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Date/Time:  01/13/2002 1:30 - 4:00
Type:General Meeting
Location:Glen Ellyn Library
Teacher:LMSG-Elaine Hoagland

We have a very full agenda for January's general meeting!  First, there will be a book review and sale  Bring your favorite needlework books to review for the group during our "Show and Tell" time.  Do you have any needlework books that you would like to sell? Perhaps you bought an extra copy of a book you already owned. Here's you chance to make room on your bookshelf and sell the extras to other guild members.  Just books and magazines, please, no charts or kits.

 We will start the 2002 guild project, a 17th century spot motif sampler from the Essamplaire.  Kits will be distributed to those who preordered them.  A stitching schedule for the year will also be provided and reviewed.  If you haven't ordered a kit yet and you would like to participate in the project, it's not too late! You can still get the kit directly from the Essamplaire.

Elaine Hoagland will present the program:  "Abigail Chase" by Joanne Harvey. Abigail was born in 1771 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. She married Oliver Morse in 1796 and raised nine children. This sampler may have been her first stitching endeavor as a very young child. At the top is one alphabet and some dividing bands, and on the bottom is a pastoral scene with mounds, flowers, strawberries and an unusual fruit tree. This tree is similar in style to other embroideries from the Haverhill area. There are two simple borders, one unfinished. Colors are reds, brown, greens, golds, and blues. The kit cost is $14.50.  You must have registered by the December meeting in order to receive the kit.

Highlights

We had a great start to 2002: good weather and high attendance at our first meeting of the new year.  We set up our books to sell on a table at the side of the room.  We decided that this was such a great way to find new homes for used books that we would do it again at the next meeting. First on the agenda was reports from the new board officers.  Next was "Show and Tell".

Sue Hamer finished the Rachael Hyde sampler and brought it for "Show and Tell".  The text in the lower right reads: "Rachael Hyde of norwich her sampler made in the 14 year of her age".  The sampler was the first Lake Michigan Sampler Guild project in 1999 and is available from Threads Through Time.

Susan Schar shared a project in progress that will be a model for a future kit available from Margriet Hogue.  We'll hear more about the "Big Bird Sampler" in the future.  Kathy Bourne showed us her progress on the Scottish sampler from the guild workshop held last August taught by Margriet Hogue.
 


Susan Schar brought a Christmas present from her mother: an antique sewing box.  The box is made of pine with genuine old thread spools on the top.  The box was purchased at a sale in Woodstock, IL.  



Several members shared their favorite books on museum sampler collections, tapestries and Mary Queen of Scots and her needlework.




Next the kit for the 2002 guild project was distributed along with the stitching schedule.  Leslie Lewis showed us how to do queen stitch and explained some of the instructions that were a bit confusing. There are 19 members working on the 2002 guild project!  The goal for February is to finish the first three motifs on the upper left hand side of the sampler.  We are all going to get very, very good at queen stitch!  

Please bring your 2002 project sampler to a future meeting to show everyone your progress.  Part of the fun is sharing your accomplishments (and problems) with others who are working on the project. There will be some new announcements at the February meeting on how you can keep in touch with others working on the project between guild meetings.



Last, but not least, the Abigail Chase kit was distributed. Elaine Hoagland talked about this kit which is entirely done in cross stitch. Those who are doing the kit may really enjoy working on a more simple sampler after the challenges of our 2002 guild project!

Happy stitching and 
we hope to see you in February!