President’s Message • Volunteer Service Hours • Bookmark Update • UFO Updates • Other News
I hope this finds each of you stitching, stitching, stitching. Don’t forget to do that extra bookmark. We are within 50 of our goal. If you need some suggestions, please review your last newsletters for patterns. With everyone’s help we can reach or goal of 150.
Mark July 17th on your calendars for the Jay Patterson program. Bring a friend or two or three – there’s room for everyone. We would like this to be a huge success. There will be more details at the meeting and in next month’s newsletter.
You may also want to sign up for stitching at the Fair. Margie will be bringing around the calendar soon. If you have any questions, please talk to Margie. We do have a lot going on this year. If you can volunteer to help, please let one of the board members know. We need everyone’s support.
I look forward to seeing everyone on March 22nd for Betty Hamilton’s program.
Keep stitching. Ruth
Be sure to turn in your volunteer service hours to Ina Gibson, our Regional Representative. Our chapter has logged over 3300 hours to EGA Headquarters. These hours are vital in helping EGA maintain its non-profit status. The time you spend this month stitching bookmarks counts, as well as any other community service hours.
Could you spare the time to stitch up one or two more bookmarks for the library to give to participants in the children’s summer reading program? We have stitched 101 bookmarks for our Community Outreach Program. We only need 49 more Bookmarks to reach our goal of 150!!
For a change of pace, this year there will be no signing up or pledging, just complete your Unfinished Objects and bring them to the Chapter meetings to share with everyone along with your estimate of how many stitches are in the piece.
You will be awarded points based on the chart below. For example, if you complete an Outreach Bookmark in 2004 that was started in 2004, you will receive:
- 1 point for New
- 2 points for Outreach Bookmark
- 2 points for a Finished piece
- for a total of 5 points
Tamara Willis is keeping track of the points for each member. So have fun and let’s stitch away in 2004!
Description of Project Points
Older (started prior to 1998) 4 Old (started prior to 2004) 3 New (started & finished in 2004) 1 Group Correspondence Course 2 Seminar 2 Outreach Bookmarks 2 Chapter Program 2 New Technique 2 Finished (made into a pillow, framed, etc.) 2
- In April, we will contributing to our outreach bookmark program. We will doing the “Double Ring” Bookmark Pattern designed by Jennifer Tom. 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: Fabrication, Framesmith, Needle Nook of La Jolla, Needlecraft Cottage, Needlepoint of La Jolla, Sandy’s Finishing Touches, Stitcher’s Treasures, and The Black Sheep.