CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY
CHAPTER WEBSITE ADDRESS Just a reminder....Let Lisa Green know at klg7641@comcast.net if you have a new
email account.
STITCHES AWEIGH in Newport, RI
April 1 - 3
Those of us who are planning to attend this seminar are practically packed
and ready. We look forward to a wonderful weekend and will share our
experiences and stitching at the April meeting.
See you there!
Annual Meeting: Saturday, April
9th
The annual meeting this year will be an informal potluck luncheon at Julia
Appell's home in Farmington. This is not an election year for CRVC, so at
this meeting we hope everyone will bring their frog design, finished or a
work in progress. Join in the fun and share your approach to this
exercise. For those of you who may have stitched this design before,
please bring that piece with you, no matter what shape it is in! The
photos from the 80's will be displayed, and the new frogs documented.
We will also watch a video about the making of the tapestries at the Plymouth
Congregational Church in Minneapolis. Participants at the National Seminar
were able to view them, and Lisa and Julia were so inspired that they would like
to encourage our members to tackle something like this on a smaller scale.
Proposals have been collected from the following teachers: Joan Thomasson,
Catherine Jordan, Lynn Payette, Margaret Kinsey, Tanya Berlin, Susan Goodman,
and Jacqui Clarkson. Please come and vote on the project you would like to
do. We are planning to hire some of these teachers and need your input on
what you want to stitch. Julia will have everything we need to know, so
make your wishes heard.
A sign up coupon for the April meeting is below. Let us know that you
will attend and what you will be bringing for lunch. Please contact Julia
at juliaappell@comcast.net or
860-677-9125 if you need directions.
June Meeting: Saturday, June 4th (Note: First Saturday of month)
"Spread Your Wings"
This meeting will be a one-day workshop with Debbie Forney, a teacher at
national seminars and Callaway School of Needlework. Her background
includes wholesale needlepoint designer and Certification in Embroidery from the
Royal School of Needlework. She happens to be a new member of our chapter,
and we are very happy to welcome her. Thistle Needleworks
has offered its classroom as our meeting place, so plan to be there at 10 AM.
Debbie will provide us with 4 choices of butterfly designs (see below). We
will choose one and transfer it to congress cloth. She will discuss why
elements are chosen for a design and lead us through planning our own color
design on graph paper. There will be an extensive discussion of textures
and how to achieve them. She will give lots of advice about how to choose
threads to create effects. The kit fee is $15. All you need to bring
is colored pencils as there will be no stitching in this session.
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
1:30 PM to 3 PM
Lunch and Meeting
Class Bring something for show and tell, especially something new you have tried
(and it doesn't have to be finished)! You are all welcome to attend the
meeting, even if you do not wish to participate in the class. Bring your
stitching and listen as we learn.
This should be an exciting way to head into the summer. You'll have an
increased understanding of how to design and plan a project. You may even
be preparing your show and tell for October!
Stitching Getaways: The
following is the schedule for the West Side Day and
Evening groups. They will meet in the months that we do not
have a chapter meeting, and a focus for each meeting is listed below:
DAY EVENING The West Side Day group will be meeting from 10 AM to 1:30 PM
at Suzanne Newton's house in West Simsbury. Bring along your lunch and a
project you are working on and/or any project you would like to share.
Please email or phone Suzanne at sfnjsn@sbcglobal.net or
860-658-2037 if you plan to attend.
The West Side Evening group will meet at Julia Appell's house in
Farmington from 6:30 PM to 9 PM. For those coming from work, bring your
supper or a sandwich. Also, bring along a stitching project or something
you would like help with or are willing to share. Please contact Julia at
juliaappell@comcast.net or
860-677-9125.
The East Side Day group will not set a date to meet in the next
month. If you are interested in finding another day and time to get
together, contact Susan at Sjones7@aol.com or 860-643-8119.
Pequot Colony Group is a local area group that meets from
9:30am to 11:30am on the third Thursday of every month at the New London
Library. They work in different media, most of them stitching on
workshop pieces that they have started. The set meeting day provides a
time when old friends know they can meet for a morning of work and
visiting. They welcome anyone who would like to join them. The
library is easy to find, and Doris Boas (ndboas@worldnet.att.net) will be happy
to send instructions to the building.
