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by Wendy Fuller The Club has now enrolled 158 students. We’re so pleased that children are still accessing “Fun with Stitches” lessons and learning to express their creativity with needles, threads and fabrics. Presently lessons are being sent to five students in Year 1 and ten students in Year 2.
Several of these children are able to enjoy “Fun with Stitches” because of the sponsorships generously offered by various of our NSW Guild Groups. Thank you so much for this practical support.
We’re always excited to enrol new students to the YTFG Distance Club course “Fun with Stitches”. Spread the word…. Check the web page for examples of children’s work and tell others about this course. Who knows? We may be up to 200 enrolments by this time next year and many more children will have put “wow” factors into their designing and stitching. We can then admire their growing self confidence and their beautiful pieces of work. If you know a young person between 8 and 18 who would enjoy sewing, please contact Guild Headquarters.
For the full article plus photos please click here for the YTFG Members Blog
Re-published with permission from The Record, Embroiderers’ Guild NSW Inc August 2011
A proud grandmother's story:
With the guidance and help of 'Distance Pilot Study' I teach my grandson to embroider. This sometimes raises the eyebrows and brings forth the question 'why teach a boy a thing like that?'
My answer: 'So one day if he chooses to be a surgeon he can be a good one'.
You see, I taught my son to embroider and when he became a novice surgeon he was very proud of his built-in-skill to sew people together.
'I don't tell the 'raised eyebrows' that there are other more important reasons to teach people embroidery'.
It keeps alive their childhood creativity which is often suppressed in unavoidably regimented schooling. It teaches the child patience and introduces the calm often achieved with the needle and the thread in one's hand.
It teaches the joy of achievement 'I have made this and and there isn't another piece of craft like this in the whole wide world.'
I would very much like to see many, many other children participating in and benefiting from learning embroidery.