Salt City Stitchers

EGA Statement of Purpose

"The purpose of this organization shall be to foster the highest standards of excellence in the practice of the art of embroidery through an active program of education and study and to preserve the heritage of the art of embroidery." (EGA Bylaws, Article II)

Jean's Message

Dear Stitchers,

I don’t know about you but I am so tired of winter and all this snow. The only good thing about it is that when we can’t go out , there is a lot of time to stitch.

Joan Murphy has found some great things for us to do for our outreach programs. In March, we will be sewing totebags for walkers and tiny hospital gowns for the dolls that they use with pediatric patients to help explain their surgeries. These items are so simple but the gratitude with which they are received is heartwarming.

In April, Joan and I will assist you with a crewel project. I hope to have the stitched sample to show in March. And we are still looking for a 1^st Vice President so if you’d like to try an office we’d be glad to hear from you. There is no better way to serve your organization and besides it can be lots of fun.

Plans are also underway for the June banquet and luncheon so start saving you pennies and finish your Billie Award if you haven’t already.

We should be hearing soon about our class selections at Little Stitches and we all looking forward to a fun time.

Happy stitching,

Jean

Calendar of Events

Shows/Events

May 1-4, 2003 – Magic Needles

A Biennial needlework exhibit of work by members of the New York Capital District Chapter of the Embroiderer's Guild of America. Inc. The exhibit will also include a boutique, invitational needlework from locally known needle artists, children's stitchery and daily demonstrations of needlework techniques. Pruyn House, 207 Old Niskayuna Road, Loudenville, NY (518) 783-1435, 10-4 daily, free admission.

February 2004 - Needle Art Exhibit

There will be an open exhibit for the month of February 2004 at the Baldwinsville Library. Kathy Fonda will be looking for volunteers to help her organize a “Stitch a Valentine” project for people who stop by and are interested in trying embroidery. This is an excellent opportunity to display our work and share our love of needlework and a great chance to gain new members.- Kathy Fonda

Day Programs for 2003

Membership

Pat Warner-Sorci has a new phone number. It is 254-5560.

The following memberships are due for renewal before March 31, 2003:

The following have renewed membership:

Genevieve Jones

June Weber

The following did NOT renew membership:

Sonja Berson

Mary Piraino

Mary Jane Quinlan

Kathleen Stern

Dues should be paid to the Joan Murphy at the evening meeting, Nancy Hough at the day meeting, or by mail using the form at the end of the newsletter. Please note that late payment may result in missing an issue of Needlearts and the newsletter!

Evening Programs for 2003

March meetings - Outreach Program - Joan Murphy

We are doing an Outreach meeting for March day and evening meetings. The objects that we will be working on are walker bags and little hospital gowns for the pre-op dolls for the pediatrics units.

The materials needed will be:

• Sewing machines - (some already volunteered)

• Any scrap material - juvenile for the hospital gowns would be best

• Bias tape - lots

• Ribbon

• Anything we can use to make ties for the walker bags

• Scissors

• Thread

• Pins

Kathy Fonda and Debbie Bender will be coordinators for the evening meeting and Jean Klym and Dixie Nohara will be helping me with the day meeting because I will unfortunately not be able to attend this meeting. All patterns for the hospital gowns and walker bags will be to them prior to the meeting so you will all have patterns and samples. Good luck and thanks so much for you generosity with time and supplies. Any materials left over at the meetings, I will work on the items at home.

Also, if you do not want to work on these, we will have multiple knit and crochet patterns for hats and slippers. Any questions about these can be directed to Mary Hickox.

Another Outreach Project- Joan Murphy/ Mary Hickox

Stoma Cover Directions:

-Use a size 1 or 2 steel crochet hook and mercerized crochet cotton

-Chain 42 stitches (sts.).

-Make 1 single chain (S.C.) in second chain from hook then in each chain across (40 sts.) Chain 2 and turn. Make 1 double chain (D.C.) in top of each stitch across row. Repeat this row 18 times (19 rows in all).

- Chain 3 and turn. Make 1 triple chain (T.C.) in top of next 4 sts. (5 triples).

-D.C. in next 30 sts.

-T.C. in last 5 sts.

-Chain 75 sts. then S.C. back to last 3 sts. then T.C. in next 4 sts.

-D.C. in next 5 S.C.

-S.C. in next 20 sts.

-D.C. in next 5.

-T.C. in next 5.

-Chain 75.

-S.C. back in each chain - tie off.

Mary Hickox will supply all the other knitted and crocheted patterns at the meetings.

