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Needlenews
Marin Golden Threads Greater Pacific Region Volume 27, Issue 2 Marin County, CA Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc. May / June 2017
Board Members President
Julie Gardin [email protected] 1st Vice President -
Workshop/Education Chris Day [email protected]
2nd Vice President - Program Liesbeth Matthieu [email protected]
Secretary Tracy Harding [email protected]
Treasurer Kristin Long [email protected]
Regional Rep Wendy Anderson [email protected]
Librarian Lori Love [email protected]
Newsletter Editor Laurel Knapp [email protected]
Webmistress Michelle Hufford [email protected]
Website: www.maringoldenthreads.org Membership
Edie Price [email protected] Hospitality
Andrina Ruzick [email protected] Sunshine
Sara Zander [email protected] Outreach
Sandi Deckinger [email protected] Historian
Janet Reese [email protected]
President’s Message
Hello Marin Golden Threads Members,
Happy Spring! In the deep spring cleaning that has been
happening at my house, I’ve come across a few items of clothing
that were set aside because they need to be mended; a ripped pair
of jeans, a whole in a fine knit sweater, etc. I didn’t want to throw
them away so I searched around and learned about visible
mending.
Visible mending seems like a great way to use embroidery skills
to repair special pieces of clothing and even jazz them up a bit.
For example, creating an eyelet out of the hole in the sweater by
stitching around the opening and adding fabric or lace in the
middle to create a scene. You could stitch in a piece of lace or
embroider decorate stitches. Sashiko seems to be a popular
technique used in visible mending.
Another example of visible mending that I saw was needle felting
different shaped elbow patches onto favorite and much loved
sweaters. They could be oval, rectangular, star, or heart shaped.
I’m hoping to try some of these techniques on the clothes I have
that need to be mended. Maybe this can help you give new life to
some old clothes.
Julie
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2017 Calendar
April 22 Stitch-in and Upcycle Market
May 13 Workshop – Vima Micheli Part 2
May 20 TBD
June 24 No Meeting – Fair set up
June 30 –
July 4 Marin County Fair
July 22 Annual Picnic
Sunshine
Sending wishes for a speedy recovery after her surgery to Laura Fraser. We’re all pulling for you Laura! Sympathies to Velma Williford on the loss of her beloved Cami. Anyone who spent time with this fuzzy bundle knew what a sweetie she was. Happy Birthday May 6 Leslie Gagliardi 21 Cindy Ichioka June 2 Kimberly MacKenzie 4 Laurel Knapp 14 Roberta Adams
As always, please be the ‘little birdy’ who tells me who, what and when! Thanks, Sara
Hospitality Hospitality Thank you all who responded to the call for volunteers in this area. A 2017 sign up sheet for meeting snacks is in the binder that circulates during our meetings. More than one person can sign up for a meeting, making it easier and more fun. For our April meeting Sandy Backer and Julie Gardin have volunteered. Thank you, and see you soon. Andrina
Membership News
We have a new plural member, Kay Leach. Please give her a warm MGT welcome. Membership is now at 60. Edie Price Membership Chair
Monthly Meetings
Our meetings are held in a room at the back of the church. To find us, drive past the Valley Baptist Church at 3 North San Pedro and turn right onto Sequoia Road. Then turn right into the church parking lot. Drive to the back of the parking lot and you will see a sign which will be taped to the door leading to our meeting room.
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Programs Notes from the Program Team
April 22, 2017 – Upcycle mart & Stitch in Time to stitch together and an opportunity to finish a project you have been working on.
You can also ask for help with a project you have been struggling with.
Bring any stitchery items, books or magazines to sell to our Upcycle Market. Be prepared to buy some items and support this chapter fundraiser.
May 20, 2017 – Lacy Canvas Scissor Case – Liesbeth Matthieu Petite Project from EGA Web Site - Margaret Bendig Design
It is time to do some counted thread or canvas work. This project on colored #18 mesh canvas is small, stitches up fast and uses a lot of different stitches. It is also easy to assemble.
This petite project is a design from Margaret Bendig and comes from the EGA website.
You can use any colors and keep it monochrome like the example or you can choose a variety of colors. I chose mine in the spirit of Spring.
July 22 – Annual Picnic – hostess Fran Thorssen - 11:30AM Annual picnic at Fran Thorssen’s house, at 2311 Novato Boulevard, in Novato. Take time to catch up, enjoy the outdoor picnic area and each other’s company. Come see for yourself how beautiful the garden looks.
Bring a dish and drinks to share - bring your decorated hat from the anniversary picnic. Looking forward to seeing all of you!
August 26, 2017 – Ukrainian Whitework with Julianne Mibach Julianne was inspired by her June 2016 GPR seminar class to design and teach a small Ukrainian Whitework design suitable for an ornament, pincushion, box top, sachet, or small framed piece. Stitches are simple. Materials are few and will be kitted. Laurel Knapp enthusiastically offered to assist in charting the design. Picture to follow in 2017.
