Online Courses
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Online Studio classes are a convenient way for students to take their embroidery to the next level. Studio classes take place on EGA’s website and in an environment where the student can read, review and download lessons, discuss with other students, and ask questions directly to the teacher on the discussion group for each class. Below you will find some FAQs, and two lists of classes. The first list has classes that are open for registration or with registration opening soon, and the second one is a list of classes that are currently running or were previously offered but are no longer open for registration.
Already registered for a course? Find all your courses on the My Courses page.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Before you register
What’s the online class experience like?
Our online classes usually consist of two to six lessons posted to our website following a two-three month schedule. The length of each class will depend on the number of lessons and the time between each lesson. When a lesson is posted you will receive an email with a link to the lesson page where you can read, download and print the lesson. Once you register, you also receive access to the class discussion group where you can ask questions, receive guidance from your teacher and share your progress with other students.What will I need to provide for an online class?
Most of our online classes have kit options available. More class specific information can be found in every class pageHow do I register for the class?
If a class is open for registration you will see a button that reads Take This Course on that class’ page. If you are an EGA member, make sure you are logged in to the website when you register that way the class registration will be connected to your membership*. If you are not an EGA member yet, a membership will be added to your cart along with your class registration.*If you logged in and a membership was added to your order anyway, you can update your order by visiting your cart here and removing that additional membership.
Are online courses refundable?
EGA Online Studio courses and kit fees are non-refundable.After you register
I just registered for an online class, what’s next?
Once your registration for the class has been processed you will receive a welcome email with a letter from your teacher and important information about your class. Please save your welcome email, it will include quick links wto your class and class discussion group.When will my kit be shipped?
If your class a has a kit and you registered for that option, your kit will be shipped directly from the teacher usually 1-2 weeks before the start of class.Where can I see my class?
When you are logged in, you can see your class by clicking My Courses under Members Only.Where can I learn more about using the online class and discussion group?
To help you take the best advantage of our online learning platform we have made available some instructions you can read here.When do I get access to the lessons?
Lessons for the class will be posted following the schedule on the class page. In the meantime, you will receive access to the class discussion group where you can start getting to know your fellow students.Where will I see the lessons?
Once lessons are posted, they can be found on the Course Content section at the bottom of your class page.What’s the best way to reach my teacher?
Your teacher will answer all class questions in the class discussion group.For how long will my teacher be answering questions about the class?
Teachers monitor, answer questions and interact with students on the discussion group from the day that the first lesson is posted to two weeks after the last lesson is posted.How do I get to the class discussion group?
There will be a direct link to your class discussion group in your welcome email. A link to the class discussion group is available on the class page and on each of your lesson pages. Login to the website is required.How long will the discussion group be available for?
The discussion group for your class will be available from the moment your registration is processed to two months after the last lesson for your class is posted.Technical issues
I can’t access the class discussion group, a lesson or something else on the website?
You will need to be logged in to the website in order to access your class discussion group, class lesson and other class-related, or member-related content. An easy way to know if you are logged in, is that you will see the word Profile on the top right corner of the screen. If you see the word Login, you will need to log in.I need assistance logging in to the website?
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EGA Skill Level Definitions
Basic: No experience with the technique being taught is necessary.
Intermediate: Knowledge of basic stitches, materials, and their use in the technique being taught is required.
Advanced: Ability to execute simple and difficult stitches in the technique is required. The student should also have knowledge of color and design that will allow exploration and creativity.
All levels: Class is suitable for all levels.
Open Registration or Coming Soon
These are the courses you can register for right now, along with those that have registration dates opening soon. For the courses coming soon, you have the option to sign up to receive a reminder when registration opens.
