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How We Got
Started
Several
members of the Canadian Embroiderers' Guild, Guelph, many of whom
were giving workshops and teaching classes, were invited to
mount a show of their work at the Wyndham Art Store gallery in
February of 1996. They
called the show "Connections". The same group proposed
a show to the Wellington County Museum, and later the same year,
along with invited artists from other embroiderers' guilds,
mounted a show called "Two for Tea" in which each
fibre artist found a partner to create either a tea pot or cosy.
Shortly
thereafter, in January of 1999, Connections held its first
meeting, and joined the Ontario Network of Needleworkers as a
guild. Early goals were
to produce at least one show per year in a gallery, to support a
sister organization Threadworks by serving on the
committee and sponsoring prizes, and to have one workshop a month in members' studios.
Some members are now published authors and show
internationally. Many members also continue to belong to
embroiderers' guilds and quilting guilds as teachers and
executive members, and
continue to be regarded as pioneers.
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