… and we are on display at GPAC the Geelong Performing Arts Centre in Little Malop Street. Our tree bears decorations stitched by our members: birds, stars and balls.
Atop the tree perches our 50th Birthday Angel stitched by Rosalie Cull who masterminded this wonderful display. Thanks to all those who organised workshops, stitched ornaments and trimmed our tree.
Don’t miss seeing it on display in the foyer at GPAC until 12th night – 6th January
Our GPAC Tree
Decorations
Santa’s been
Barbara Abley with Valda King at the Opening
We’ve just completed our 2015 Exhibition! It went very well with lots of admiring visitors.
Some fabulous Raffle Prizes hand made or donated by our members were won, and here are the results:
1st Prize: Patchworked Quilt – Heather De Grandi (Ticket 0770)
2nd: Wall Hanging – Liz Moloney (0143)
3rd: Embroidered Bell Pull – Gwen Mackie (0082)
4th: Silk Fibre Bowl – Patricia Crooks (0572)
5th: Tote Bag – Gwen Graham (0652)
6th: Crewel Cushion – Meredith Stafford (0806)
7th: Crochet Doiley – Marion Dines (0342)
8th: Shadow work Cloth – Marice Goodwin (0177)
9th: “Magoo” the Monkey – Marie Nolan (0842)
10th: “Gemma” the Rag Doll – Penny Tucker (0825)
11th: Chatelaine and Cottage Garden Threads – Janet Evans (0591)
Congratulations to all the winners.
Choosing a winner to vote for in the Viewers Choice Award was nearly impossible but the worthy winner was Dianne Clarke for her Framed Tapestry of a vase of flowers.
Our winner of the My Geelong Challenge was Pam Fletcher for her beautiful 3D Sculpture of the Carousel
The Exhibition Committee lead by Sue Patterson did a wonderful job to produce and run the show so successfully. Hope they have their feet up for a little while!
Our meeting in August welcomed Elizabeth Izak, one of our members who also represents the Geelong Lacemakers. She demonstrated bobbin lace making and talked about some of the lace pieces in her collection.
Our exhibition is coming up in October and we are all stitching for our gift stall and finishing our projects for the My Geelong challenge.
To get an entry form for items to be exhibited:Exhibition Entries Submission Form 2015
To download our publicity card: Exhcard 1 final
Stitched by Alice Harrington
Showcase 2015
10am – 4pm, Saturday & Sunday, 13th & 14th June, 2015
at The Geelong Club, 74 Brougham Street, Geelong.
The Geelong Branch of The Embroiderers Guild is a member of the Artisans of Geelong and there are many beautiful pieces in this display embroidered by our members
A unique opportunity exists for one weekend only in June 2015 to view over 180 new and exquisite creations, made by fifty-five Artisans of Geelong.
These pieces were carefully curated over a period of two years by The Johnston Collection and featured in their recent ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas exhibition at Fairhall in Melbourne.
Each piece will be displayed in the magnificent rooms of the historic Geelong Club, a location rarely opened to the public. You will be able to view these incredible works of art and learn more about each of them from the Artisans.
Techniques include embroidery, textile art, porcelain art, lace-making, tatting, beading, patchwork & quilting, weaving & spinning, art dolls, painting, weaving with plant fibre, woodcraft, tapestries and more.
We have a wonderful display of embroidered items from traditional smocking to modern Textile Arts pieces as part of the National Trust’s Heritage Festival. This year the theme “Conflict and Compassion” relates to the centenary of the Anzac landing and leads us up to Anzac day next week.
Join us at The Geelong Wintergarden, 51 McKillop Street Geelong from 9am to 4pm on Friday 17th to Sunday 19th April.
A special part of the display is 2 original embroidererd postcards sent from France by Jock McQuat, a Geelong ANZAC to his sweetheart.
You can also see the postcards that our members have stitched as a challenge on the theme.
We had some fabulous visitors to our March Sit and Sew meeting. Jan Brasher and Mary Connolly from the Trolly Dollies Cloth doll makers talked about their creations and showed us some wonderful examples. Cloth dolls have such intriguing personalities and often have minds of their own when it comes to how they will turn out and the clothes they will wear.
Next Sit and Sew will have a display of work by our creative group known as GeeTag (Geelong Textiles Arts Group) Join us on Monday April 13th at 10am
” ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”
Stitched by Alice Harrington
This year the wonderful Christmas at The Johnston Collection decorations were created by members of the Artisans of Geelong Group. EGV Geelong belongs to this group and many of the creations this year were embroidered by our members.
The Exhibition includes some breathtakingly special works and is well worth a trip. You need to make a booking and you have until 24th February to see the items displayed in the rooms that Mr Johnston filled with his delightful collection of antiques and curiosities
Embroidery Geelong 