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Cactus Needle The Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc. Vol. 37 No. 7

Tucson Chapter www.tucsonega.org August 2019

ELECTED BOARD

PRESIDENT Maura Robinson VICE-PRESIDENT Sandy DeBolt SECRETARY Linda Schultz TREASURER Betsy Smullen REGION REP. Helen Salkowski APPOINTED BOARD By-laws: Laura Cotter Community Outreach: Open Programs Kris Curtis Sandy DeBolt Hospitality: Janet Hintz Membership: Deedee Stockman Education: Laura Cotter Ways/Means: Marian Hill Workshops: Cori Wilhoit Deb Williams Historian: Open Librarian: Suzanne Knepper Newsletter: Sandy DeBolt

Newsletter Ads: Betsy Smullen Publicity: Open

BREAK-OUT GROUPS Beading: Open

EGA MISSION STATEMENT: “The Mission of the Embroiderers' Guild of America is to inspire passion for the

needle arts through education and celebration of its heritage.”

PRESIDENT’S LETTER – Maura Robinson

Happy Monsoon! It finally started raining here in Tucson in mid-July and it is wonderful to

actually see the clouds roll off the mountains and the rain start in the evenings. I hope

your summer is going well and you are finding lots of time to stitch with a cold drink and

air conditioning. No matter where you are, the weather is always a reason to carve out

some extra stitching time!

It’s too hot . . . guess I have to stitch!

It’s raining . . . guess I have to stitch!

It’s too humid . . . guess I have to stitch!

The weather is perfect? Wait a minute, that’s also a great day to stitch!

REMEMBER the Tucson Chapter is celebrating the Monsoon Season with our very own

Monsoon Round! Sign up (through August 31) for one of two beautiful Catherine Jordan

designs (more information later in the newsletter) and the chapter will support $80 of the

cost. Thanks to Betsy for organizing this great educational opportunity. And THANK YOU

to all the chapter members who have helped with fundraising over the years. Because of

you we have this great educational opportunity! I have my project, now I just need to get

it done!

What did you do for your summer vacation? I am looking forward to seeing everyone’s

summer stitching finishes at the September meeting. It is also our Fall Pot Luck so there

will be lots of yummy food to share! Bring your favorite dish!

Enjoy summer where ever you are!

Maura

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MONSOON ROUND Tucson Chapter EGA Monsoon Round

What is a Monsoon Round? So glad you asked!

Just like our national organization offers Lightening Rounds, which are correspondence courses

offered at a discount to individual members for a brief, defined period of time, the Tucson Chapter is

offering a “Monsoon Round” this summer.

Between now and August 31, sign up to enroll in either Catherine Jordan’s Contemporary Forest

Necklace or Zentangle Blackwork

Journal. The price below includes a

complete kit, all text files and shipping.

Choose one of the two classes at

$105.00, submit a copy of your receipt to

the chapter’s Treasurer, Betsy Smullen

before the end of the year, and the guild

will reimburse you $80.00. What a great

deal!

You can sign up online at http://www.catherinesdesigns.net/online-class-registration.html or via snail

mail using the form below.

If you sign up online, you pay via PayPal. You

DO NOT need to have a PayPal account to check

out, simply follow the instructions for non-PayPal

account payment.

Bring your project to our July and August

meetings and / or our Bead Meetings this

summer. We’ll help each other learn.

Winter visitor members, bring your finished project

or work-in-progress to a meeting when you return

this fall!

Thank you to all members, past, present and

future, who have worked so hard to fill our

Education fund!

