We will be doing Marion Scoular's Pulled Stitches Clover Group Correspondence Course (the chapter will pick up the teaching fee for each Dayton EGA member who wants to participate). The only cost to members will be the Text Fee, mailing, and supplies (linen and pearl cotton). We will Zoom this in the evenings. Registration is now closed and the GCC is full. The GCC will continue through June/July 2025.

We will be doing Chottie's Blackwork Sampler as an ongoing monthly program for 2025. Two bands are being released on the first of each month, beginning with January 2025, with individualization encouraged. A supply list with a stitch count and dimensions were sent in December 2024, and can be done on Congress cloth or linen, using DMC cotton and a Kreinik (or other) gold braid. This is free to all Dayton EGA members--except for materials.

We will continue our quarterly Sunday afternoon Stitch-a-Longs. February 9 (postponed from January), April 6, July 6, and October 5, 2025 from 2-4 PM Eastern Time via Zoom. 

Our Metal Threads SIG (Special Interest Group) meets via Zoom the first Monday of each month at 7 PM Eastern Time. Our next meeting is on March 3, when we will begin "The Last Leaf" with Marylyn Doyle. The Zoom invitation goes out the Saturday before we meet.

Our Cincinnati Satellite has regular stitch-ins scheduled for the first Tuesday of each month, in their usual place--the Centennial Room in the Madeira Municipal Building, 7141 Miami Ave., Cincinnati. Stitch-ins begin at Noon and end around 2 PM or so, Eastern Time. The dates for 2025 are as follows: February 4, March 4, April 1, May 6, June 3, July 1, August 5, September 2, October 7, November 4, and December 2.

Dayton EGA Programs for 2025

• January 8 (Hybrid, weather permitting): Jenny Adin-Christie lecture - Preserving the Past and Creating the Future, the Work of a Professional Embroiderer (lecture at 10 AM Eastern Time)

  • January 25 (Saturday--via QCSG: Zoom only): Claudia Dutcher Kistler - Colored Bristol Samplers (lecture at 10 Eastern Time)

  • February 11 (Tuesday--via QCSG: Zoom only): Kim Ivey of Colonial Williamsburg - Regionalism in American Samplers (lecture at 7 PM Eastern Time)

• February 12 (Hybrid, weather permitting): Ann Strite-Kurz lecture - Creative Uses of Blackwork on Canvas (lecture at 11 AM Eastern Time)

  • February 13 (via Columbus EGA: Zoom only): Relics in Situ - In the Collections at the Huntington Library (11 AM Eastern Time)

• March 12 (Zoom only): Jane Ellen Balzuweit Lecture - Whitework (note the change of time to 7 PM Eastern Time for the lecture, with the meeting to begin at 6:30 PM Eastern)

• April 9 (Zoom only): Katie Strachan lecture - Caskets and 17th Century Needlework Education (note the change of time to 7 PM Eastern Time for the lecture) - NOTE: This is a 90-minute lecture!

• UPDATED! May 14 (Hybrid): Relics in Situ - "In the Archives of the Burrell Collection" (this is a new Relics lecture)

• June 11 (Hybrid): Anna McDowell lecture - Dorset Buttons (lecture at 10 or 11 AM Eastern Time)

• July 9 (Hybrid): Jennifer Riefenberg - Changing Colors for a Design

• August 13 & 20 (Zoom only): Hazel Blomkamp workshop - Scottish Summer Pincushion (10 AM - 2:30 PM Eastern Time for each Wednesday) - REGISTRATION HAS BEGUN, so check your email!

• September 10 (Hybrid): Kate Strasdin lecture - The Dress Diary (10 AM Eastern Time)

• October 8 (Zoom only): Anna McDowell workshop - Spring Flower Dorset Button (Time TBA)

  • October 29 (Wednesday--via QCSG: Zoom only): Joanne Lukacher - Vassar Sampler Collection (lecture at 7 PM Eastern Time)

• November 12 (Zoom only): Tanya Bentham workshop - Or Nué Heart (10 AM Eastern Time)

• December 10 (Hybrid): Celebration and Kate Festo lecture - Rozashi (Time TBA--probably 11 AM Eastern Time)

Note!

Due to the close timing of the three workshops in 2025, registration will be spread out and take place as follows:

• Hazel Blomkamp will register January 6 through February 14, 2025 for her August class.

• Anna McDowell will register April 7 through May 16, 2025 for her October class.

• Tanya Bentham will register July 7 through August 15, 2025 for her November class.

For EGA's Virtual Lecture Series: https://egausa.org/virtual-lecture-series/