Ontario Network of Needlewworkers AGM

May 12th, 2011, I traveled to London, Ontario for the Ontario Network of Needleworkers Annual General meeting. Above is the Oakville Stitchery Guild's Display of needlework. My friend, Margaret is working at the booth. I had needle work at three displays! Yes I am an overachiever!

Here, Mavis from the Canadian Embroiderers' Guild Guelph is looking after our artwork! A lovely display of detailed needlework.

My Jeweled City piece is right next to work by Erin and Doeteke. Margaret's mask is just beautiful.

A close up of our fish display for the OSG. Tracey found the netting on the playground. Another Go Green initiative.

My third display is the fibre art Group of Eight. We all participated in the cigar box challenge, each art work is truly unique! It was a lovely display for a new group to the O.N.N.

This is the Group of Eight Display. My Funky Form Vase is next to Linda's exquisite fibre egg. The photo below shows Jan's awesome encaustic art, my watercolour box and Heather's beautiful mask.

We had a very exciting day going to the business meeting, listening to the guest speaker, admiring all the guild's displays and meeting a lot of new needle workers! We even toured the University of Western for Jayne to revisit her memories.

Ontario Network of Needleworkers AGM

A Lovely Embroidered Piece from the London Embroidery Guild

May 2nd, the Annual General Meeting for the ONN was held in Guelph, Ontario hosted by The Connections Group. Each guild brought fibre art and embroidery for their displays. A general meeting was held for the reps, followed by a Whistle Stop demonstrations. The general public and members were invited to see the displays and the CD Challenge in the afternoon. The Vendors' mall was the best yet with many books, threads, yarns,and paints. The next AGM will be held in London next May. The theme will be A Gathering of Threads. This promises to be a very exciting event with 3 days of workshops, meetings, dinners and a fashion show.

Oakville Stitchery Guild Display


Oakville Stitchery Guild
( my nest pincushion, landscape, covered journal and framed bird)

Canadian Embroiderers' Guild Guelph
( my book marks )

CEG Guelph

Susan Strachan Johnson demonstrating pabric

Marion Spanderjt demonstrating gold leaf on fabric

Gordana Brelih demonstrating the use of tyvek

All in all, it was a great day! Oakville's, Sherry DelRizzo won the CD Challenge with a lovely Stumpwork Embroidery. I am lucky to belong to two wonderful embroidery guilds. I am looking forward to a great time next year!

A Two Month Break

The last of summer at Lakeside Park in Oakville. I discovered this little gem of a park, while delivering a piece of art to the Oakville Museum for the Festival of the World of Threads. I took my little buddy along and we had a delightful time at the park. I love the Lakeshore in Oakville!

Lake Ontario shore line.

View from the park

A Grand Tree in the Park!!!! Yes, those are artists and their easels.

Oatie enjoying the surroundings.

Nesting is a new theme challenge for the new year of the Oakville Stitchery Guild. My little ATC is going to be in a book cover pocket, for my completed Sketchbook, another OSG challenge. This ATC is hand felted.

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Among the many shows I have been participating in, this was one of them, The St. Clair Artwalk in Toronto at Penny Milton's gorgeous home and studio.

My art work hanging on the wall at Penny's.

My one stitch challenge for the OSG, president's Challenge. I used a piece of painted and stamped fabric, a straight stitch and some silk applique for the poppies. I is embroidered only with straight stitch and beaded. It is also the correct size for the Ontario Network of Needle workers Challenge for next May! I am ahead of the game!!!! More to come very soon on the other shows, I have had and I am getting ready for! My apologies to my followers that thought sometime had happened to me. I love you for asking why I wasn't blogging. And congratulations to my young mixed media artist friend, Sandra Spagnuolo who has just started her blog. I should have a link very soon,

Keep stitching, Donna

Ontario Network of Needleworkers

This week I was fortunate enough to go to the annual meeting of the Network of Needleworkers representing the Oakville Stitchery Guild. This year it was held in Peterborough in the Kawarthas. The Guild in Peterborough put on a very fine meeting in the Evinrude Center with very good food. The displays of work from 16 different guilds were awesome. I got so many ideas and was able to take many pictures to share with the guild. I took our guild project, St. Peter Patch and our Go Green Challenges for our display. Above is part of our display with a variety of projects all made from recycled materials.




This is a fibre art piece made by Jan Vinnai and a doll made by Sherry Del Rizzo.




A unique fibre book made by Heather Van Reisen and a beautiful wallhanging by Val Garnett

A photo of our whole display of Go Green Challenges.

A close up of a St. Peter block made with paper, stitch witchery, watercolour crayons and fabric made by Sybil Rampen. Sybil held the Mycon workshop at Joshua Creek Studio for our members. My job was to complete the project. I backed each block with peltex, black fabric and quilting cotton. Also, I added embroidery to each block.

Another block made by Sandra Spagnuolo during our Guild At Work Day.

The whole Guild project hanging at ONN. I added cotton strapping and ribbon between each block to create a gridded wall hanging. We are planning to enter our Guild's St. Peter Patch into the Guilded Threads Show in September at the World of Threads in Oakville.

Above is a photo of my small fibre art piece called Black Dog, Blue Chair. It recently sold on the last day of my show. Last of all, my name on the street in front of the Greenwood Quiltery Gallery in Guelph.

Tomorrow I am off to the Grand National Postcard Reception at the Joseph Schneider Haus in Kitchener. More exciting news on that next week.