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President’s Message • Big Sister Program • Volunteer Service Hours • UFO Updates • Other News
March 12 is the Pacific Southwest Region meeting in Las Vegas. We will relay any information during the March chapter meeting. The region has a current fundraiser of Designer Notecards. Please see page 5 of this newsletter or at the PSR region website for photos and order information. Notecard Ordering forms will be available at the Open Stitching afternoon on February 20 and the chapter meeting on February 27.
Be sure to mark your calendars for upcoming events. May 18 through 20 is the Sewing and Craft Fair. And the San Diego County Fair is not long after that, running from June 10 to July 4. As always, Margi Thornburgh works hard to coordinate members staffing our booth. She will have a sign-up sheet for volunteers. Please check your schedules and sign up early!
Let’s start working on our “quilt” ornaments for our big fundraiser at the end of August. And don’t forget – for every finished ornament, your name is entered into an opportunity drawing for what we expect to be a major award of stash enhancement!
Happy Stitching! Karen
Remember your first months in Muchas Manos when words like National and Regional, and abbreviations like UFO and GCC caused bewilderment? Members talking about their “STASHES” made you wonder just what kind of a drug den you had wandered into? Wondered if you would ever get a “SABLE”? We are asking established members to agree to shepherd new members through their own first months, and help them maneuver through the confusion. Please contact Angelina for more information.
Be sure to turn in your volunteer service hours during the chapter meeting. 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 !!
The latest numbers in our 2006 UnFinished Object program.
Older Projects (started prior to 1999) (4 pts) 0 Old Projects (started prior to 2006) (3 pts) 9 New (started and finished stitching in 2006) (1 pt) 0 Group Correspondence Course (2 pts) 2 Outreach bookmarks (2 pts) 0 New Technique (2 pts) 0 Chapter Programs (2 pts) 0 Model for Chapter Programs (2 pts) 0 Finished (2 pts) 4 Seminar / ANG / CATS (2 pts) 2 Total: 17
- The February program will be a quilt block ornament. We will also have the opportunity to choose the Beading Project that Margi will conduct in April.
- The March program will be the Overlord Embroidery Slide Show. You won’t want to miss this program! As a departure from our usual meeting format, we will have a slide show of embroidery techniques and styles throughout history.
- 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, Needle Nook of La Jolla, Needlepoint of La Jolla, Sandy’s Finishing Touches, Stitcher’s Treasures, and The Black Sheep.