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Online Class: Winter Lights with Jennifer Riefenberg
Taught by Jennifer Riefenberg (view bio)Jennifer Riefenberg is an accomplished needle artist, meshing her love of the arts into new and varied mediums. She enjoys teaching, both the technical skills and the pure love and joys of art and creativity at the national, regional, and local levels. Jennifer holds teaching and judges certifications through NAN as a teacher/designer and judge as well as being on the board as the Assistant Director of Judging. She has won numerous awards for her needle art and other artwork to include a piece accessioned into the permanent collection at the Gregg School of Art & Design at North Carolina State University. Jennifer is also an artist with other mediums to include painting en plein air (from “life”) and photography and is a winner of national and regional awards with her artwork as well as her embroidery.
Online Course, Open Registration
The magical warmth of lights in the cold, snowy winter months glow in this peaceful and engaging design. A splendor of stitches and the palette of blues and purples are complemented by the fiery, orange and gold flames. Learn some new stitches or possibly, new adaptations on some known stitches plus, you get to try out mesh tubing as an embellishment to your piece. Registration: March 3 - April 7, 2021 | Class schedule: June - June 23, 2021
In Progress or Previously Offered
The classes below are either in progress or have been offered in the past and are no longer open for registration.
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Online Class: Ahwahnee with Lorene Salt
Taught by Lorene Salt (view bio)Lorene Salt is an award-winning stitcher. Her favourite medium is Canvaswork. She is a graduate of Ryerson Polytechnical University in the Fashion Merchandising and Design program. She has also completed the Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Canvaswork courses through EAC. She is an avid beader and jewellery maker. When designing, Lorene enjoys watching a piece come alive through colour and texture. Her classes reflect her passion for needlework as she shares her knowledge and expertise with her students. Lorene has been teaching since 2010 in both Canada and the US at the National level as well as at Guilds, Stitching shops and a variety of On-Line classes. She has completed three commissions and has pieces hanging in three countries. She lives in Aurora, Ontario and is a member of EAC, EGA, and ANG.
Online Course, Closed Registration
Our online class Ahwahnee is teacher Lorene Salt's interpretation of the stained-glass windows found in the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. Registration: July 1 - 29 Class Schedule: September 2 - November 18 (New lessons posted every other week.
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Online Class: Basket of Gold with Carolyn Standing Webb
Taught by Carolyn Standing Webb (view bio)Carolyn Standing Webb 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.
Online Course, Closed Registration
On Basket of Gold, you will stitch nine different blackwork patterns with gold and three sizes of black silk thread.
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Online Class: Beginning Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery with Judy Caruso
Taught by Judy Borreson Caruso (view bio)Judy Borreson Caruso stitched her first BDE piece in 2008 and fell in love with the beautiful threads. Now she designs and teaches BDE locally, regionally and internationally. Recently, Judy taught the EGA Online Studio class, Beginning BDE. Judy has taught BDE at the BDE International Guild Seminar for the past twelve years. She also teaches in the Madison, WI area and has taught at a Heartland Regional EGA workshop. Judy is a member and past president of the Madison Area Chapter of EGA and a member of the BDE International Guild.
Online Course, Closed Registration
Our online course Beginning Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery features the creation of a Stitch Sampler using many beginner-level dimensional stitches, including Bullion and Cast-on Stitches. Registration ends: September 30, 2020
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Online Class: Bejeweled Heart with Carol Lynn Stratton
Taught by Carol Lynn Stratton (view bio)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. 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.
Online Course, Closed Registration
Explore the basics of Blackwork embroidery with teacher Carol Lynn Stratton.
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Online Class: Brian the Bee with Hazel Blomkamp
Taught by Hazel Blomkamp (view bio)Embroiderer and author Hazel Blomkamp is, first and foremost, a lover of dogs. She is surrounded by large, slobbery Boxers and that is why she works almost exclusively in cotton on cotton and linen – so that it is fully washable.
She fiddled with textiles, yarns, threads and needles throughout her youth but embroidery, beadwork and the embellishment of crazy patchwork are what stuck and hardly a day goes by without her stitching something.
She has designed and taught embroidery and beadwork for some thirty years, along with adding a busy website when the internet was invented. Once her children no longer required constant attention, some of her husband’s colleagues were suggesting that because what she was doing was not a proper job, that she ‘go find a job’, so she started writing books. To keep them quiet and because, it was the next logical step to take.
