President’s Message • Volunteer Service Hours • UFO Updates • Autumn and Winter Cleaning • Other News
Ladies, how are you coming on your stitching projects? We have just two more times to turn in items for the UFO. Can you get just one more project completed? That holiday gift for a loved one? Just one more? As you know from each show and tell, we have many beautiful stitched items. Please share yours. We all want to be winners – and to admire the handiwork of all of our members.
I am looking forward to the Holiday Party. I love getting the house ready for our festivities. Please put December 6 on your calendar, bring your favorite dish, and come enjoy the strictly social evening. I will look for each of you to join me.
This is the time of year we start thinking about holiday shopping and how hectic everything about our lives is. This is the time of year that we should set aside at least 30 minutes each day just for ourselves. Just to allow ourselves time to think, relax, and focus on the people most important to us. Our family and friends are the cornerstones we build our lives around. Please take the time to enjoy each and every one of them..
Happy Holidays! 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 September 2004.
Older (started prior to 1998) 8 Old (started prior to 2004) 102 New (started & finished in 2004) 120 Group Correspondence Course 8 Outreach Bookmarks 148 New Technique 17 Chapter Program 16 Finished (made into a pillow, framed, etc.) 258 Seminar 8 Guesstimate of Total Stitches 132,676 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 Lemonade or 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.
Take some time to review your stash and library to decide if there are any charts, fabrics, kits, books or anything else you may be willing to part with as a contribution to the sale. Invite your family, frends, neighbors, and co-workers! The funds we raise will be used for our hosting of the PSR Meeting during the seminar week.
Make your decisions and bring your contributions to the Holiday Party on December 6 so we can organize and prepare the Opportunity Baskets.
- November’s program will be Sally’s Christmas Lights.Stitch up some quick holiday ornaments that would also be very welcome gifts – in the shape of an old-fashioned Christmas tree light bulb measuring approx. 2″ x 3″, depending on the size (thread count) of fabric used.Bring left-over bits of needlepoint canvas from 13 to 24 count, and a metallic silver or gold fiber for the base of the bulb. Then think of the bright colored lights of the holidays, and stitch with cotton, silk, rayon, nylon or metallics. The project handout includes many textured needlepoint stitches. Bring your books of decorative stitches for additional inspiration. The possibilities are limitless and every ornament can be different. How many will you make?
- The chapter will have a display case at the Rancho Penasquitos library starting November 1. Temporary donations of small simple projects will be accepted for this display. The Friends of the Library volunteers working at that library will be given bookmarks to show our appreciation for the use of the display case. SO please help the chapter with this project – create a couple more bookmarks. We would like more of the involved designs, rather than the more simple darning patterns.
- 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.