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Exhibition was a triumph

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We were thrilled at the response to our Biennial exhibition.

Raffle winners 2025 are :

Patchwork Throw: Althea (Geelong Grove)

Pamper Hamper: Soo McLure

Bollard: R Justus

Chocolate Hamper: M Hammond

Cards and Box: Rachel Kirby

Gourmet Hamper: Anne Boland

Stitch Painting Kingfisher: Gail Spong

Winners of our 2025 Challenges are :

People’s Choice: Felicity Gallina

Individual Challenge: Liandre Hawkes & Marjorie Kavanagh ( first ever draw)

Group Challenge: Patchwork Plus Guidance Group (Florist Display!)

Join us for our Embroidery and Textile Art Exhibition 2025

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We’re Excited! Our Embroidery and Textile Art Exhibition is just a month away on September 13th and 14th ! Gather your friends and join us. Not only are our collective talents on display, there will be a Gift stall, Book stall, Destash table, Raffles, Refreshments and Retrospective displays covering many years’ work by two of our talented members. See the progress of Geelong’s World’s Longest Book and our guest tutor Jennie-Marie Tempest will have her amazing work on display.

Ex poster 2025 web finalDownload

“A Whyte Christmas” Exhibition at The Heights, Aphrasia Street, Newtown

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The National Trust of Victoria have asked the Embroiderers Guild, Geelong Branch to be part of the Whyte Christmas Exhibition at “The Heights” Aphrasia Street Newtown from July 14th to August 4th [Wednesdays to Sundays]

We have been busy sewing gift tags and making many decorations for the Black, White and Gold Christmas tree. It will be stunning!

Embroidered pieces will be displayed in several rooms of the house. Aprons in the kitchen and some beautiful bags in the dressing room. Guess what’s in the bathroom?

Bring your friends and enjoy a “Cold Christmas” with us and the National Trust ! https://embroiderygeelong.org/events/

Our Exhibition 2023 has Up, Up and went !

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We enjoyed a very successful weekend with many visitors and an impressive array of beautiful exhibits.

The Group Challenge winners “Ocean Grove Group” with their entry Dandelions

The raffle proved popular and the results are:

Chocolate Heaven.    Liz Davis  

Hardanger Cloth.       Carol Reeve

Health and Beauty.    Sally Hare

Green Vessel.            Geyle Tong

Gourmet Indulgence.  Karen Thornton

Blackwork.                 Lis Nyssen

Patchwork Quilt.        Margaret Neill

Winners of the awards for their work are:

People’s Choice Award:   Marion Dines   Boro hand stitched Quilt

Individual Challenge:    Liandre Hawkes Embroidered Owl

Group Challenge:       The Ocean Grove Group   Dandelions

Thanks to all our members who entered work which made our exhibition such a success.

Our hard working committee and the volunteers who worked at the weekend are also due an enormous vote of thanks.

I wonder what the theme of our next exhibition in 2025 will be? Watch this space!!

There is Something in the Air!

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That’s the theme for the Challenges in our exciting Exhibition of Embroidery and Textile Arts. Our Phoenix is finally rising from the Ashes and the exhibition is here.

To be held on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th September at the Geelong West Town Hall in Pakington Street, from 10am to 4pm

Will the Canvaswork group triumph again, or will another group take home the coveted Group Challenge Trophy? Individual members will also enter work specially designed to meet the challenge. Public votes will determine the most popular items in the show.

Our members will be demonstrating different types of embroidery and you might even have a go yourself.

See many styles of embroidery from Slow Stitch and Sashiko to Counted threads, Canvaswork, Patchwork, Art Quilts, Fabric books and Creative Explorations. Find little Rabbits, Dragonflies and even maybe a Monkey!

We have been busy making delightful handmade items for the Gift Stall and there will be Refreshments available to give you a second wind. Raffle prizes are gorgeous!

Put the dates in your diary – Bring all your friends to this exciting and artful show! Entry $10 for adults, includes Raffle ticket.

