Esme Parker Award for hand stitching
December 2024 - Textures in Nature

The competition is open to all members of the Winchester Textiles and Embroidery Group. Everyone who would like to take part should make one piece of work inspired by the theme 'Texture in Nature'. Your piece may be framed or unframed, 2D or 3D but it must be hand stitched. It should be a piece of work that has not been exhibited before. Please attach your name to the back of your work.

Please bring your completed piece to our December Christmas meeting where the competition will be judged by the members attending that day. The winner will be presented with the Esme Parker Award, a beautiful glass plate engraved with needle, thread and scissors and a £25.00 voucher to put towards a WTEG workshop.




Peoples Choice at WTEG Exhibition Spring 2024
Awarded to Nikki Gage for her piece titled, Summer Heather


Dorothy Carbonell Award
December 2023 - 'Red'

The competition is open to all members of the Winchester Textiles and Embroidery Group. Everyone who would like to take part should make one piece of work inspired by the theme 'Red'. Your piece may contain as little or as much red as you would like. It can be in any technique, framed or unframed, 2D or 3D .
It should be a piece of work that has not been exhibited before.
Please attach your name to the back of your work.

Please bring your completed piece to our December Christmas meeting where the competition will be judged by the members attending that day. The winner will be presented with a voucher to put towards a WTEG workshop.

Awarded to: 1st - Anne Landen; 2nd - Nikki Gage; = 3rd - Ann Wheeler & Irene Belcher. Images of the winning pieces can be seen in the gallery, competitions.

Esme Parker Award for hand stitching
December 2022 - Winter

The competition is open to all members of the Winchester Textiles and Embroidery Group. Everyone who would like to take part should make one piece of work inspired by the theme 'Winter'. Your piece may be framed or unframed, 2D or 3D but it must be hand stitched. It should be a piece of work that has not been exhibited before. Please attach your name to the back of your work.

Bring your completed piece to our December Christmas meeting where the competition will be judged by members attending the meeting that day. The winner will be presented with the Esme Parker Award, a beautiful glass plate engraved with needle, thread and scissors.

Awarded to: 1st - Sue Pohling; 2nd - Irene Belcher; 3rd - Elaine Hobden. Images of the winning pieces can be seen in the gallery, competitions.


The Esme Parker Plate was previously awarded to Nicola Welch in November 2019 for her beautiful 3D garden. Her garden also won the People's Choice Award at our last exhibition in early 2020. Photos of Nicola's garden can be seen in the exhibition gallery


Dorothy Carbonell Award
November 2021 - A Single Thread

The competition is open to all members of the Winchester Textile and Embroidery Group. Everyone who would like to take part should make one piece of work inspired by the title 'A Single Thread'. Please bring your completed piece to our November meeting where the competition will be judged by Tracy Chevalier, author of the book A Single Thread, who will be our speaker that day.

The title, 'A Single Thread', can be taken literally and a single thread could be used throughout the piece. This thread could be an embroidery thread, wool, wire, a thread made from a strip of fabric or paper, etc. Or, rather than just using one thread, a particular thread could be running through your piece rather like a motif in a piece of music. The title could also be interpreted as a thread of memory or the thread of an idea running through the piece. Your piece can be in any technique, framed or unframed, 2D or 3D.

Awarded to: 1st - Jill Fry ; 2nd - Ann Wheeler ; 3rd - Nikki Gage. Images of entries can be seen in the Gallery: competitions