Other than her home country, South Africa, she has taught in the UK, France, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, New Zealand, cruises down big rivers in South East Asia, and was regularly to be found flying over the Indian Ocean to Australia where she taught at either at Beating Around The Bush for Inspirations Magazine in Adelaide, Koala Conventions, or for guilds around that country
Online Course, Closed Registration
Our online class Brian the Bee with teacher Hazel Blomkamp is part surface embroidery, part beadwork. The honey bee is worked with surface embroidery, needle lace and needle weaving techniques embellished with three-dimensional beadwork flowers and leaves. The segments of the wings are filled with needle lace techniques worked as embroidery stitches using seven different stitches, with variations, all extensively covered and well described. Registration: Jan 6 - Feb 3, 2021 Class schedule: April 7-May 19, 2021
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Online Course, Short-term, Closed Registration
On Color and Design Refresher with teacher Dolores Andrew students will explore aspects of both color and design from several different angles.
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Online Class: Crème de la Crème Box with Kurdy Biggs
Taught by Kurdy Biggs (view bio)Kurdy Biggs is a counted canvas designer, teacher and owner of Threedles Needleart Designs. Kurdy holds a Level II teachers’ certification from NAN. Her geometric designs have won numerous awards from EGA, ANG, NAN, TNNA and Woodlawn. She has been published in Needle Pointers, Needlepoint Now, and Cross Stitch and Needlework. Kurdy has taught for EGA, NAN and ANG national and regional seminars and in retail shops.
Online Course, Closed Registration
On Crème de la Crème Box with Kurdy Biggs you will work on an elegant design where you will explore a variety of stitches including Walneto, padded Mistake, Crescents and Sheaf. Registration: September 2-30, 2020 | Class schedule: November 4- December 9 (New lesson posted weekly)
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Learn some of the basic principles of design as well as pitfalls to avoid, so that your ideas reflect a thoughtful and unified composition.
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Online Class: Dorset Button Needle Minder with Pat Olski
Taught by Pat Olski (view bio)Pat Olski, Embroidery Teacher Pat Olski is a professional needlecraft designer, lecturer, and instructor. Her designs and articles, which span an array of topics from traditional needlework techniques to current knitwear trends, have appeared in many books and magazines including Piecework, Vogue Knitting, Knit Simple, and Australia’s Inspirations. She loves to teach, and has taught classes in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, and Dorset button making for years at events, such as Vogue Knitting Live and Knitters Day Out, as well as at museums, guilds, libraries, and schools. She is the author of eight yarn craft books including Dishcloths to Crochet: Fun Designs to Brighten Your Kitchen! (Dover-April 18, 2018). Her newest book, a history and project based title The Dorset Button Book is about to be published.
In a 2019 interview in Vogue Knitting magazine, Pat highlighted her passionate mission to teach a new generation of makers the relevance and approachability of heritage needlework techniques. She lives with her family in New Jersey, USA, and is the president of the Bergen Knitters Guild.
Her website is www.YarnWhirled.com
Online Course, Closed Registration
Our online class the Dorset Button Needle Minder is a lovely and practical linen needle and thread holder that is an enjoyable and accessible project for stitchers of all levels. Class schedule: August 5-19
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Online Class: Embroidered Quilt Block with J. Marsha Michler
Taught by J. Marsha Michler (view bio)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.
Online Course, Closed Registration
Our online class Embroidered Quilt Block with teacher J. Marsha Michler covers patching and embroidering an 8-inch square quilt block and is intended as an introduction to the technique of using embroidery in quilt-making. Registration: June 3- July 1, 2020 | Class starts: August 26, 2020
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Registration for this course is closed. Fingertip Gloves is a study in dimensional wool appliqué, embroidery embellishment and glove construction. These fun fingertip gloves keep your hands warm while you still have the capability of using your fingertips for cell phones and tablets. The gloves are a smooth fit and feature a Velcro closed […]
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Online Class: Geraniums with Merrilyn Heazlewood
Taught by Merrilyn Heazlewood (view bio)Merrilyn is an internationally renowned hand embroiderer, designer, author and teacher. Magazine articles of Merrilyn’s work are regularly featured in publications in USA, Australia, and New Zealand. Merrilyn opened her first needlework shop in 1978. With an artistic heritage and a passion for hand work this was the starting point for a long creative and rewarding journey with needle, threads and fabrics.
