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Mouse TalesVol 9 - Issue 2 June 2010Contents
President's MessageShare-a-Stitch XXX is finally over. I am so pleased that our chapter was able to participate in this region sponsored event. Favors went over very well and our chapter received many compliments on the biscornu and cakes. Dozens of people came up to me to comment on how nice final banquet looked. I was impressed by how hard our chapter members (and a few non-chapter friends) worked to make sure there were enough cakes, cupcakes and petit fours to go around. It may have taken a little wheedling and cajoling, but the chapter really came through. Each and every attendee was able to go home with a biscornu. It was so exciting and satisfying to be able to offer hand-stitched favors for nearly two hundred people. I am so proud of our chapter for taking on this task! I am Seminar Chair on behalf of CyberStitchers for SAS XXXI in Birmingham next year, so I certainly hope that some of you will be to attend and maybe even volunteer. Now that our chapter has been involved in working on a seminar, I am much more aware of how much work is required to make it run smoothly. I really appreciate all of those people who donate time and talent. Speaking of which, I finally have a full board! Pre-registration went smoothly and I look forward to being able to share a brochure in early fall. Thanks again to all of you for helping and making this the first region seminar in which we have participated as a chapter.
Chapter and National NewsPayments to the Chapter: With all the payments our members make, for dues or pins or classes, and with the number of members we have, I would like to request that we all start strenuously requesting (requiring?) that any payments made to the chapter, for whatever purpose, also include (on the memo line for checks, in the Notes section for PayPal) the member name and EGA #. Kelly - Membership From the Newsletter Editor: For our new members, we have built in links to websites mentioned, and to emailing people you may need to contract. If you see a link mentioned and the letters are blue, click on that link and you will be taken there. You will note that I don't put folks' actual emails in the newsletter. If you click on their name in blue, you will be able to email them. If you have a problem, let me know! I also encourage members to share - if you found a great needlework book, took a great class with a great teacher, have some neat stitching tips to share - let me know so I can include it in the newsletter. Also, if there are some interesting needlework related events in your area, let me know so that I may add them onto the calendar. With the size of our membership, and the area we cover, chances are if there is something happening near you, some of our chapter may be interested in attending. Sue Sherburne Clang, Clang...Cable Car Bells are Ringing for EGA's 2010 National Seminar! It will soon be time for the EGA National Seminar, Stitching on the Barbary Coast, to be held in stunning San Francisco, September 5-10, 2010 at the sophisticated Downtown Marriott Hotel! International teachers and the very best from across the U.S.A. will present innovative and exciting classes for your enjoyment. No matter what your stitching interest, there is a tempting project awaiting you in The City by the Bay. Along with the rip-roaring fun 'Barbary Coast' theme adding to the excitement, choose from side trips to the beautiful Napa Valley wine country, charming Monterey, the Pacific Coast, the Lace Museum, the ever-hysterical Beach Blanket Babylon Revue in historic North Beach...and lots more! A Special Invitation: Miss Eliza Jane Johnson cordially invites you to participate in her Stitching Exposition to be held at Seminar 2010. The Exposition will consist of original needlework related to Stitching on the Barbary Coast. Entry information regarding this exhibit can be located at www.egausa.org on the National Seminar page. Do you want to have even more fun at Seminar 2010? Get involved! Join Hospitality Co-chairs Joy McGoran and Janet Baughman and be part of their dynamic and fun group of volunteers. Contact Joy or Janet. Early registration has past. You may view all classes on the National EGA website www.egausa.org on the National Seminar page. The brochure will come in the Spring Needlearts - hopefully your favorite class is already labeled "class full." Get in on all the excitement and remember to make it an even richer experience by volunteering for a few hours. Come for all or come for part...be there for the stitching fun and the adventure of a lifetime. We can't wait to see you here! Mike Swan, Chair Chapter Pins: Cyberstitchers is lucky to have our own Chapter Pin! You can see a picture of what this pin looks like in the files section of this yahoo group. Just go to the file section and look for "cyberstitchers pin". They really are a fun to wear especially when you are attending the National and Regional EGA Seminars. These pins are $7.00 and that includes the postage regardless of where we are mailing. If you are interested, you can pay via paypal at www.paypal.com or www.paypal.ca for our Canadian members. The payee is cyberstitchers@excite.com. Just be sure to identify "Chapter Pin" somewhere in the payment information. You can also send a check to me, payable to Cyberstitchers, just email me for my mailing address. Regardless, of how you purchase one, please email me (click on my name below) and give me YOUR mailing address and that you are wanting to purchase a chapter pin. As soon as I see payment, I will get your pin out to you. Your Chapter Pin volunteer, Special Interest Groups: Check out our SIGs - Special Interest Groups. Different stitchers have gotten together for specific interests and stitch-a-longs: Beading, stitching a Christmas ornament each month, each group working on a CC, etc. Go to SIGs on our website to see what is going on.
