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December brought our yearly holiday party and judging of the presidents challenge. The president's challenge this year was to make a...

November is when we have our chapter's "annual meeting" and a luncheon to go with it. Every year we get a speaker, and this year we...

Marge Kelly, who worked extensively on the "Through the Needle's Eye" exhibit, took the October meeting to give us an in-depth review of...

It's that time of year! Things are starting to get chilly (or at least they should be) and everyone wants to snuggle up under a warm...

Written by former chapter president Cinda Hall My tale of my first biscornu... I love the look of a Bisornu and have always wanted to try...

For May, Lisa was given the study box from national containing a bunch of information, pictures, and patterns on Florentine stitching...

The Spring Take Home a Program (THaP) meeting held by the Mid-Atlantic Region (MAR) and hosted by our chapter was on April 6th. It also...

If you're like me (Liz), you were EXTREMELY excited to learn bargello. Patty taught us all how to make a frame weight/paper weight. She...

November marks our chapter annual meeting. And due to Thanksgiving, it doesn't fall on the typical 4th Wednesday. We had our annual...

For our October meeting, we did the "take home a project" from the last region meeting. Gerty attended the meeting and then taught our...

September was our usual yearly service project. Every year our members buy some fleece and make simple tie blankets to donate to a...

As usual, I'm running behind again on recaps. So for now I'm going to just skip ahead to our last meeting from July! We met on the 26th...

In December, we did a nice little virtual meet up for our Holiday meeting. We were still able to do the President's Challenge voting....

It's been a while! We've been doing lots of the same - Zoom meetings once a week to chat and doing our monthly projects via Zoom as well....

The pandemic is still a thing so we continue to meet via Zoom. But we are definitely finding fun/creative ways to "get together" and work...

It's a little late, but here's a recap of our May meeting! Once again, we had to meet over Zoom but we made the best of it. Our project...

Another month, another Zoom meeting! While we've actually had several Zoom meetings since our March meeting, this was the "official" one...

The chapter project for this month was two fingertip towels where we would stitch little trees from Mary Corbet's Twelve Trees. Each...

Welcome to the newest feature for the Philadelphia Area Chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America - we're starting a blog! Going...