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CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY CHAPTER Please note the location for our meetings is Thistle Needleworks at
506 Silas Deane Highway in Wethersfield, CT. The dates for meetings will be
the first Saturdays of the even months, except August.
Directions to the store are on the
Thistle Needleworks website.
*** This meeting has been
cancelled, and the program for this day and our elections will take place at the June
meeting ***
Saturday, April 4th, 2020 (Annual Meeting) We will spend our meeting time looking through lots of patterns and information on Rozashi
from materials donated by Ginny Currie. Each of us will choose a pattern, set up the
fabric, select the threads, kit them up and begin stitching during the rest of the meeting.
Hopefully we will have finished pieces to show at a fall meeting.
As this is our annual meeting, we will elect officers for the next two years. The slate
is as follows:
A coupon is provided for this meeting. Saturday, June 6th, 2020
This is a pattern which explores canvas embroidery stitches in a circle motif. The
monochromatic color flows around the circle as it makes a gradual shift in value from dark to
light. Stitched in a blue hue, the pattern mimics a large ocean wave cresting, then
splashing into white foam. The piece is designed to be mounted on the lid of a 7-inch
circular box, but it could also be framed. It is stitched on white 18 count canvas.
Please let Linda know if you would like a pattern for this piece.
A coupon is provided for this meeting.
Boston Stitch Party Check out the
EGA
website. Pictures and descriptions of all of the pieces are online as well as
information about the activities included in the seminar weekend.
Volunteers will be needed, and information about getting involved
will be forthcoming. If you are making a tea cozy for the region exhibit, keep working on
it. Forms with information about your piece will be requested in June.
Just before Valentine’s Day, our hearts were broken as we lost another active
member and dear friend, Nancy Bancroft. This picture is of her speaking at the
reception for our exhibit at Seabury in March of last year. She joined CRVC in the
late 1970s and was primarily a behind-the-scenes worker. She was at nearly every
meeting and workshop (if it was a counted technique) for decades, and was a de
facto Board member for years before agreeing to bring her shorthand skills to the
position of Secretary in 2014, stepping aside less than a year ago for health reasons.
She took on every By-Laws update and revision that was required in this
century. She researched vendors for the best deals and food quality to order our
lunches while we met at Duncaster. She was a talented and meticulous stitcher,
still working on a hardanger piece just days before her passing. Those of us who
saw her demonstrate bobbin weaving will never forget it. And we will never forget
her easy humor and updates on Wiggles.
FUTURE BOARD MEETINGS
(All members are welcome)
CRVC Program Registration Form Either email Linda at
lindaberry343@gmail.com or mail
completed form to: "Rozashi Day"
________ I plan to attend. Name:
________________________________________________________________________
CRVC Program Registration Form Either email Linda at
lindaberry343@gmail.com or mail
completed form to: "Circles" Box
________ I plan to attend and would like a pattern for this piece. Name:
________________________________________________________________________
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