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ANZEG | ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND EMBROIDERERS' GUILDS INC
ANZEG Threads magazine
The Association of New Zealand Embroiderers' Guilds produces a magazine every six months featuring the best of New Zealand embroidery, news from Guilds all over New Zealand and special features on different embroiderers and techniques.
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Threads was first published in October 1980 and started out as a black and white issue of 28 pages.
It is now 68 glorious full colour pages full of embroidery delights. It comes out every April and October. Subscriptions are welcome.
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< Our latest 64 page issue, #89 | October 2024, includes:
•Conference 2024 - reviews, news and exhibition winners
•ANZEG: 50 Years (the book is available now)
•ANZEG Outstanding Service Award presentation to Trish Hughes
•Tapestry Trust exhibition at Conference
•Education launches a new competition:
Colour Challenge 2025 - BLUE
•The new MYSTERY STITCHERY launches soon (Nov 10)
•Travel: Embroiderers' odyssey in England
Profiles on:
•Jay Hutchinson - that 'rubbish guy'
•Margaret Rietema - ANZEG Study Assistance Grant recipient on learning Chinese embroidery online
...and the launch of our next Conference in 2026
'Threads of Connection' – Palmerston North
plus other exhibitions, articles, and news from New Zealand's Guilds.
Our next issue comes out in APRIL 2025.
Please send articles to the Editor before FRIDAY February 25, 2025.
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For more information please contact the Threads Editor:
Margaret Rietema
email: editor.threads@gmail.com
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To advertise or subscribe contact:
Amanda Sherman
email: embroiderynzwebsite@gmail.com
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COVER: COME INTO THE GARDEN by Jane Siddall, Otago EG. Original design with hand stitching and construction. I am fascinated by the public’s power to believe. Is it a longing for the exotic in the suburban garden? My masks are sized for the disguise of Felis catus, celebrating in glorious technicolor their fearsome progenitors, reimagined, for social media viral sightings. Second, Open:Modern exhibition, Conference 2024. Read about the Conference exhibitions from p22...
COVER: COME INTO THE GARDEN by Jane Siddall, Otago EG. Original design with hand stitching and construction. I am fascinated by the public’s power to believe. Is it a longing for the exotic in the suburban garden? My masks are sized for the disguise of Felis catus, celebrating in glorious technicolor their fearsome progenitors, reimagined, for social media viral sightings. Second, Open:Modern exhibition, Conference 2024. Read about the Conference exhibitions from p22...