Both evening and day meetings will work on a Four-Way Bargello Project. The evening group’s project will be taught by Pat W-S. This is a small piece to learn Four-Way Bargello on 18-count canvas. The canvas is going to be visible, so please choose a color that you like and that works with your fibers. The size of the canvas should be 7” x 7” and should be mounted on stretcher strips before the class. A total of five fibers are needed; using fibers from your stash; please pick one metallic and the rest of the fibers are your choice. The pattern will be passed out at the June Banquet to those who have signed up. For those of you who will not be at the dinner, you may choose all floss, etc., but it is more interesting to choose different fibers for the diversity of texture. The fibers the pattern calls for are: Frosty Rays, Neon Rays, Silk & Cream, Fyre Werks Soft Sheen and Very Velvet. Please feel free to substitute with fibers of your choice.

Annual Banquet on June 15, it will be held at Carnegie Café at The Maplewood Inn. Arrival time is at 5:30 p.m. and dinner is at 6 p.m. The cost is $30. If you need a ride, please ask another member to pick you up. We will have our Installation of Officers, Billie Awards and time for chatting.

Billie Awards

At our June Banquet a table will be set up for your embroidery pieces you have been working on this past year. If not finished, please add “the last stitch”. We are anxious to see your fine work and congratulate you.

Dinner Menu:

Harvest Crudite Platter
Mandarin Orange and Raspberry Mixed Greens Salad with Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette
Freshly Baked Chevernet Rolls with Butter Rosettes and Virgin Olive Oil
Choice of:
Chicken Francais with Carnegie Potato and fruit garnish—OR
Tuscan Buttercrumb Haddock atop Tuscan Greens with Grilled Vegetables—OR
Grilled London Broil with Asparagus Demi Glace and Carnegie Potatoes.
Dessert: Assorted Cheesecake
Coffee, Tea, Soda, Water

At our Spring Fling, members brought their pieces for the Kidney challenge. Select the Kidney Challenge page at left under Needle Art Gallery or follow this link.

We will continue with the Hidden Hearts project. Share what you have stitched and bring questions if you have them. A few of our stitchers have completed their project. Please bring your completed project for all to see.

Our needle work display is up in the Manlius Library and it’s lovely. It’s amazing how many items we were able to put in such a small space. All of the Kidney Challenge pieces are included. There are two completed Hidden  Hearts. One of our members allowed us to show off her completed Raspberry Truffle pin cushion…sitting next to a partial completed one and an attempt to do one berry. The kit for the acorn biscornu is there along with two completed  biscornus. There’s quite a variety of really great works from our needles!

You can see exhibit at the Manlius Public Library (1 Arkie Albanese Ave, Manlius, NY) throughout the month of May.

Spring Fling begins at 10 a.m. at the Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum at 7010 Lakeport Road, Chitte-
nango. This year, we have two programs that should be great fun.

First of all, our Kidney Challenge for cash prizes where you will be voting for the winners of the competition.

We will also hold our EGA Auction. It promises to be great fun and all of the money raised goes to our Education Fund. So, clean out those closets and tote bags with stitching related items you no longer want or need and donate them to this great cause. Please pre-sort your items before arriving.

Lunch will be provided by The Rusty Rail and served at noon. See details about the Kidney Challenge below. Read the rest of this entry »

Outreach Project – led by jeanette Shorney

We will again be making the drawstring bags for the Department of Social Services to be used when they go into a home and remove a child from a very difficult situation. Read the rest of this entry »

From National EGA…

I am the new EGA GCC Development Assistant, and one of my job duties is to find pilot stitchers for GCCs in development. If you are interested in being a pilot stitcher, please complete the pilot stitcher application and email it to me.  This application can be found in the group files of the EGA GCC yahoo group.  If you don’t belong to that group, please email me at dragonmom0517@bellsouth.net and I will email the form to you.

If you have sent in an application in the past, please resubmit so I can make sure I have current information. I especially need groups of 4, so if several of your members wanted to form a group, let me know what techniques they were willing to do, I would really appreciate them!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me!

Thanks,
Lisa Dunn
GCC Development Assistant
dragonmom0517@bellsouth.net

The March project is a mystery no longer. Actually, it was a mystery only because it was not designed yet!! Starting in
March, we will be working on a Hardanger Medallion that will include at least four different types of filling stitches. The medallion can be used as part of a sampler or a stand-alone piece, or can be repeated for a larger piece, such as a border for a table runner. Read the rest of this entry »

We will continue with the Hidden Hearts project. Share what you have stitched and bring questions if you have them. The December 2008 Needle Arts magazine has Block 3A and the March 2009 Needle Arts magazine have Blocks 3B and 2B. Others to follow in future postings.