World Embroidery Day 2025 | Highlights

Thank you to everyone who wrote in to share with us all the marvellous ways the needlework community celebrated World Embroidery Day last month.

Here are a few highlights:

Stephanie Drehs | New York, USA

‘I belong to a Sampler Guild and last year on World Embroidery Day we stitched at the Orchard Park Public Library located in Orchard Park, NY, USA.

People stopped to observe and asked questions about both stitching and our guild.

It was so successful that the library invited us back this year and asked if we would do a couple of classes this time.

I decided that cross-stitch would probably be the easiest thing to teach in the hour time slot I had.

The age range of the students spanned elementary school aged girls, to young women in their 20's, to senior ladies and a gentleman. I’ve included two photos, the first shows ladies from the guild stitching and the sampler on the left is ‘Death by Cross Stitch’ stitched by one of our members.’

‘The second photo was taken during one of the classes, it’s a mother along with her adult daughters.’

‘Thank you for your wonderful magazine, I look forward to every issue.’

Deborah Love | Queensland, Australia

‘World Embroidery Day is a wonderful time to celebrate the joy of stitching and this year the Embroiderers’ Guild Queensland (EGQ) got in a few days early, hosting an afternoon tea in our rooms on Sunday 27 July.’

‘The event included a display of the 2025 Challenge entries as well as two fascinating talks from Li-Anne Woo (EGQ) and Janelle Byrne (Miegunyah Queensland Women’s Historical Association).’

‘The talks were about a special piece of Elizabethan clothing fragment from our Collection, and the Miegunyah Kent quilt restoration.’

Thank you, Stephanie and Deborah, for your thoroughly enjoyable reports. It’s such an affirmation for us all to know that needlework continues to be a vibrant and relevant artform that we can delight in sharing with others.