President’s Message
First things first, and that’s Membership. If you haven’t yet done so, please make sure you pay your Membership not later than the May 20 meeting. Angelina has sent e-mails to each of us to remind us of what we owe. Please, please keep your membership up to date!
Spring Cleaning! Do you remember everything that’s in your stash? Is there something that you just know you have but haven’t been able to find it? It might be time to do a little sorting through your storage, in whatever form that might take. I’ve recently started plowing through the boxes and bags in my second bedroom and finally found the license plate frame I bought many years ago, warning drivers behind me that I Brake for Needlework Stores, among several other small kits and charts.
Margi also e-mailed me that she recently helping former member Emily in her home, and came across a chapter artifact that had long since virtually vanished from the memories of our long-term members. I didn’t even know it existed, and I’ve been a member for 10 years. I’m not going to tell you what it is – you’ll have to come to the chapter meeting on May 20 to find out. Pictures will be in next month’s newsletter.
On April 20, Muchas Manos had a good turn-out at the Spring Pacific Southwestern Region spring meeting in Camarillo, CA. Jean and I attended as representatives of the chapter, and Karen attended as chairman of the Finance Committee of the PSR. And, of course, Ina is our current Region Director. She led us through the first part of the agenda quickly, and was able to start the Chapters’ reports before lunch was delivered. If you’ve ever been to a Region meeting, you’ll know that these reports are really interesting, but can get a little long-winded.
One thing Ina and the Region officers stressed was that the resources of the Region are there to help support the chapters. I know all of our members are used to checking our own website, muchasmanos.org. Did you know that the Region has its own website? It’s psrega.org. This is a nice, centralized information center for all the chapters of the region. If you’ve got a visit planned to the LA Area, or Las Vegas, you can check the Region’s website to find the locations and days/times of local meetings. You can always drop in at any EGA meeting anywhere in the country, just as we love to have visitors at our meetings. As a reminder, PSR covers California from roughly San Luis Obispo south, all of Arizona, and parts of Nevada.
It’s not too early to start thinking about the 2014 National Seminar that will be held in Phoenix. As Region Director, Ina has been given a couple dozen tickets for the Seminar “scholarship” opportunity that will be drawn at the 2013 Seminar in Louisville in October. Each ticket will cost $10.00. Ina will have more details at our next meetings.
At our May 20th meeting, Heather will lead participants in their progress on the Schwalm Group Correspondence Course. At the June 17th meeting, I’ll present a Hardanger Wreath project. Materials costs for that project are $3.00, and will include a six-inch square of 22 count Hardanger fabric, size 5 pearl cotton, and size 4 Kreinik metallic braid. I’ll have fabric squares available in white, off-white, light blue and dark green.
One other update: Gary Clarke’s workshops on November 8, 9, and 10 will definitely be held in Historic Barracks 17 at Liberty Station. There are many large windows on the east and west walls will give us lots and lots of natural light, which we still should have in November.
Hoping to see you all of May 20! In the meantime, Happy Stitching.
Gini