Programs 2025
Saturday January 25 10am: Zoom lecture with Claudia Dutcher Kistler, Dutch Treat Designs, on Colored Bristol Samplers
Tuesday February 11 7pm: Zoom lecture with Kim Ivey on Regionalism in American Samplers in the Williamsburg Collection
Saturday February 15 10am-4pm: All-Day Stitch-In
Saturday March 15 10am-4pm: Zoom General Meeting and All-Day Stitch-In
Also, Sue Bradford will talk about charting the Mary Ann Clark marking sampler from the Cincinnati Art Museum. Sue’s presentation will not be on Zoom, but all guild members will be sent a pdf of the chart.
Thursday April 3 7pm: Zoom lecture with Lianne Van Leyen, 1897 Schoolhouse House, on A Chronological History of the Sampler Making Tradition as demonstrated in Lianne’s collection of 350 + antique schoolgirl samplers with dated examples from 1726 to 1978.
Wednesday April 9 7pm: Zoom lecture with Katie Strachan on Needlework Caskets and 17th Century Needlework Education
Saturday April 12: 30th Anniversary Party - Reservations Required
Saturday May 17: Stitch-In & Time at the Mill (Limited to the first 25 who register using the form in the March newsletter.)
Saturday June 28 10am: Zoom workshop (approximately 3 hours) with Cissy Bailey Smith, Gentle Pursuits Designs Project: Sampler Stories Huswif Participants will need to order the kits using the form in the January 2025 newsletter.
Saturday July 26 10am-4pm: Christmas in July All-Day Stitch-In
Optional (free) workshop on finishing an ornament by hand, making twisted cord, etc. We are also planning some other activities relating to the theme.
Saturday August 16 10am: Workshop (approximately 3 hours) with Robin Shapell, Samplerbird
More info will follow later about a needlework smalls project. Kits will be preordered.
Saturday August 23 10am-4pm: Celebration of Ohio and also World Cross Day at an All-Day Stitch-In
Saturday September 13: Tour of the Christian Waldschmidt House
Saturday September 20 10am: Zoom lecture with Jacob de Graf, Modern Folk Embroidery on Northern Dutch Samplers: Five Centuries of Sampler Making in Friesland and Groningen
Saturday October 4: Barbara Hutson of Queenstown Samplers will spend the day with us. She’ll give both a morning and an afternoon lecture and also bring a trunk show. In person presentation only, and NOT via Zoom.
Wednesday October 29 7pm: Zoom lecture with Joanne Lukacher on Samplers in the Vassar College Collection
Saturday November 15 10am-4pm: Zoom General Meeting and All-Day Stitch-In
Members are asked to bring past guild anniversary samplers, guild projects, class projects, SALs, round robins, etc as we look back on the last 30 years. Only the general meeting will be via Zoom.
Saturday December 13: Holiday Party - Reservations Required
* We will let you know as soon as possible if we have to make any changes. Hopefully there will not be any.
* All meeting times are EST
Paulette Stewart of Plum Street Samplers will be designing our 30th anniversary sampler!