President’s Message • Volunteer Service Hours • UFO Updates • Other News
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
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 !!
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
- 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.