New England Region News
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Bylaws -- Julia Harvey |
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Corresponding Secretary |
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Education For more details click on the Region Day 2010 link. Looking ahead, put this date in your calendar: Saturday, September, 29, 2012. Region Day 2012 will again be a one-day workshop, with classes offered by two different nationally-known teachers, as well as Studio Time. The venue for this event will be the Marriott Courtyard Hotel in Billerica, Massachusetts, which is conveniently located just off Route 3 at Exit 27 (Concord Road), between Route 128 and I-495. We expect to have signed contracts with the teachers shortly. As soon as possible, this information will be added to the Web site. Group Correspondence Courses - NER is pleased to be sponsoring two Group Correspondence Courses:
The cost of each class is $45.00, which includes a $15 registration fee (each student’s portion of the group fee paid to EGA and postage) and the $30 text fee for the instruction booklet. Registration deadline is September 30. Booklets will be received by the group leader approximately 6 to 8 weeks after that. Registration forms for each class follow, with the specific details.
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Membership The following is information gathered from Chapters within the Region, I hope by sharing our ideas and events with each other we are able to build and grow our Chapters. If you read something interesting which you feel will help promote membership in your area please contact the Chapter responsible for the event. I will list the email address of the person responsible for the information provided. My personal observations on new ideas which might help promote membership are: A Chapter Blog or presence on Facebook, this could also work for the Region. Joining a State fiber related organization as a Chapter such as Southern Maine has done by Joining Maine Fiber Arts. Could you please forward me any additional or unusual membership/outreach information which your Chapter has participated in or plans to participate in over the summer. The email address is Barbara Hepburn I will compile an updated list and share all information received with each of the Chapters in our region. Thank you in advance, - Barbara Hepburn
MAYFLOWER One of my summer goals is to build a Facebook page for our chapter. I noticed awhile back that Kay Stanis built a page for the Fiber Forum, so I'd like to follow her lead. Southern Maine Chapter - Suzanne Bruno - oncrescentlake@maine.rr.com SOME Chapter participated in the Yarmouth Heritage Days in April. Heritage Days was an event where various historic type groups and organizations set up and demonstrated around the community. This included quilters, embroiderers, antique jewelry, etc... We made a display board with pictures as well as handing out our bookmarks and application information to interested people. We also brought our SOME MINI project book to sell at the event. We will be setting up a display and demo at the Pine Tree Quilt Guild Annual Quilt Show at the Augusta Civic Center in July. We will have our display board, bookmarks and applications as well as demonstrations throughout the event by our members. WE are "recycling" past issues of NeedleArts magazine with contact information on the SOME Chapter to hand out during the weekend. The quilting and embroidery world have a lot in common and we were given this space at no charge by the PTQG in order to increase awareness of our group in the State of Maine. SOME EGA joined Maine Fiber Arts. Maine Fiber ARts is a state organization dedicated to fostering all forms of fiber arts in Maine. This resource provides support, publicity and education for artists all over the State of Maine and our professional affiliation connects us to the fiber community in our state. We currently have our bookmarks and applications on their pamphlet shelf and our events are listed on their website. We are discussing a potential exhibit at the Maine Fiber ARts Gallery in the future. |
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Newsletter Deadline for the Fall 2010 newsletter is November 6. For those wishing to submit material electronically, MSWord pdf, and text formats are acceptable. I am not able to translate Macintosh proprietary formats. Submissions in MSWord or text formats will be incorporated into the body of the newsletter and may be reformatted unless submitter requests original format. Submissions in pdf will be appended to the end of the printed newsletter and sent to email recipients as a separate attachment. E-recipients have a choice of MSWord, pdf, or both formats. Recipients requesting both will receive the files in two separate emails. Those receiving both formats will receive any separate pdf attachments ONLY in the email with the pdf version of the main newsletter (i.e., they will not receive pdf attachments in two separate emails). Outreach CRVC Outreach Report June 2010 Several members of CRVC participated in the Needle and Thread bookmark program. Judie Solomon coordinated the effort and presented more than 50 finished bookmarks to the Children’s Department of the Welles-Turner Memorial Library in Glastonbury, CT. In June, members Peg Buck and Helen Waterman displayed embroidery and temari pieces in a needlework exhibit at Duncaster Lifecare Community in Bloomfield, CT. They also provided demonstrations of the techniques. From mid-May to mid-June, member Linda Berry had a one-person exhibit at Seabury Community, also in Bloomfield. She displayed 25 pieces, including eight quilts, as a retrospective of her years in EGA. |
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Seminar 2011 Pining to Stitch, April 15-17, 2011 Chapter participation has been gratifying with all members participating in the completion of several favors and name tags. Other favors are still in production, as are table decorations and welcome packets. Advertising is now in the capable hands of Suzanne Bruno. Marilyn Sames will be working on the brochure, it will be distributed at the end of summer. This will give all members plenty of time to make their decistions regarding classes for Seminar. Classes are:
Leaf Lariat - Theresa Buchle
The publication of the first of 4 Mystery designs by Denise Harrington Pratt, the ‘Pining to Stitch’ Needlebook, has proven to be very successful with New England Region Members. The directions for the project were published in the Region Newsletter and local Chapter Newsletters, all members should now have access to this design. An updated page of stitch instructions is provided in this newsletter. A link to the directions is located on the Region Website Newenglandregionega.org/ under Seminar 2011 on the left hand side of the page. SOME Chapter is now selling kits for the ‘Pining to Stitch’ Needlebook - full kits including all threads, cashel and complete finishing materials including co-ordinating pinecone fabric is available for $18. Finishing kit only including co-ordinating pinecone fabric is available for $10. Please contact Barbara at Brit45@roadrunner.com if you are interesting in purchasing one of these kits. A link to Mystery design No. 2 is on the Seminar 2011 page.
-NER Seminar 2011
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