This is a Whitework piece and will be worked with 2 sizes of white perle cotton on a 25 count white ground evenweave fabric. Please don't be intimidated by the color or fabric count. Stitches worked will include satin stitch, double cable stitch, and 1 or 2 other stitches. The design is small in size and you will be able to complete it within a few hours.
Please bring the following supplies to the August meeting: 4-inch hoop, size 24 tapestry needles, lighting, magnification (if needed), and your usual stitching supplies.
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September 23 , 2017 – Open House & Sashiko with Lois Kershner For our Open House program, Lois Kershner has agreed to come and teach us Sashiko. Sashiko is a Japanese embroidery technique. Learn basic traditional Japanese Sashiko stitching techniques using a combination of traditional patterns. Kit cost $15.00. Because the kits must be ordered many weeks in advance we need final participants count no later than August 1, 2017.
November 18, Ornament using Swedish Embroidery - Chris Day A fun ornament created using Swedish embroidery with pearls and ribbon embellishment.
Maker’s Faire
GPR has been accepted in the Bay Area Maker Faire at the San Mateo Event Center. Set up is Thursday, May 18, 10AM to 7PM, and Friday, May 19, 7:30AM to 12 noon. Show is open Friday, May 19, 1PM to 5PM, Saturday, May 20, 10AM to 7PM, and Sunday, May 21, 10AM to 6PM. Take down is an additional hour or two on Sunday night. We need a hardworking volunteers for the hours we are open to the public, and possibly a few for set up as well. This year our theme is Stitching Down the Flower Path. We will have small, simple Make and Takes in the following techniques for people to choose from: Cross Stitch, Embroidery, Kumihimo, Needlepoint, and Pattern Darning,. Ideally, we will all be able to teach all five techniques. Help will be available to you prior to the event if you need a refresher. If you are available, and would like to participate, please contact me as soon as you can. I have a limited number of free and/or discount passes, which I will distribute to those who can work five hour shifts. Please tell me if you want early or late. Keep in mind that parking is limited and off site, so be sure to allow a lot of time to cover that. If you have further questions, feel free to email me at the same address. [email protected] I look forward to hearing from you. Pat Funke GPR Outreach Chair
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Workshop Vima Micheli Workshop - We had a great time with part one of this workshop. Vima is a delight and the time went by too quickly. Before we knew it, the day was over. Of course, we all have homework - you've probably see Julianne's completed homework assignment on our facebook page. Way to go Julianne! Looking forward to our second class. It should be as much fun as the first. Learning a lot! Betsy Morgan - I've contacted Betsy about scheduling a class
for Spring of 2019. Seems like a long time to wait for a workshop, so let me know if you don't want to wait that long. Just didn't want to interfere with saving for seminar! One last thing - If you have any suggestions for teachers, techniques, or projects you would like to see as a workshop, please let me know. I'm always looking for new ideas and your help would be much appreciated. Chris
GPR
The region is sponsoring a GCC entitled Isabella - Italian Drawn Thread. How that works is the Region pays the group fee and the members taking the class pay for the text and purchase their own supplies. See the information enclosed with the newsletter. Seminar 2018 is quickly approaching. Information about the Stitch the logo contest is also enclosed with this newsletter.
Marin County Fair We’ve been passing around sign-up sheets at our meetings for fair monitors, judging clerks, etc. This year most of our judges seemed to want to judge on Monday, June 12 - so we need additional clerks that day. If you are interested in clerking and/or monitoring, and won't be attending a meeting, please let Laurel
know so she can add you to the list. There are still openings available so check your calendar and let us know if you can help out. We rely on the support of MGT to make this successful. Stitching Angels I want to thank all of you who committed to the Stitching Angel awards for the Fair. We will have $400 in Stitching Angel prizes and an additional $175 in Ruth Cardin prizes. Again, thanks to you all. I'll be collecting funds in April. Laurel and Chris
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The fourth installment of the new Mystery My Favorite Things was sent out 2 weeks ago. If you have any questions or are unable to open the chart, please let us know. We hope you enjoy this one. We certainly have.
Laurel and Chris
Amazon Purchases
If any of you are like me and do a lot of shopping
on Amazon, then you can help our guild financially.
I just found out that if you are an Amazon Prime
member and go to amazonsmile.com, you can select
our guild as the charity you would like to benefit.
Just go to Your Account, go down to Change Your
Charity, and then type in Embroiderer's Guild of
Amerca Inc. located in Novato,CA. A portion of
your purchase will go to our guild! I think that's
fabulous. Too bad I didn't know about it before -
did a lot of Christmas shopping through Amazon!
