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🎄 Annual Christmas Competition 🎄

At our December meeting you can submit any piece of work you have done during the year, we all vote and there will be three lovely cash prizes for you to treat yourself with! 

2025 Projects

Playing card challenge - alter a playing card a week; anything goes!

Travelling Pages

Embroidery World Tour

Check the folder at the meeting for pictures and further details

June: Egypt

Think Coptic woven textiles as well as ancient Egypt. 

Stitches: blanket stitch, chain stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, seed stitch, stem stitch, twisted chain stitch and couching. Pyramids, hieroglyphs, scarab beetles, Tutankhamun, cats, ibis.

July: Mexico

Stitches: cross, satin, running, chain, Otomi stitch. Bright colours, floral motifs, and symbolic representations of nature and folklore. Day of the dead, Frida Kahlo, Aztec & Maya civilizations, chocolate, tree of life.

August: Norway

Hardanger (whitework): a drawn & counted thread technique Squares, rectangles, triangles, crosses, zig-zags, diamonds, 8 pointed star Stitches: Algerian eye, buttonhole, cable, picot, satin, running, wrapped bars. Traditional costume - Bunads, Vikings, runes, Northern lights, Munch.

September: Morocco

Intricate patterns, geometric designs, floral motifs, and Arabic calligraphy. 

Stitches: cross-stitch, satin stitch, running and double running stitch backstitch, chain stitch. Roses, ceramic tiles, the hand of Fatima, Berber carpets, lanterns.

October: Panama

Chosen for Guna Mola, a type of multi layer reverse applique. Animal and plant motifs in bright colours with simple embroidery.

Harpy eagles, dove orchid, Wounaan & Embera traditional tattoos, devil masks 😬.

Panama has one of the highest concentrations of species on the planet.

November: Sweden

Huck embroidery on Huck fabric(? 🤔) Monks cloth (? 🤔) or Aida (! 😁), in other words fabric with warp & weft threads that ‘float’. Huck embroidery weaves the thread through the fabric; no knots apparently and no stitches showing on the back. Vikings again! Northern lights again! Moose, lakes & forests, midsummer celebrations, reindeer, Sami duodji (traditional craft)

Dalmålning (Dala folk art especially the Dala horse)

December: Ireland

Mountmellick: white on white embroidery; motifs based on plants found around Mountmellick: blackberries, dog roses, shamrocks, oak and fern.

Stitches: cable, stem, herringbone, coral, chain, couching, French knots, bullion knots, Cretan, feather, fishbone, fly, cable, satin, seed, long & short and…the tricky Mountmellick. The Book of Kells, shamrocks, leprechauns, Newgrange, Giants Causeway, celtic knots, hares, green.

2026

The challenge for 2026 will be... 

More details to follow.