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Excerpts from the August 2003 edition of Needle Affairs
President's Message •
Volunteer Service Hours
• UFO Updates
• Other News
President’s Message
Well, I had the mixed joy of spending a week at one of our local beach
campgrounds with my family. It was wonderful to fall asleep to the sound of
the waves...but five days in a small space can lead to other noises which are
much less pleasant! I did take a very old UFO with me and made great
progress—what about you? With less than half the year to go, are you going to
be “on target”?
Thank you to Heather for her second installment of her mystery project.
Thank you’s also to Ruth, Karen and Angelina for representing us so well at
the recent PSR region meeting. Our chapter is very fortunate to have so many
wonderful, warm, generous people always willing to help and share in the work
of running a successful chapter.
The encouragement we give each other is a wonderful thing, too. The UFO I
was working on at the beach was my first attempt at hardanger, which I started
five or six years ago. At a summer sit and stitch, a Muchas Manos member
looked at it and said, “Oh, this would look wonderful as a sampler of filling
stitches”, at the time she could have been speaking Greek to me, I thought I
was just barely going to be able to follow the pattern. You know what? The
hardanger piece has many different filling stitches, and it has been so much
more fun to stitch. Thank you, Mary Jane!
Happy Stitching, Ina
Volunteer
Service Hours
Be sure to turn in your volunteer service hours to
Ruth Wallis, our Regional Representative. These hours are turned in to EGA
Headquarters and are vital in helping EGA maintain its non-profit status. All
volunteer hours count whether it’s for Meals on Wheels, Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, museum docent or hospital pink lady!
UFO Updates
The final counts are in! Twenty members are participating in our UFO
program. They have pledged to complete the following:
| 94 |
Category I |
Complete the stitching on projects begun
BEFORE 01 January 2003 |
| 137 |
Category II |
Complete the stitching on projects begun
AFTER 01 January 2003 |
| 136 |
Category III |
Complete the finishing (framed, made into a
pillow, etc.) on a project stitched at any time |
So far, participants have shared the following projects with us:
| 27 |
Category I |
Complete the stitching on projects begun
BEFORE 01 January 2003 |
| 41 |
Category II |
Complete the stitching on projects begun
AFTER 01 January 2003 |
| 40 |
Category III |
Complete the finishing (framed, made into a
pillow, etc.) on a project stitched at any time |
The numbers are climbing. Just 4 more months to stitch.
Other News
- In August, Ina will be teaching a darning bookmark. She promises it
will be quick and easy--and a great way to contribute to our library outreach
program. For more info, check out our programs page.
- Don't forget to support the businesses that advertise in our chapter
newsletter! Let them know you are a member of Muchas Manos and
appreciate their support. In this month's newsletter, our advertisers
were: Craft Cottage,
Fabrication,
Framesmith,
Needle Nook of La Jolla, Needlecraft Cottage,
Needlepoint of
La Jolla,
Sandy's Finishing Touches,
Stitcher's
Treasures, and The Black Sheep.
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