MAY 15-17, The Mid Eastern Region chapters of the Twin Tiers are pleased to invite you to visit us in the Crystal City, Corning, NY.

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1 MAY 15-17, 2020 The Mid Eastern Region chapters of the Twin Tiers are pleased to invite you to visit us in the Crystal City, Corning, NY. Seminar 2020, Through the Stitching Glass, has five fabulous teachers, some new to our area, a boutique, many fine restaurants within walking distance of our hotel and the world famous Corning Museum of Glass. This will be an opportunity to share the special bond that stitching together brings. We welcome you to explore the classes featured within this booklet and look forward to being your seminar host in 2020.

2 Boutique by Stitchery Row, operating a full-service needlework shop at 55 Washington Avenue in Endicott, Kimberly and Paul Reger, will provide a wide variety of needlework supplies designed to entice the most discerning needleworker. They may be relied upon to fulfill orders and bring them to you Seminar weekend and can be contacted directly at stitcheryrow@stny.rr.com or by calling Merchandise Night is Saturday evening at 7:30. Stitchers eagerly looking forward to stash enhancing opportunities are invited to support vendors. Full tables are available to vendors for $25. Potential vendors can direct inquiries about the evening to: Janet Ottman c/o BC Stitchers, 55 Washington Avenue, Endicott, NY janet.ottman@gmail.com To register, fill out and return form below to registrar by May 1, Name: Address: Phone Number: Name wanted on name tag: In case of an emergency, please notify Merchandise Night Number of Tables x $25 = $ Send this form and non-refundable payment in the form of check or money order made out to MER Seminar 2020 by May 1, 2020 to: Barbara Hornick-Lockard, Registrar Churchill Place, Big Flats, NY 14814

3 Proficiency Levels Basic/Beginner No experience with the technique being taught. Intermediate Knowledge of basic stitches and materials and their uses in the techniques being taught. Advanced Ability to execute simple and difficult stitches in the technique being taught, knowledge of color and design which will allow for exploration and creativity. All Levels Suitable class for all levels of experience in the technique being taught. Cost to Attend 1 day no banquet $100 1 day with banquet $150 2 days with banquet $245 3 days with banquet $335 Banquet only $50 Commuter fee per day $10 Non-MER member $ Kit Cost Calla Lilies $45 Grandma s Button Box $80 Daisy Delight Satin Box $75 Lettering for Surface Embroidery $40 Chili Peppers $85 Bumble Mini Diva Wallet $130 For the Orts in Your Life $110 Pumpkin Patch $125 Berry Bramble $85 Lady Washington Sampler $75 Gerry Stark, Mid Eastern Region Director, invites you to Through the Stitching Glass! One of my favorite things about being a member of EGA is being able to attend our regional and national seminars. The main reason that members attend seminar is to be able to attend classes from great teachers from all over the country and learn new techniques or improve ones that we are already familiar with. That is great, but more importantly for me is being able to meet people from all over our region and the country who share my passion for needlework. It is so much fun to find out what other people are working on and to share new ideas, patterns and techniques. As much as our non-stitching family members and friends may support our habit, no one understands our obsession like other stitchers. I want to thank Jean Hubsch and Beverly Hunter, co-chairs of the seminar, along with all of their committee members for their hard work over the past two years and for their dedication to EGA. They have put many hours into creating a great experience for all of us. I hope that you will have an enjoyable time learning some great new things, meeting new friends, connecting with old acquaintances or just plain relaxing and stitching. I also hope that you will have some time to enjoy the beautiful Corning area. Looking forward to a great MER Seminar! Kit cost is additional and will be billed at the time of class confirmation. Meals (except banquet night) and overnight accommodations are not included with registration.

