Greetings!
While Mother Nature was busy, I hope all of you were able to get time for some significant stitching. Several of my UFOs are stitched, and a few others pulled from various hiding places to be put in the queue.
The days that I spent stitching gave me time to sit and think about the upcoming year and EGA. There are some wonderful projects planned, some changes that are going to occur that I hope will find more of our membership involved.
Take a few minutes this month to think about what you want your EGA group to be. What are you doing to promote our group to others? I look forward to getting together with other stitchers and sharing news and updates. Also, there is so much to learn, and everyone has something to share.
Happy Stitching.The days that I spent stitching gave me time to sit and think about the upcoming year and EGA. There are some wonderful projects planned, some changes that are going to occur that I hope will find more of our membership involved.
Take a few minutes this month to think about what you want your EGA group to be. What are you doing to promote our group to others? I look forward to getting together with other stitchers and sharing news and updates. Also, there is so much to learn, and everyone has something to share.
Carolyn
CALENDAR
March
7 - Sampler Group - Monday at 12:30 PM. Call Susie.
24 - Board Meeting - Thursday at 5:00 PM at Heather Hills Retirement Village.
24 - Evening Meeting - Thursday at 6:45 PM at Heather Hills Retirement Village.
25 - Day Meeting - Friday at 9:00 AM at First United Methodist Church.
April
11- * * * UPDATE * * * Note date change - Sampler Group - Monday at 12:30 PM. Call Susie.
15 - NEWSLETTER INFORMATION DUE.
28 - Board Meeting - Thursday at 5:00 PM at Heather Hills Retirement Village.
28 - Evening Meeting - Thursday at 6:45 PM at Heather Hills Retirement Village.
29 - * * * UPDATE * * * Note date change - Day Meeting at 9:00 AM at First United Methodist Church.
DAY PROGRAMS
March
PROGRAM: To be announced.
HOSTESS: Margie
April
* * * UPDATE * * * Day meeting has been changed from the fourth Friday, April 22 (Good Friday) to the fifth Friday, April 29.
PROGRAM: Dick will present a program on a reversible bookmark he has designed. He will supply the pattern. Bring with you your usual stitching supplies and the following: 22-count Ribband 2" wide x 10" long OR any banding with a workable width of at least 19 threads for 14 count or 38 threads for 22 count or finer OR aida or linen to finish as a bookmark; floss to match the Ribband edge or floss in color of your choice; and marking pins.
HOSTESS: Connie W.
EVENING PROGRAMS
(Note: The Evening Group has discontinued having hostesses as Heather Hills provides us with ice water and coffee.)
March
PROGRAM: We will make the tags for the thread holders. These supplies are needed:
White card stock
Scrapbooking paper in various prints
1/4" round hole punch
EK Success Real Estate Sign large punch
Sewing Basket 3/16" Antique Brass Flower Eyelets by Dritz
3/16" Eyelet tool
Hammer
Aleene's Tacky Glue or PVA Glue
Tsukineko Fantastix Coloring Tool Brush Point
Avery removable multi-use labels 5/16" X 1/2"
April
PROGRAM: Pat P will teach one of her bracelet designs - Ellen's Bracelet. Pat will put together a kit for us at a cost of $10-$12. The bracelet may be done in all white or with color accents. Photographs of the two bracelet options were sent out in the January newsletter.
May
Annual Potluck Dinner. Program will be the UFO Challenge discussed later in the newsletter.
CHAPTER NEWS
Evening Group Meetings
The Evening Group has voted to continue the meeting schedule through the summer months. The tentative programs are as follows:
June - A small Hardanger project.
July - A small Pulled Thread project.
August - A small Drawn Thread project.
These topics were chosen because they were the top 3 vote-getters on the interest survey taken by the Evening Group during the January meeting.
Saturday Summer Stitch-Ins
During June, July, and August, arrangements have been made to hold the Stitch-Ins on the 4th Saturday of the month at the Gaines Township Library from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM.
Habitat Samplers
Peg has asked to be relieved of this responsibility and someone is needed to fill her shoes. Until the new coordinator has been named, members should give their completed Habitat samplers to Margie so she can add the names and frame them. Thus far this year, we've got 14 families to stitch Habitat samplers for and we have far from enough.
Kissing Pillows
Geri J-B will continue to accept Kissing Pillows through the May Potluck Dinner.
Membership Director
Claudia has notified Carolyn that her job responsibilities have increased to such a point that she can't attend chapter meetings and maintain the membership records as she feels is needed. She has resigned her position as Membership Director. Betty H. has volunteered to take over the membership responsibilities. Claudia and Betty will be working together to transition the role over to Betty.
Great UFO Challenge Event
EGA Dues for 2011-2012
2011 National Button Convention, August 1-6 at the Amy Grand Plaza Hotel
Programs:
Monday evening - 10 Years of the Automobile Button - William Hentges
Thursday evening - The Lure of the Orient: Asia, Art and Buttons - Maggie Whitson
Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday
The Beauty of the Fabric Button
Flights of Fancy: Insects, Art, & Buttons
Dragon's Blood: Asian Cinnabar Buttons
The Mikado and the Buttons It Inspired
Hi Ho, Hi Ho - Off to Work We Went
Once Upon a Button: Children's Stories and Kate Greenaway
Once Upon a Time in Japan - One Family's Journey
Classification of Clear & Colored Glass
See http://www.nationalbuttonsociety.org/2011_NBS_Show.html
Show schedule subject to change without notice.
