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Ann Barker-Griffith is an EGA Certified Needlework Judge.

Barbara M. Kershaw has a passion for learning and sharing her knowledge of the many varied and wonderful forms of embroidery generally called whitework. She has taken many courses and classes from the Embroiderers’ Association of Canada (EAC), Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA), and the American Needlepoint Guild (ANG). Barbara is certified as an EGA Master Craftsman in counted thread. She also studied in Germany at the Museum de Schwalm in 2005 and 2011. She has been teaching for over 20 years at various EAC national seminars, EGA national and regional seminars, guilds in Canada, America and Bermuda as well as two International Teaching Tours of the USA. Barbara is the author of EGA Individual Correspondence Course Basic Study of Schwalm Embroidery. Her book Exquisite Schwalm focuses on Schwalm filling stitches.

More about Barbara Kershaw

Individual Correspondence Course: Basic Study of Schwalm Embroidery

Beth, who is a member of our Camellia Chapter in Sacramento, CA, has been interested in textiles, fiber arts and needlework since the age of 5, when her grandmother, who owned a yarn shop, taught her to knit. Beth has taken advantage of opportunities to study design and techniques with EGA, ANG, the Royal School of Needlework and various quilt guilds and local shops; she has been an EGA Certified Judge since 1993. In October of 2018, Beth had 2 original quilts juried into the Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara, California. In 2019 she became the chair of our Master Craftsman: Quilting program.

BettyLou Pendleton is an EGA Certified Master Needlework Judge.

Carol Korman is an EGA Certified Master Needlework Judge.

Carol Lynn Stratton is the chairman of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA) Master Craftsman counted thread program, has been a juried member of the EGA Fiber Forum since 2001, is a certified Master Needlework Judge, and is a member of the EGA Judges Certification Committee. She was awarded the Gold Thread Award for the Great Lakes Region in 2006 and her work has won two Bobby Pilling Awards and has been accepted into three EGA National Exhibits. She judged the 2017 National Exhibit. Two of her pieces are in the EGA permanent collection.

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Photos: See some of Carol Lynn’s pieces for Fiber Forum 2018

Master Craftsman: Counted Thread

Carol Currier is certified by the National Academy of Needlearts (NAN) as a surface embroidery teacher. She served on the national board of The Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA) for eight years including as national President from 2007-2009. Carol is currently the EGA Chair of the Master Craftsman program in crewel embroidery. She was honored in the September 2018 Needle Arts as Designer Across America. Carol holds memberships in EGA, NAN, American Needlepoint Guild (ANG), and National Association of Needlework Teachers (NETA). She is a partner in a needlework shop in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

More about Carol Peao Currier

Group Correspondence Course: Avondale

Master Craftsman: Crewel Embroidery

Carole Rinard has studied color since she was in high school and has incorporated color theory in the clothing and textile classes she taught at the university level. She is an EGA Master Needlework Judge and a Color Master Craftsman. She has been active in all levels of EGA and has served on the national board. Since 1989, she has volunteered at the Santa Fe Opera costume shop where she has heard numerous designers and directors discuss color in costumes, sets, and lighting. She lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico with her husband.

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Individual Correspondence Course: Rainbows Bend: A Course on Color Theory with Carole Rinard

Carolyn Standing Webb of Salt Lake City, Utah, has a degree in education but finds needlework much more rewarding to teach. She grew up in a home where art was a part of everyday life and creativity was encouraged. An EGA member of our Wasatch, Salt Lake City Chapter, she has been a needlework designer and teacher for over twenty years, teaching on the local, regional and national levels. She has a line of patterns available in retail stores. Several pieces of her work have been published in books and magazines and she has won a number of prizes for her needlework. She has her Master Craftsman in Counted Thread. Her goal is to share with her students her love of needlework and to help them relax and enjoy it.

