Every year we celebrate fibre crafts by stitching in public during the Stampede in Calgary. Join us at the BMO centre on Monday and view all the great work submitted to the Western Showcase Art Show. On the last weekend of Stampede we have volunteers at the Heritage Cabin stitching on the porch and inside. Learn more about the Summer Kitchen from Stampede Volunteers and see what we are all working on.
INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
There are many activities you can do in Canada around learning embroidery, but you can connect your passion for embroidery to international events and get some traveling in too!!
In the past we have organized a guild retreat to Mexico and currently a group of us are considering the Embroidery conference in Australia - Beating Around the Bush!
Beating Around the Bush - Adelaide, South Australia - October 2020
(due to Covid-19, this has been moved to 2022)
Every two years members of our tribe make a pilgrimage to Adelaide, South Australia for the international needlework convention Beating Around the Bush.
To answer the call, hold the dates October 5-12, 2022.
Catalogues become available September 2021 and registration opens February 2022.
So far, we have a group of about 6 people who are considering going, either for 2 weeks or longer, by themselves or with their family!
To give you an idea of prices, the brochure is below. Note: these are 2020 prices, new prices will be available with new catalogue
Budget for an extra 3 days before and after the event
(you'll need the before days to adjust to the time)
Mexico Retreat - March 2018
In 2017 we wanted to do a retreat, but could not decide on a place in Alberta that wasn't super expensive or had all the amenities we wanted.
Someone mentioned that it might be easier to just go to Mexico to an all-inclusive resort and be done with it. Everybody laughed...
So we got a group together and off we went with our stitching, bathing suits and had a great time!
Too much fun not to do again.