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Please call or email if you have questions Betsy Smullen beesmullen@gmail.com or

Maura Robinson maura.robinson22@gmail.com

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PROGRAMS – Sandy DeBolt Kris Curtis At the program for our next regular meeting on September 5th, we look forward to membership participation in “What I did this Summer”. Please bring your projects and finishes to share with the group, along with your “Monsoon Round” progress. We will have a potluck luncheon , so be sure to bring a dish to share. YUM! With the holidays fast approaching, in October our program will be to stitch a lovely Crewel Wreath Ornament, designed for the EGA Stitch-a-Long on Facebook by Lucy Edmison. “Lucy stitched her wreath on linen twill with crewel wool threads — as is traditional in crewel embroidery. This is an easy and quick stitch project. This project is best worked in a hoop so the fabric is taut. You’ll need a chenille needle to pierce the fabric as you stitch. (Chenille needles have long eyes like tapestry needles and they have sharp points.).”

The Guild will provide the linen, wool threads in four colors, red beads, gold Kreinik ribbon, cardboard backing, red and

gold thread, batting, and fabric for backing.

You will need to bring

Chenille needle (size 22) 5” embroidery hoop Usual stitching supplies. We will have some extra needles and hoops for those that don’t have them with them. For those that have extra hoops please bring one to share.

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LIBRARY - Suzanne Knepper

The new library on line catalogue system is now available. Access is available through this link: https://cloud.collectorz.com/egalibrarytucson/books. Our hope is that our membership will use this

resource more by having this computerized access. Please check out the site. We appreciate your feedback.

HOSPITALITY Janet Hintz

The September meeting is a Potluck, so no member hostesses are needed. A signup sheet will be available at

the meeting to sign up for hostess at later meetings in the year. Thanks to all who participate.

BEADING Open position

We have an opening for someone to lead our Beading Group which meets the second Thursday of each month

at 9:30 at Ellie Towne Flowing Wells Community Center. In the meantime we will have discussions each

meeting about projects and determine as a group, those we wish to pursue.

There will be discussions about prework and projects for the upcoming Marcia DeCoster class, February 8-9.

(See details under WORKSHOPS section of newsletter). A location for the DeCoster workshop has been found ...save

the date. You won’t want to miss this workshop—- more information will follow😁

If you are planning to attend the workshop, be sure you have signed up. You will be able to do so at the

meeting.

We will also be discussing projects to work on during future meetings. Bring your ideas, any ideas at

all…..including Kumihimo, bracelets, lariats, beaded embroidery…your input and commitment is welcome.

This group is not limited to Beaders! All members are welcome to come and join us with your projects.

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WORKSHOPS Cori Wilhoit

Deb Williams

COMING ATTRACTION!!!!!

Tucson Chapter of the Embroidery Guild of America

The Johnny Jewelry – Marcia DeCoster

February 8-9, 2020 9:30am- 4pm at TBD

The Johnny Jewelry was inspired by Marcia’s love of Johnny Was clothing with their colorful embroidery and

Bohemian style. While this isn’t a project class per se you can and will make whichever version of the Johnny

jewelry you’d like.

Per Marcia: “It all starts with a diamond which can be sized up or down depending on the number of units. It’s

built in such a way that all four of the corners (or three if you make a triangle) have the classic 4 beads of craw.

This gives you an opportunity to add a finial and provides lots of choice for finishing your edges. The top cube

of the pendant features a split cube bail which is an elegant solution to hanging your pendant. Given the

structure the edge shaping allows for different embellishment choices resulting in a lot of textural interest and

color complexity. The shape itself can also be made reversible by having one color on the front face and a

different on the back (You’ll want to be well practiced and CRAW confident for that choice!). With the use of

different center embellishments you get two pendants.

I’ve added Swarovski crystal, chain, Czech flowers, and spiky buttons to my corners. It would also be a great

place to depart into double craw. Double Craw is a new stitch developed by Sabine Lippert. We’ll delve into its

possibilities for making connections and all kinds of rope variations.