EGA Regional Conferences
June 23-26, 2011 - Stitching in the Magic City - Share-A-Stitch XXXI presented by the Tennessee Valley Region of the Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc. at the Birmingham Marriott, 3590 Grandview Parkway, Birmingham, AL. A great selection of classes with nationally recognized teachers will be offered. The techniques and projects are varied and exciting. There is something for stitchers of all levels. In addition to the classes, there will be a bookstore, boutique, merchandise night, Thursday night lecture, and Saturday night banquet all on site. For more information, please visit www.egatvr.com
August 4-6, 2011 - Star Spangled Stitching presented by Foothills Chapter in beautiful Denver, Colorado as the 2011 Rocky Mountain Region Seminar. Classes with nationally known teachers in pulled work, needlepoint, silk and metal, counted thread, photo transfer, mixed media, beading, and temari offered. Registration runs through May 15. For more information, hotel link and class list with pictures, go to www.rmrega.org/id100.html
OTHER NEWS
We Will Miss You
One of the great ladies of the needlework world, Virgina (Ginny) Ruth Austin Thompson, 87, died December 5, 2010. She was an avid needleworker and with her husband, revived a national interest in counted cross stitch from their retail and wholesale businesses in Pawleys Island, SC. She authored a number of books on cross stitch including "Audobon's Birds in Counted Cross Stitch" published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Before retiring, the husband and wife team taught needlework seminars from coast to coast and annually took groups on needlework tours to Denmark and England for many years. Condolences may be expressed at www.jordanfernald.com
Plimoth Jacket
The Winterthur Museum has created a history of the creation of the Plimoth Jacket. It may be seen at www.winterthur.org/pdfs/Plimoth-Jacket.pdf
Chapter Newsletter
Our chapter newsletter is provided to our members in different ways: through US mail; via email; and online at www.ega-ggr.blogspot.com When you can't access your email or find your newsletter, you can always find our newsletter online on our blogspot.
Great UFO Challenge Event
The Great UFO Challenge Event will run from May 2011 to May 2012. Here's how it will work - at the May Potluck Dinner, bring in one or more UFOs that you want to "enroll" in the challenge. The UFO must have been started before 2010. "Before" photos of the UFO will be taken at the dinner.
During the coming year, as each UFO project is completed (i.e finished into its final state, not stitched), an "after" photo will be taken, and the stitcher's name entered into the Grand Prize Drawing.
The Grand Prize will be having your 2012-2013 dues paid for you. Additional prizes are in the works. Current suggestions - for the oldest project completed, for the biggest UFO completed, and for the most UFOs completed.
If you have an idea for a prize category to be considered in the Great UFO Challenge, please contact Carolyn.EGA Dues for 2011-2012
Word has been received that both EGA National and EGA Regional will be increasing dues in June 2011. Dues for EGA National are increasing by $5 to $37. Great Lakes Region dues will be increasing from $1 to $5.
Our GGREGA chapter dues will increase by $1 to $11. This increase will allow our local chapter to provide more activities of interest to our members. That brings the total dues for the coming year to $53 ($37 + $5 + $11). Please contact Carolyn or Kelly if you have any questions about the dues structure.
Additionally, Claudia has been notified by EGA National that she must submit all dues and associated records to National no later than May 30. We are asking that everyone give their renewal dues of $53 to Claudia or Betty no later than May 1 to allow adequate time for processing. Thanks in advance for your assistance.
We Need You!
Our GGREGA chapter dues will increase by $1 to $11. This increase will allow our local chapter to provide more activities of interest to our members. That brings the total dues for the coming year to $53 ($37 + $5 + $11). Please contact Carolyn or Kelly if you have any questions about the dues structure.
Additionally, Claudia has been notified by EGA National that she must submit all dues and associated records to National no later than May 30. We are asking that everyone give their renewal dues of $53 to Claudia or Betty no later than May 1 to allow adequate time for processing. Thanks in advance for your assistance.
We Need You!
In our local chapter the position of Region Representative is still open this year. Please let Carolyn or Kelly know if you are interested.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Chapter Special Interest Project
If there is enough interest, Pat Pike has offered to teach a puffy crystal heart pendant that could possibly be a one day Saturday class. It is more involved and will take some time to do. It has 72 4mm Swarovski bicone crystals. An interest sheet will be available in March (continuation of the one available in January and February if you did not sign up).
Upcoming Needlework Activities in Michigan
Farmington Hills EGA is having an exhibit of their needlework during the month of March at the Farmington Public Library, 23500 Liberty Street, Farmington, MI 48335-3570.
EGA's National Tapestry: America the Beautiful
The Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc. website describes the tapestry project:
"Inspired by a love of our country's beauty and the desire to see it rendered in needlework, Judy Jeroy's dream of a national tapestry was developed. The National tapestry has been a work in progress for the past four years. The tapestry will hang at National headquarters in Louisville and be displayed at venues and exhibits around the country.
