Welcome to the Examplary Needle Guild
“With Careful Hands Our Work Complete.
Let Kindness Guide Our Deeds
For Knowledge, Friendship and Virtue Seek
Our Legacy, Flowers Not Weeds.”
We are a group that meets on even months from February through December
RIP Kathy Schaff
As many of our members already know Kathy Passed away on January 16, 2025 after being hospitalized since November. Kathy was a past president of our Guild and was currently serving as our Secretary. Kathy was the person who always volunteered to help and did many things to help the guild. Although Kathy had many health issues she never complained and always had a smile on her face.
Kathy was also a member of the EGA – Southtowns Needlenuts and also was serving as Secretary.
Kathy was the daughter of Virginia & Howard Marks and grew up in Elma, NY She worked as a nurse at Children’s hospital for many years until her retirement. She is survived by one son David who will miss her very much. She also leaves a Brother Michael (Lisa) Marks.
There is a go fund me set up by David to help with burial expenses, if you are able to contribute that would be great.
Below is a link to help find her go fund me site.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-kathy-schaffs-family-in-their-loss
Next Meeting Friday February 28, 2025
St Matthews United Church of Christ, 5289 McKinley Parkway, Hamburg, NY 14075
10:00 am
Program: Perforated Paper
Instructor: Stephanie Drehs
This is not the Class picture but an example of perforated paper and floss. I will replace with the actual project when its available.
Designer of the Year: 2025
The 2025 Designer of the year is Stacy Nash.
Select one of her designs (large or small) to stitch in 2025.
Fully finish it either as a pillow, drum, pin keep pillow, framed, etc.
During the December meeting next year there will be drawings for gift certificates for lucky members who show their completed project. This is open to all members who either come to the meeting in person, attend on Zoom or e-mail a picture of their completed project.
Thanks to all members who entered the 2024 drawings for Designer of the Year.
World Embroidery Day
July 30th
World Embroidery Day is on Tuesday, July 30th.
In observance of World Embroidery Day,
Come in and see us and we can tell you all about our craft and guild. .
We will be in a area with the books they have in their collection about embroidery. We will be stitching from 10:00 AM
until 7:00 PM.
Please be our guest at our next meeting:
Please use the link below to print our membership application or be our guest at the next meeting by contacting me at [email protected] or calling me at 716.308.3713
Show & Share
Founded 1992
The work in this area has been create by our talented members and shared at our meetings.
The Examplary Needle Guild (ENG) was founded on November 4 1992. It is devoted to the study and preservation of Sampler Embroidery. Stitchers and non-stitchers are welcome to join–Our goal is to educate our members and foster an appreciation of historic needlework.
Meetings are held at St. Matthews United Church, 5289 McKinley Parkway, Hamburg, NY 14075 beginning at 10am. Dues are $40.00 per year. Membership to the Guild is in October of each year. Members enjoy workshops, lectures, guest teachers, sampler and needlearts displays.
Joint Project with the Buffalo History Museum
Current Project
The guild was approached by the Buffalo History Museum to work on a group of American samplers. There were about 20-30 samplers in a box & the only thing done to them was to assign accession numbers. They asked us to write detailed descriptions of each sampler & to put each sampler into an acid free folder.
A small group of members went to the museum for a few hours each month & in the course of a year; we were able to accomplish the assigned task.
The museum houses a wonderful gift shop. We decided that we would like to chart one of the samplers from the group, create a chart for it & give them to the gift shop so they could be sold with all proceeds being retained by the museum. Each guild member will be given a copy of the chart.
The progress to date is: the chart was created manually & stitched from the manual chart. The photo is the completed reproduced sampler. The next step is to transfer the manual chart into a computer generated charting program. That is where we stand today.
Member, Stephanie Drehs, manually charted & stitched the sampler. She is in the process of taking an online class on Historic Samplers. Once the class is completed, she will have the necessary skills to transfer the manual chart into the computer program.
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Teachers and Program Leaders who have taught at a ENG meeting or Event”
Lauren Sauer “Sleeping Beauty Awakened”
Linda Vinson “1860 Floral Box, Reversible Mini Sampler
Catherine Theron “Quaker Needle Roll”
Jackie duPlessis “One Moment in Time; Ode”
Merry Cox “A Young lady’s Work Box” Off to Williamsburg, Stitch, Mend and Mark, Ophelia
Sherri Jones
Carolyn Webb