May 2026 Meeting

Our meeting was opened by President Eve C.   All were welcomed and new members acknowledged.  

• Minutes for April were accepted as provide in the email follow the April Meeting.  
• Treasurer’s Report was pierced. 
• Upcoming programming was reviewed.   Our scheduled program for July with Stacy Nash was cancelled due a conflicts with Stacy Nash’s schedule.   We are very lucky that we will our very own, Theresa Baird of Heart’s Ease Examplar Workes, will share with us her “13 Colonies” program.

            For September, Jackie duPlessis has opened up the enrollment on the Berlin Wool Work spot sampler.   Members received the sign up form in the May Newsletter.  The deadline to signup if July 1, 2026.  If you are a member, reach out one FB or if you are not a member and wish to take the class, find the member form in the “Files” section of our FB page.

            For November, our meeting will be during our Fall Retreat held at Salty Yarns in Berlin, Maryland.   Barbara Hutson will be our special guest.  

Auction - Caitlin has started our online auction items on the FB page.   100% of the profits are going to Sampler Conservation.   Auctions and first come items will be posted on various SUndays on the FB page.   Caitlin has been dropping a reminder ahead of time.  

Our SAL of the Violets & Verses chart is going well.  Continued thanks to Carol P for the schedule she created. 

Patrick reported he has mailed all the member gifts for participation in the “green book” for 2025.

Marnie reported receiving responses from two msueums for the DVHSG 2026 Conservation Fund donation.   She sent out 19 and will keep members informed on any further replies.  

America’s Tapestry will be on display from June 19 to Septmber 5 at the Wiliam and Mary COllege in Williamsburg. VA.   Please check out their website for more information.

Stacy introduced our wonderful guest speaker, Theresa Venette of Shakespeare’s Peddler.   Theresa shared her knowledge of collection sampler’s.   She shared her history of purchases, where she purchases, books to use to help you evaluate samplers, things to look for, etc.   Not only did she share this knowledge, she illustrated by bringing many of the samplers from her private collection to show.  She outlined different features and characteristics of each of them..    

Theresa gifted members with a snippet of the above not-yet charted sampler.    It was an informative lecture and very entertaining.   Our time was up before we knew it.   Theresa did have a trunk show set up and many of us made purchases.

We also have mini cupcakes to mark our 26th Anniversary.

Check out our Facebook page for  the Show and Tell for the meeting.

We had 43 member attend in person and 44 members participate via Zoom.

Current membership 243

Next meeting by Zoom - June 13, 2026 Speaker - Katie Strachan.