Up Up and Away, Cancelled again!

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Once again we have been prevented from running our excellent exhibition.

We have sadly decided that it is too much of a gamble to go ahead. It is too much to ask our volunteers and loyal visitors to be exposed, with the numbers of covid cases on the rise in our neighbouring areas. Extensions of the lockdown now seem likely.

The raffle will still be drawn as advertised and if you have tickets please hang on to them.

We hope that you will get to see the wonderful artworks that we have been creating at some time in the not too distant future when our Phoenix finally rises from the ashes.

Stay tuned and stay safe!

Excitement is building

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We never stand still! We have our birthday meeting on Monday 14th June with visitors from Embroidery House. We will be honouring our members who have reached their 25 year status.

We are trying out a new Guidance Group – Slow Stitch starting on Thursday 8th July

We are on track now for our exhibition, brought forward from last year but now up and running on Friday 10th – Sunday 12th September. Up, Up and Away! is the theme and it should prove to be very well worth a visit, as usual.

More about these will be announced as the time nears.

Shazam! What a Success!

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Winner of People’s Choice Group challenge – Canvaswork Tiles

Geetag’s Golden Scrolls

Our much anticipated exhibition flew by last weekend . By all accounts a raging success. The quality of work was amazing and it is always a joy to see items that have been produced by our members at home and which suddenly see the light of day at exhibition times.

The Raffle Winners are as follows:

1st Jacqui Beltchev No. 0905

2nd Sue Butler No 0308

3rd Barbara Tol No. 0336

4th Jenny Bakos No. 0145

5th Madeleine Campbell No. 0232

6th Sally Atkinson No. 0546

7th Jenny Foster No. 0134

8th Georgia Mellas No. 0479

9th Barbara Morgan No.0588

10th Pauline Veale No. 0436

11th Joyce Hunter No. 0498

We ran a People’s Choice award and the worthy winners were:

Most Popular Exhibit: “Rackham fragments” Quilt by Brenda Ryan

Individual Challenge: ” Treasure Chest” by Denise Bell

Guidance Group Challenge: “Tiles” by Canvas Work Group.

Shazam! 50 Magical Years

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Canvaswork A Monagle 18Excitement builds as we  prepare for our exhibition – a very special one for our 50th birthday with the theme of 1001 Arabian Nights.

From Friday September 14th to Sunday 16th from 10am – 4.30pm at the Vines Road Community Centre, Hamlyn Heights, Geelong

There will be over 300 items on display and lots of Gold for our birthday. Specially worked challenge pieces on the Arabian Nights theme have been made by individual members and our special interest groups. They will make for a very exciting exhibition.

Hand made gifts will be for sale and refreshments are available at the venue.

Download a copy of the colourful poster

Thanks to our sponsors

Geelong Connected Communities, Bunnings, Spotlight and Cottage Garden Threads.

 

Off and running

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Breaking Ts cropOur first Sit and Sew meeting for the year was held at St Davids on Monday 12th February. A great turn out to hear the speakers from the Lions Club of Quilters, Victoria They are endeavouring to collect, record, preserve and display quilts that reflect what local quilters produce in communities across the state.

We have already had a very successful introduction to the year with the first Summer school teaching Wool Hexagons, Tassells, and Bejewelled Treasure Chests.

We also featured at the Craft Alive show in Werribbee and had the first meeting for the year of our Wyndham Vale Group – now  meeting at the Manor Lakes Community Centre on the first Thursday of the month. Canvaswork group meets on the third Thursday of the Month and have had one session designing amulet bags and are about to learn creative ways to colour canvas

Don’t forget to save the date for Breaking Traditions our GEEtag Textile Arts Group Exhibition on March 16th- 18th. Entry is free from 10am – 3pm at The Shearers Arms Gallery, 202 Aberdeen Street Geelon West

Tickets are now available ($10) for the Opening night with Glenys Mann, drinks and nibblies and of course the stunning exhibition.