Our Group Correspondence Course English Summer with Cheryl Sharp will be retired on December 31, 2025. While it will be available for groups until that date, it is available for individual members as a GCC Lightning Round only through August 31, 2025. Register here!
Do you want to improve your stitching? Then our Group Correspondence 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.
In the lessons, you will learn a few simple steps that will improve the look of your embroidery and will become a part of your stitching repertoire!
Gather your favorite stitchers, make a group and sign up! If you are interested in registering for this Group Correspondence Course, you can learn more about the process and download the registration form from our Group Correspondence Course page.
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GCC Lightning Rounds
Through August 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.
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!
