This was a silk ribbon embroidery ornament class with Kim Sanders taken via Zoom through Dayton EGA on April 9, 2025--a fun and very well-taught class! It is silk ribbon embroidery on silk dupioni with some additional beads.

What is shown here is the magnified version of the embroidery, which will be finished into an ornament.

The Last Leaf was designed and taught by Marylyn Doyle via two Zoom classes with technical assistance from Jane Ellen Balzuweit for the Metal Threads SIG (Special Interest Group). It was stitched using Japanese Thread, pearl purls, spangles, silk sewing thread, and DMC floss on a linen ground. I started it pretty much a week before the 2nd class via the first week's class recording and finished it probably the day after the second class.

This is only my second small project stitched in goldwork. I enjoyed learning new techniques such as stretching the purl and adding the wrapped floss, color shading with the changing of the silk, and the pin hack for the spangles. 

This Silk Ribbon Initial project by designer Audra Kennedy was one that I greatly admired in the 2024 EGA National Seminar catalogue. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to take the class then, but it was recently offered by the Stan Hywet Needlework Guild in Akron to which I also belong. Delphiniums, foxglove, forget-me-nots, primroses, hydrangeas and more---a fun project to stitch! Using silk ribbon and cotton floss thread on linen, it was started May 2025 and finished June 2025.

This was my first embroidery--a bit scary not having a count to tell me if I was doing it right; but after my strokes counting wasn't always possible, so I've now started embroidering which has led the way to other techniques! English Summer was an EGA Group Correspondence Course, done in 2020. It was embroidered on Kona cotton with a muslin backing using a variety of threads: 1 silk, 2 metallics, 10 cottons plus beads.