Other items to be made/collected throughout the year for Outreach are:

Afghans – bed size

Lap-robes – 48x60 or 24x36

Mittens

Knit hats – 24” circumference

Scarfs – 35” long

Slippers – Men's Large

Wheelchair/Walker bags

April Meetings – Joan Murphy

This will be a Crewel Wool embroidery project. Jean Klym will have a sample for display at the March meetings. There will be a sign up list so Jean/Joan can determine how many kits will need to be made. Items members will need to bring with them:

• Hoop or Q-snaps to fit a 9” x 12“ piece of fabric

• Usual stitching supplies

May Evening Meeting – Bobbi Yonai

Details for the pulled thread project will be forthcoming at the April meeting.

June Day Luncheon – Lillian Kent

On the 18th of June the daytime group will be having their luncheon at The Craftsman Inn in Fayetteville. Located on Rte. 5 across from the mall. The entree choices are either, chicken crimini (boneless breast of chicken sauteed with crimini mushrooms in a sherry sauce ) OR grilled salmon served with a dill and citrus buerre blanc...cost per meal is $16.50. Also, our guest speaker is Michael Danial, the Corporate Historian from Stickley. Persons interested in attending this luncheon who are not daytime members, please contact Lillian Kent 315-473-9754 or e-mail lillypad0002@aol.com. For daytime members, I will be sending around a sign-up sheet at the March, April and May meetings.

June Evening Banquet

The evening dinner meeting will be held in the Stickley Room at Traditions at the Links, East Syracuse. We will begin with hors d'oeuvres (both hot and cold tempters) on the terrace. A buffet dinner will be served at 6:30 pm., including Caesar Salad, carved roast beef, two pasta choices with vegatables, Chicken Francaise, Rice Pilaf, Sauteed Garden Vegetables, and Chocolate Outrage Cake. Our guest speaker is Paula Schultz, owner of Cottons Etc. in Oneida, and winner of several awards for her original creative clothing designs. Start saving your pennies to join us on June 17^th. Cost of dinner is $29.00. Dinner reservations should be paid at either meeting or sent to Nancy by June 1. Directions are provided at the end of newsletter.

Library Corner - Joan Murphy

The following are new items in the Libraries.

Evening Library

BOOKS:

• The Encyclopedia of Knitting and Crochet Stitch Patterns - Linda Mariano

• The Complete Book of Knitting - Barbara Abbey

• Quick & Cozy Afghans - Oxmoor House

• Needlepoint Stitchery - Margaret Boyles

• Complete Book of Cross Stitch - Eleanor VanZandt

• The New World of Needlepoint - Lisbeth Perrone

• Susan Jaques Reproduction Sampler - EGA

• Gifts of Nature - An American Sampler - Marie Barber

• Sandy's Finishing Touches - Sandy Higgins

• Needlepoint and Pattern - Gloria Katzenberg

LEAFLETS:

• Quick & Easy with a Q hook/Country Kitchen Decor - Annie Potter

• Sarah - Bed Dolls & Sweet Dreams - Fibre Craft

• Nora - Bed Dolls & Sweet Dreams - Fibre Craft

• Abby - Bed Dolls & Sweet Dreams - Fibre Craft

• Charlotte - Bed Dolls & Sweet Dreams - Fibre Craft

• Elizabeth - Bed Dolls & Sweet Dreams - Fibre Craft

• Decorate to Celebrate in Plastic Canvas - Leisure Arts

• The Bow Book - Marie Koops

• Crochet Dolly Tote-Along Bassinet - Annie Attic

• Crochet Teddy Tote-Along Bassinet - Annie Attic

• Sassy Lady - Elizabeth Anne

• Sweet Magnolia Bath Set - Annie Attic

• Birthday Blankets & Bears Vol 1 - Annie Attic

• Birthday Blankets & Bears Vol 2 - Annie Attic

• Doorstops and Bookends for Plastic Canvas - Nancy Dorman

• Holiday Stickups in Plastic Canvas - Sandy Bagge

• Kitty Kitty Kitty in Plastic Canvas - Jackee Peatman

• Pretty Pansies in Plastic Canvas - Dick Martin

• Santa Claus in Plastic Canvas - Carole Rodgers

• The Hen House in Plastic Canvas - Jack Peatman

• Bird house Air Freshener - Terry Ricioli

• Victorian Family & Furnishing - Karen Ann Wiant

• Table Setting Ideas - Columbia Minerva

• Table Settings for Plastic Canvas - Leisure Arts

• Plastic Canvas Classy Purses - The Needlecraft Shop

• Plastic Canvas Romance & Roses - Annie Attic

• Cozy Quartet - Bernat

• Antique Tins - Fran Rohus

• Plastic Canvas Pretty Place Mats - Annie Attic

• Plant Perches Plus - Annie Attic

Day Library

• The New World of Needlepoint - Lisbeth Perrone

• McCall's Needlework Treasury - McCalls

• The Needlework Garden - Jane Iles

News From MER - Judy Cain

If you are taking a GCC sponsored by MER, please remember that your completed piece must be turned in at Little Stitches in May in order to receive a critique. I will be collecting these at our April meetings. If yours isn't complete, you may still turn it in for an evaluation of the portion you have completed.

