January 2021 Meeting

We welcomed in 2021 with our first meeting of the year via Zoom.  

Continued thanks to the Officers and all those who help with the slide shows, gathering the info, sending the notices and creating our Zoom meetings.   You are guys are the rock stars of stitching.  

Please, please, please.....if you are participating in our Zoom Meeting and you are NOT the speaking or making a comment, please put your device on mute.   Many of us watch the meeting using the "speaker view" instead of "gallery view".  Speaker view allows the active speaker to be the only person you see on your screen.   When members do not mute their device, every sneeze, rustle, every noise in their background, etc., activates them as the speaker.    Thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation.

President Linda D. welcomed everyone.  We had 48 members who joined in the meeting.  The Treasurer's Report was reviewed and  discussion on current and pending bills was had.  

Membership - Don't forget to renew your membership for 2021 by the end of January.   Complete and mail this MEMBERSHIP FORM.  Dues is $25.00 annually.    If you have already sent your check and it has not cleared, Stacy batches up the mail to send to Nancy and will be preparing a package containing the registrations and membership renewals this week.

2020 Challenge - Send your list of completed 2020 needlework projects to Linda no later than January 18, 2021.   She will print and forward all the individual lists to Patrick for the book and for him to tally for any Challenge Surprises there may be.

Meeting Suggestions - It is difficult to come up with new and interesting ideas that are Zoomable (hmm, I wonder if that is a word)   If you have any ideas or suggestions for things you like to see, please email Linda.

Blackbird 2020 Challenge - Members shared any finished Blackbird Designs projects they completed in 2020.   Ellen P. and Evalyn G. were chosen randomly as winners of a Salty Yarns gift card from all the projects submitted. 

2021 Featured Designer -  La-D-Da will be our showcased designer for 2021.  Members are urged to stitch designs from La-D-Da and share their completions next January.

 

Stitch-Ins - Stitch ins via Zoom will continue the 4th Saturday of each month.  The time is from 10 to 12.  

Today's Program - For today's program, members shared the different stitchy Christmas gifts they received or they gifted to themselves.

Calendar

February Meeting - Our meeting will be a talk from Linda of Erica Michael's Designs.  She will be discussing strawberries, how to stitch, how to finished, etc.  There are 76 signed up.   Your kits will be mailed directly from Linda at Erica Micheals.   Completing the stitching PRIOR to the meeting is not necessary.   The meeting is more of a lecture than an actual class-setting.    You can participate in the meeting even if you have not purchased the commemorative strawberry kit.  

March Meeting - Cindy Steinhoff will be speaking on two Delaware and one Maryland sampler.

April Meeting - TBD

May Meeting - Sheryl DeJohn of the Smithsonian Institute will present a discussion on samplers.  

Anniversary Meeting - There has been no decision of when the Anniversary celebration will be scheduled.  Ample notice will be given to those who will be traveling when a date is determined.