Fiesta de Colores
SCR Seminar 2008

Meet the Faculty

Margaret Bendig of Santa Ana, CA, has taught needlework throughout the Pacific Southwestern/Greater Pacific Regions, in local shops and at PSR Region Seminars. Although she loves all needlework, her focus is on counted thread techniques and counted canvas designs. Her designs were featured as programs and workshops for EGA/ ANG chapters in California, Arizona and Nevada. She began designing and teaching over 12 years ago and has produced a project for the Petite Project program in EGA and a project for the ANG Chapter project book in 2003/2004. She is an enthusiastic teacher very willing to share her knowledge. She is always looking for an opportunity to use a skill or method in a new way. Margaret believes that we are never finished with our education and should pursue new ideas daily.

Theresa Buchle teaches beadwork techniques and sells finished pieces at art shows. Her specialty is beadwork containing natural themes and lots of texture. She has successfully participated in several Austin area fine art shows, and teaches frequently in the Austin/San Antonio area. She is scheduled to teach two classes at SCR 2007.

Diane Clements of Walnut Creek, CA, is an award-winning needleworker who has been stitching since she was a child. Currently specializing in reticello and other cut and drawn techniques, she has taught many workshops and has exhibited in numerous shows. Diane’s articles on reticello appeared in The NeedleWorker and Fine Lines. Two pieces of her embroidery were published in Donna Kooler’s Encyclopedia of Needlework and she was the featured Designer Across America in the March 2001 issue of Needle Arts.

Nan Tyson Euler is the author of the EGA Individual Correspondence Course The 17th Century English Band Sampler, and the author of “A” Is For Archer, “B” Is For Brook, and “C” Is For Charlotte. Nan’s passion is stitching and researching the embroiderer’s story and designing embroidery to reflect women in history. She has taught at national, regional and local seminars and guilds since 1990. She was the Designer Across America in Needle Art’s Magazine Fall 1997 and her biography appeared in The Needleworker magazine, Spring 1997. Nan is the Region director for Mid-Atlantic Region. She is a graduate of Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia and is an EGA Certified Teacher in crewel and surface embroidery.

Karla Gee is a fiber artist and teacher, whose media is off-loom bead weaving.  She is a 5th generation needle artist, trained by her grandmother. Teaching has been a passion for 30 years with almost 10 years dedicated to bead weaving. Karla is a juried member of Fiber Forum.

Barbara Jackson is well known throughout the needlework industry for her love of traditional Early English and American design. She is a graduate of the National Academy of Needlearts teacher certification program, and holds a summer course certificate “with distinction” from London’s Royal School of Needlework. Barbara has taught for many organizations over the years, and markets her own original designs under the Tristan Brooks logo. Recently, her work was featured in the new Crewel A-Z published by Inspirations magazine.

Dorothy Lesher, an internationally know designer and teacher, holds teaching certification in canvas from The National Academy of Needlearts and a Master Craftsman in canvas from EGA. She has served on faculty for EGA, ANG, and EAC National Seminars, Callaway Gardens School of Needlearts, The National Academy of Needlearts Assembly, and various regional seminars and individual guild and chapters of the USA and Canada.

Carole Lake, from Austin, Texas, is an EGA-certified teacher who specializes in manipulating common and uncommon threads and stitches to create textured effects, with a special interest in the effect and symbolism of color. Her awardwinning work has been displayed in exhibits throughout the southwest. She has been actively teaching and designing for over twenty years. A native Texan and graduate of Rice University, her enthusiasm for the needle arts has translated into a strong desire to exchange ideas, explore techniques, and share the love of stitching.

Tony Minieri is an international teacher, designer and judge who holds a degree in chemistry from Stevens Institute of Technology. The scientific side of him has always had to make room for the creative side and the creative side won out much to his pleasure. He has completed Level I certification in canvas from National Academy of Needlearts. He has taught for ANG, EGA and Canadian national seminars, many regional seminars, ANG and EGA chapters and needlework shops across the nation and in Australia and England. He has written many stitch and thread guides for painted canvas companies and private students and has many charted commercial designs available. When he’s not on the road teaching, you can find him as teacher-in-residence at The Edwardian Needle in Bloomfield, N.J or as the bass/baritone soloist for the NJ Choral Society.

Betsy Morgan has been stitching for 46 of her 54 years and has dabbled in almost every kind of needlework. Her heart is in counted thread embroidery and Stumpwork and she designs primarily in these two techniques. She has been designing and teaching needlework for almost a decade and has taught at every level from small private groups to national level seminars. Betsy holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design from Philadelphia University of the Arts.

Sallie Pate is a teacher, designer and lecturer who has been involved with embroidery and sewing hr entire life. A former theatrical costume designer and university professor, Sallie now spends her time researching and working various styles of embroidery. Many people know her through her block of the month stained glass quilts. She has taught at EGA regional seminars. In 2008, she will be a speaker at the International Embroidery Conference in Louisville.

Jeanette Rees started out as a self-taught needle worker and has owned a Bernina shop and then a needlework shop for 13 years. She has taught classes in all types of canvas work, hardanger, needlepoint, linen stitching, quilting, and finishing. She teaches classes and workshops for EGA region seminars, guild chapters and retreats. She has published designs in both cross stitch and canvas pieces. Jeanette lives in Murphy, NC.

Carolyn Sherman of Colorado Springs, CO has taught beading and clothing embellishment techniques at many national and regional seminars sponsored by the Embroiderer’s Guild of America. She has also taught beading at International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX and at the Bead and Button Show in Milwaukee, WI. Carolyn was inducted into the Colorado Quilting Council’s Hall of Fame in 1991 and received the EGA Rocky Mountain Region Educator’s Award for Excellence in 2001. Her current love is designing and teaching various beading techniques that are applied to small boxes.

Ann Strite-Kurz is a NAN certified teacher who has been and active designer and traveling teacher for twenty-five years. She earned a Master Craftsman in Canvas Embroidery and is noted for her unique patterning and unusual analytical approach to stitch refinement. Ann has also published five books on unconventional patterns.

John Waddell has been stitching over 35 years and is a member of EGA, NETA and ANG. He teaches weekly open stitch classes. He has taught classes at the national ANG Seminars, at Calloway and at The National Needlework Association (TNNA). He has articles published in Needlepointers magazine March 2002 and July 2004. He is the past President of the National Embroidery Teacher’s Association (NETA). John also is a member of EGA “Fiber Forum”

Carolyn Standing Webb has a degree in education but finds needlework much more rewarding to teach. She grew up in a home where art was a part of everyday life and creativity was encouraged. She has studied many different embroidery techniques in the US and in China. An EGA member, she has been a needlework designer and teacher for over twenty years; teaching on the local, regional and national levels. Several pieces of her work have been published in magazines and she has won a number of prizes for her needlework. She has her Master Craftsman in counted thread.