Award Winners: 50 Years Plus One
It’s finally a reality! Photos of the EAC/ACB Members’ Exhibition winning entries have been added to the EAC/ACB website. As one of the 50th Anniversary Committee projects, many volunteers tracked down pictures, matched photos to entries, renamed files to help keep them in order, and finally uploaded them to the website galleries. The photos for the Seminar Group Project awards and the Board Challenge winners will be live soon! Many thanks to the efforts of Beryl Burnett of Winnipeg Embroiderers’ Guild, Helen Bartel of Winnipeg Embroiderers’ Guild, Shannon Johnson of Virtual Threads, Suzan Lee of Vancouver Guild of Embroiderers and Kathryn Robicheau, an Individual Member. You’ll notice that unfortunately we are missing some photos. However, we have chosen to identify the winning stitchers. If you have a photograph of any of the missing winning pieces, please send them to us. You can reach us via the contact page to find out how. The award-winning photos from the EAC/ACB Members’ Exhibition will be added to the galleries each year as they become available.
Seminar Theme Award Winners
EAC/ACB’s 2023 seminar theme was The Stitch Goes On/Le point continue. That theme was interpreted quite differently by the three winning entrants. First Place: Diana Kelly, Lakeshore Creative Stitchery Guild, The Stitch Goes On & On & On Diana Kelly’s entry is an original design. As part of the Seminar Theme Award, the entrant provides a statement about their piece. From Diana’s statement: Second Place: Marcella Pedersen, Regina Stitchery Guild, The Stitch Goes On & On & On Marcella’s Hardanger runner was stitched with #8 pearl cotton on Lugana white opalescent 28-count linen. The design was adapted from a chart by Evelyn MacKay. No statement was submitted. Third Place: Lorraine Iverach, Winnipeg Embroiderers’ Guild, Edith Adele Campbell Starts Her Day From her entry statement: