piece — it comes with step-by-step instructions on how to stitch the original design. The kit contains linen ground cloth, needle, Au Ver A Soie flat silks in 9 colors, a pattern to transfer to the cloth, and detailed instructions.
March 5, 2024
Robin Shappell of Samplerbird
Topic – Tomato Scissor Fob
Robin will be teaching us how to make her adorable tomato scissor fob.
Robin is a fellow TRSG member! During our time with Robin she will show us how to create her fun tomato scissor fob. Just after the February 2024 meeting Robin will open up her Etsy shop and offer the guild a 10% discount to her lovelies on her site. She has indicated there will be some new things to add to add to your collection! She is playing with the idea of offering another tomato piece that will coordinate with the tomato fob. Thank you, Robin! A supply list and information about ordering the optional kit, including a discount code, were sent to all members via email at the end of the February meeting. Orders can also be placed for a few days after the program.
February 6, 2024
Claudia Dutcher Kistler of Dutch Treat Designs
Topic – Sudbury Hall School for Girls
Claudia Dutcher Kistler with Dutch Treat Designs will be presenting her research on Sudbury Hall School for Girls samplers.
Sudbury Hall School for girls, located near London where Wembley Stadium is today, was founded to “provide a home and industrial training for homeless and destitute girls, who would otherwise be in danger of becoming criminals”. These girls produced some uniquely distinctive samplers featuring designs often seen in Victorian punched paper bookmarks [1860 – 1885]. You don’t often see designs intended to be worked on perforated paper included in a fabric sampler. Join Claudia as she shares with you the samplers from Sudbury Hall School, the stories of the girls who stitched them, a little history about the school, and how these designs tie in with perforated paper needlework.
January 2024
The January program will be MAGIC 2023 finishes revealed and prizes.
2023 Programs
December 2023
December will be our annual holiday party and ornament exchange.
November 2023
Our November program will be the finishing on the perforated paper ornament presented in October by NeedleWorkPress.
Members should have their kits in time to at least finish the Tudor Rose ornament in their kit.
October 2023
In October, we will welcome Vickie LoPiccolo Jennett and Maegan Jennett of NeedleWork Press to present the guild’s annual Christmas ornament. This year’s ornament will be stitched on perforated paper and finished with a felt backing.
Members can purchase kits for the ornament until October 10, 2023.
September 2023
Our September program will be a MAGIC progress update and Shelly M. will present her deconstructed Sampler on a Spool.
August 2023
In August, Cissy Bailey Smith of Gentle Pursuit Designs will lecture on Samplers from her Collection, Part 2.
July 2023
In July we will not meet.
June 2023
The June program will be a chat with Beth and Rebecca of My Sister’s Samplers and Sylvia of Running with Needles and Scissors. We will also have a progress update on our MAGIC projects.
May 2023 Quaker Hornbook Stitchalong
Beginning the first week of May 2023, we will be doing a stitchalong of Ellen Chester‘s Quaker Hornbook. Kits include the wooden hornbook, charts for two design options, and detailed assembly instructions. Our SAL will take place on Zoom twice a month and member Cyndi S. will lead us through a finishing session at the end.
Cutoff date to purchase kits is March 15, 2023.
May 2023
May’s program will be Katie Strachan giving a talk on varying levels of relief in surface embroidery. She uses three of her embroidered boxes worked in techniques from low to high relief to illustrate the various effects you can get. There is even a Tudor Rose inside one of them.
April 2023
In April Lynne Anderson, Director of the Sampler Archive Project, will give a lecture titled “Dechados”: Mexican Samplers Across Time and Space.
Lynne Anderson will discuss the richly embroidered “dechados” made by girls and young women in Mexico and the evolving role of needlework in early female education. She will highlight motifs unique to Mexican samplers, the sequence of needlework lessons that led to Mexico’s most distinctive schoolgirl embroideries, and the impact of Mexico’s changing social, political, religious, and educational contexts. Embedded in her presentation are the stories of specific Mexican girls who proudly claimed ownership of their work, leaving stitched signatures that reveal identity, geographic location, and even socio-economic status.
March 2023
Our program for March will be a Tudor Rose Darning Needlebook project. Our President, Laurie B., will be talking about darning stitches and walking us through how to stitch and finish this beautiful piece.
February 2023
Our February program will be a lecture from Cynthia Steinhoff on the topic of ‘Cindy’s Pandemic Sampler Discoveries’. Through the 2+ years of the Covid pandemic many wonderful samplers entered the marketplace. Cindy will discuss additions she made to her collection during this time and the steps that she takes to decide to buy a particular sampler – or not.
January 2023
January’s program is our 2022 MAGIC reveal. The program will consist of a slideshow of all our finishes and we will have a drawing for some great prizes for those of with completed commitments. We will also discuss 2023 MAGIC sign ups.
2022 Programs
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