Online Course, Closed Registration
Our online class Geraniums with Merrilyn Heazlewood focuses on stitching bright, cheerful geraniums and it's a great option to use up some of your stash of threads! Registration: Oct. 7 - Nov. 4 | Class schedule: February 3-March 3, 2021
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Learn the ins and outs of creating Fuchsia flowers, buds and leaves using 13mm silk ribbon with renown silk ribbon teacher Merrilyn Heazlewood. A video of Merrilyn creating silk ribbon Fuchsias is provided.
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Online Class: Goldwork Bracelet with Cynthia Jackson
Taught by Cynthia Jackson (view bio)Cynthia Jackson has been teaching, researching and writing about embroidery for over forty years. She is currently engaged in reproducing a 16th century embroidered garland. Her research is supported by the UK Textile Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London Janet Arnold Award. Cynthia is also an award winning textile artist.
Online Course, Closed Registration
In Goldwork Bracelet with teacher Cynthia Jackson you will create a lovely band bracelet from beginning to end. Registration: Nov. 4 - Dec. 2 2020 | Class schedule: Feb. 17 - Mar. 24, 2021. (New lesson posted weekly)
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Online Class: Hidden Trellises with Merrilyn Heazlewood
Taught by Merrilyn Heazlewood (view bio)Merrilyn is an internationally renowned hand embroiderer, designer, author and teacher. Magazine articles of Merrilyn’s work are regularly featured in publications in USA, Australia, and New Zealand. Merrilyn opened her first needlework shop in 1978. With an artistic heritage and a passion for hand work this was the starting point for a long creative and rewarding journey with needle, threads and fabrics.
Online Course, Closed Registration
Stitch a marvelous garden trellis in Hidden Trellises, a new online class with needlework teacher Merrilyn Heazlewood. Registration ends: September 30, 2020
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Online Class: Kimono Revisited with John Waddell
Taught by John Waddell (view bio)John has been stitching for over thirty years and loves to teach and share almost as much as he loves to learn. Canvas work with the variety of opportunities is his ground of choice. His teaching assignments have included national ANG seminars, Callaway, retail shops, EGA regional seminars and individual guilds (ANG and EGA). John is the twice President of the National Embroidery Teacher’s Association, NETA. He is also a member of EGA’s Fiber Forum.
Online Course, Closed Registration
The kimono framework on Kimono Revisited with teacher John Waddell is a great place to learn new stitches and ideas as it is a project with multiple areas of learning. Registration: Dec 2, 2020 - Jan 6, 2021 Class schedule: Monthly lessons March 3, 2021 - January 5, 2022
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Online Class: Mexican Tile with Margaret Bendig
Taught by Margaret Bendig (view bio)Margaret Bendig resides in Santa Ana, California. She teaches needlework throughout the country and in Canada, in shops in California and Arizona as well as for EGA Region Seminars and ANG National Seminars. Although she loves all needlework, her focus is on counted thread techniques and counted canvas designs. Her designs have been featured as programs and workshops for many EGA and ANG chapters as well as in Needlepoint Now and Needlepointers magazines. Margaret began designing and teaching over 30 years ago. She is an enthusiastic teacher and very willing to share her knowledge. She is always looking for an opportunity to use a skill or method in a new way. Margaret believes that we are never finished with our education and should pursue new ideas daily.
Margaret began designing and teaching over 30 years ago. Margaret is an enthusiastic teacher and very willing to share her knowledge. She is always looking for an opportunity to use a skill or method in a new way. Although she loves all needlework, her focus is on counted thread techniques and counted canvas designs. She teaches needlework throughout the country and in Canada, in shops in California and Arizona as well as for EGA Region Seminars and ANG National Seminars. Margaret believes that we are never finished with our education and should pursue new ideas daily.
