Fall 2000

Meeting Dates and Programs for 2000 Fall 2000

September 16, 2000

Rye Free Reading Room, 10 am – 1 pm

Mounting your Needlework

Presented by Barbara Geist

Bring your finished needlework and foam board cut to size or $2 for a small kit (includes fabric and foam board)

October 21, 2000

Rye Free Reading Room, 10 am – 1 pm

Miniature dolls and Slide Show

Presented by John Burbidge (retired wedding gown designer from Boston)

November 18, 2000

Greenburgh Library

Rye Free Reading Room, 10 am – 1 pm

Sue Reed’s “Watercouleur Tapestry Encore”

Led by Edith Semiatin

**You must buy the pattern book by Sept. 1

See order form inside.

December 2000

No monthly meeting.

A stitch-in will be arranged.

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President's Message

Dear Members,

Welcome back to a new year at Westchester Needle Artists!

First, please note that we are meeting at the Rye Free Reading Room this fall. (Directions on the next page.)

I hope you all have had a wonderful summer filled with stitching or at least stash enhancement. Perhaps you’ve had a chance to work on “Barbara’s Patchwork” (ANG December Stitch of the Month). Or maybe you’ve finished one of our other projects: “Woven Ribbons and Laces,” “Winter,” “Mystery with a Little Glitz,” or “Cloissoné Beaded Fantasy.” Or maybe you’ve finished something else. I hope you will bring them to the meeting so all can see them. Remember we now have our incentive program:

20^th Century Unfinished Projects. Each time you finish off some needlework started prior to June 2000 you can check it off in our notebook. Awards will be given in June 2001.

Now that you have all that stitching done, it’s time to get it framed or otherwise finished up. September’s meeting will help you. Barbara will demonstrate how to mount your needlework so bring a completed project in with foam board cut to size. In October, we’ll have a slide on miniature dolls presented by John Burbidge. It won’t be until November that we’ll be starting a new project. However, if you want to be stitching on “Watercoleur Tapestry Encore” you must send away for your instructions by September 1.

I hope to see you in September!J

-Marietta

Exit 20. From exit ramp, make right onto US 1 (Boston Post Road, South). Proceed 4 traffic lights. Make 1st right after 4th light (just before CVS Pharmacy) into library parking lot.

Exit 21. Bear right on ramp to Rye. At end of ramp make left onto Midland then 1^st right onto Peck then left onto US 1 (Boston Post Road, South). Make 1st right after 3rd light (just before CVS Pharmacy) into library parking lot.

Exit 11. From exit ramp, make right onto US 1 (Boston Post Road, South). Proceed 5 traffic lights. Make 1st right after 5th light (just before CVS Pharmacy) into library parking lot.

Joan Thomaasson, form Colorado, will be teaching “Barely There.” This 3-day workshop is a beautiful bear on Congress cloth with pinks, mauves and greent thread (you may add your own, too). The workshop will probably be a Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, either the 2^nd week in May 2001 or in October 2001. The workshop will be in Westchester or Rockland County depending on room availability. The cost of the kit is $95 and the estimated cost of the workshop is $50-60. The workshop cost is based on 24 students. This workshop will be open to all ANG and EGA chapters in the area to ensure that the class is filled. If you are interested, please sign up ASAP! We also need a volunteer to house the instructor. In return, the hostess will be able to take the class for free.

Membership renewals must be sent to Marilyn Klein at least 8 weeks before your membership expires. How do you know when your membership is up? Check the mailing label of your NP magazine. Get those renewals in so that your NP subscription is not stopped!

First, I’d like to specially thank Valia Krakow for stitching a nametag for the permanent collection of ANG. She and our chapter will be in the archives. Nice job, Valia.

Now for the rest of you, bring your stitched nametag to the meeting and wear it! Remember, we are now collecting a $1 fine at each meeting if you do not wear a stitched nametag. 20^th CENTURY UNFINISHED PROJECTS

Do you remember making up a list of all your projects that were started before June 2000? Did you finish any of them this summer? Our new incentive program is designed to motivate you to finish up your UFO’s. As you complete a project, bring it to the meeting for show and tell, and write down the date completed in the notebook. Look for the red binder on the information table. In June 2001, we will award small prizes for various categories.

Have you looked in our library? Have you seen the nice videos and books we have? Why don’t you borrow something at the next meeting? A $10 deposit fee will be placed on the videos. No deposit on the books. Materials will be due at the next meeting. After one month, the fine will be $5 and after 2 months the fine will be $10. See Gloria Lewscha if you’d like to borrow something. You will find a complete listing, with descriptions at:

Our website has been updated. Information on our meeting place, projects, officers and library holdings are found here:

We also have an special group at www.egroups.com. If you have an email address, let us know, so that you can get updates electronically. Our group is an unlisted, restricted list so it is safe from spam, etc. Right we are using it mostly for announcements of meetings and other important matters but there are many other capabilities available such as shared files where we can post photos, if we’d like.

We’d like to welcome our advertisers. Thistle Needleworks (Glastonbury, CT), and Goldman's Yarns (Hartsdale, NY) are continuing their loyal support of our group. In addition, we’d like to welcome our new advertisers: Mrs. Stitches (Mendham, NJ), Deer Hill Farm Cross Stitching (Hyde Park, NY) and Silver Needle (Chappaqua, NY). Next time you need some supplies, canvases, or charts, please shop at these stores. Make sure you tell them you belong to the Westchester Needle Artists.