O NE-DAY CLASS FRIDAY Calla Lilies on North Bank Road by Celeste Chalasani Embroidery Type: Stumpwork Proficiency: Intermediate Ground: Cotton and silk Design Size: 5" x 7" Kit Cost: $45 Calla Lilies

4 O NE-DAY CLASS FRIDAY Calla Lilies on North Bank Road by Celeste Chalasani Embroidery Type: Stumpwork Proficiency: Intermediate Ground: Cotton and silk Design Size: 5" x 7" Kit Cost: $45 Calla Lilies flourish in Humboldt County, California. In the Spring, they grow proudly, with large ruffled leaves and tubular flowers. The hillside along North Bank Road is dotted with calla lilies, as if someone painted the landscape for all to enjoy. In this class you will learn intermediate stumpwork embroidery while couching wire and using needle lace techniques to create a beautiful calla lily. Your kit includes the hand dyed fabrics, threads and wire for embroidering the flowers and leaves. Instructions, hand dyed silk dupioni, cotton batik fabric, fine silk threads, stranded cotton thread, felt, 33 gauge wrapped wire and needles. 4" and 6" embroidery hoops, 12" x 12" Evertite frame or stretcher bars or 10" embroidery hoop, 6" ruler, acid free green marking pen, acid free glue stick, white tissue paper, straight pins, tweezers, masking or painter's tape, small sharp scissors, needle threader, and usual personal stitching supplies including magnification and lighting. Seminar Class Schedule Friday, May 15 Saturday, May 16 Sunday, May 17 Calla Lilies Berry Bramble Button Box Lady Washington Sampler Bumble Mini Diva Wallet For the Orts In Your Life Pumpkin Patch Seminar Schedule Thursday, May 14 Registration Friday, May 15 Registration Classes Lunch on your own Classes Registration Region meeting Saturday, May 16 Registration Classes Lunch on your own Classes Banquet Merchandise night Sunday, May 17 Registration Classes Lunch on your own Classes 7:00-8:00 PM 8:00-9:00 AM 9:00 - Noon Noon - 1:30 PM 1:30-4:30 PM 5:00-6:30 PM 7:00 PM 8:00-9:00 AM 9:00 - Noon Noon - 1:30 PM 1:30-4:30 PM 6:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00-9:00 AM 9:00 AM - Noon Noon - 1:30 PM 1:30-4:30 PM Daisy Delight Box Lettering Chili Peppers Enjoy casual meals on your own at the Radisson or within easy walking distance visit Market Street restaurants.

5 Priority registration for MER members is August 1 - September 15, 2019, registrations received earlier will be treated as August 1st. Open registration is September 16 - December 1, 2019, registrations received earlier will be treated as September 16th. Send the completed Registration Form and non-refundable deposit in the form of a check or money order of $50 made out to "MER Seminar 2020" to registrar. Registrants will be notified by when the deposit is received. A second notifying you of your class assignment and invoice for registration balance and kit fees will be sent before January 15, 2020, due by February 15, If you wish to receive notification by U.S. mail, you must include a stamped self-addressed envelope with your registration. Registration inquiries can be made by writing or calling the registrar. Barbara Hornick-Lockard, Registrar Churchill Place, Big Flats, NY seminar2020registrar@gmail.com call/text Radisson Hotel Corning will be our host for the weekend. Positioned in the heart of the Gaffer District, Corning's historic downtown, Radisson offers stylish rooms and easy walking access to Market Street shopping and dining. It is conveniently located just off exit 47 on I-86 and is only 12 miles from Elmira Corning Regional (ELM) Airport. Many amenities are offered, including free on-site parking, indoor pool and fitness center. Reservations can be made directly with the hotel; single occupancy rooms are $134 a night, double are $144 and there are a limited number of suites available for triple occupancy, taxes are extra. Mention EGA. Rates are available until April 20, Commuters registering for two or more days of classes and are not staying overnight at the Radisson are required to pay $10 per day commuter fee. Studio Time is not scheduled for the weekend, however there are several areas ideal for relaxed stitching when not taking classes, guests are welcome. Radisson Hotel Corning 125 Denison Parkway East, Corning, NY Fax Grandma's Button Box by Dawn Fisher Embroidery Type: Counted Thread Proficiency: Intermediate Ground: 28-count Linen and 18-count Banding Design Size: 8.5" x 4.9" x 2.3" Kit Cost: $80 Pre-work: Yes, 2-3 hours My Grandma's button box was the inspiration for this sweet box. Stitches include lazy daisy, rhodes, detached buttonhole, eyelet, diagonal cross, cross with bar, and chain! Kit includes vintage buttons but students are encouraged to bring their own buttons. Three alphabets are included for personalization. The best part of this box - no construction required!! If you look closely, you will see this is a Whitman's Chocolate box! Bonus - someone has to eat all the chocolate before the box can be covered! Vintage buttons, directions, 28 count angel cream linen, 8 spools of Sulky 12 wt. cotton petites, 18 count banding, foam core board cut to size, batting cut to size, needle, detailed instructions including finishing instructions. O NE-DAY CLASS FRIDAY Scissors and usual personal stitching supplies including magnification and lighting.