Education ReportThe education committee is composed of Anne Long, Ellen Hartman, and Rissa Peace Root. We have a number of GCCs in various stages of progress: The budget for 2010 does include a BEE 7. We are offering 11 GCC classes to the chapter for our members only. For the newer members of the chapter, BEE stands for "Big Education Event" and this is our 7th year offering it! The chapter votes on which GCCs to offer - the 11classes with the most votes are selected - and then each member has the opportunity to select 1 of the 11 classes to take for the cost of the text book alone. The chapter picks up the course fee and postage for you! Here is the list of CC projects selected for this year, and which quarter registration will take place for that class: Anne Long, Education Chair Don't forget, there are CC's available to us inexpensively via Needle Arts magazine or online at the EGA website. On-line for July and August is Silk Ribbon Pond and Dresden Kitty. Needlearts is offering Crewel Choices and Swiss Sampler. Petite Project: The present petite project is called "Summer Landscape". It is actually a repeat, but we are out of new projects. Because of this, we have a group of members who working on creating little projects of our own for our chapter. We shall have to wait patiently to see what goodies they come up with for us in the future. "Summer Landscape" can be found in our Petite Projects file at this URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CSPetiteProjects/files/Current%20Petite%20Project/ BAM: BAM is Bead-a-Month and grew out of a SAM, Stitch-a-Month, program we purchased for several years. Our own Rissa picked up with BAM when SAM ran out of new files. All diagrams are maintained in the CS-Stitch-A-Month yahoogroup. Look in the Files section in the Folder labeled "Files for BAM". If you are not a member of the CS-Stitch-A-Month group but would like to be, send an email to: CS-Stitch-a-Month-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Stitch-a-long: We have a few stitch-a-long groups going now such as the ornament group, and a bead group. Please let Anne know if there is an interest in a group stitchalong, a small meeting stitchalong, or any other similar ideas you might have. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email.
Outreach ProjectsOrnaments for Breast Cancer The 2009 Silent Auction for Breast Cancer Research at the Attic Needlework shop in Mesa, Arizona (www.atticneedlework.com) reported a final tally $20,022 raised for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The summer is a great time to get some ornaments made to make 2010 another great year!! Let's get stitching so we have some ready to send out to Arizona! Star Pillows There are still troops deploying around world so if you are interested in stitching a pillow, please use the cross stitch pattern provided by the chapter in our files. You will be stitching a small design on a 6x6 inch square of 14ct. white Aida and then mail it to our Chapter Project Coordinator. The stitched squares will then be assembled into small pillows with similarly-themed backing fabrics. A pillow is given to a soldier before shipping out to kiss the pillow and give it to his or her child as a keepsake that will hopefully comfort the child during the separation from their parent. Some photos were posted to Chat4 to see some of the precious pillows. Check them out at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chat4CyberStitchers/photos/recent/1625984389/view. The pattern may be found here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cyberstitchers_ega/files/KISSING%20PILLOWS%20pattern/ as a PDF document (or, go into the Files section in this group, and click on the folder Kissing Pillows Pattern); if you need technical assistance, please contact Lynn via e-mail. This is a simple and quick stitch. Meg is our Project Coordinator for the Kissing Pillows Chapter Project. She is the chapter member you will mail your stitched design to, and she will be sure that the squares are assembled into mini-pillows and sent on to their final distribution point. Contact Meg via email for her mailing address. We hope that many chapter members will find this project to their liking and that Meg will receive many stitched squares! Just a few items to bring to your attention: Yes there is a Canadian version of this project for Canadian service folks. Lynne D., one of our Canadian members is coordinating this in her f2f chapter in Ontario. Contact Lynne D. by email to get the pattern and information for the Canadian version of this project. Bookmarks For Literacy Judi continues to accept handmade bookmarks for the chapter's Bookmarks