Chris
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GPR Seminar 2018 – Days of Vines and Stitches – Velma Williford As I hope most of you have heard by now, GPR Seminar 2018 – Days of Vines and Stitches will be held from July 20 – 25 on the beautiful campus of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park CA. If you haven’t yet visited the seminar website I encourage you to take a few minutes to check it out. And while you’re at it, make sure you’ve “Liked” the GPR Facebook page so you can be aware of the latest seminar updates. And just to make sure that you are kept up-to-date, the seminar committee will also send monthly updates to each of the chapters to include in their newsletters. Stitch the Logo Contest – entries due May 26, 2018 The seminar logo (shown below) and the Stitch the Logo Contest were unveiled at the regional meeting in February. Complete contest rules and the logo image can be found on the seminar website or accessed via this link: Days of Vines and-Stitches Logo Contest . A photograph of the winning stitched logo will be featured on the seminar website and used for all seminar related communications. Additionally, a $50 check will be awarded during Seminar! We’re looking forward to seeing what this gifted community of stitchers comes up with!
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Saving for Seminar The older I get the faster time seems to go so you may laugh when I tell you that Seminar 2018 is only 15 months away but experience tells me that July 20th 2018 will be here before we know it. This also reminds me that it’s never too soon to start saving! On the following page is an “envelope” that you can print out and use to start saving (you can also download a copy of the envelope from the seminar website). If you start setting aside just $5.00 a day now, you’ll have plenty saved by January 2018 to cover registration and by June 2018 to cover your travel and other expenses (like the Merchandise Night). Seminar Faculty Selections The faculty selections will be revealed at the Spring Retreat and posted to the website the following Monday. There is a wonderful line-up of instructors and I’d like to thank Sara Zander for her hard work in pulling this together. Seminar Goodie Bags I’ve heard that some chapters are already thinking about their gift for the seminar goodies bag. Last year there was a wonderful selections of items as the picture below illustrates.
So that we continue to have a wide variety of gifts (and no duplicates), please contact our Goodie Bag Committee Chairwoman Brandy Shaw at: [email protected]. A couple of things to think about as you are brainstorming ideas: 1) What would delight you to receive as a gift and 2) Since this gift shows the spirit of your chapter, how can you creatively represent that? Please also remember that you will need to donate 150 items to ensure that all participants receive a gift from you. Request for Photos from Past Seminars Currently, on the seminar website, there are a number of photos of Seminar 2016. The executive committee thought it would be wonderful if we could also add photos from earlier seminars. If you have some that you would like to share, please contact Jacquelyn Jenkins at [email protected]. If you have just a few you can probably just email them to her. If you’d like to send more, she can help you figure out how best to do that. Just for fun, here’s a photo that Karen Nadeau sent us. Does this bring back memories for anyone?
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Savings Envelope for Days of Vines and Stitches
GPR Seminar July 20-25, 2018
Sonoma State University (fold on the dotted lines and tape the edges to create an envelope)
Set a goal of $5.00 a day (or whatever you can set aside).
Every bit helps! It may be as easy as one less coffee drink per day or one less meal out per week or, it may involve
getting a little more creative so you can put that money aside for seminar. Either way, if you decide a trip to all the fun
and learning at Seminar is worth it, make it your “saving priority”.
Dream about how you’d like to spend the money you’ve saved once you get to the Days of Vines and Stitches at
Sonoma State University in 2018!
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Setting aside just five dollars ($5.00) a day between now and January 2018 will help cover your registration expenses and by June 2018 you’ll have enough for travel and other expenses (think Merchandise Night and the Boutique
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Marin Golden Threads
6003 Shelter Bay Ave. Mill Valley, CA 94941 NEEDLENEWS, the newsletter of Marin Golden Threads, a chapter of the Greater Pacific Region of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc., a non-profit organization, is published six times each year (January, March, May, July, September, November) for the benefit of its members. If you do not receive your copy of NEEDLENEWS, by the 25th of each of those months, please notify the newsletter editor. The Chapter Goals are: To educate and promote the highest standards of technique and design in needlework; To encourage interest, enjoyment, and creativity in doing all forms of fancywork or handwork; To promote cooperation and interchange of ideas among those who are engaged in or interested in needlework in all parts of the world. Membership is open to everyone who is interested in and/or who enjoys any of the textile arts. Dues are $55.00 per year for regular members and $11.00 per year for plural members (in Region). Members are not only invited to attend chapter meetings, but are entitled to attend Guild-sponsored workshops at a minimum fee. Guests are invited to attend one meeting. Further attendance requires either regular or plural membership. Our library is available to members for their use. Guild members receive Needle Arts, a quarterly national publication of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc., as well as the bi-monthly newsletter, NEEDLENEWS. Meetings: Regular monthly meetings are held at Valley Baptist Church, San Rafael, on the fourth Saturday of each month at 10:00 a.m. unless noted in the Calendar. Reprinted privileges: Printed materials in NEEDLENEWS, which are copyrighted, may not be reprinted without written permission from the author. Other articles and materials may be reprinted only by other EGA chapters with written permission of the editor. The membership roster of Marin Golden Threads is intended for the private use of MGT members. Any other use by another group or individual must be approved by officers of Marin Golden Threads.
Laurel Knapp, Editor