Pandora's Tea Chest

Pandora's Tea Chest

Cost:  Member $130

Non-Member $260

Membership attracts a 50% discount on all workshops (join here and save!)

Description:

This design has been created to fit into the lid of a commercially produced wooden tea box, but, of course, you could use it in many other ways too! It contains a variety of traditional and modern canvas work embroidery stitches, yielding an abundance of flowers, leaves, butterflies, dragonflies and geometric motifs.

Registrations open 1st February 2026

Venue: Guild House

Dates: Saturday 1st August and Sunday 2nd August

Time: 9:30 - 3:30
Tutor: Ann-Marie Anderson-Mayes
Skill Level: Confident embroiderer

Class Fees:

EGWA Member - $130

Non-Member - $260

Membership attracts a 50% discount on all workshops (join here and save!)

Kit Cost:

(Please place payment for the kit in an envelope with your name and give it to the tutor directly on the first day of the workshop)

Kit Options:

1. 24-count version: I will provide a set of full colour instructions and a piece of either white, ecru, mocha, or light grey Congress cloth (24-count canvas) measuring at least 35cm x 30cm to each student for $35 each.
2. 18-count version: I will provide a set of full colour instructions and a piece of either white or cream 18-count canvas measuring at least 45cm x 35cm to each student for $35 each.

Optional Thread Packs:

1. 24-count version: 11 skeins of hand-dyed silk, one card of metallic: $72
2. 18-count version: 14 skeins of hand-dyed silk, one card of metallic: $90

NB: You are welcome to choose a favourite colour from my range and I will prepare a custom thread set based on your selection.

See handout for further information.

Wood Tea Box

There is an option to order this box ($72) when filling in the Registration Form.

What to bring

In addition, you will need the following materials:

1. Needle: Size 24 tapestry needle on Congress cloth; Size 22 tapestry needle on 18-count canvas.
2. Threads: My version is worked in the threads shown in the table overleaf. You are welcome to follow these suggestions, or I would love you to choose your own colours so that we have a room full of different colourways being worked! If you are choosing your own threads, you need one strongly variegated thread, one more subtly variegated, six coordinating solid colours, and a metallic.
3. Usual work box and magnification (rechargeable if possible) if required.

Ann-Marie Anderson-Mayes 

Ann-Marie is a hand embroidery artist based in Perth, WA. She has been stitching for as long as she can remember but only took it up full-time in 2012 when she started her business, Beautiful Stitches. Her former professional career as a physicist working in geoscience was strongly grounded in mathematics, and that love of geometry and number is clearly expressed in her embroidery designs. It is all about colour and pattern!

Ann-Marie has taught in venues that include small community halls in country Australia, the largest Methodist church in the USA, and on board a cruise ship crossing the Pacific. During COVID, Ann-Marie discovered the joy of teaching online and now supplies web-based classes to students around the world too. Whether she is teaching in person or online, Ann-Marie is passionate about building creative confidence in her students.

 “I believe that every single stitch you make is a BEAUTIFUL STITCH. Each stitch is a small brush of love on the fabric, which records forever the time you put aside to create something special with your own hands.”

Registrations

Registrations will open at 9:00am on 1st February 2026

                     And close at 11:00pm on 11th July 2026

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