Class will begin with learning the diamond craw

shape at the heart of the collection. You’ll then

design the perfect piece of jewelry for you, using

the technique to combine the number and size of

diamonds you want. You might choose to go small

and add three in a row, or perhaps, a small, large

small in one pendant, or graduate the sizes. We’ll

be exploring connecting the diamonds in various

configurations including a bracelet should that be

your preference. We’ll also have illustrations which

include various edge and center embellishment

options. I hope that you’ll also have fun developing

a few of your own.

Two color ways will be offered as kits. One will be my favorite pale gold with aquas, greens and pinks and the

other will be the dramatic dark grey, corals and greens with a touch of silver. Chain will be sold separately. Kits

will provide a large assortment of seeds beads in coordinating colors and sizes with enough embellishment

options to give you choices and provide the ability to complete a large pendant or a smaller diamond bracelet.

Kits will need to be pre-ordered and will be $130. Marcia will provide a supply list and has no issue with you

supplying your own beads

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The Tucson Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America

Tasmanian Screech Owl by Gary Clarke

December 3-4 2019 at the Mini Time Machine Museum

(9:30a – 4:00)

Cost of the Class: (includes kit fee of $70 ) $90 for Non members. The Tasmanian Screech Owl is an exercise in minimalism. Each

stitch in this design has a purpose. It is dark and sketchy to give

a fleeting look at the nocturnal creature. In the wild it can be

heard soon after nightfall, its blood-curdling screech letting you

know it is about. It is worked with one strand of 6-stranded

cotton on a stretched organza base. The colors are muted and

earthy, mimicking its habitat.

Gary was born and lives in Tasmania, Australia. He has written six

books on embroidery as well as taught and lectured on embroidery

in England, New Zealand, Canada, United States, and throughout

Australia.

Gary Clarke Workshop Tasmanian Screech Owl

December 3-4, 2018 at the Mini Time Machine Museum, Tucson AZ

Please mail this coupon and your check payable to EGA – Tucson Chapter

to: Cori Wilhoit 5555 N. Crescent Ridge Dr. Tucson AZ 85718 Name: _______________________________

Telephone: ___________________________

I have enclosed a check payable to EGA – Tucson Chapter for: (choose one)

I am a member of Tucson EGA Chapter

_____$70 Member Workshop full payment

_____$25 Workshop deposit (final payment of $45 due before September 5, 2019)

I am not a member of Tucson EGA Chapter

______$90 Nonmember Workshop price

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PACIFIC SOUTHWEST REGION - Helen Salkowski

Plans are progressing for the next Regional meeting to be held here in Tucson on November 9, 2019, hosted by our

Tucson Chapter.

At the spring region meeting it was decided that the Jan Jellins pieces are to be sold on EBay. The sale will

start September 1. This should be enough time for all chapters to have a meeting and inform their members

of the sale of Jan Jellins creations. Please include this flyer in your newsletter.

I suggest that in order to find the listing members go into Ebay (and you can do that anytime between now

and September 1) and then into the advanced search for sellers. The PSR seller ID is jan8565. Save that ID in

your saved sellers list and you should be notified every time a new piece is listed. If this sale is to be

accomplished by June 1, 2020 there will need to be at least three pieces per month posted.

I will not be listing a shipping price with the expectation that our members will purchase the pieces with

delivery to be taken in person. i.e. local pickup only. An arrangement will be made for pickup/delivery.

While we can avoid a shipping cost there is nothing we can do about sales tax. Ebay calculates, collects and

pays the sales tax for us.

NOTE: The first piece will be posted September 1 but there may be a 1 day delay for it to appear in a search.

So don’t worry. It will be appear. If there are questions please email to address below.

Any questions can be emailed to janjellins.psr@gmail.com. I will get all inquiries.

Thank You, Linda Leone

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Attached is the flyer for the Pacific region fundraiser - the Halo Bolt battery pack. With restrictions on electrical cables

that are being implemented at seminars, these packs have been increasingly popular for use by stitchers. We are

ordering 100 of these units and will reorder when the first batch is sold out.

