Vol. 32, No.4 Happy fall:
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Vol. 32, No.4 Happy fall:
“Advancing Sewing as an Art and Life Skill” Vol. 32, No.4 Laramie, Wyoming Chapter Happy fall: My husband and I recently returned from Sedalia, Missouri to visit with friends. It was a nice time to travel and a lot of the trees were still very beautiful with the red and gold leaves. Lots of harvesting going on putting up the beans and corn. We were privileged to take a short road trip through Amish country. We stopped at a couple of general stores and of course bought some things. The stores were full of preserves, fresh baked goodies and much, much more. A wonderful place to buy some things in larger quantities than we can at grocery stores here. Our friends have a fairly large garden and sent us home with sweet potatoes. Their prize sweet potato weighed in at 11 pounds! Their pear tree was covered with pears so we also brought home pears. So far we have cooked some of the sweet potatoes and then I made an Apple Pear Pie. I had not tried that before but it certainly won’t be the last time I make it. We have had such a lovely fall; I couldn’t believe it was raining the other day and now some snow. The snow makes it seem more like November weather here should be and is good moisture for our lawns. With Christmas soon approaching thoughts of things to cook, sew and decorate are coming to mind. Hard to believe the stores had Christmas stuff out before Halloween! Seems they are rushing the seasons a little too much. This was one Halloween we had such lovely weather for the kids to go Trick or Treating in. That doesn’t always happen this way in Laramie! I hope you are enjoying you fall and finding time to do the fun things! Julie Houchin President November/December 2014 Chapter Advisory Board Chapter President Julie Houchin [email protected] 307-745-3525 1st Vice President Irene Devin 307-742-3901 [email protected] 2nd Vice President Helen Coates 307-399-1065 [email protected] Secretary Diana Spears 307-755-9760 [email protected] Treasurer Mary Jo Downey 307-745-8159 [email protected] Education Jean Taylor 307-742-0876 [email protected] Newsletter Editor & Publicity Julie Houchin 307-745-3525 [email protected] Publicity Carole Hertz 307-742-5053 [email protected] Membership Bonnie Schroeder 307-380-9954 [email protected] Hospitality/Fabric Sale Chair Margot Birkholz 307-745-3911 [email protected] Vol. 32, No.4 SEW AND SEW Page 2 HOSTESSES: Thanks to all who signed up: CHALLENGE Our Challenge this year is make something from fabric or yarn you purchased at our Fabric Sale last April, or something you found at a garage or other sale. There are no rules and you can sew, knit, crochet, and weave etc. anything you would like. We will have our finale as the program for our January 26, 2015 meeting. November 17 – Helen Coates and Bonnie Schroeder December 8 – Sid Walter -2526 Overland Road January 26 – Margot Birkholz Marilyn Morgan February 23 – Sue Green Marty Pomeroy March 23 – Sharon Little Fran Colby April 27 – Sidney Walter Carole Hertz May 18?? - Florence Brandt We need one more hostess for May Our meetings are at 7:00 p.m.- First United Methodist Church – 1215 E. Gibbon – use the east entrance from the parking lot, go through the doors and go immediately to the right, through the kitchen and into the next room. We meet the 4th Monday’s except December and May and occasionally we change the November meeting because of Thanksgiving. We try to finish up by 9:00 PM; we have light refreshments and Show’N Tell at each meeting. Sometimes we draw for door prizes; anyone can donate a door prize if they choose to do so. Guests are always welcome and we are always seeking new members. Please read the newsletter to keep up to date. You will also receive a notice by email before each meeting. Those members who do not have email will be sent a card with meeting announcements. UPCOMING PROGRAMS November 17, 2014 – (Note the date change) this is our Annual Meeting with Election of Officers Hands-on program: “Transforming Gently Used T-shirts into Necklaces/Scarves” by Jean Taylor It is best to wear something that is woven (rather than knits including sweaters) otherwise you will be covered with tiny fibers from the t-shirt knits. Optional items to bring: T-shirt (Jean will bring several) Rotary Cutter with sharp blade Cutting Mat Cutting Mat Ruler to use with rotary cutter Scissors Darning needle Vol. 32, No. 4 SEW AND SEW ______ Page 3 December 8, 2014 – Christmas Party. This is the second Monday, we set this early to avoid the busy Christmas season. Sidney Walter, 2526 Overland Road, has offered her home for our Christmas gathering. This is our Christmas get-together; we have a gift exchange and this year it is a tote. Either makes, or purchase a tote bag, any size or shape, embellish it if you wish. Gift wrap it and enclose or attach a card to let the recipient know who it was from. We will exchange these at our party. Please bring a holiday treat to share. We will have Show’N Tell but will not have a meeting. Chapter Advisory Board December is the end of this physical year for Sewing Guild. Please write your report and get to Julie as soon as you can. These reports go in the permanent file for the Laramie Chapter. A summary of the things you did and accomplishments made should be included. Thank you all very much for being an officer and helping to make our Chapter the Great Chapter that it is. We have grown quite a bit in the past few years and have gained much from the expertise you all have and have shared. Make It with Wool Contest District #1 will be having the contest on November 14, 2014. There will be a style show open to the public at 7:00 PM in the foyer of the UW animal Science building. Everyone is welcome! FIBER CELEBRATION 2015 The Northern Colorado Weavers Guild invites all fiber artists to participate in their 41st annual juried exhibit Fiber celebration 2015. Pieces