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Group Correspondence Course: Perfectly Counted Crosses with Carolyn Standing Webb

Catherine Jordan holds numerous Master Craftsman certifications with the EGA: Counted Thread, Crewel, Color, and Design. She is both the current and a past president of the Gentle Pursuits of Richmond Chapter. In addition, Catherine was named the winner of the EGA Gold Thread Mid-Atlantic Region Award as well as being a juried member of EGA’s artist group Fiber Forum. Catherine is also very active outside of the EGA. She is a 5-time recipient of Woodlawn’s Frank Lloyd Wright award for best design and was awarded Best in Show in 2008 for an original fabric painted design. She is a certified Zentangle teacher and her work in this medium has won awards with the American Needlepoint Guild in 2013 including: first place for original/professionals, Judge’s Award, Delegates Award and Best of Show. You can find Catherine teaching at local needlework chapters as well as at regional, national and international seminars.

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Video: Catherine Jordan and Sheryl Borden discuss Painting on Fabric on Creative Living

Video: Catherine Jordan and Sheryl Borden discuss Contemporary Open Embroidery on Creative Living

Cathy Trostmann is an EGA Certified Master Needlework Judge.

Charline Wells has been a member of EGA for over 25 years. She received her Master Judges Certification with Distinction in 1996. During her association with EGA she has judged numerous needlework exhibits/shows on both a national and local level. She maintains not only her EGA National membership, but also her local chapter membership in the Sandia Mountains Chapter.

Charline holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Textiles & Clothing and a Masters Degree in Instructional Design. During her early years she was selected as “outstanding Home Economics student” and won the Colorado State “Make-It-Yourself-With-Wool” competition. She has not only taught sewing classes for small business sewing schools, but also taught classes for needlework shops in counted thread, Hardanger, needlepoint, and pulled thread. Charline has taught in the business sector and in private institutions. She taught kindergarten, senior high, and adult student programs in public schools. As a management professional in business, she was the Senior Program Manager for Corporate Education at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, NM. She is currently a Docent at The Albuquerque Art & History Museum with responsibilities for coordinating the Docent Program which consists of over 125 volunteers. Her love of sewing and needlework continues as she regularly enjoys garment sewing and counted thread embroidery.

Charlotte Froman is an EGA Certified Needlework Judge.

Dr. Cheryl Christian is the former editor of Needle Arts and Inside EGA. She has been editorial coordinator for ANG’s Needle Pointers, contributing editor for Fine Lines, and a frequent contributor to Antique Review and Cotton & Quail. She is both and EGA- and NAN-certified master judge and EGA-certified appraiser. She has been Director of Judges’ Certification for National Academy of Needlearts and co-chairs EGA’s Appraiser Certification Program being certified through both EGA in needlework and the College for Appraisers in the decorative arts, as well as being USPAP compliant. Christian completed the full three-year rotation of the Summer Institute at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She publishes and lectures on material culture, textiles, judging, appraising, and history, and, in particular, the contextualization samplers. Christian practices many kinds of needlework, conducts research on textiles and history, and continues to learn as many different forms of needle art as possible. She is a juried member of Fiber Forum and exhibits work regularly in mixed media, pastel, and watercolor. She teaches judging, appraising, crazy quilting, mixed media embroidery, and design.

Cindy is Certified as a Master Needleart Appraiser by The American Needlepoint Guild (ANG), is a member of the National Association of Appraisers, and is USPAP compliant.  She has served as the Chairman of ANG’s NeedleArts Appraisal Program.  Cindy is also Certified as a Needlework Judge by the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc. (EGA), and is an EGA Master Craftsman in Counted Thread. Cindy has extensive training and personal expertise in numerous handmade needlework techniques.  Training for these programs ensures that you will be working with someone who has an experienced eye and who performs thorough research to provide you with a complete and accurate personalized assessment of your handmade needlework.

Denise Harrington Pratt is an artist and needlework designer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a passion for counted thread embroidery on linen. Denise has been teaching needlework since 1995. She has taught at Spirit of Cross Stitch Festivals, National and Regional Seminars for the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc., and EGA chapters.  Denise is an active member of our Southern Maine Chapter.

