Japanese Embroidery

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Comment by Pamela Harding 1 day ago

Hi Jennifer! I'm up in the Seattle area, about a 5 hour drive from Eugene. I'm probably the closest to you where we have an active JE group. The next closest would be Lynda Patterson in the Bay area. Unfortunately the listing from the JE teachers is somewhat deceptive - both Kay Stanis and Diane Nicholson have taught here, they don't live here (Kay is in Wisconsin and Diane in Regina, Canada.

However we do have at least one JE class each year through our EGA chapter. Most years we have Kay, and in April 2010 we will have Mary Alice Sinton from the Houston area. Mary Alice is a certified JE teacher and you can easily start your study with Phase I then. We also try to do weekend stitchins at my house once every month or two...in fact we will be doing it this coming weekend. Everyone comes over and spends the night so we get the maximum stitching time.

I hope this info helps, and I would love to speak more to you about it if you like. You can contact me directly at needlearts@comcast.net.

Pamela

Comment by Jennifer 1 day ago

Thanks everyone for the information and Jeanne your avatar is beautiful! Also, Jeanne my home state is Maryland!

Comment by Jeanne Chandler on December 1, 2009 at 3:17am

Hi Jennifer, The way to get started in Japanese Embroidery is to find a teacher through the Japanese Embroidery Center, as suggested by Christa. While you're on the JEC website look over the various phases in Japanese Embroidery education to get a sense of what we do. If you're interested in proceeding, get in touch with a teacher and sign up for Phase I and she will take you on from there. I began three years ago here in Maryland with Tonie Evans and will be starting Phase IX in February. My avatar is a photo of my Phase VII piece. Good luck! Jeanne

Comment by Christa Evans on December 1, 2009 at 1:30am

Hello Everyone,
The Japanese Embroidery Center out of Atlanta posts a list of instructors across the USA on their website. I took a quick peak and it looks like Kay Stanis and Dianne Nicholson are out of Washington state. They can be contacted from that site here.
Hope everyone is enjoying their embroidery!
Christa

Comment by Jane on November 30, 2009 at 8:37pm

Hi all,
our newest memeber, Jennifer, is in Eugene Oregon. As you can see from her message below she is interested in finding out more. Is there anyone within easy reach of Jennifer who could help her out?
jane

Comment by Jennifer on November 30, 2009 at 12:57pm

Hi Jane,
I would like to join the Japanese embroidery group-I have never done Japanese embroidery before any suggestions on doing something basic?

Comment by merrilyn on November 17, 2009 at 7:49am

Just received my Nuido is anyone planning on going to the special class in Sydney

Comment by Michiko kamoshida on November 13, 2009 at 9:33am

Hello everyone who loves stitching.
I just have done a 2day introductory course of Japanese embroidery.I am pleased to find a lot of people doing Japanese embroidery in the world and am excited to have started it.

Comment by Carol-Anne on November 6, 2009 at 10:36pm

Thanks Jeanne. Of course! I have seen those discussions but did not link the with the forum! My brain needs a little prompting in the right direction sometimes :-)

Comment by Jeanne Chandler on November 3, 2009 at 1:05am

Hi Carole-Anne
The forum is one of the sections of the Stitchin Fingers site. There are a couple of tabs on the opening page, one is groups and another one is forums. The forum is not specifically dedicated to Japanese Embroidery, but interesting.
Jeanne

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