CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY
CHAPTER
NEWS
November 2006
WEBSITE ADDRESS: WWW.CRVC-EGA.ORG
Just a reminder....Let Lisa Green know at klg7641@comcast.net
if you have a new email account.
Saturday, December 2nd
- Our Holiday Meeting
Come join us for a day of outreach. In the morning, we will stitch very
small decorations to adorn a little tree. This will be our gift to
Duncaster (Retirement Community) to thank them for their generosity toward our
group and to add to their holiday décor. Questions about the blackwork
patterns will be discussed, and a "sweet" door prize will be won by some lucky
person. The meeting will take place at the Duncaster conference room, and
a luncheon has been arranged for us. On your registration coupon, please
choose the lunch you would like to order.
What to bring: Show and tell – something of interest to you, or a
project you are working on
Please fill in the registration form and send your check
to Linda Berry by Tuesday, November 29th.
Schedule for the Day: 10 am to 3 pm
10 AM to 12:30 PM Stitching
and show and tell
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM to 3
PM
Short meeting and finishing the ornaments
Here are directions to Duncaster: (Official address is 40 Loeffler
Road, Bloomfield, CT, but we would like you to enter the building on the
Mountain Avenue side)
84 Westbound from Manchester:
Take Rt. 291, exit 61. Follow Rt.
291 to Rt. 218 exit. Take left onto Rt. 218. Follow for about 3
miles. Take right onto Rt. 189 and follow to the center of
Bloomfield. Take a left on Rt. 178. Continue straight on Rt. 178 for
1.4 miles. To use the new front entrance, turn right onto Mountain Avenue
and continue approx. ½ mile to entrance on the left into Duncaster. From
the Loeffler Road entrance or the Mountain Avenue entrance, once on the campus,
visitors should follow the signs to the Aquatics & Fitness Center
Entrance.
84 Eastbound from Farmington:
Take exit 41. Go left on South Main St.
[which becomes North Main St. at West Hartford Center] for 4.6 miles to Rt. 185.
Turn left on Rt. 185 for 1.8 miles. Turn right on Rt. 178. To use
the new front entrance, after about ½ mile turn left onto Mountain Avenue and
continue approx. ½ mile to entrance on the left into Duncaster. From the
Loeffler Road entrance or the Mountain Avenue entrance, once on the campus,
visitors should follow the signs to the Aquatics & Fitness Center
Entrance.
91 [North or South]:
Take exit 36. Go west on Rt. 178 for 4.5
miles to the center of Bloomfield. At the traffic light continue straight
on Rt. 178 for 1.4 miles. To use new front entrance, turn right onto
Mountain Avenue and continue approx. ½ mile to entrance on the left into
Duncaster. From the Loeffler Road entrance or the Mountain Avenue
entrance, once on the campus, visitors should follow the signs to the
Aquatics & Fitness Center Entrance.
Saturday, February 3rd (Snow date: Feb.
10th)
Our meeting this month will be a wonderful day with needlework judge Karen
Duggan. Her talk will be about how to improve our
work. From selecting ground material, threads, colors and stitches
to framing, what are the right and wrong decisions we are making that will
positively or negatively affect a judge's score. She will bring a
few pieces for demonstration and would like members to bring pieces for mock
judging. It is best if the pieces are NOT ones that are dear to your
heart so that no feelings will be hurt if errors are found or negative comments
presented. Karen is very enthusiastic and encouraging, so this day should
give us lots of ideas to produce better work.
Saturday, April 14th
Sneak preview: we will work a small piece of crewel
embroidery.
Saturday, June 2nd
Catherine Jordan will
be coming to our chapter to teach a one-day workshop.
Come to this exciting and fun-filled class as we explore basic color
principles to help you make more effective color choices. This class will
cover tips for using over-dyed threads to control color, so you can more
confidently select and use color. More information will be available in
the next issue, but mark your calendars now so you don't miss this
class.