Pacific Southwestern Region Fundraiser

H A L O

B O L T

A C D C P O R T A B L E

C H A R G E

$104.75 No

taxes will be charged

There will be a PSR logo added to the top of the unit by the manufacturer

Note: There is a shipping charge of $11.70 for units sent to AZ/CA/NV – shipping to other states or

orders for multiple numbers, please contact Marilyn Evans Orders will be filled in the order received. When the first batch of units is sold, we will do a re-order.

To get your Halo in time for National, place your order now.

Name: ________________________________ Email: ________________________________

Phone: ___________________________

Number of units _____ @ $104.75 $__________

Add postage if shipping…1 unit $11.70 __________

Multiple units or to destinations other than AZ/CA/NV

(contact Marilyn Evans for cost) __________

Total: $

Make check or money orders payable to: PSR EGA

Mail to: Marilyn Evans evans.marilyn@gmail.com

395 S. Stardust Lane (480) 799-6439

Apache Junction, AZ 85120

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Preferred delivery method

o Ship to address (this item is

required to be shipped via

ground only)

o Hand delivery (PSR Region

Meetings/2019 EGA National

Seminar)

SHIPPING LABEL (please print clearly)

Name: _________________________________________________________

Address: _______________________________________________________

City, State, Zip: __________________________________________________

A portable powerhouse, the HALO Bolt charger provides the juice when you need it most not only for your

phone or tablet, but for your car, too! The one button starter can provide a jump to a car, boat, or lawn

mower with the included jumper cables.

Plus, with two USB outputs, you can charge multiple

devices at once, so you can power up your smartphone

while your kids stay busy with their tablets. There’s even

a 12-volt AC outlet so you can charge your larger devices

like laptops and plug in electric lamps for your stitching

needs.

The HALO Bolt 58830 also features a convenient LED

floodlight. Customers frequently rely on the Bolt as a

power source during power outages to keep their

electronic devices charged.

Traveling by air and want your Halo? No

problem! You'll be happy to know all Halo Products are

permitted as carry-on luggage.

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HALO Bolt 58830

Jumper cables

USB to micro charging cable

120V AC wall charging adapter

14V USB car charger

Carrying pouch

Quick Start guide

58830 mWh

Measures 7-1/8"L x 3-7/8"D x 1-1/2"H

Device weight: 26.6 ounces

One button starter, provides jump for cars, boats, trucks and lawn mowers.

ETL listed adapter; 90-day Limited Manufacturer's Warranty

Will handle any lamp up to a 65 watt power requirement

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Welcome to the August Stitch-a-Long! Books need

bookmarks and many EGA chapters have supported

Bookmarks for Literacy by supplying local schools

and libraries with stitched bookmarks to use with

their young readers. Leslie Gagliardi and I thought it

would be fun to expand on this idea by sponsoring a

contest to create new bookmark designs for EGA'ers

to stitch. We haven't quite figured out all the details

but it's important to note there will be PRIZES. We

have some beautiful Sajou scissors in need of good

homes. :-)

The general idea is we would like to encourage you to

make bookmarks for donations. Additionally, for any

aspiring designers out there, we would like to

encourage new ORIGINAL (that's important!)

designs that would be donated to EGA to create a

library of graphs that chapters could use as small

learning projects (Hardanger bookmark, anyone?) as

well as make great donations for readers.

To make all of this work, we need some help from

those of you have stitched bookmarks for Bookmarks

for Literacy or other similar venues. We're thinking

that most of them need to be more simple and graphic

to appeal to younger (ages 12 and under) readers, but

Comments from administrator Kate Gaunt

we really don't know. Anyone have a success story to

share?

In the meantime, I've posted a simple graph that I

created to get things started. It's in the files section of

this group. It spells out "R-E-A-D" in EGA's new

brand colors.

