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From the Textile Artist Weekly Newsletter: In the face of social distancing and self-isolation, it’s a sad fact that spending time in-person with others who share your passion for textiles has become an impossibility. Maybe you’ve been looking forward to a stitch workshop that’s been cancelled? Or perhaps your local embroidery group is no longer…

Remember the EGA offers some options for our temporarily quiet times. If you are not used to spending all your time at home, you may be starting to get antsy or a little restless. But aren’t we lucky to pursue an art that we get to work on from the comfort of our home? Not…

We have now been advised that our facility remains closed until at least May 3. I think it may be for quite a bit longer than that, so given that your spring cleaning is probably all but completed and that you have finished your WISP challenge and are almost done with the December ‘Flight’ challenge,…

25 MILLION STITCHES – ONE STITCH FOR EACH OF THE WORLD’S 25 MILLION REFUGEES Please join this project to hand-stitch 25 million stitches: one stitch for each refugee. How does making 25 million stitches help refugees? We believe that this project is a way for us to engage with this global crisis instead of ignoring…

As discussed at our January meeting, there is a need for pouches for animals rescured from the Australian fires. To obtain details on the pouches click here

The program at our Thursday January 9, 2020 meeting was the Post Card Challenge for the Canadian Quilt Association Conference in Edmonton this coming June. When we did this for the 2018 Conference, we handed in 52 of the 1,600+ that were sold and $11,000 were donated to Children’s Hospital. This year 100% of the…