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Excerpts from the August 2004 edition of Needle Affairs
President's Message •
Volunteer Service Hours
• UFO Updates
• Other News
President’s Message
Greetings, ladies. We have just finished a lovely day with Jay Patterson
from Rainbow Gallery. Thank you, Jay, for sharing your knowledge concerning
the various threads – and the great door prizes. We appreciate your taking
time to be with us. I heard so many great things about our day. We also
appreciate the four visitors from Yuma who spent their day with us. Thank you,
Margie, for bringing us the idea and helping to make it happen. Your
introduction was well done. Thank you, Karen and Tamara, for carrying a major
part of the planning and execution of our fund raiser. Thank you to everyone
else who made this happen. We could not be as strong without all of your help.
The summer is moving on. It can't be almost August! If you vacation
elsewhere than lovely San Diego, please let us know about any needlework shops
you visit of other needlework events you attend.
I have received a long note from Laura Wick. She and Mike are still living
with Mike's cousin while Mike commutes 90 minutes to his job. They are putting
a bid in on a home about 15 minutes from Mike's job and hope it is accepted.
They are concerned about leaving Katie in San Diego to go to school. We are
thinking of you, Laura!
Ladies – please keep stitching and being the awesome group that we have
become!
Ruth
Volunteer
Service Hours
Be sure to turn in your volunteer service hours to Ina Gibson, our Regional
Rep. These hours are vital in helping EGA maintain its non-profit status. All
volunteer hours count, even if for an organization other than EGA.
Thanks to everyone !!
UFO Updates
Tamara Willis is keeping track of our stitching points and reports the
following points earned by members through July 10, 2004.
| Older (started prior to 1998) |
0 |
| Old (started prior to 2004) |
90 |
| New (started & finished in 2004) |
97 |
| Group Correspondence Course |
6 |
| Seminar |
2 |
| Outreach Bookmarks |
148 |
| Chapter Program |
12 |
| New Technique |
13 |
| Finished (made into a pillow, framed, etc.) |
224 |
| Guesstimate of Total Stitches |
117,944 |
Other News
- In August, we will have a demonstration program of the American Sampler
Study Box. An informative program on the EGA American Sampler. In
earliest American times, young ladies learned emboidery as part of their basic
education. Their samplers – collections of basic and decorative stitches –
showed their mastery of stitching. Samplers were personalized and dated, and
often included their home towns or Bible verses. This Study Box is an official
EGA Educational Program. In upcoming months, we will have the opportunity to
learn many of those stitches and recreate a traditional early American
Sampler.
- Many Many Thanks to everyone who contributed items from their stashes to
the Goodie Bags and Door Prize bags at the Rainbow Gallery presentation. Jay
Patterson brought eight door prizes – rings of the full color range of eight
different products Everyone who attended left with a Door Prize of Rainbow
Gallery products or items contributed by Guild members.
- CORRECTION ON SAN DIEGO FAIR WINNERS: One of Shirley Fetterolf's winning
pieces was unintentially omitted from last's month's list of winners. She won
a first place award for a Halloween Witch. Well Done, Shirley!
- 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:
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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