O NE-DAY CLASS SUNDAY Daisy Delight Satin Box by Mary Alice Sinton Embroidery Type: Japanese Bead Embroidery Proficiency: Basic/Beginner Ground: 100% Cotton Design Size: 3.2" diameter x 1.

Choices of three colored satin boxes are available depending on what prominent colors of flowers are beaded by the student.

6 O NE-DAY CLASS SUNDAY Daisy Delight Satin Box by Mary Alice Sinton Embroidery Type: Japanese Bead Embroidery Proficiency: Basic/Beginner Ground: 100% Cotton Design Size: 3.2" diameter x 1.75" Kit Cost: $75 Japanese bead embroidery is the method used to create Daisy Delight. Bead embroidery in the Japanese method incorporates silk embroidery techniques translated with beads. Choices of three colored satin boxes are available depending on what prominent colors of flowers are beaded by the student. A wide variety of tri-cut and seed beads are used to cover a 100% cotton floral fabric foundation. Beads, foundation fabric, satin round box, sewing threads in black and bone, a pair of Japanese beading koma made by John Sinton Woodworking, design paper, pattern, Japanese needles, ultra fine needle threader, and color image reference. Clamps or frame stand, 7" x 7" mini stretcher bars, tacks, silk pins, awl or tekobari, scissors and usual personal supplies including lighting and magnification. Lady Washington Sampler by Dawn Fisher Embroidery Type: Counted Thread Proficiency: Basic Intermediate Ground: Linen Design Size: 4" x 12.1" Kit Cost: $75 Each band on the sampler is a part of Martha Washington s life, beginning with the Martha Washington Geranium and ending with Martha and George in their wedding finery. Students will learn her life story including upbringing, marriages, children, life with George especially during the Revolutionary War, life as the first First Lady and her life after the death of her beloved husband, George. The sampler s 20 stitches include foliage, cross with bar, diagonal cross, half rhodes with cross, tudor rose, rapid, florentine, captive rice, trellis cross, triple cross, blackwork, queen, smyrna, rice, canvas lace and Martha s dance fan. T WO-DAY CLASS SATURDAY & SUNDAY 30 count angel hair Weeks Dye Works linen, 15 shades of Weeks Dye Works over-dyed floss, needle and detailed instructions. Scissors, laying tool and usual personal supplies including lighting and magnification.

T WO-DAY CLASS SATURDAY & SUNDAY Barry Bramble by Celeste Chalasani Embroidery Type: Stumpwork Proficiency: Intermediate Ground: Silk Design Size: 5" x 6" Kit Cost: $85 Pre-work: Yes, one hour Berry

raspberries, blueberries, wild strawberries, blackberries, and trailing snowberries. Students will explore essential stumpwork techniques: padding, padded slips, wired slips and needle lace.

