Welcome to our blog for 2009.
The Needle Arts Guild of Toledo is excited to be meeting at a new time and in a new location. You can find us on the third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the First Unitarian Church, 3205 Glendale Avenue (right across the street from the University of Toledo Medical School). We have a great big room with several tables and a full size kitchen to use during our meetings.
Kim Hammer our new Program Chair has several good ideas for the upcoming months. For those of us who have projects that are "older than we care to remember" we have been challenged to complete at least one project by the end of 2009. In fact we signed a contract with the piece listed beside our name. Kim is still working on incentives for us, besides the embarrassment of saying we will finish the project and not doing it!!
Irene Leonard is checking out correspondence courses we may want to explore this year. We also would like to plan another Saturday to stitch as a group on something special. Everyone who attended the day at 577 Foundation in November, 2008 had a great time.
Christine Hampshire is our new Publicity Chair and she is already getting us into the news.
Please keep her posted on happenings so she can publicize our guild nationally, regionally, and locally. As part of her new position Christine will be handling the publicity for our upcoming show in September.
Annual NAGT Show will be held at Sanger Branch Library on Central Avenue Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26, 2009. Show times are: Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. and Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Entries are due on Wednesday, September 23 from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The judging will take place on Thursday, September 24th.
The Tuesday night and Thursday daytime stitch-ins are still popular with our members.
We welcome you to come and enjoy stitching. learning, and visiting with the members of our guild.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Happy New Year!
Get ready for an exciting new year. 2008 is going to be an adventure in stitching for NAGT.
Irene Leonard, Program Chair has started a Stitch of the Month Club this year. Each month we will explore the history of a basic stitch. Everyone will have the chance to work on the stitch at the meeting or at home, learn about how the stitch is used in needlework and the variations, if any, of the stitch. At our January meeting we explored the chain stitch. In February we will work on the herringbone stitch. At the end of the year we all hope to make "Cloth Books" which will tell the story of our stitching year!
Other opportunities to stitch together will be the Hearts project from EGA. Several members are planning to work on this pattern and to adapt the design to other shapes besides hearts. Purchase of this booklet supports EGA and the American Heart Association.
Su Pellitieri, Newsletter Editor extraordinaire, has offered to lead a Group Correspondence Course with the project Moonlight Sonata by Cindy Valentine. Even if you are not an expert or have not tried hardanger, there are a lot of excellent stitchers waiting to help you out. Maybe some of us can get some older GCCs out and finish them with this encouragement! There will be regular meetings to work on the Sonata, so get your calendars out and mark down the dates at the next guild meeting.
Irene Leonard, Program Chair has started a Stitch of the Month Club this year. Each month we will explore the history of a basic stitch. Everyone will have the chance to work on the stitch at the meeting or at home, learn about how the stitch is used in needlework and the variations, if any, of the stitch. At our January meeting we explored the chain stitch. In February we will work on the herringbone stitch. At the end of the year we all hope to make "Cloth Books" which will tell the story of our stitching year!
Other opportunities to stitch together will be the Hearts project from EGA. Several members are planning to work on this pattern and to adapt the design to other shapes besides hearts. Purchase of this booklet supports EGA and the American Heart Association.
Su Pellitieri, Newsletter Editor extraordinaire, has offered to lead a Group Correspondence Course with the project Moonlight Sonata by Cindy Valentine. Even if you are not an expert or have not tried hardanger, there are a lot of excellent stitchers waiting to help you out. Maybe some of us can get some older GCCs out and finish them with this encouragement! There will be regular meetings to work on the Sonata, so get your calendars out and mark down the dates at the next guild meeting.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Membership
Membership in the Needle Arts Guild of Toledo(NAGT) is open to all embroiderers. We are a chapter of The Embroiderers' Guild of America (EGA). Our meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the Toledo Botanical Garden Conference Center. Guests are welcome at all meetings and may attend two meetings before being asked to join. All members are reminded to wear name tags at the monthly meetings or a fine of $0.25 will be collected. The fines will go to the general funds to help cover expenses of the Guild.
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