for Literacy project. The requirements are as follows: Outreach for One Our "Outreach for One" folder is still there to provide members with other ideas for outreach. Go to our cyberstitchers_ega Yahoo! group. Click on "Links", then on "Outreach for One" folder. Maintenance of this list now rests with the chapter members. We encourage members to post other links to charities you know of that need assistance, or you can send the information to our Outreach Chair, Lynn, and the committee will see that it gets posted. The committee always welcomes any ideas for chapter projects (either from the membership or the committee). As usual, it's a bit difficult to find something a chapter like ours can do. Any ideas will be gratefully accepted, and will be fully investigated by the committee. Please share your ideas with our Outreach Chair, Lynn. Of InterestPlanet Earth Fibers : I have mentioned these before. They are a line of silk fibers. I loved the colors, and the price is great. I have purchased the 6-ply silk and the single strand silk. Now Palnet Earth has Silk Opal. According to what I read in Needle Pointers magazine, Silk Opal is thinner then the single strand silk so it is similar in size to Perle 5. It is reported to have a "subtle, metallic twinkle" in the fiber. Looking at pictures on their website, www.planetearthfiber.com, it looks to have hints of metallic here and there. The silk opal has 89 colors to pick from. Kreinik: Kreinik has added a holographic thread to their metallics. They first started coming out in January and are now available in most types of Kreinik metallics. According to Kreinik, the threads are come in 16 colors and come in their Blending Filament, Very Fine #4, Fine #8, Tapestry #12, Medium #16 Braids, 1/16" ribbon, and 1/8" Ribbons. They almost appear to be like prisms; the appearance of the colors will change as you change the angle you view them at. www.kreinik.com . Another new goodie from Kreinik is a series of 3 ornaments called Tree Jewels. They are designed by Anna-Marie Winter, and each design is available in 3 colorways: Classic, Urban, and Vintage. The ornaments are kits that come in their own little box. They seem expensive at approximatley $45, but the kit comes with everything. It includes 10 ct. mono canvas from Zweigart, needles, threads, beads, a styrofoam ball, and instructions. Kreinik also has a page on their website to detail putting the ornaments together. They look rather stunning. New canvas colors: Zweigart has added to their color range for congress cloth. 4 new colors include khaki, powdered spice, vintage merlot, and country blue. New Wichel colors: Wichelt Imports has added 4 new colors, Pink Sand, Ocean Kiss, Beach Walk, and Sea Lily. I saw these in my LNS and drooled. I loved the Sea Lily and need to find something to stitch on it! These colors are available in 32 ct. linen and 16 ct. Aida. The advertisement I saw for them in Just Cross Stitch says that Nora Corbett of Mirabilia fame hand-picked these colors, so perhaps we shall soon see some designs from her that use them.
Calendar:CyberStitchers Meetings: July 8-13, 2010:General meeting of CyberStitchers from 9PM (ET) Thursday, July 8 through 9PM (ET) Tuesday, July 13. August 12-17, 2010: Board meeting of CyberStitchers from 9PM (ET) Thursday, August 12 through 9PM (ET) Tuesday, August 17. September 9-14, 2010: General meeting of CyberStitchers from 9PM (ET) Thursday, September 9 through 9PM (ET) Tuesday, September 14. October 14-19, 2010: Board meeting of CyberStitchers from 9PM (ET) Thursday, October 14 through 9PM (ET) Tuesday, October 19.
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