7 T WO-DAY CLASS SATURDAY & SUNDAY Barry Bramble by Celeste Chalasani Embroidery Type: Stumpwork Proficiency: Intermediate Ground: Silk Design Size: 5" x 6" Kit Cost: $85 Pre-work: Yes, one hour Berry Bramble teaches traditional and contemporary stumpwork techniques while employing modern motifs of berries and blossoms found in the Pacific Northwest: Pacific dogwood and salmonberry flowers, raspberries, blueberries, wild strawberries, blackberries, and trailing snowberries. Students will explore essential stumpwork techniques: padding, padded slips, wired slips and needle lace. Project notes, diagrams, silk shantung and backing fabric, fabric for detached elements, stranded silk, cotton and specialty threads, beads, felt, needles and wire. 12 x 12 Evertite frame (or similar), at least one 4 hoop, wire cutters, eyebrow brush, tweezers, sewing thread, Papermate Sharpwriter #2 mechanical pencil (or similar), acid free glue stick and archival quality felt tip pens, usual personal supplies including lighting and magnification. One hour of pre-work to transfer design and mount on stretcher bars. Students should be familiar with blanket stitch, chain stitch, french knot, long & short stitch, satin stitch, stem stitch, and split stitch. Lettering for Surface Embroidery by Canby Robertson Embroidery Type: Surface Proficiency: All levels Ground: Furnishing weight cotton toile print Design Size: Varies Kit Cost: $40 Are you frustrated when the name on your finished surface embroidery detracts from the stitching that surrounds it? This class will provide you with a method to use existing alphabets to personalize your finished pieces in a professional way. The finished sample might be used as a name tag or used in a quilt block. Ground fabric, silk thread, non-copyright alphabets, instruction booklet, needles and tracing paper. O NE-DAY CLASS SUNDAY Ultra-fine point black marker, glue stick, 4" or 5" hoop, paper scissors and usual personal supplies including lighting and magnification.

O NE-DAY CLASS SUNDAY Chili Peppers by Jennifer Riefenberg Embroidery Type: Canvas Proficiency: Intermediate Ground: Canvas Design Size: 4" x 4" Kit Cost: $85 The bounty of the warm months brings us

Play with an assortment of fun and unique stitches while learning and understanding working with color to enhance and improve on the painted canvas. Experience a wonderful assortment of threads.

8 O NE-DAY CLASS SUNDAY Chili Peppers by Jennifer Riefenberg Embroidery Type: Canvas Proficiency: Intermediate Ground: Canvas Design Size: 4" x 4" Kit Cost: $85 The bounty of the warm months brings us food for the twelve months and a veggie to stitch for each. This is an intermediate level class for the plant/bush foods in the series of painted canvases, Chili Peppers. Play with an assortment of fun and unique stitches while learning and understanding working with color to enhance and improve on the painted canvas. Experience a wonderful assortment of threads. Enjoy your Veggies! Printed instructions, hand painted 18 count mono canvas 8" x 8, large assortment of threads Stretcher bars and tacks/staples along with usual personal supplies including scissors, lighting and magnification. Pumpkin Patch by Jennifer Riefenberg Embroidery Type: Canvas Proficiency: Intermediate Ground: Canvas Design Size: 6" x 8" Kit Cost: $125 Autumn flashes its warm smiles of color in the Pumpkin Patch. A sampler of stitches creates the verdant earth on which the pumpkins sit in anticipation of harvest. Learn about color harmonies as you experience many threads and stitches and practice techniques on the canvas. Learn about using fun yarns as an embellishment to your pumpkins as you create your own unique vines. Ivory 18 count Mono Canvas 10" x 12 with line drawn design, beads, large assortment of threads in cotton, wool and silk. T WO-DAY CLASS FRIDAY & SATURDAY Frame and tacks or stretcher bars along with usual personal supplies including scissors, lighting and magnification.

T WO-DAY CLASS FRIDAY & SATURDAY For the Orts in Your Life by Canby Robertson Embroidery Type: Surface Embroidery Proficiency: Advanced Intermediate Ground: Linen Design Size: 3.5" x 4.

evolved from counted work into a surface embroidery technique that replicated in thread the linear quality and shading of early printed illustrations.