Five panels were designed and painted on 18-count mono canvas. Each panel was assigned a coordinator to facilitate the finishing. No techniques were excluded in the stitching of each panel, which represents certain geographic features and indigenous objects, animals, birds, and plants throughout the country. To date, literally thousands have stitched on the five panels."
For more information on the National tapestry, go to http//:www.egausa.org/html/national_tapestry.html
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Chapter Special Interest Project
If there is enough interest, Pat Pike has offered to teach a puffy crystal heart pendant that could possibly be a one day Saturday class. It is more involved and will take some time to do. It has 72 4mm Swarovski bicone crystals. An interest sheet will be available in March (continuation of the one available in January and February if you did not sign up).
Upcoming Needlework Activities in Michigan
Farmington Hills EGA is having an exhibit of their needlework during the month of March at the Farmington Public Library, 23500 Liberty Street, Farmington, MI 48335-3570.
EGA's National Tapestry: America the Beautiful
EGA's National Tapestry: America the Beautiful is coming to Farmington Hills. The tapestry is scheduled to be on display April 15-May 29, 2011, at William M. Costick Activity Center, 28600 Eleven Mile Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48336, (248-473-1800) in the City Gallery at the main entrance facing Eleven Mile Road (between Inkster and Middlebelt). Exhibit hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM EXCEPT Thursday, April 14 4:00 PM - 8:30 PM; Friday, April 15 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM; and Saturday, April 16 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM.
This tapestry, depicting the US, its flora, fauna, and geographic features, is in five panels, each 24" X 48". In conjunction with the tapestry display, Farmington Hills Chapter will also display a selection of its members' work.The Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc. website describes the tapestry project:
"Inspired by a love of our country's beauty and the desire to see it rendered in needlework, Judy Jeroy's dream of a national tapestry was developed. The National tapestry has been a work in progress for the past four years. The tapestry will hang at National headquarters in Louisville and be displayed at venues and exhibits around the country.
Five panels were designed and painted on 18-count mono canvas. Each panel was assigned a coordinator to facilitate the finishing. No techniques were excluded in the stitching of each panel, which represents certain geographic features and indigenous objects, animals, birds, and plants throughout the country. To date, literally thousands have stitched on the five panels."
For more information on the National tapestry, go to http//:www.egausa.org/html/national_tapestry.html
2011 National Button Convention, August 1-6 at the Amy Grand Plaza Hotel
Programs:
Monday evening - 10 Years of the Automobile Button - William Hentges
Thursday evening - The Lure of the Orient: Asia, Art and Buttons - Maggie Whitson
Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday
The Beauty of the Fabric Button
Flights of Fancy: Insects, Art, & Buttons
Dragon's Blood: Asian Cinnabar Buttons
The Mikado and the Buttons It Inspired
Hi Ho, Hi Ho - Off to Work We Went
Once Upon a Button: Children's Stories and Kate Greenaway
Once Upon a Time in Japan - One Family's Journey
Classification of Clear & Colored Glass
See http://www.nationalbuttonsociety.org/2011_NBS_Show.html
Show schedule subject to change without notice.
EGA Regional Conferences
June 23-26, 2011 - Stitching in the Magic City - Share-A-Stitch XXXI presented by the Tennessee Valley Region of the Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc. at the Birmingham Marriott, 3590 Grandview Parkway, Birmingham, AL. A great selection of classes with nationally recognized teachers will be offered. The techniques and projects are varied and exciting. There is something for stitchers of all levels. In addition to the classes, there will be a bookstore, boutique, merchandise night, Thursday night lecture, and Saturday night banquet all on site. For more information, please visit www.egatvr.com
August 4-6, 2011 - Star Spangled Stitching presented by Foothills Chapter in beautiful Denver, Colorado as the 2011 Rocky Mountain Region Seminar. Classes with nationally known teachers in pulled work, needlepoint, silk and metal, counted thread, photo transfer, mixed media, beading, and temari offered. Registration runs through May 15. For more information, hotel link and class list with pictures, go to www.rmrega.org/id100.html
OTHER NEWS
We Will Miss You
One of the great ladies of the needlework world, Virgina (Ginny) Ruth Austin Thompson, 87, died December 5, 2010. She was an avid needleworker and with her husband, revived a national interest in counted cross stitch from their retail and wholesale businesses in Pawleys Island, SC. She authored a number of books on cross stitch including "Audobon's Birds in Counted Cross Stitch" published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Before retiring, the husband and wife team taught needlework seminars from coast to coast and annually took groups on needlework tours to Denmark and England for many years. Condolences may be expressed at www.jordanfernald.com
Plimoth Jacket
The Winterthur Museum has created a history of the creation of the Plimoth Jacket. It may be seen at www.winterthur.org/pdfs/Plimoth-Jacket.pdf
Chapter Newsletter
Our chapter newsletter is provided to our members in different ways: through US mail; via email; and online at www.ega-ggr.blogspot.com When you can't access your email or find your newsletter, you can always find our newsletter online on our blogspot.
