President’s Message • Volunteer Service Hours • Bookmark Update • UFO Updates • Other News
Ladies, it has been an eventful month for all of us. The projects I see each time we get together are varied and beautiful. I think that the open stitch evenings are the best. I see everyone relax and stitch and enjoy the sharing that goes on.
As we begin the next month, please think about volunteering to join the group of us that will bring stitching to a group of girls on the 20th. They want to earn their stitching badges and Laura Wick has said we will help. The group of girls totals 15 and we need at least one more person to help. Please give Laura a call if you can help.
Don’t forget – I’m sure this appears elsewhere in this newsletter – to stitch another bookmark. We are so close to our goal of 150. Please, please take time to turn in just one more by our May meeting. Heather has designed a way to share the information that these were hand stitched by our chapter members. .
I look forward to seeing each of you April 26th at our monthly meeting. Please come ready to stitch and share what you are working on. Don’t forget that everyone can be part of the UFO project – just bring your stitched item, fill out the form, and sit back and relax. Tamara is keeping track of us. Remember the sky is the limit.
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. Muchas Manos needs volunteers for the Del Mar Fair and the Craft and Sewing Festival. We also need LOTS of help for our July 17th Rainbow Gallery Seminar fundraiser.
We have stitched 106 bookmarks for our Community Outreach Program. We only need 44 more Bookmarks to reach our goal of 150!! If everybody stitches up one or two more bookmarks, we will surely be at our goal in time for the Summer Reading program!
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 May, we will making a beautiful beaded bracelet. Gloria will be teaching us. 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.