The latest needlecraft mystery, the third book in the series, is a fun to read amateur sleuth tale in which the why is more important than who did it. Readers struggle to find out why someone tries to kill Betsy, which turns the cerebral mystery into a brainteaser. The reappearance of secondary charcaters from previous novels makes this book feel like a homecoming for fans, but make no mistake, Monica Ferris’ series clearly belongs to Betsy.

RESOLUTIONS: A BASIC STITCH IN TIME by Judy Chicago's a collaboration between Chicago and a group of needleworkers using a variety of techniques focusing on family, responsibility, human rights, hope, change

and tolerance. Through September 3, 2000 at the American Craft Museum. For more information call 212-956-3535.

ANNI ALBERS: pictorial weavings of the artist considered the foremost textile designer of the 20th century. Over 200 works, including the artist's masterpiece, Six Prayers. Through August 20th at the Jewish Museum, 5th Ave at

Saturday, September 23, 2000. Central Unitarian Church, Forest Avenue, Paramus, NJ.

Class/Teacher: “Color and Needlework” by Mary D. Shipp Class/Teacher: Turnberry Ridge/Jean Hilton

Class/Teacher: “Lacy Ladies” by Dakota Rogers Class/Teacher: Temari Balls on Canvas/Jane Ellen Balzuweit

Class/Teacher: Jacobean Fast Forward/Barbara Jackson Class/Teacher: An Austrian Sampler/Ilse Altherr

Class/Teacher: Deco Dangle/Janet Mitchell Fishel Class/Teacher: Silk Threads on Canvas Technique Notebook/Sandy Rodgers

Carol Lake is offering a series of “Canvas Stitch Notebooks.” There are 4: diagonal, straight, crossed and interlaced and specialty stitches. These valuable reference books contain over 90 different stitches. Lessons are provided on the Internet. If you keep up with the course, you will have stitched all of the samples and have Carol’s colored samples as well. Each course is $25-30. For more information:

MORE STITCHING TIME by Barbara Pedersen (Capitan, NM)

There is a perfectly good way to get more stitching time...and/or more time for anything we want....all we have to do is change the calendar. After all - we follow one made by Pope Gregory....what did he know about stitching - laundry - housework – kids’ schedules and all that stuff....he was a Pope - now I mean no disrespect....but he could do just about anything he wanted to....anytime he wanted to.......and I doubt he had any real knowledge of how the common person actually lives........I propose that we eliminate the months of February, March and July and August! That's a good start! Instead we could have 2 of each of the following: May, June, September and October. We could have every month with 40 days in it....we "work" a 4 day week, and have a 4 day weekend.....that gives us 5 weeks/month. Of course after a while, we will not be in sync with where the sun is in its orbit....and so we'll have to make an adjustment. As it is now, every 4 years we have to add a day anyway. Imagine that....one puny day!!! So what if we have to add in a whole month every now and then.......big deal......more stitching time.!!!! I do not favor lengthening each day....I love my bed too much :) The ancient Hebrews did that1 Yes they did.....their calendar was a little off too...so in the fall, they'd go have the Priest look at the barley harvest...if it was ripe...they'd move on to the next month...which was the first in their year.....if it wasn't ripe...they'd repeat the last month....it worked for them!!! (this is true, by the way) Think about it ladies......every single thing we depend on, use, etc....in the real world was instigated by a man (read that male) - they made those horrible bras! and who else but a male would figure out that the best place for the refrigerator is right next to the stove! Common!!! It's about time we took over and did things right!!!!

As many of you are aware the LA Times recently printed an article, "Is a Stitch Online a Crime?" Since that article appeared there have been several additional articles, news program references and comments on the ANG-list about copyrights. The ANG-list discussions were very enlightening in many ways and many people shared their questions, their knowledge and their experiences about copyrights and copyright infringement. There is no question: copying needlework charts and any other copyrighted material is illegal.

As many of you already know, but I believe it's worth sharing with everyone, ANG has a written policy regarding copyrighted materials. It reads as follows:

Copyrighted materials may not be reproduced for distribution to other individuals, including members of chapters, without prior written consent of the holder of a copyright.

To inform members of copyright law, and that violations may result in personal or chapter litigation.

1. Copyright instruction booklets distributed by teachers may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of the teacher. Unauthorized distribution may result in an individual or chapter lawsuit.

2. Written permission must be obtained from the copyright holder and kept on file by the chapter secretary.

3. Permission to copy may require that a statement be included giving credit to the holder of the copyright. Copies may be distributed if the designated credit statement is included as specified by the holder of the copyright.

4. Copyright legislation allows an individual who has paid for a book, chart, or set of instructions to make a copy for personal use only. One example: it is permissible to copy a chart from a hardbound book to provide a "working copy" for the stitcher.

As an educational organization ANG's mission is to inform our members and the public about the art of needlepoint and that includes protecting the creativity of the designers and artists who make this medium so wonderful and diverse. I for one don't believe any member of our organization is among those 350 referred to in the LA Times article. I also trust that each member of our organization will endeavor to see that the copyright laws are obeyed and that others who may not understand the laws are reminded of their responsibilities under the law not to copy or scan needlework charts and instructions to share with others.

I thank each and every member of ANG for your support of the talented people who create the needlepoint charts, books and other materials that we all enjoy.

MORE STITCHING TIME by Barbara Pedersen (Capitan, NM)

President, ANG