Online Course, Closed Registration
Our online course Mexican Tile was inspired by the colors in Talavera Tile found in Mexico, and can be worked in one of the suggested colorways, or with whatever you have at home.
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Online Class: Passionate Pineapple with Sandie Cormaci-Boles
Taught by Sandi Cormaci-Boles (view bio)Sandie Cormaci-Boles has a passion for learning and sharing her knowledge about all forms of embroidery but particularly counted work, samplers and the history of needlework. She has taken many courses and classes from the Embroiderers Guild of America (EGA) and the American Needlepoint Guild (ANG). She has been designing and teaching embroidery professionally to children and adults since 1992.
Online Course, Closed Registration
Our online class Passionate Pineapple with teacher Sandie Cormaci-Boles is filled with pulled thread techniques and tips along with some Colonial history.
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Pathways is an elegant study in Metal Thread embroidery created by Margaret Kinsey. In this class you will create pathways that are bordered with flowers and seed-like effects by using soft wire purls, pearl purl and spangles to complete this wonderful piece.
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Online Class: Some Accumulation with Terri Bay
Taught by Terri Bay (view bio)Terri Bay, a teacher and designer, began teaching Ukrainian whitework at a Nordic Needle retreat. One class led to another and now she has taught Ukrainian whitework, hardanger, pulled and drawn thread, and blackwork at EGA national and regional seminars, chapter workshops, various retreats, and other events. She was honored when featured as the Designer Across America in the June 2018 Needle Arts. Terri is a member of EGA, EAC and NETA.
Online Course, Closed Registration
Some Accumulation is a snowy white Handanger Embroidery piece designed for the needleworker with just a bit of Hardanger experience. Registration: Feb 3 - March 3, 2021 | Class schedule: May 5 - June 16, 2021
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On Strut Your Stuff you will learn everything you need to to enter exhibitions, juried events or competitions with your embroidered works of art.
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Cross Stitch - - - you’re good at it. You love it. But you’re ready for the next step, that little “stretch” that will enable you to create even more beautiful projects. Have we got a class for you!
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Online Class: The Stitcher’s Touch with Dawn Donnelly
Taught by Dawn Donnelly (view bio)Dawn Donnelly is a mixed-media artist with a primary focus in canvaswork. She holds Level 2 certification with the National Academy of Needlearts (NAN). She teaches nationally and locally for NAN, the American Needlepoint Guild (ANG) and Embroiderers’ Guild of America (EGA). Dawn volunteers as NAN’s Membership Chairman and Dean of Faculty. In addition, she is President for ANG’s Magnificent Obsession Chapter. Currently, she is experimenting with handmade paper and finding ways to use it in her needle art, a process that earned her a Best in Show ribbon for her Paper & Stitches at NAN’s Assembly in 2017.
Online Course, Closed Registration
Our upcoming online course The Stitcher’s Touch with teacher Dawn Donnelly is all about experiencing different and new threads, and stitches while working on a sampler of sorts. Registration: August 5-September 2 | Class schedule: October 28 - January 6 (New lesson posted every 2 weeks)
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Online Class: Vintage Log Cabin with Terry Dryden
Taught by Terry Dryden (view bio)Terry Dryden has been teaching and designing for more than twenty years. Her training in art and architectural and landscape design have inspired her designs which range from delicate florals to bold geometrics and bargellos. She is continually exploring new ways to combine color, texture and stitch, and encourages her students to also expand their knowledge of new materials and techniques to personalize their work. She is a nationally recognized ANG Master Teacher and teaches at EGA and ANG Seminars, regional guilds and local needlework shops. Her designs and “In Stitches” column have appeared in NeedlePointers and Needlepoint Now magazines.
Online Course, Closed Registration
Our online class Vintage Log Cabin introduces the stitcher to the idea of interpreting a quilt design with needlework stitches to produce the vintage look of the original quilts.