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President’s Message • Other News
Just prior to our meeting last month we received the sad news that our member Shirley F. had passed away. We will no longer be able to gaze upon her beautiful stitched pieces and enjoy her presence in our midst. Several of our members were able to attend her memorial service. Highlights of her contributions to our chapter are in this newsletter. The board has voted to donate $100 from the chapter in Shirley’s name to the EGA Legacy Scholarship Fund. This fund gives scholarships for EGA members to study the art of embroidery. We thought this was a fitting remembrance because of Shirley’s love of taking classes. If members would like to make an additional personal contribution we will include it in one check from the chapter.
This month we return to our normal chapter meeting place. We’d like to express a big thank you to Karen K. for hosting us at her home the last two meetings. Last month’s pot luck and day of stitching was especially relaxing and gave everyone a chance to work on their Tubular Bead Fob, or a bookmark for our outreach. We also got to spend time with our newsletter editor, Shelly, who took advantage of the long holiday weekend to visit her old stomping grounds.
We tried Stitching-In-Public the last Sunday in February at two different Barnes & Noble locations. Maybe not the best venue for attracting new stitchers but it never hurts to try new things. We also have new business cards with all our contact information. Members are asked to carry a few with them and pass them out to anyone that expresses an interest in stitching. You never know who might want to learn more about our wonderful world of stitchery.
Our Stitching for Literacy bookmark project is underway, so we’ll have supplies to share along with patterns at this month’s meeting. We are still looking for free bookmark patterns that you could share. If you have any, bring a few copies along with you. This project will be our Outreach for the year along with the on-going Soldier Kissing Pillows.
PSR’s fund raiser seems to be a big success. The chapter has placed our order that we will pick-up at the PSR meeting in mid April. We are dedicating a meeting to actually working on this beautiful bracelet. If you still want the kit, you have until the end of the month to order it directly from the PSR website. It’s under fund-raising.
Our joint workshop, Diamond Pomegranate, taught by Carolyn Standing-Webb, will be on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at the Scripps Ranch Community Center. We will have the final pricing and information set by mid-April.
Please look over the Group Correspondence Courses available. We’d like to have one to start on in October. We’ll discuss the possibilities at the meeting.
Keep those needles flying.
Heather
- Upcoming meetings (held at the Live Well Center, 4425 Bannock Ave., San Diego, CA):
- March 19, 2012: Meeting back at our usual location and time. 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Chapter Meeting at Livewell at 4425 Bannock Avenue — one block south of Clairemont Mesa Blvd and Genessee.
- April 16, 2012: Join us in learning “chickenscratch” or embroidery on gingham.
- Save the Date: September 15, 2012! Diamond Pomegranate taught by Carolyn Standing-Webb–the kit includes gold-washed congress cloth, silk threads, Accentuate, gold purl, metallic threads, and beads. The stitches include satin stitch, couching, fly stitch, and Algerian eyelet.