President’s Message • Volunteer Service Hours • Bookmark Update • UFO Updates • Other News
I am looking forward to seeing how many points we accrue for the UFO program. We can all be over-achievers this year. Please keep reading for details. Bottom line is–we can keep stitching on our favorite items and it all counts!
I enjoyed my trip to Missouri. However the weather was changeable. I landed in 45-degree weather at 7:30 pm which is great for January. Two days later the temperature was below freezing and ice coated everything. I drove back to Kansas City a day early because the weather report was for at least 2 inches of snow – yes, I drove in snow flurries. The day of my departure the temperature was 2 degrees with clear and sunny skies. San Diego really looks good! My mother is doing well. She is quilting for friends.
Susan Fukayama has volunteered to serve as our Hospitality Chairperson this year. Thank you, Susan! We are going to have an active year. I look forward to sharing some of these plans with you at the February meeting.
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.
For stitchers who are looking for inspiration to stitch a bookmark for our Community Service Project, there are five pages of lovely bookmark charts with various subjects in styles ranging from cute to traditional for you to browse through on this French web site. To see all five pages, click on the numbers after “suite page”
Ribband is available from Angelina for your bookmarks.
Remember, the deadline for our Service Project is the April meeting—we still need about 80 bookmarks to reach our goal!
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 March, we will be learning about drawn thread techniques with Betty Hamilton. Betty was a pilot stitcher for the M’lady’s Teacloth group correspondence course. 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: Craft Cottage, Fabrication, Framesmith, Needle Nook of La Jolla, Needlecraft Cottage, Needlepoint of La Jolla, Sandy’s Finishing Touches, Stitcher’s Treasures, and The Black Sheep.