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Group Correspondence Course: Snowflake Ball with Denise Harrington Pratt

Group Correspondence Course: Star-Spangled Puzzle Ball with Denise Harrington Pratt

Diana Snyder has been instructing embroidery classes since 1980 when she became an EGA member. She has taught and exhibited on the local, regional, and national levels. Diana has EGA teaching Certification and a Master Craftsman in Counted Thread, but she teaches other classes including surface stitchery and ethnic embroideries with a specialty in whitework. She was a recipient of The Educator of Excellence Award for the New England Region, and has served as EGA Director of Education and New England Region Director.

Eileen Gibbs joined EGA in 1974, with Orange County Chapter. The first workshop attended was with Diana Springall, from Embroiderers’ Guild. What a privilege! Next in 1976, the first seminar with (now disbanded) National Standards Council, as class Angel to the fabulous Jaqueline Enthoven. The riches continued with seminar participation and wonderful teachers in a wide range of techniques. The first judged competition entered was back in the day when N.A.N. still met at Greenbrier, (1995) and the Honorable Mention was a thrilling surprise, to say the least. Having entered many times since, at Golden Thimble in Los Angeles, (Second place, needle point), Stitchers Faire, Ventura 2007, First Place Crewel, ANG Shoreline Stitchers’ Showcase, 2012, Best of Category (Needlepoint). Many other entries, and critiques have followed, sparking a keen interest in the techniques and standards of our organizations.

A Life Member, Eileen has served EGA as chapter President of Orange County Chapter (1991-1992), Mountain View Chapter (2004), and Region Director for PSR 1994-1996. Other national service has included National Chairman, Membership/Outreach 1995-96, Study Box Chairman, 1996-98, Education Exhibit Chairman Newport Beach Seminar, 2001, Orlando Seminar 2000, National Fundraising Chairman, 2002-2003, and committee positions on many seminars. A highlight of years served was the National Gold Thread Award, in Atlanta in 2005. She is also a MAL with ANG. The Judge Certification program has been completed, on an ongoing journey to finding joy and inspiration in an ever-expanding education in needlework.

Eleanor Ames is an EGA Certified Master Needlework Judge.

Gail Sirna is certified in both teaching and judging by the National Academy of Needlearts (NAN). She is also an Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA) certified Graduate Teacher. She was Region Director for the EGA Great Lakes Region, and one of the very early completers of Master Craftsman. Gail is the retired Director of Education for NAN, as well as its former treasurer and seminar coordinator. In 2004, she received NAN’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the author of In Praise of the Needlewoman, which received the Literary Award by American Needlepoint Guild. Gail has taught extensively throughout North America for over 40 years and has won many ribbons in exhibits throughout the nation.

Gail Stafford teaches mathematics at a small college in eastern North Carolina.  She has always enjoyed art in many forms.  For many years, she enjoyed stitching canvas embroidery projects and in more recent years she has been creating original needlework designs.  Though she continues to enjoy Bargello, her current focus is on translating scenic images into canvas embroidery designs.  She holds EGA Master Craftsman certifications in Canvas Embroidery, Color for Needlework, and Design for Needlework.  She has been on the faculty of American Needlepoint Guild National seminars and has presented numerous programs for EGA and ANG chapters.  Her work has been published in Needle Pointers, Needle Arts, and Needlepoint Now.

More about Gail Stafford

Group Correspondence Course: Undulations II with Gail Stafford

Georgann Lane has been a member of the Greater Pacific Region and Stitchers by the Sea Chapter since its foundation in 1982. She has served as chapter president, program chair, and workshop chair. Within the region she has been secretary, exhibition chair, and seminar chair, twice. Lane has worked on four national seminar committees and was the education exhibit liaison for the EGA seminar 2018. She is the EGA national education exhibit chair. Lane volunteers currently as a docent for the San Lorenzo Valley Museum and formerly at the Evergreen Cemetery, a local pioneer historical site. She is an avid scrapbooker and graduate of Kurenai Kai traditional Japanese embroidery.

