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NEWS
July 2024
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Topics of interest in the coming weeks and months -– mark your calendar ~!~

Now through September 15th at the New Britain Museum of Ameican Art
The Land Carries our Ancestors: Contemporary Art of Native Americans
(including a number of pieces of beadwork)

Now on display through September 15th at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford
An 1803-1804 Mourning Sampler stitched by Elizabeth K. Bennett
Curator Talk by Ned Lazaro
Sunday, September 8, 2024 at 1pm -- Included with admission.
Needlework was an important part of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America.
Mourning embroideries often depicted figures overcome with sadness and other emblems of grief.  Ned Lazaro, associate curator of costume and textiles, discusses the ongoing significance of one outstanding example.  Meet in front of the museum shop.


CRVC Stitch-In
Saturday, August 3rd, 2024 -- 10am - 12n
at Thistle Needleworks in Wethersfield and on Zoom.
No registration required -- just come and perhaps bring a friend.
Come stitch with others on your Jacobean Fantasy correspondence project
or any other of your works in progress.  Contact CRVCEGA@aol.com for a Zoom link.


CRVC Stitch-In
Saturday, September 7th, 2024 -- 10am - 12n
at Thistle Needleworks in Wethersfield and on Zoom.
No registration required -- just come and perhaps bring a friend.
Come stitch with others on your Jacobean Fantasy correspondence project
or any other of your works in progress.  Contact CRVCEGA@aol.com for a Zoom link.


CRVC Board Meeting
Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 -- 10am
via Zoom –- all members are welcome to attend.
If you wish to participate, please let us know via CRVCEGA@aol.com
so we can forward a Zoom link to you.


CRVC Meeting
Saturday, October 5th, 2024      "Jacobean Fantasy" by Kay Stanis

We will work on our Group Correspondence Course, Jacobean Fantasy by Kay Stanis.  You may also choose to work on any project you wish.  We will have an in-person option at Thistle Needleworks, Wethersfield, and a Zoom option.  No registration required.  Contact CRVCEGA@aol.com for a Zoom link.

Schedule for the day:
        10 am to 12:00 pm Work on project
12:00 pm to 1 pm Lunch
1 pm to 3:00 pm Continue project and Show & Tell

CRVC Board Meeting
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 -- 10am
via Zoom -- all members are welcome to attend.
If you wish to participate, please let us know via CRVCEGA@aol.com
so we can forward a Zoom link to you.


CRVC Meeting
Saturday, December 7th, 2024      "Snow Day" Projects

We are having a "Snow Day" theme for the day with several projects to pick from.  You can pick one or all three, or work on any snow-related project of your choice.
  1. Brrr – Adorable snowman from the November/December 2023 issue of Needlepoint Now.  You do not need the magazine to participate since the stitch guide is included with the purchase of the canvas.

    Designed by Pepperberry Designs with stitch guide by Judie Solomon.

    A registration coupon is provided.
     
  2. Rosewood Manor – Cross-Stitch Christmas Mini-Sock.  Free chart will be provided in September.

    A registration coupon is provided.
     
  3. Debbie Rowley – Sparkly Snowman.  Free chart will be provided in September.

    A registration coupon is provided.


The Pequot Colony Stitchers, a group of CRVC members primarily in south-eastern Connecticut, meet via Zoom at 10am on the third Wednesday of each month.  All CRVC members are welcome.  Contact Stephanie Thorp at stephthorp@sbcglobal.net to be sent the Zoom link for meetings.


CRVC Program Registration Form
Snow Day -- December 7th, 2024

Mail completed form and check (made payable to CRVC-EGA) to:
Linda Berry, 343 Seabury Drive, Bloomfield, CT 06002
Deadline: October 1st, 2024 for Brrr
Deadline: December 1st, 2024 for open attendance

Snow Day

    __________Brrr hand-painted canvas, stitch guide, threads and beads: $146.50
                          (CRVC and PVC member fee)
    __________Brrr hand-painted canvas, stitch guide, threads and beads: $182.00
                          (non-member fee)
    __________Brrr hand-painted canvas and stitch guide only: $88.00
    __________Pomegranate Stocking by Rosewood Manor (chart link will be provided)
    __________Sparkly Snowman by Debbie Rowley (chart link will be provided)

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