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NEEDLE NETWORK JAN/FEB 2021 Advancing Sewing As an Art and Life Skill VOLUME 34, ISSUE 1 President's Message NEEDLE NETWORK JAN/FEB 2021 Advancing sewing as an art and life skill VOLUME 34, ISSUE 1 President's Message Dear Chapter name (first name only is fine) and contact Members: information (phone and/or email). The ad I’m writing with may include up to 2 pictures. optimism that the new To place an ad, contact Nancy Bensimon year will bring hope at [email protected]. You will for a speedy end to be asked for your ASG Membership our stay-at-home Number; this will only be used to verify that orders. Zoom is fun, but somehow fails to you are a current member; it will not be fill our need for social interaction. I’m published. learning more about different ways to use I’ve also been contacted by a local hospice Zoom, and hopefully we can learn and organization, Apreva Hospice in San Diego, make it more interesting. Please stay well which is looking for volunteers to make and safe until we can all be together again. memory bears. Please take a look at the I’m holding my breath as to our planned story on page 2 and see if this is something retreat in June. All will depend on the that interests you. success of the vaccine. We'll keep you Be sure to check the list of programs being posted as we learn more. offered by our Neighborhood Groups. In the meantime, our webmaster wants to Check in with the Group Leader if you’re remind you that current Chapter members interested in joining one of their meetings. can now advertise their services for custom They will see that you have the necessary garment sewing, quilt-making, teaching, information to participate. If you’re hesitant etc., as well as sewing-related items for to use Zoom, let me know and we’ll find sale. Ads will appear in the public area of someone to help you with the process. It our website so the general public can really is fun and easy! access them. Until we see each other again, For the website, individual ads can be up to da 100 words and must include the member’s Rho Jotjef; Volunteers Needed . 2 "Hooray for Hollywood!". 7 Fabric Giveaway Update . 3 Did You Know? . 8 Scrunchies are Back! . 4 FREE Webinar . 9 Puzzle . 5 NG Meetings Table . 10 Burn Test . 6 Membership . 11 Chapter Advisory Board Call for Volunteers: PRESIDENT Memory Bears Rhoda Keegan ................. 858.278.3632 [email protected] Apreva Hospice in San Diego is looking for VICE-PRESIDENT MEMBERSHIP Lisa Moallemi ................... 858.735.4314 volunteers to make memory [email protected] bears and memory pillows. According to Vicki Lavelett, VICE-PRESIDENT PROGRAMMING Volunteer Coordinator for Open the hospice center, they do not currently have a SECRETARY memory bear program, but Pam Bechill ...................... 760.509.4957 are working to build a [email protected] volunteer base of sewists so they can begin offering TREASURER the keepsakes soon to Andi Stout ......................... 619.807.4851 families in mourning who [email protected] have lost a loved one. COMMITTEE CHAIRS COMMUNITY SERVICE Open "We want to provide the family with a bear or pillow made from MEMBER-AT-LARGE an article of clothing or special Pat Stilwell ............................ 916-390-5463 material of their loved one," [email protected] Lavelett said. "Such items can NG COORDINATOR SOUTH bring comfort during this time of Open loss." NG COORDINATOR CENTRAL Kathy Hodges ......................... 858.486.2796 If you would like to be a part of this effort, contact: [email protected] Vicki Lavelett at 619-450-4414 or NG COORDINATOR NORTH [email protected] Nancy Stringer ........................ 619.804.1151 [email protected] NEWSLETTER EDITOR Nancy Stringer ........................ 619.804.1151 [email protected] Chapter Advisory Board (CAB) Meeting PUBLICITY Nancy Stringer ........................ 619.804.1151 The next meeting will be Jan. 10, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. [email protected] via Zoom Board members—please notify Rhoda K. if you cannot WEBMASTER attend: 858.278.3632 or [email protected] Nancy Bensimon ..................... 