We are excited to announce the 5th anniversary of World Embroidery Day. All One Thread is inviting you to participate in WED by sending us a photo of your favourite hand embroidery piece along with a short description to tell us what makes it your favourite! Check out our Special Events tab or send to [email protected]

This could be something you created, a gift you received, something you bought, or a piece given to you from a past generation.

Our target is to collect pieces from 20 countries around the world and create a collage to celebrate the heritage and continued importance hand embroidery plays in our world today.

We are hoping to make this years event the biggest yet!

Greetings from New Mexico, where Paula Claycomb, one of All One Thread's founders, lives. Our other director is Lynn Sim, who moved in mid-2014 from Egypt to Mexico. Both of us are amateur embroiderers and admire greatly the workmanship and creativity that all our members possess. The more we see of the fantastic embroidery that is produced around the world, the more we are convinced that All One Thread has an important role as a global network. 

Each of you has come to All One Thread for one or more reasons, and we think our five objectives cover the gamut. From wishing to market their embroidered goods to wanting to get together with other embroiderers to hoping to contribute to a central archive of stitches and designs, individuals have found All One Thread. 

Like all of you, we have many other roles in our lives. We are mother and grandmother; Lynn is a yoga enthusiast; Paula is a consultant in Communication for Development and travels to several countries every year. That being said, we continue to make small steps towards our bigger dream of bringing embroiderers from many countries together and of creating a database for all things related to embroidery. 

All One Thread also has three wonderful Board members and next month's blog will introduce them to you. If you can't wait until then, go to the "About" tab on the website and visit our Board page.

Please let us know what you are doing and if you would like to be more involved. Share your stories and photos with us and we will share them on the website.

All for now, Lynn and Paula