9 T WO-DAY CLASS FRIDAY & SATURDAY For the Orts in Your Life by Canby Robertson Embroidery Type: Surface Embroidery Proficiency: Advanced Intermediate Ground: Linen Design Size: 3.5" x 4.25" Kit Cost: $110 Explore 17th Century last phase English blackwork, a surface embroidery, influenced by the advent of the printing press and the availability of books with pictures, blackwork evolved from counted work into a surface embroidery technique that replicated in thread the linear quality and shading of early printed illustrations. This compact folding six-sided box is ideal for travel. Include your expired hotel room key in its construction as a memento of your seminar experience. Linen with transfer, Silk threads, gold tambour thread, spangles, silk spool thread, perlé cotton, iron-on Pellon, quilt bat, Steam-A-Seam bonding tape, mat board, needles, instruction booklet. 5" hoop, smooth jaw pliers, 1 bottle Krazy glue, plastic sandwich container with lid and usual personal supplies including lighting and magnification. Prior to class, students need to have a working knowledge of outline, seed, blanket, running, reverse/double running stitches. Bumble Mini Diva Wallet by Mary Alice Sinton Embroidery Type: Japanese Bead Embroidery Proficiency: Basic/Beginner Ground: 100% Cotton Design Size: 4.5" x 9" Kit Cost: $130 Japanese bead embroidery is the method used to create the entry-level piece Bumble Mini Diva Wallet. Bead embroidery in the Japanese method incorporates silk embroidery techniques translated with beads. The Tula Pink Bumble fabric is available in green, coral or aqua. A variety of tri-cut and glass seed beads were carefully selected so when combined they create a look of three-dimension and shading of each bumble. Coordinating lining fabrics, zipper and mini frame and wallet are included in this kit. Beads, bumble foundation fabric, coordinating finishing fabrics, Sew Many Creations pattern and wallet frame, zipper, sewing threads, Japanese beading koma made by John Sinton Woodworking, interfacing, Japanese needles, ultra fine needle threader, and color image reference. Student Provides: T WO-DAY CLASS FRIDAY & SATURDAY Clamps or frame stand, 8 x 12" Evertite stretcher bars and tacks, silk pins, awl or tekobari, paper & embroidery scissors and usual personal supplies including lighting and magnification.

10 Celeste Chalasani Celeste is a designer specializing in stumpwork embroidery and teaches at chapter workshops, regional and national M EET OUR SEMINAR TEACHERS seminars. She teaches an online class for Craftsy and an EGA ICC on stumpwork. She has been published in Needle Arts, Piecework Magazine, and GPR Designers Celeste designed and donated her Poppy Remembrance Pin in 2019 to EGA s National Outreach Project supporting America s wounded service members. Celeste is enrolled in the National Academy of Needlearts Teachers Certification program. Teaching stumpwork is a labor of love for me. I am passionate about sharing what I know. I approach teaching from the understanding that different people learn in different ways. I strive to provide clear written instructions with step by step color photos, orally explain the technique with color coded visual aids, demonstrate stitches and techniques, and work one on one with each student as they practice their techniques. Dawn Fisher Dawn is a designer at instructor with Morning Glory Needleworks and has been stitching for 40 years. She fell in love with samplers and their history almost from the start. She is an avid sampler collector and reproduces many of them. This love means each original design is researched and often tells a story. During class, students not only learn new stitches, they also learn the story behind each design element. Dawn has taught at EGA Regional Seminars, sampler guilds, shops and taught an original design at a sampler exhibit at a local museum. Jennifer Riefenberg Jennifer enjoys teaching, including skills and the pure love and joys of art and creativity, and is active at national, regional, and local seminars. Jennifer holds Teaching and Judges certifications through National Academy of Needlearts (NAN) and serves on the board of NAN as the Assistant Director of Judging. Canby Robertson Canby Robertson has been designing and teaching embroidery, painting and calligraphy for over thirty years. She has a degree in fine art/art history and is an EGA Master Craftsman in crewel embroidery. Mary Alice Sinton Mary Alice began studying Japanese Embroidery in 1990 and traveled twice to Japan to study at Kurenai-Kai. She was certified to teach Traditional Japanese Embroidery in 1999 and Japanese Bead Embroidery in 2004 through the JEC in Atlanta. She taught Young Student s class at the JEC from She teaches Japanese Silk & Bead Embroidery in several venues in and around Texas and the central USA. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design from Stephens College of Columbia, MO. She began her needle arts career studying Hawaiian quilting while living in Hawaii for five years. She has won many international awards with her Hawaiian quilts through the years. Mary Alice continues to teach Hawaiian quilting locally in Houston, TX at the Quilter s Emporium.