EGA Dues Increase: As you may have heard by now, the EGA Board of Directors at its meeting in
January voted to increase EGA dues for chapter members by $10 per year (from $19
to $29) beginning with the renewal quarter starting October 1st. While
this does seem to be a rather large increase all at once, I'd like to share with
you the reasoning behind the change.
First of all, it has been 14 years since EGA raised its dues. In that
time a great deal of effort has gone into making EGA a truly premier needlework
organization. In the last few years much has been done to increase
membership services such as updating Needle Arts, adding and expanding
our presence on the web, increasing staff to better serve the membership,
offering classes on line and through Needle Arts, etc. Also in that
14-year time period costs have risen significantly especially for postage,
insurance, employee benefits and so on. This is all complicated by
decreases in revenue on investments and from our national seminars.
Efforts also have been made to cut costs and to increase fundraising
efforts. Your leadership has been working hard for EGA across the
board.
Second, I'd like to share with you some of the efforts that EGA has been
making to ensure that we remain a healthy organization for the years to
come. Our vision is to make EGA the "acknowledged authority in the
preservation and education of needle arts as an art form with significant
resources to serve its broad-based membership and global community." We
want to increase and retain membership, promote our growing collection, reach
out to young embroiderers, and so much more.
Finally, I'd like to share a couple of points that were made at our recent
NER board meetings. In taking a quick survey of members at our November
meeting most of us found that we initially joined because we wanted to become
better stitchers. We wanted to take advantage of all the educational
opportunities that EGA offered. Now that we've been with EGA for a number of
years we find that we depend on the social aspects of EGA as much as the
educational ones. As one EGA board member put it, we are a big family that
has a wonderful hobby in common. Think of the increase simply as the cost
of a movie ticket. Also, if you were to subscribe to a magazine or two for
the cost of your dues, you'd have a lot of nice patterns and some very valuable
information, but a lot fewer people to share the joy of stitching with you.
I hope that we can count on your continued support. I also hope that we
can continue to provide you with many, many happy stitching experiences and
memories.
All the best,
Directions to the new Thistle Needleworks
store at 1005 Hebron Avenue, Glastonbury, CT --
"Spread Your Wings" Butterfly Design
Choices
New England Region MARIPOSA
NEWS
March 2005
The schedule for the day will be:
10 AM to 12:30 PM
Class
March 8
Suzanne Newton will discuss how to design and paint a canvas
March 22
Suzanne will discuss canvas applique
May 10
Linda Berry will discuss beading
May 24
Nancy Bancroft will demonstrate bobbin lace
Sept. 13
Lisa Green will discuss Japanese embroidery
Sept. 27
Linda will discuss beading
Nov. 8
Kathryn Lord will demonstrate triple matting
Nov. 22
Julia will discuss finishing of small counted thread
items
A Message from your Region Director
Mamie Anthoine Ney
Region Director
Exit 55 onto Route 2 East (on I-84
westbound this is a left exit).
Route 2 East to Exit 8 (Hebron Avenue,
Route 94) (approximately 5 miles).
At the end of the exit ramp is a traffic
light -- turn left onto Hebron Avenue.
Go eastbound on Hebron Avenue
through 5 traffic lights (the last one is at Addison Road/Tara Drive). Take
the next left onto Village Place -- the Addison Village Shops will be
to your left. Thistle Needleworks is in the center of
the building.
Exit 25N onto Route 3 North.
After crossing
the Connecticut River, take the second exit (right lane) onto Route 2 East
(toward Norwich). Route 2 eastbound to Exit 8 (Hebron Avenue, Route 94) (about
1/2 mile).
At the end of the exit ramp is a traffic light -- turn left onto
Hebron Avenue.
Go eastbound on Hebron Avenue through 5 traffic lights (the
last one is at Addison Road/Tara Drive). Take the next left onto Village Place
-- the Addison Village Shops will be to your left. Thistle Needleworks is in the center of
the building.
Exit 25 onto Route 3 North.
After crossing
the Connecticut River, take the second exit (right lane) onto Route 2 East
(toward Norwich). Route 2 eastbound to Exit 8 (Hebron Avenue, Route 94) (about
1/2 mile).