760.809.7787 [email protected] Board meetings are open to all members. To attend, please contact Rhoda for Zoom link. Needle Network 2 Spotlight On Members Update on "The Great Fabric Giveaway" held November 2020 Spoiler Alert: It was a roaring success! As Chapter Webmaster for the past few years, Nancy Bensimon has received many emails from community members offering to donate stashes of no-longer-needed fabric and other sewing-related items. Nancy Bensimon Another Chapter member, Kathy Sterling, who is a community college sewing instructor, knew that fashion and design students can always use free fabric for their class projects. Fortunately these two women got together and set up a system designed to convey fabric from those who don't need it to those who do. At the same time, they were keeping perfectly good fabric out of the landfills. But then along came Covid. With the advent of the pandemic, schools and Kathy Sterling community education centers closed, but the donations kept coming. Soon mountains of donated fabric accumulated in Nancy's and Kathy's homes and garages. When the mountains grew too big and it was clear Covid would not be going away soon, the women knew something had to give, so they organized a fabric giveaway for ASG members. Using Covid guidelines of social distancing, mask-wearing and an outdoor venue, they set up tables in Nancy’s driveway and organized the donations by fabric, patterns, books and notions. Reservations for five people per hour kept everyone spread out. A total of 25 people attended the November event. Among the attendees were two non-ASG women who were referred by members and expressed interest in joining one of our Neighborhood Groups! Another woman was looking for mask fabric; she has made over 3,000 masks! And, a young lady came with her grandma and was thrilled to take away several boxes of fashion fabric and patterns to use in her fashion class at San Dieguito Academy, where they mostly do upcycling. "We were so happy to hear about a sewing class in a local high school," said Nancy. "And bravo to Kathy Sterling for distributing all these donations the last few years!" Kathy said: "We will resume accepting and distributing donations once Covid is conquered and schools are permanently open again." Both ladies agreed the fabric giveaway was a great success, with almost everything finding a new home! ASG says, Thank you, Nancy and Kathy, for your service to the community and to ASG! Needle Network 3 Cont. pg. 5 Needle Network 4 Scrunchies (cont.) Permission to reprint from Debbie Mondragon, Denver ASG Chapter Sewing Puzzle Here's a fun little puzzle submitted by Nancy Bensimon. To find the hidden words, look forward, backward, up, down and diagonally for the answers. Have fun! And thank you, Nancy B! Needle Network 5 Try a Simple Burn Test for Fabric Have you ever found a great piece of fabric but didn’t know the composition? Determining fiber content can be difficult as often fabrics are a combination of fibers. If a fabric is pure, fiber content can usually be determined by what is often referred to as a “Burn Test.” Follow directions below. Begin by snipping off a small piece of fabric. Have a non-flammable dish close by for burnt samples. Hold fabric with tweezers, not your fingers, and hold the fabric to a flame from a match or a lighter. Watch fabric closely and use the following chart to aid in determining fiber. Acetate: Melts under flame, leaves brittle black bead. Smells like vinegar. Acrylic: Melts under flame, keeps burning after flame removed. Leaves brittle black bead, no smell. Cotton: Burns quickly with yellow flame, continues burning after flame removed. Leaves soft gray ash. Smells like burning paper. Linen: Burns quickly with yellow flame, continues burning after flame is removed. Leaves soft gray ash. Smells like burning paper. Nylon: Melts and burns slowly. Leaves a hard gray bead. Smells like celery. Polyester: Burns slowly trailing black smoke. Leaves a hard black bead. Has no smell. Rayon: Burns quickly with yellow flame, continues burning after flame removed. Leaves soft gray ash. Smells like burning paper. Silk: Sizzles in flame, burns slowly. Leaves crushable black ash. Smells of burning hair or feathers. Wool: Sizzles in flame, burns slowly. Leaves crushable black ash. Smells of burning hair or feathers. A Little Chuckle for You... Wanted! Articles and photos for the Needle Network newsletter! How about book recommendations, new product reviews, Craftsy class reviews, sewing tips, or patterns you like (or don't like and why). And don't forget to send in photos of your projects. We all love to see what others are doing! Send submissions to Nancy Stringer, [email protected]. Deadlines are the 10th of the month prior to publication, so the next deadline is Feb. 10. Needle Network 6 Hooray for Hollywood! In today's "new normal" of spending more time at home, at least for a while, you may have more opportunity to put your feet up and enjoy some quality TV time. In this second of three installments, we focus on television series. Our third and final installment will feature documentaries. So grab some popcorn and enjoy! TV Series: "Next in Fashion" -- Tan France and Alexa Chung host a Project Runway style format, but the designers are at a higher level and all currently run their own companies. The designers are generally pretty kind to each other and it's really great watching. (Netflix) "Making the Cut" -- Hosted by Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn.
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