President’s Message • Volunteer Service Hours • UFO Updates • Autumn and Winter Cleaning • Other News
Greetings, Ladies! I trust that your stitching projects have progressed. It is so much fun seeing the finished pieces. Remember this is the last time to qualify for the UFO project this year. There will be another program beginning next year – just keep on stitching!! (Do we really have another choice?)
I am looking forward to the Holiday Party. The Board has planned a nice tribute to all of those in the UFO project and we do have a few surprises. Please come! Bring your favorite dish to share (with a list of ingredients, too), and if you choose to join in our gift exchange (remember: $20 limit, usually stitching related), you will this is a lot of fun. You might like to contact other members to share rides. This a totally social and fun evening – bottom line: Please come! Please join the fun!
I also want to remind you we will be electing officers at the November meeting. We appreciate your participation. Don’t forget to bring a couple of threads along with some metallic gold or silver for the Holiday Lights project. It doesn’t take a lot of thread or other fiber, but I am sure you will enjoy it.
See you soon! 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 October 2004.
Older (started prior to 1998) 14 Old (started prior to 2004) 105 New (started & finished in 2004) 166 Group Correspondence Course 8 Outreach Bookmarks 158 New Technique 17 Chapter Program 20 Finished (made into a pillow, framed, etc.) 300 Seminar 8 Guesstimate of Total Stitches 133,412 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!
Saturday, January 1, 2005, we will meet in the Clairemont Community Room for an Open Stitching / Potluck and 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. Make your decisions and bring your contributions to the November 22 meeting or Holiday Party on December 6 so the Opportunity Baskets can be organized and prepared. Take some time to review your stash and library to decide if there are any charts, fabrics, kits, books or anything else you can part with as a contribution to the sale. Invite your family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers! The funds we raise will be used for our hosting of the PSR Meeting during the seminar week.
- January Program is a Valentine Project. Details for this charming Valentine stitchery have not been finalized as of “press time” for this newsletter. But plan on doing a very pretty, romantic, sweetheart of a project. Further details will be available in the upcoming weeks.
- Our chapter continues to have a display case at the Rancho Penasquitos public library through the end of 2004. Margi and Heather will update the display on December 3 with holiday-themed stitched items. Please bring pieces not more than 12″ x 12″ for this display.
- 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.