We now have candidates for Region Director and Asst Region Director. Anne Ward, of Chemung Valley EGA in Elmira, and Gerry Stark, of Buffalo, are running for Region Director and Asst Region Director of MER.

Little Stitches 2003 is coming up soon -- the first weekend in May, in Erie PA. If you sent in a registration for Little Stitches 2003, you should be hearing shortly about your class selection.

Corning Chapter is sponsoring a trip to Winterthur and Longwood Gardens on May 30-31, 2003. Cost is $230 per person and includes admission to Winterthur, Longwood, and a tour of four old mansions in Odessa, DE, plus your lodging (double occupancy), two breakfasts, and two dinners. If you'd like to go on this trip, you may contact Charlotte Schuller at 570-835-4388, but don't delay - the $75 deposit is due March 15th, and final payment is due April 15th. The bus will leave Corning very early on Friday morning; if you are coming from a distance, you may let Charlotte know, and she will try to make arrangements for you to stay with an EGA member in that area.

It was decided at the last Region meeting to hold another Little Stitches in 2004 and move our four-day seminar to 2005. That puts us on schedule for hosting the 2009 National Seminar.

Little Stitches 2004 will be under the direction of the Elmira chapter. They are thinking in terms of October 2004, are currently looking for a site, and are beginning to look for teachers; it is possible they will expand it to two days. If you'd like to submit a proposal, you may send it to:

Marilyn Sbedico

151 West Bennett Circle

Elmira NY 14903

607-733-5709

We also have a chairman for our next four-day Seminar -- Lillian Geer, of Lake Julia Chapter, is the Chairman for Seminar 2005. If you'd like to serve on her committee, you may contact her at:

Lillian Geer

331 Shadylane Drive

New Castle PA 16105

724-654-1442

National Seminar 2009 will be held in Pittsburgh. This is a great opportunity for us to get to a national seminar without having to go terribly far. Of course, National Seminar 2003 is going to be within driving distance too, in Rye NY. How fortunate we are to have such great opportunities!

Ways and Means Wares:

Bookmark $1.50

Letter Opener 1.50

Tape Measure 3.00

Mini Carry All 3.50

Total $9.50

OR Mini Carry All Set (includes all of the above) $9.00

Tote Bags with machine embroidered CNY EGA Logo $20

All items will be available at both Day and Evening Meetings. Checks are acceptable and should be made out to CNY EGA. The bookmark is also a magnifier and has rulings on it. Great for little boys or girls. The tape measure is fiberglass, so one inch won't grow to two! It also has one of those click and reels right back in gizmo's. Great for your purse, or his tackle box. Kid's always love measuring things. The letter opener works very well as a letter opener (Judy Cain keeps coming back for more of these) and they can be used on airplanes to quickly cut your threads.

What about taking the mini carry all, adding a cute mini project, or just a piece of cloth and some thread for doodling and give it as a present to your granddaughter, your niece, or a friend who's shown some interest, along with a promise to spend some time teaching them. This would be a present for both of you!

Lastly remember, profits go into our educationfund so we can have more teachers to get us hooked on more stitching things so we can spend more money supporting our stitching habits!

And you'll probably need another tote bag to carry it all in!

Editor's Note - Susan Kaplan

Deadline for the next issue, which covers June 2003 through August 2003, is May 24th.

The Links at Erie VIllage

Directions:

Take Route 690 or Route 481 to 690 and exit at Bridge Street. Turn left onto Bridge Street (Route 290) and continue 3.5 miles to N. Burdick Street. Turn right onto N. Burdick Street. Entrance is .25 mile ahead on the left at the Medical Center building (first left past Doow Lumber).

Or

North on N. Burdick Street from Route 5 at Fayetteville Town Center. Stay right at the next stop sign to stay on N. Burdick Street. Go 1.5 miles past Erie Village community (over the hill) and turn right at the medical center building.

PAYMENT FORM

To: Nancy Hough

From:

__________________ $35 for membership renewal

__________________ $ 5 each for chapter pins

__________________ $ June Luncheon ($16.50) or Dinner ($29.00)

__________________ $ Other _____________________________(Please indicate)

___________________ $ Total enclosed (Make check payable to CNY EGA.)

copyright (c) 2003 by Susan Kaplan