Alyssa Robinson Competition entries

I belong to the Embroiderers' Guild and they set a challenge to all members each year to create a piece of embroidery up to 30cm square inspired by their chosen theme. Life's Rich Pattern, My Favourite Things, Exquisite Containers, In and Out of Lockdown, Opposites Attract, Colour Rhythms and Feast! have been the last seven - generating between forty and a hundred entries each year. I enjoy the challenges - even if I don't feel inspired by the topic - and have won four, come second in two and am awaiting the results of the latest. Another piece was created for an exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham entitled Glimpses of the Islands - not a prize winner, but it was chosen to go on tour with the winners anyway.
Updated now to include The Yin to my Yang - awarded Most Outstanding Piece in the EG Challenge 2024 for the theme Opposites Attract and a depiction of a whole year's temperature data from my garden for the theme Colour Rhythms - which I was thrilled to discover had been awarded Most Outstanding Piece. Also A Colourful Life on the Bird Table which won best machine embroidery in the Madeira Competition at the NEC 2023.
The two newest pieces are A Short, Bright Flight which is currently hanging in Farfield Mill, Sedburgh as part of the shortlisted entries for the Metamorphosis competition. And then a plate of delicious food inspired by the fancy picnic/cricket tea we enjoyed at our daughter's wedding last summer - it has been entered into the Feast! competition and is awaiting results...