Today we are bringing you news from the Cheekwood Chapter in Tennessee, Pikes Peak Chapter in Colorado, and the Susquehanna Chapter in Pennsylvania. We encourage you to learn more about them by clicking on their name. Now you can join or renew your membership with our chapters directly from our website!
Cheekwood Chapter
The Shelbyville (TN) Satellite group of Cheekwood Chapter has been decorating a tree for the community and displaying it at a local bank (rotating every year) for 39 years.
This year’s tree is at Wellworth Bank and will stay up ’til around New Years. The theme is Holiday Words, and Hearts.
On September 25th, 14 Cheekwood members enjoyed an outing to the Tennessee State Museum to see the “Samplers and Young Women: Threading Together Art and Education” exhibit.
Julia Doyle, the museum’s Curator of Textiles and Fashion, gave us a tour and spoke about the samplers. The runs through spring of 2026.
Susquehanna Chapter
Our chapter has been busy in the community lately. On November 9th member Janet Salerno taught a seasonal project to eight eager girl scouts in a local troop. The young ladies learned a variety of surface stitches with the help of five members of Susquehanna. A fine time was had by all.
Susquehanna Chapter was asked to fill the cases at Fredricksen Library for the month of December, and we didn’t disappoint. Our theme was the seasons of the year, with embroidery for each season. If you have a chance, stop by and take a look. Thanks to all who contributed. We’re really are a talented bunch. – Janet Bex
Pikes Peak Chapter
Pikes Peak Chapter is excited to announce that Wendy Moore will teach two in person projects, Moon on the Water, Thursday and Friday, May 14 and 15, 2026 and Mask It & Stitch It: Coloring your Own Canvas, on Saturday, May 16, 2026. Both classes will be held at Central United Methodist Church, 4373 Galley Rd., Colorado Springs, CO 80915.
“Ghost” stitchers are allowed! This means that if you are unable to attend in person, you can still get the kit and work on the piece with your friends after the class is over. What could be better?
Sign up is now open for both members and nonmembers! Registration will close for everyone on Sunday, February 22, 2026. Your registration fee is due within 30 days of signup. All monies are due by February 22, 2026.
Moon on the Water
Ground: Antique Blue 18 ct mono canvas
Design Size: 6” x 7”
Designed as a companion piece to Wendy’s Sunrise Reflection, this design leaves the viewer in a peaceful state watching the water ripple the reflection of the very large romantic moon. The goals for this piece are to work at moving from one color to the next as seamlessly as possible utilizing both color and texture of stitches chosen. The sky threads will glint a little as the stars rise around the moon. Long interlocking stitches such as giant brick stitched horizontally and staggered giant Hungarian ground stitches as well as darning stitches that take advantage of the canvas color, will light up around the moon down to the horizon. The moon itself will appear to glow on its own with a softness expressed with Vineyard, Pepper Pot, and Planet Earth silks. The craters of the moon will be indicated using the Circular Bargello Twist motif in two sizes. Shifting between the two and placement of segments of the Twist motifs will give texture to the moon. Add in a little glint for extra focus.
The water will reflect the colors of the sky using the softer Pepper Pot and Vineyard silk threads in darning patterns and oblique long stitches. The whole point to the design is to emphasize the reflection of the moon on the water. This will be accomplished using small shallow crescent stitches manipulated to be their flattest. These will be stitched in the exposed canvas left after completing the water stitching.
To ground the design in nature, a small spit of land, a dock, and finally the tree will give shadowed perspective to the design and help anchor the composition. The tree will also use unique versions of crescent stitches to create the sparse foliage of the tree silhouette.
Pricing:
Member = $185 ($155 for the kit, + $30 registration fee)
Non-member = $230 ($155 kit fee + $75 registration fee)
Mask It & Stitch It: Coloring your Own Canvas
Ground: 18 ct Eggshell Canvas – line drawn
Design Size: 7” x 5”
Making your own painted canvas… isn’t as hard as you think. With just some masking tape and permanent markers, you can be the artist and color a design with markers in the morning and begin stitching it in the afternoon. You will be provided with markers, line-drawn canvas, threads, and instructions on how to color that canvas. Afterward, there are threads and instructions to blend the color of the thread with the color of the canvas using overdyed threads, simple pearl cottons, and a little touch of sparkle. The design is suitable for making a tool pouch or even the insert to one of those tote bags everyone is talking about. Two colorways are offered: Warm Palette or Cool Palette
Pricing:
Member = $95 ($80 for the kit, + $15 registration fee)
Non-member = $130 ($80 kit fee + $50 registration fee)
Click on the link below to sign up for classes. Non-members, please use the purple and light blue sections. Please note, to take advantage of the member pricing, you must have been a Pikes Peak Chapter member as of November 1, 2025. 🡪 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13RW5rueMMb7ijwRZIiexUh5JmZkCDofu/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102379884952401420750&rtpof=true&sd=true
Send your checks to Shawn Miller at the address below. Contact Shawn at ega.ppc.education@gmail.com for electronic payment options.
Shawn Miller,
Education Chair
2540 Pine Valley View
Colorado Springs, CO 80920