Gwen T. Nelson joined The Embroiderers’ Guild of America in 1997.  She is a member of the Louisville Chapter and a member of National Embroidery Teachers’ Association. She has served as the Tennessee Valley Region Director for four years, has chaired two region seminars and has served as the EGA national president. Gwen has been designing and teaching beaded pieces since 2000. She has taught both at the EGA chapter and region levels and at other venues outside of EGA. Gwen designed the pieces that were beaded by the thirteen region directors for the live auctions at the 2009, 2010, and 2011 EGA national seminars and the pieces that were donated by the EGA executive committee for the auction at the 2013 and 2014 national seminars. She also designed the 2013 national seminar logo beaded pin.

More about Gwen Nelson

Group Correspondence Courses: Keeping in Shape

Master Craftsman: Beading

An EGA member since 1987, India holds teacher certification in contemporary embroidery. She was the recipient of two EGA Legacy Scholarships and one EGA Research Fellowship Grant, all used to study Yemenite Jewish and Israeli Yemenite embroidery. The resulting ethnic embroidery courses combine extensively illustrated lectures with richly embroidered projects. She also offers classes in contemporary design, mixed media, and fiber manipulation. Teaching experience includes regional and national seminars, local chapters, ethnic festivals, and community college programs.

J. Marsha Michler is a nonfiction author of 13 printed books, and 8 self-published eBooks on the topics of crazy quilting, embroidery, silk ribbon embroidery, wire jewelry, and knitting. Her quilts have won awards at quilting shows, and her work has been featured in national magazines and other publications including our Needle Arts magazine. Holding a degree in Business Marketing, and three-quarters of a degree in fine arts, summa cum laude and dean’s list, she has taught classes on crazy quilting, embroidery, and wire jewelry. She actively pursues crazy quilting, embroidery, fiber spinning, knitting, fiction and poetry writing, ballroom dancing, stone wall building, and resides with her husband and dog in the beautiful and inspiring foothills of Southern Maine.

More about J. Marsha Michler

Individual Correspondence Course: Crazy Quilting with J. Marsha Michler

Group Correspondence Courses: White On White Crazy Quilted Wallpiece with J. Marsha Michler

Jane Ellen Balzuweit holds teacher certifications in pulled thread and counted thread with the Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA). She has taught at various EGA national and regional seminars, Embroidery Association of Canada (EAC) seminars and for The National NeedleArts Association (TNNA). She authored correspondence courses for EGA and American Needlepoint Guild (ANG) and designed a petite project for EGA. Jane Ellen has taught cyber classes for ANG and the Shining Needle Society, designed for Rainbow Gallery and owned and operated a needlework store for 35 years.

Janet has been a member of our Susquehanna Chapter in the Mid-Atlantic Region since 1983. She is an EGA certified teacher and Master Craftsman in Counted Thread Embroidery, and is a former chairman of the Counted Thread Master Craftsman Program. She has taught at local chapters and regional seminars, and has authored three group correspondence courses and two Petite Projects for EGA.

Jonalene is EGA certified in Counted Thread. She is a member of our Indian River Chapter in Florida and has been teaching various forms of needlework since 1982 at EGA chapters, and events at the regional and national level. She has over sixty needlework publications under the name of Friends in Needlework and three retired EGA Group Correspondence Courses.

More about Jonalene Gutwein

Group Correspondence Course: Beginning Teneriffe Lace with Jonalene Gutwein

Judith Gulick is an EGA Certified Teacher.

Judy is an EGA-certified teacher of crewel embroidery and canvas embroidery as well as a Certified Teacher Graduate and a Certified Judge.  She is credentialed to teach Traditional Japanese Embroidery by Mr. Shuji Tamura.  She has her Master Craftsman in Crewel and in Canvas and has served on the faculty of numerous national and regional seminars.  Judy is the author of Creative Crewel Embroidery, published by Lark Books in 1998.  She has held numerous administrative positions in the Mid-Atlantic Region and at the national level.

