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Excerpts from the November 2004 edition of Needle Affairs
President's Message •
Volunteer Service Hours
• UFO Updates
• Autumn and Winter Cleaning • Other News
President’s Message
Ladies, how are you coming on your stitching projects? We have just two
more times to turn in items for the UFO. Can you get just one more project
completed? That holiday gift for a loved one? Just one more? As you know from
each show and tell, we have many beautiful stitched items. Please share yours.
We all want to be winners – and to admire the handiwork of all of our members.
I am looking forward to the Holiday Party. I love getting the house ready
for our festivities. Please put December 6 on your calendar, bring your
favorite dish, and come enjoy the strictly social evening. I will look for
each of you to join me.
This is the time of year we start thinking about holiday shopping and how
hectic everything about our lives is. This is the time of year that we should
set aside at least 30 minutes each day just for ourselves. Just to allow
ourselves time to think, relax, and focus on the people most important to us.
Our family and friends are the cornerstones we build our lives around. Please
take the time to enjoy each and every one of them..
Happy Holidays! 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 September 2004.
| Older (started prior to 1998) |
8 |
| Old (started prior to 2004) |
102 |
| New (started & finished in 2004) |
120 |
| Group Correspondence Course |
8 |
| Outreach Bookmarks |
148 |
| New Technique |
17 |
| Chapter Program |
16 |
| Finished (made into a pillow, framed, etc.) |
258 |
| Seminar |
8 |
| Guesstimate of Total Stitches |
132,676 |
The November 22 meeting is the last day to turn in your stitched projects
for credit in the Un – Finished Object program in order to get credit.
Recognition and awards will be given at the Holiday Party on December 6 for
winners!
The number of Outreach Bookmarks has not increased for a few months. We can
start collecting them for next summer's reading program as soon as you can
bring them in!
Autumn and
Winter Cleaning
Saturday, January 1, 2005, we will meet in the Clairemont Community Room
for an Open Stitching / Potluck and Lemonade or White Elephant sale, with
Opportunity Baskets. This will be a fundraising event for our chapter, looking
forward to the Pacific Southwest Region Seminar which will take place here in
San Diego from May-31 to June 4, 2005.
Take some time to review your stash and library to decide if there are any
charts, fabrics, kits, books or anything else you may be willing to part with
as a contribution to the sale. Invite your family, frends, neighbors, and
co-workers! The funds we raise will be used for our hosting of the PSR Meeting
during the seminar week.
Make your decisions and bring your contributions to the Holiday Party on
December 6 so we can organize and prepare the Opportunity Baskets.
Other News
- November's program will be Sally's Christmas Lights.Stitch up some quick
holiday ornaments that would also be very welcome gifts – in the shape of an
old-fashioned Christmas tree light bulb measuring approx. 2" x 3", depending
on the size (thread count) of fabric used.Bring left-over bits of needlepoint
canvas from 13 to 24 count, and a metallic silver or gold fiber for the base
of the bulb. Then think of the bright colored lights of the holidays, and
stitch with cotton, silk, rayon, nylon or metallics. The project handout
includes many textured needlepoint stitches. Bring your books of decorative
stitches for additional inspiration. The possibilities are limitless and every
ornament can be different. How many will you make?
- The chapter will have a display case at the Rancho Penasquitos library
starting November 1. Temporary donations of small simple projects will be
accepted for this display. The Friends of the Library volunteers working at
that library will be given bookmarks to show our appreciation for the use of
the display case. SO please help the chapter with this project – create a
couple more bookmarks. We would like more of the involved designs, rather than
the more simple darning patterns.
- 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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