Some important notes....For the to-be-determined

contest, we WILL respect copyright. No copying, no

Pinterest stuff. No changing 10% of a chart and

calling it "original." That doesn't work. We want an

original, fresh from your very-own-head design. If

you would like a free-to-use font for stitching go to:

https://yarntree.com/freecharts/alphabets.pdf Yarntree

is a needlework wholesaler and the file is clearly

marked for free distribution.

So, help us make this a great contest and a great way

to promote EGA. The contest will be open to anyone

and the method of voting will be determined so we

expect that the contest will end at the end of

September. Those entering the contest with an

original project design will be asked to sign a brief

statement attesting to its originality and allowing

EGA to distribute it.

Thanks for your help with fine-tuning this idea. Let's

make BOOKMARKS!

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Important Websites

www.tucsonega.org Tucson EGA Chapter website

www.egausa.org EGA National website

www.psrega.org Pacific Southwest region website

www.facebook.com EGA Stitch A Long Facebook Stitch A Long (SAL) group

IMPORTANT DATES

September 2019 October 2019

1

Pacific Southwest Region Ebay sale of

Jan Jellins begins. See information in

newsletter.(Page 9) About 3 items will

be auctioned through Ebay each month

from September 2019 to May 2020

5 Tucson Chapter EGA Meeting 9:30a –

2p at Ellie Towne Flowing Wells

Community Center

3

Tucson Chapter EGA Meeting 9:30a –

2p at Ellie Towne Flowing Wells

Community Center

5

Tucson Chapter EGA Board Meeting

9:30a; Program 11:00 a; Business

Meeting 12:30 pm at Ellie Towne

Flowing Wells Community Center

3

Tucson Chapter EGA Board Meeting 9:30a;

Program 11:00 a; Business Meeting 12:30

pm at Ellie Towne Flowing Wells

Community Center

12

Tucson Chapter EGA Beader’s meeting,

9:30 in Art Room at Ellie Towne Flowing

Wells Community Center

Bring your projects and share your

techniques!

10

Tucson Chapter EGA Beader’s meeting,

9:30 in Art Room at Ellie Towne Flowing

Wells Community Center

Bring your projects and share your

techniques!

15 Items for September Newsletter due to

Sandy DeBolt

15

Items for October Newsletter due to

Sandy DeBolt

November 9, 2019 Tucson EGA Chapter will host the Pacific Southwest Region Chapters next Region

meeting , this fall, which will be right here Tucson, hosted by our Chapter. We have secured the Friendship

Hall at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church

December 3-4, 2019 - Tasmanian Screech Owl workshop by Gary Clarke at Mini Time Museum

February 8-9, 2020 - Marcia DeCoster workshop. The Johnny Collection

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Many thanks to the Cactus Needle advertisers shown below for their support of the Tucson

EGA Guild! Please visit their stores, mention that you saw their Ad, and thank them for their

continued support.

Our canvas buyers are going to market, and we need to make room for new canvases. Come in for the best selection on new mark downs. Don’t forget finishing deadlines for Hanukkah and Christmas are fast approaching. The finishing deadline

for Custom, our Oregon finisher, is August 21st. The finishing deadline for Custom, our Oregon finisher, is

August 21st. The finishing deadline for Maryse Robbins, our local finisher, is September 25th.

Cactus Needle

4143 S. Golden Lynx Road

Green Valley, AZ 85614

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Cactus Wren Table of Contents

Section Information Page

Tucson EGA Guild Information President’ Letter Maura Robinson

1

Officers, Board Members Mission Statement

1

Monsoon Round Betsy Smullen

2-3

Meeting Programs 4

Library, Hospitality, Beading 5

Important Dates and Websites 13

Advertisers 14

Chapter Workshops Johnny Jewelry Class Marcia DeCoster

6

Tasmanian Owl Gary Clark

7

EGA Pacific Southwest District Update Helen Salkowski

8

Fundraiser Jan Jellins EBay Sale

8

Fundraiser Portable Charger

9-11

EGA National August Stitch-A-Long 12

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