| The
dates for chapter meetings in 2024 are the first Saturdays of the even months,
except August. Some of the meetings will be at Thistle
Needleworks, 506 Silas Deane Highway in Wethersfield, CT.
Click
here for directions to the Thistle Needleworks store.
Chapter
News
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-Ins:
Saturday, August
3rd, 2024 and 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.
Pequot
Colony Stitchers: 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.
EGA
News -- Membership Dues
Members
can renew their membership online. Please go to the National EGA website
– "EGAUSA.org" and
click "Join Us" for instructions.
Select Connecticut River Valley (CRVC) as your primary chapter.
National Dues $55, CRVC dues $15, New England Region dues $3. Total
annual membership $73. For additional information, please contact Linda
Berry, CRVC Membership chair, 860-521-9709 or
lindaberry343@gmail.com.
Plural members will still send their CRVC dues directly to Linda Berry.
Plural Membership, Primary Chapter in New England Region $15.
Plural Membership, Primary Chapter not in New England Region $18.
Please send check payable to CRVC-EGA directly to Linda Berry, 343 Seabury
Drive, Bloomfield, CT 06002.
CRVC Plural Members can use the
CRVC
Plural Membership Form.
CRVC
Fund-Raising
For many
years CRVC had a library of needlework books. Several years ago, the
decision was made to dissolve the library and sell off the books.
The remaining
books from the CRVC library, as well as other books and needlepoint canvases
that have been donated to the chapter, are now available for purchase.
The
available
items can be seen/ordered as listed below.
The proceeds
from the sale of these items will come to CRVC with the funds going into
the education fund. You can make a purchase at a really good price
and benefit the chapter at the same time.
CRVC
Board Meetings
During
2024, CRVC Board Meetings will be held via Zoom on the first or second Tuesday
of odd-numbered months. All members are welcome.
Contact Judie Solomon at
JudieStichr@aol.com or 860-633-7281
if you want a Zoom invitation to any meeting. See the
Master
Calendar for actual meeting dates and location.
CRVC
Bylaws
The
CRVC Chapter Bylaws (Revised 2023) are available
for viewing.
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