11 Mid Eastern Region EGA Class Registration Through the Looking Glass Seminar May 15-17, 2020 Questions? Write to or call/text Name: Address: Phone Number: Alternative Number: Chapter: EGA Number: Name wanted on name tag: May we include your name and chapter in a booklet? In case of emergency, please notify the following person: Relationship: Phone Number: Rank your class choice by placing 1 or 2 on the line next to the class description in the table below. Choose up to three days of classes, number 1 is your first choice for each day. Classes marked 2 will only be selected if your first choice is filled. Friday, May 15 Saturday, May 16 Sunday, May 17 Calla Lilies Berry Bramble Button Box Lady Washington Sampler Bumble Mini Diva Wallet Daisy Delight Box For the Orts In Your Life Lettering Pumpkin Patch Chili Peppers Are you a first time MER seminar attendee? Are you willing to be a classroom angel? Are you willing to volunteer during the seminar? Do you need a roommate? We can provide a list of others in need of a roommate. Do you have dietary needs? If yes, please explain: Do you have mobility needs? If yes, please explain: Continued

12 Priority registration for MER members is August 1 - September 15, 2019, registrations received earlier will be treated as August 1st. Open registration is September 16 - December 1, 2019, registrations received early will be treated as September 16th. 1 day no banquet $100 $ 1 day with banquet days with banquet days with banquet 335 Not a member of Mid Eastern Region, add 30 Banquet only 50 Commuter Fee, per day 10 Total Seminar Cost $ Non-refundable deposit Balance due by 2/15/20 $ Send this form and non-refundable deposit in the form of a check or money order of $50.00 made out to MER Seminar 2020 to: Barbara Hornick-Lockard, Registrar Churchill Place Big Flats, NY You will be notified by when the deposit is received. A second notifying you of your class assignment and invoice will be sent before January 15, If you wish to receive notifications by U.S. mail, you must include a stamped self-addressed envelope with your registration. Please make a copy for your own records. Registrar s use only Amount Received $ Remaining Balance Due $ Postmark Date / / Confirmation Sent Date / / Balance Received Date / / I release Embroiderers Guild of America, Inc. and Mid Eastern Region from liability for any personal injury, property damage, loss or theft while participating in or attending any functions of Seminar I understand that cancellation may be made only in writing by sending Certified Mail to the Registrar. Requests for cancellation will be refunded minus a $50 non-refundable registration fee and other charges that Seminar cannot cancel. Cancellations after April 15, 2020 will only be made in case of illness/death/ extreme emergency of registrant/immediate family. A doctor s statement is required for any illness. Any class with an insufficient number of registrants may be cancelled. Signature: Date:

Hilton Garden Inn, Auburn Riverwatch 14 Great Falls Plaza Auburn, Maine THE EMBROIDERERS GUILD OF AMERICA

SOME SPRING GETAWAY Seminar sponsored by the Southern Maine Chapter EGA March 1, 2 & 3, 2019 Hilton Garden Inn, Auburn Riverwatch 14 Great Falls Plaza Auburn, Maine THE EMBROIDERERS GUILD OF AMERICA The