More about Judy Jeroy

Individual Correspondence Course: Jacobean Crewel Embroidery with Judy Jeroy

Kate Festo is an EGA Certified Teacher.

Kay Haley is an EGA Certified Needlework Judge.

Kay Stanis is an internationally known fiber artist, designer, Master Craftsman, and Certified and Graduate Certified Teacher of EGA and Kurenai Kai Traditional Japanese Embroidery.  She has been on the faculties of American Needlepoint Guild national seminars, Callaway School of Needlearts, Embroiderers Association of Canada, EGA national and regional seminars, Koala Conventions, South Australia Embroidery Conference, Embroidery 2000 (New Zealand), and many independent groups.

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Individual Correspondence Course: Introduction to Metal Thread Embroidery with Kay Stanis

Individual Correspondence Course: Silk and Metal Thread Embroidery with Kay Stanis

Group Correspondence Course: Spring Splendor with Kay Stanis

Individual Correspondence Course: The Art of Teaching Embroidery with Kay Stanis

Kim Sanders is an EGA-certified teacher in Crewel and Surface Embroidery and a Master Craftsman in Surface Embroidery and Smocking. She has taught at national and regional seminars, guilds, and shops as well as ICC and GCC. Her designs have been published in Australian Smocking & Embroidery, Needle Arts, and Inspirations.

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Individual Correspondence Course: English Smocking with Kim Sanders

Group Correspondence Course: Fallen Leaves Sampler with Kim Sanders

Group Correspondence Course: Thank Goodness It’s Finished with Kim Sanders

Laura Smith is an embroidery innovator, nationally known designer, and process style teacher. She is consultant for EGA Challenge 2016 and past Chairman of Fiber Forum (2011-2015), a juried group of original designers within EGA. She holds the EGA Master Craftsman in Color and has served as chair for the Master Craftsman in Color Program since 2006. As a former director of an arts center, her education includes an MBA and undergraduate degree in chemistry.

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Group Correspondence Course: Embroidery with Mixed Media with Laura Smith

Group Correspondence Course: Mark and Paint on Canvas and Fabric with Laura Smith

Group Correspondence Course: Taming the Stash Monster

Master Craftsman: Color for Needlework

Lee M. McLeron is an EGA Certified Needlework Judge.

Linda Halpin is an EGA Certified Teacher.

Lisa Geosits is an EGA Certified Master Needlework Judge.

Lisa Smith is an EGA Certified Teacher.

Margaret Azpeitia-Taylor is an EGA-Certified Appraiser for Personal Property, specializing in Decorative Arts. She holds an International Certificate with Distinction (highest level) from the Royal School of Needlework (RSN), Hampton Court Palace, UK, in Hand Embroidery and Design. EGA Life Member, joined 1991. Margaret’s original American historical needlework samplers, mixed media textile art, wearable art and quilt pieces are in private collections internationally and EGA National Collection in Kentucky; America the Beautiful Tapestry Project – Panel Five – “Salmon Slip”, upper left. Academic: Bachelor Degree in Business from University of Phoenix, 40+ years computer and photography, and private international research. Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) Compliant.

Margaret Kinsey is an Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA) certified teacher in silk and metal thread embroidery. She is certified to teach Japanese traditional embroidery. She is the designated US teacher for the Kunimitsu Rozashi Studio and studies with Fumiko Ozaki. Margaret is the 2010 recipient of the national EGA Gold Thread Award. She teaches at all levels of EGA. She teaches at national seminars and chapters of the American Needlepoint Guild and the Embroidery Association of Canada. She was the 2012 keynote speaker and taught at the New Zealand Embroidery Guild Conference in Christchurch, NZ, and toured, taught, and lectured additional venues in New Zealand. Margaret chaired the 5th, 6th and 7th EGA International Embroidery Conferences (IEC).

