Our Guild Zoom meeting is this Thursday & we’ve got a guest speaker!!

When/ Where: This Thursday – via Zoom, link to come via email

We’ll start a bit early so we can hand over our meeting to our guest: 

Lisa Shepard Stewart!

Zoom opens at 7pm – we’ll go through some quick business updates at the top so Lisa can begin as soon as possible

There will not be a show & tell this month – please hold your photos.

We’re looking forward to seeing you and sharing time with our exciting guest!

Lisa Shepard Stewart is a writer and designer based in New Jersey.  In her books, African Accents: Fabrics and Crafts to Decorate Your Home and Global Expressions: Decorating with Fabrics from Around the World, Lisa encourages others to express themselves creatively through culturally relevant techniques and materials.

Her third book, African Accents On The Go! Designing Accessories with Cultural Style was published in 2007, and in 2011 began publishing FABRIGASM magazine, for Lovers of African Textiles.

Lisa offers classes and events internationally, and travels to Ghana to source artists, fabrics and materials. She also organizes and hosts SewJourns to Ghana, Colorado, New Mexico and other fun destinations.

Lisa has written for various web sites, and trade and consumer publications. and has demonstrated several projects & techniques on HGTV, and DIY, along with Discovery Channel and sewing & quilting programs on PBS. For four years (2001 to 2004), she was the craft columnist for the Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest newspaper, serving a readership of over 450,000 at the time.

She opened CE’s first studio location in downtown Rahway, NJ in 2017. The space combines retail and event space for classes and private parties. 

See you later this week!

-Rachel