Registration is open for our Online Studio class Swirling Tulips with Gail Stafford!
Stylized tulips and Florentine embroidery (Bargello) combine to create this design. Notice how your eyes naturally follow a path of circular motion as you view the needlework. The design is shown in a blue-green and and blue color combination, but participants may choose to stitch the design in a different color family. The instructions for this class will be provided as PDF lessons. Click here to learn more and register!
Read our Community Spotlight on Gail Stafford: Bargello, Canvas Embroidery, and Design
Registration closes on May 7, 2025. The PDF lessons will be posted weekly starting starting July 2 through July 16, 2025.
Click here to register for Swirling Tulips
Here’s a quick rundown of how our online studio classes work: Students get access to the class content based on the class schedule 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.
GCC Lightning Rounds
Through May 31, 2025 any member may register for the Group Correspondence Course (GCC) Lightning Rounds featured below. 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.
Beginning Teneriffe Lace with Jonalene Gutwein
Beginning Teneriffe Lace will give you the basics of the beautiful needlelace technique of Teneriffe. Learn More and Register!
Boca Blossoms with Carol Currier
Boca Blossoms is a beginner to intermediate crewel embroidery course with a focus on soft shading using one color family but varying the color order. The stitches include Chain Stitch, Fly Stitch, French Knots, Long & Shorting Shading, Outline/Stem Stitch, Split Stitch and Straight Stitch. Learn More and Register!
Cosmos with Kim Sanders
Cosmos introduces students to needle painting, one of the most realistic forms of surface embroidery. Learn More and Register!
Jacobean Fantasy with Kay Stanis
Giving new interpretation to designs of the seventeenth century and blending them with the silk and metal of the twenty-first, in Jacobean Fantasy, we will create an exquisite floral design on silk fabric with detached sheer fabric. Learn More and Register!
Sweet Bag Sewed of Silver and Gold with Melinda Sherbring
Stitch an embroidered bag like the ones that were in style in England from the mid-1500s to the mid-1600s on Sweet Bag Sewed of Silver and Gold. Read our Interview with Melinda! Learn More and Register!