Marion is a 3-year, Mark Excellent graduate of The Royal School of Needlework and a City and Guild’s Silver medallist. She has taught dressmaking in English High Schools, owned The Robin Hood Wool Shop for 13 years; taught Adult Education for Clemson University and has judged, lectured and taught in 49 states, Canada, Mexico and Australia. She is the author of many booklets and articles on Embroidery techniques.

More about Marion Scoular

Group Correspondence Course: Beginner’s Hardanger with Marion Scoular

Group Correspondence Course: Finishing with Flair with Marion Scoular

Marylyn Doyle, an Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA) certified teacher in silk and metal threads on fabric, has explored a variety of needlework to understand the history and unique techniques of each. She has taught in local, regional and national settings. She is the author of several magazine articles on embroidery and church liturgy. Her embroideries have been displayed in regional, national, and liturgical exhibits. Marylyn, from Dayton, Ohio, has been the recipient of the EGA Great Lakes Region Teacher of the Year award and was the author of an EGA Petite Project. Her passion?  Sharing needlework with others.

Melinda was a software engineer in Southern California’s aerospace industry from 1975-2013. Through her historical re-enactment hobby, she researched and published booklets on Pictish art, heraldry, and manuscripts. She found EGA in 1992, expanding her horizons to historical embroidery and studying surviving works at museums worldwide. Her first EGA Group Correspondence Course, More Than a Rose, appeared in 2016. Melinda now teaches, writes, and publishes as Threads of History.

More about Melinda Sherbring

Group Correspondence Course: More Than a Rose with Melinda Sherbring

Group Correspondence Course: Sweet Bag Sewed of Silver and Gold with Melinda Sherbring

Natalie Dupuis is an EGA Certified Needlework Judge. Natalie Dupuis holds a Master’s Degree in Education and taught as a classroom teacher and a teacher trainer in Toronto, Paris, and London where she lived for many years. After having children, she combined her love for teaching and her passion for embroidery and now teaches metalwork and surface embroidery. She obtained her needlework and art training at many different locations in England and North America. Natalie has been invited to teach and lecture for the San Francisco School of Needlework and Design, the Embroidery Association of Canada, the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, the Crewel Work Company, and Blue Bonnet Studio.

Nell Denman Smith is an American Quilter’s Society Certified Quilt Appraiser, a National Quilting Association Certified Judge, and an Embroiderers’ Guild of America Certified Master Needlework Judge.

Pat Rozendal is an EGA Certified Master Needlework Judge.

Retired from the U.S. Navy and an active Surgical Oncology Physician Assistant, Pat has a passion for embroidery, especially all forms of surface embroidery. With a Certificate and Diploma with Distinction from the Royal School of Needlework, EGA Master Craftsman in Surface and Crewel Work, and a juried member of Fiber Forum, she has the background to create at will elegant forms of needlework. She has been able to study many forms and techniques abroad and brings those skills to her designs. Pat is an EGA Certified Judge and has taught at the seminar and chapter levels.

Raven Fagelson learned to cross stitch as a child from her father.  She loves teaching, especially that “Ah ha!” moment when a student grasps a new skill. Raven holds certificate in Technical Hand Embroidery from the Royal School of Needlework and a master craftsman in crewelwork but enjoys stitching many style, especially historic surface embroidery. Raven is a EGA Certified teacher in Surface Embroidery and Crewel.

Rosemary Houston is an EGA Certified Appraiser.

Scottie Erikstrup is an EGA Certified Needlework Judge.

Scottie Erikstrup is an EGA Certified Master Needlework Judge.

Terri Brown is an EGA Certified Master Needlework Judge.

Wendy Johnstone is an EGA Certified Master Needlework Judge. Wendy is a founding member of her local guild and served on the executive team of ANZEG (Association of New Zealand Embroiderers Guilds) a Regional Representative and Education Officer. She has selected and judged throughout her region and nationally at exhibitions for ANZEG and the National Creative Fibre groups.