At the end of the exit ramp is a traffic light -- turn left onto
Hebron Avenue.
Go eastbound on Hebron Avenue through 5 traffic lights (the
last one is at Addison Road/Tara Drive). Take the next left onto Village Place
-- the Addison Village Shops will be to your left. Thistle Needleworks is in the center of
the building.
Exit 8
(Hebron Avenue, Route 94).
At the end of the ramp is a traffic light --
turn right, then turn right again onto Hebron Avenue.
Go eastbound on
Hebron Avenue through 3 traffic lights (the last one is at Addison Road/Tara
Drive). Take the next left onto Village Place -- the Addison Village
Shops will be to your left. Thistle Needleworks is in the center of
the building.
EGA Group Correspondence Course
Teacher: Dakota
Rogers
There is more than one way to cross a stitch! Designed and written for the beginning/intermediate student, as well as the experienced stitcher, Mariposa is comprised of 24 different crossed stitches. Simple drawn thread bands add balance. A no-cut method is used when withdrawing the threads. See photo on page 36 of your Education Supplement.
Skill level: Beginner to
intermediate
Fee: $50
includes book (70-plus pages bound in booklet form with many color pages),
registration and mailings. Student furnishes supplies.
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EGA Group Correspondence Course
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May
1, 2005
NAME_____________________________________PHONE______________________
ADDRESS_______________________________________________________________
CHAPTER__________________________________MEMBERSHIP NO.___________
EMAIL ADDRESS___________________________________
Enclose a check for $50 made out to NER/EGA
RETURN
TO: Violette Anderson
286
Coolidge Ave. #1
Manchester,
NH 03102-3246
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NEW ENGLAND REGION |
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Topic: Finishing
You've asked for it, so here it is! Three terrific teachers, Rachel Atkinson, Denise Pratt and Diana Snyder, will share their knowledge of the many facets of finishing. Each presenter will discuss different parts of the process. You will learn how to prepare a finished piece of needlework for the framer, how to frame a piece simply on your own, how to make bags and boxes, and how to make fancy borders and hems for flat pieces. The teachers will demonstrate suggestions and show lots of examples of pieces they have created. Take lots of notes and head home with many new ideas to complete your unfinished needlework.
The cost for this program is $50, which includes lunch and kit fees. Please register by filling out the form below. Participants should bring the usual note taking supplies. The deadline for registration is September 17, 2005.
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NER "Region Day" -- Saturday, September 24, 2005
Name__________________________Chapter_________________
Address________________________________________________
Telephone__________________ Email______________________
Please make check for $50 payable to
NER-EGA
Send to: Lisa Green, 14 North Drive, Simsbury, CT
06070-1214
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CRVC-EGA Program April 9, 2005 |
CRVC Program Registration Form -- April Annual Meeting Mail completed form to: Laurie Roys, CRVC Registrar, 70 Kimball Lane,
Torrington, CT 06790.
______________ Potluck item I will bring (salad or dessert for
4)
Name:
____________________________________________________ |
CRVC-EGA Program
Amt. Pd.______________ |
CRVC Program Registration Form -- June Meeting
Mail completed form to: Laurie Roys, CRVC Registrar, 70 Kimball Lane,
Torrington, CT 06790. "Spread Your Wings" taught by Debbie Forney _________ Class fee - $20 Kit fee of $15 will be collected at the class.
Name:
____________________________________________________ Questions? Contact Laurie at 860-489-0225 or E-mail groys@snet.net |
CRVC-EGA Membership $37. Primary
Membership For a membership card, please enclose a SASE. Amt. Pd. ____________ Check # ____________ Date Pd. ____________ |
CRVC-EGA Membership and Address Change Form Mail your completed form to: Suzanne Newton, CRVC-EGA Membership, 14 Madison Lane, West Simsbury, CT 06092. Make check payable to CRVC-EGA. Enclose SASE for membership card. __ Address Change Name: ____________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________ City, ST, ZIP: ____________________________________________________ Phone: _______________________ Email:________________________ Primary Chapter: ________________________________________________ Membership No. _______________________ Total Enclosed $___________ Can you volunteer your time to CRVC: __ yes __ no |
See you at the annual meeting on April 9th!