50th-Anniversary Patterns & Charts
As part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations, EAC/ACB is offering patterns and charts by some of our member designers. These will be for sale only until December 31, 2024. Get all of the details about these exclusive patterns!
Celebrate 50 Chapter Challenge
Team up to create one item that showcases the stitching talent of your chapter members. You can …
- Stick to the tried and true
- Collaborate on a wall-hanging, banner, biscornu, or group sampler
- Or, try something new!
How about thinking outside the box? Or maybe create a box? Design a bowl? A sculpture? Perhaps a mascot? Think creatively!
- Use any technique or multiple techniques, ground fabrics, and threads of your choice.
- Your finished chapter item may be any size.
- Projects need not be original designs, but originality is encouraged. Give credit to the designer.
Finished your Project? We Want to See It!
Share your chapter project in the Celebrate 50 Chapter Challenge Gallery!
Questions? Please contact us at Celebrating 50.
Member Wearable Art Challenge
Design a Wearable Art Accessory
Each member of EAC/ACB has received or will receive a 50th-Anniversary pin. We invite you to participate in this fun and informal challenge by designing your own piece of wearable art, incorporating your pin in the technique of your choice. Or choose your favourite fabric and mix and match style, technique, and colour. Embellish at will! Anything goes!
Once your design is complete, submit a high-quality photo through the online gallery submission form. Then showcase your design as you wear your lovely accessory at embroidery events throughout 2023.
Full details about this challenge appear on the back cover of the latest edition of Embroidery Canada magazine (Fall 2022).
Find some inspiring photos of completed accessories designed and stitched by members of EAC/ACB in the Wearable Art Challenge Gallery. A purse, shawl pin, zipper pull, hair barrette, ornament – what can you come up with?!
Créez une œuvre d’art portable
Comme vous le savez tous, le 50e anniversaire célébrant The Embroiderers’ Association of Canada/ l’Association canadienne de broderie sera célébré en 2023. Ce sera une année de célébrations! Et pour partir le bal … bienvenue au défi commémoratif du 50e anniversaire de l’EAC/ACB de créer une œuvre d’art portable.
Ce printemps, chaque membre de l’EAC/ACB recevra une épinglette du 50e anniversaire. Nous vous invitons à participer à ce défi amusant et informel en créant votre propre œuvre d’art portable, incorporant votre épinglette, en vous servant de la technique qui vous convient. Ou choisissez votre toile préférée et mélangez les styles, techniques, couleurs. Ajoutez de l’ornementation comme bon vous semble. Tout y passe!
Une fois votre création complétée, envoyez une photo de haute qualité avec votre nom et le nom de votre chapitre à celebrating50@eac-acb.ca.
Affichez votre création en la portant lors d’événements de broderie tout au long de 2023.
Tous les détails au sujet de ce défi sont sur la couverture arrière du plus récent numéro de la revue Embroidery Canada (printemps 2022) (ou voir ci-dessous). Vous y trouverez aussi des photos inspirantes d’accessoires achevés, conçus et brodés par des membres de l’EAC/ACB pour stimuler vos idées. Un petit sac à main, une épingle pour châle, une tirette de fermeture à glissière, une barrette, un ornement – que produira votre imagination?
Nous attendons avec impatience votre œuvre d’art unique!
Travelling Twinchies
To celebrate EAC/ACB’s 50th anniversary, 40 members registered to exchange small pieces of embroidered art with group members. Five exchange groups were connected, with two doing surface embroidery, two counted thread and one canvaswork. One member chose all three techniques, so she was in three groups. Five people chose two methods and were placed into two groups. To that end, each participant stitched 2″ by 2″ squares called Twinchies to share with each member of their group.
Finished Twinchies were exchanged and participants have finished their little art pieces into something creative. The finished projects will represent EAC/ACB friends from near and far. Check the Travelling Twinchies Gallery for photos of the completed embroidery exchange pieces.