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You’ve got a basket that you have been tossing your orts, scraps, and solitary buttons into. It holds all those little things that are just too delicious to throw away but couldn’t be used in the project you were working on at the time. It’s been sitting in your studio, or next to your comfy…

In the late summer, North Shore Needle Arts Guild applied to the Silk Purse Gallery in West Vancouver for an exhibition in 2024 and we were accepted!!! Our exhibit will be called “Pick a Pocket” and here’s the details we have so far. There will be lots more information, posters and all sorts of visuals…

Here is an opportunity to learn about a traditional stitchery technique. Boutis is a traditional needlework technique specific to the Languedoc and Provencal regions of the south of France, whose origins can be traced to the port city of Marseilles in the 15th century. Here it became a highly popular form of embellishing plain, most…

Well our ABC Team has done it again! This quarter our Virtual Wednesday meet-ups will feature the study of tapestries. The recent presentation at our Guild meeting by guest presenter Sandra Sawatzky of her work The Black Gold Tapestry may have been the impetus for our ABC Team. This is going to make the fourth…

So did you check your various wish lists in 2023? Are you making a new wish list for 2024? Are there any WISPs listed? Okay, okay for those of you not in the know a WISP is a Work In Slow Progress. Each year our Guild hosts a WISP challenge. A time to check any…

One of the mandates of our Guild is to reach out to our community through displays of our members’ work. The intent of the outreach is to create community awareness of our presence and encourage the practice of stitchery. Part of this outreach includes a quarterly display of the work of a featured member of…