Costs are kept as low as possible where Guild tutors are used. Classes with outside tutors will usually cost more. Times of classes will be advised at time of booking. 

You may enrol in a course by filling in a registration form and sending it to the Guild with payment.  For enquiries please leave a message for the Class Registrar on 3252 8629.

Please click here to print the Class/Workshop Registration Form

All full day classes commence promptly at 9.30 am.  There is a half hour break at 12 noon for lunch and classes finish at 3.00pm.

The Guild offers the following classes:
 

 
 
 

Embroidery Basics

All new members are invited to attend a free Embroidery Basics Class. The class is designed as a preparation for other Guild classes, and allows new members to learn or to revise, as the case may be, the main embroidery stitches, general embroidery procedures and related topics such as the use of particular needles, threads and fabrics.

Embroidery Techniques Course

This course was devised to assist new members to the Guild who may have previously done little embroidery but any member is welcome to do it. While some of the classes are related directly to stitching, other classes deal with finishing and construction e.g. finishing the items with hemming, mounting as for a picture, making an item into a cushion, a needle case or glasses case. Unfortunately, because of inexperience, a worthwhile piece of embroidery can be ruined in the finishing process and these classes are aimed at avoiding this outcome. The Free Stitches Class must have completed before enrolling in the Embroidery Techniques Course, unless an exemption has been given, based on experience, by the Head of Tutors.

Members can choose to have their projects assessed by the relevant tutor and after successful completion of all six classes, may apply for the Certificate in Embroidery Techniques. This is entirely an "in house" award and, as such, may not be recognised outside the Guild.

Embroidery Techniques Course

Design for Embroidery	A basic design class
Exploring more Stitches	An extension of your free stitches classes
Mounting	How to mount embroidered works
Colour in Stitching	Colour theory and its application to stitched works
Hems and Hemstitching	How to finish and hem your embroidery
Machine Finishing	Bindings, cording, frill and other machine finishings and constructions used in the completion of embroideries

Dates for all these classes comence early in the year and appear on the Class list. They are indicated by an asterisk (*).

Classes for Young Embroiderers

These classes are held each vacation and are extremely popular.  Click here for information about upcoming classes for Young Embroiderers

Classes in other Embroidery Techniques

We also offer classes in many embroidery techniques, for example:

Blackwork	Hardanger
Brazilian	Mountmellick
Canvas	Pulled Thread
Crewel	Silk Ribbon
Elizabethan	Stumpwork
Goldwork - eg Or Nue Work