representing fiber media of all types are welcome, including weaving, spinning, dyeing, basketry, sculpture, felting, quilting, papermaking, knitting, crocheting and embroidery. The event will be held in the Tointon Gallery, Union Colony Civic Center, 651 10th avenue in Greeley, Colorado. Deadline for entries is March 1, 2015, for more information contact Peg MacMorris – 970-493-9155. Pacific International Quilt Festival Jean Taylor was able to attend the Pacific International Quilt Festival in mid-October which was held in Santa Clara, California. (The convention center where the festival was held is across the street from the new Levi NFL football stadium.) There were over 800 quilts, wearable art exhibits plus 22 other special exhibit categories. One can view the photos of all the gorgeous winning entries via Google: Google: Pacific International Quilt Festival winners 2014 wearable arts Google: Pacific International Quilt Festival winners 2014 quilts The best of show winner in the wearable arts category was a beautiful wedding dress made from a white antique (very old) quilt. Viewing is just a click away! Proxy Ballot The Laramie Chapter of the American Sewing Guild, Inc. Annual Election of Chapter Advisory Board Positions Date of Election: November 17, 2014 Place of Election: First United Methodist Church, 1215 E Gibbon, Laramie WY. 82070 Please check next to the name of the candidate for each office that you believe will do the best job for the Chapter. President: __________ Teresa Nealon First Vice President: __________ Irene Devin Second Vice President: __________ Helen Coates Secretary: __________ Diana Spears Treasurer: __________ Renea Wright The Nominating Committee Chair is the proxy holder until the time of the election. All Valid proxy ballots will be voted as submitted by the member. Please return your proxy to: Julie Houchin, 1801 W Hill Road, Laramie, WY 82072 ONLY if you won’t be able to attend the Annual Meeting. Please don’t forget to vote! All Proxy ballots must be returned to the Nominating Chair by Friday, November 14, 2014 as the annual meeting will be on Monday, November 17, 2014 at the First United Methodist Church, 1215 E Gibbon, Laramie, WY. Your Proxy ballot is not valid without your signature to assign your votes to the Nominating Committee Chair. If it is not signed, your votes will not be counted. Member Name (please print): _________________________________________ Member Signature: _________________________________________________ ASG member number (optional): ______________________________________________ Julie Houchin 1801 W Hill Road Laramie, WY 82072 ====================================Fold ============================== OUR WEBSITE INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS We have a website now for our Laramie chapter of the ASG!! The website is set up through Facebook (FB), so if you are not yet familiar with FB then a great place to start is with one of the online tutorials, such as: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Facebook or watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mca5D5qmu0Q You'll need to set up a FB account for yourself if you do not already have one. Assuming you've done that, how do you get to the ASG chapter website from your FB home page? Note that there is a rectangular search box at the top of your home page with a blue "f" to the left of it. In the box, it says "Search for people, places and things" and at the right inside the box is an icon of a magnifying glass. You'll need to type into that box: "American Sewing Guild, Laramie WY Chapter". After you've done it once, if you need to get back to the ASG chapter website, the search engine should do an autofill after you've typed only a couple of letters like "Ame" or something like that. After it does autofill, it will bring down a menu and just click on the place you want to go to -the chapter website. (The autofill mechanism will make it easier for you to get back again after the first time you've gone there.) Another way to easily return to the ASG website from your home page (after going there the first time) is to bookmark the website address in your browser. If you want to view what other people have posted to our group website, then you need to subscribe to the group website. To subscribe to the website, you need to "Like" it. To "Like" it, go to the ASG chapter website and click on the thumbs-up "Like" button that appears in the bottom right side of the photograph at the top of the web page. After you do that, the button should change to say "Liked" and show a blue picture of a "thumbs up" on the left. Unfortunately, right after subscribing you can go back to your FB home page (by hitting the return arrow on your browser), refresh the browser, and yet you still won't see our ASG postings. But be patient. Wait about an hour or more. Sometimes it takes several hours. After that, you should be able to go to your own personal FB home page and see what's been posted so far on our ASG chapter website. A posting from our group website will have the ASG icon in blue and will have the title "American Sewing Guild, Laramie WY Chapter" at the top in blue letters. If you want to post on the ASG chapter website, use the same procedure as you use for posting on your own personal FB home page. But first go to the ASG group website. On the top right of the page, just below the photo, you should see a rectangular box and inside the box is stated "Write something on this Page..." Just type inside the box and then hit "Enter" on your keyboard and everyone who subscribes will be able to see your posting. Everything else should work exactly the way it does for a normal FB page. with FB, this should all be "a piece of cake." Once you're familiar For problems, please contact the Chapter Webmaster Diana at [email protected]). American Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter 1801 ‘W’ Hill Road Laramie, WY 82072