Registration for our Online Studio class Goldwork Peony with Lizzy Pye is open through August 4, 2025!
Learn a variety of traditional goldwork techniques with this sparkling gold peony. Techniques include: felt padding, thick felt padding, metallic kid leather, string padding, plain couching, combined couching, colored couching, pearl purl, chipping, spangles, cutwork and plate. This may look overwhelming but, with Lizzy’s guidance including both written instruction and video, you will have the confidence and knowledge to complete the flower.
Registration closes on August 4, 2025. The PDF lessons and videos will be posted starting November 5, 2025 through January 28, 2026.
Click here to register for Goldwork Peony
Here’s a quick rundown of how our online studio classes work: Following the class schedule, students get access to the class content and to a class discussion forum where the teacher will answer students’ questions and where students can post photos of their progress and communicate with each other. PDF lessons can be downloaded at any time up to two months after the last lesson is posted. Please check the details for each class to see if the class format will include video instruction.
Lightning Rounds
We have 5 GCC Lightning Rounds available for registration through August 31, 2025. These are a selection of our Group Correspondence Courses that have been hand-picked by our Education Department and made available for individual EGA members to register without a group for a limited time. Click the pictures below to learn more about each course.
Avondale with Carol Currier
Avondale is an exploration of a summer garden using basic crewel embroidery stitches in interesting combinations. Learn More and Register!
Daydreams with Barbara Kershaw
Join Barbara Kershaw in Daydreams, a Group Correspondence Course focused on Schwalm embroidery, a beautiful form of German whitework embroidery traditionally worked on an off white evenweave linen with white thread. Learn More and Register!
English Summer with Cheryl Sharp
Do you want to improve your stitching? Then our course English Summer with teacher Cheryl Sharp is the course for you! Perfect your skills while stitching a stunning interlaced heart featuring ripe strawberries and a Tudor rose. This course provides a lesson on how to prepare the fabric, transfer designs, and set up an embroidery on stretcher bars. Learn how to use variegated hand-dyed threads and try silk, cotton, and metallic threads while stitching the basic surface stitches. Beads will add some sparkle to your embroidery. This course will be retiring on December 31, 2025 for groups and it’s only available for individual registrations through August 31, 2025. Learn More and Register!
Love and Laughter with Denise Harrington Pratt
This lovely counted thread piece was inspired by the abundance of colors and flowers in nature. It was also inspired by the abundance of stitches available to the counted thread embroiderer. And Denise’s motto is, when you don’t have the stitch you need, invent one! This piece offers the student a great opportunity to play with a lot of different stitches that are used in unique ways to create vibrant, stylized flowers. Learn More and Register!
Shimmering Dreams with Mona Hill
In Shimmering Dreams with Mona Hill, ever-larger sparkling squares rotate around a shiny central medallion to finish in a star silhouette. This glorious 10” x 10”composition of metallics, silk threads, and blending filaments explores laying silk, shading, beading and couching techniques, and working layered and composite stitches, (including sprats head and Amadeus hearts). Learn More and Register!