Saturday and Sunday, October 13th
& 14th
Another wonderful opportunity! We have been able to hire Margaret
Vant Erve to come here for a two-day class. She is an exciting teacher
that Julia met at the National Seminar in Richmond. Her background as an
artist makes her approach to stitching more interesting because of her
perspective. Below is a picture of the class piece that will be offered
and a description of the class:
Spring Garden by Margaret Vant Erve
2 day workshop - basic surface embroidery knowledge
required
Project size - 8" x 6"
The spring garden is probably the most delightful vision for the
Canadian gardener. After a long winter it is wonderful to witness the profusion of
colour that emerges from the ground. This embroidered garden features some
standard favourites; Siberian irises, tulips and daffodils nestle in front of
bleeding hearts while scattered in the foreground are dandelions and
forget-me-nots. This class will teach the student how to use combinations
of simple surface embroidery stitches to create each of the flowers in this
dense garden. DMC flosses are used on Habotai silk.
FUTURE MEETING DATE
Saturday, December 3, 2007 |
FUTURE BOARD MEETINGS (All members are welcome)
Tuesdays November 14th, January 9th,
March 13th & May 8th |
Stitching Getaways: The following
is the schedule for the West Side Day group. They will
meet in the months that we do not have a chapter meeting, and a focus for each
meeting is listed below:
November 14 Bead Encased Cabochon explanation by Linda Berry
January 9 Show and
tell
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.
Pequot Colony - The New London Library has been undergoing major
renovation since October of 2005. Rather than trying to find another
room where they can meet, they have decided to have their stitch-ins at various
members' homes. The schedule for December, January and February is as
follows:
December – No meeting
January - Doris Boas'
February - JoAnne Kolboski's
Barb Crum's house will be backup for any month that the hostess named isn't
available. Doris will be a backup for Barb, especially in the winter.
If more information is needed, call Doris Boas at 860-572-8441, or
email at ndboas@sbcglobal.net
SAVE THE DATES: April 20, 21 and 22, 2007
Needles by the Lake
NER's seminar will be held April 20, 21, and 22, 2007 at the Wyndham Burlington Hotel
in beautiful Burlington,
Vermont. Hopefully you have received your copy of the brochure
by the time you are reading this. If not, please email Lisa at klg7641@comcast.net or
Julia at juliaappell@comcast.net
and we will happily send one to you.
We encourage all of you to attend. Rooms have been set aside for us, so
don't worry about finding a roommate. Both of us will make arrangements
for someone to share a room with you, and we are happy to drive anyone who would
like to carpool. Just let us know if you want us to set up your room
and/or give you a ride as soon as you can.
Look the offerings over carefully and register right away in order to get
your first choice.
The hotel is right on Lake Champlain, and the seminar plans sound
exciting. It should be a beautiful time of year for a weekend away, so
consider it a playtime that you deserve.
CRVC Program Registration Form – December 2nd
Meeting
Mail completed form to: Linda Berry, 203 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT
06107-3201. The deadline for signing up for this
meeting is November 29th.
______I have enclosed a check for $20 made out to CRVC
to pay for my lunch.
My choice of entrée is ______Roasted Beef
Tenderloin
______Fish
Name:
___________________________________________________ Phone:
_____________________________
Email:______________________________________ |
CRVC-EGA Membership
$47. Primary
Membership $15. Plural Membership (NER) $18. Plural
Membership (not NER)
For a membership card, please enclose a SASE.
Amt. Pd. ____________
Check # ____________
Date Pd. ____________ |
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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
__ CRVC Primary Membership ($47)
__ Plural Membership, Primary Chapter in New England
Region ($15) __ Plural Membership,
Primary Chapter not in New England Region ($18)
Name:
____________________________________________________
Address:
____________________________________________________
City, ST,
ZIP ____________________________________________________
Phone: _______________________
Email:________________________
Primary Chapter:
________________________________________________
Membership No. _______________________ Total Enclosed
$___________ |