Membership Chairperson

Nancy Jalovec (941)925-4137 ncjalovec@aol.com

If you have a permanent change of address, you must notify ASG Headquarters in Houston of the change to make sure your new address will be on the mailing list as they provide us with the electronic address list which we use for mailing the newsletters.

Starting with the next issue of Needle News, September-October 2007, we will no longer accept address changes for the newsletter to be sent to a non-Florida address. As you are members of the Sarasota chapter, the newsletter will be sent to only your address of record with National Headquarters for this chapter.

SNOWBIRDS and VACATIONERS

While you are not in Florida, you may access the newsletter on our website, www.sarasota-asg.com. The newsletter is password protected, so please contact your neighborhood group leader or our webmaster for it.

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FYI: Our chapter, and all ASG Chapters, receive back part of the dues that you send to National. We receive $15.00 for renewals and $20.00 for new members. Thought you would like to know where your money goes. It is very important to the running of the Chapter. 

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ReMember Sewing ASG Style

Do you ReMember why you joined ASG?  Share that reason with others and encourage your friends and acquaintances to become Members of ASG.

ASG members know things.  We have secrets that non-members don’t share.  We don’t have secret hand-shakes or meet under the moon (although those ideas are interesting…).  But we know the value of belonging. 

We joined to satisfy our curiosity.  I’ll give it a try; what can I lose?  We discovered a world of knowledge—sewing techniques, resources, advice, access.  We came home with lifetimes’ worth of ideas and dreams of impossible accomplishments.  Some of us changed careers.  We grew in confidence and in skill.  Our health improved and our mental states.  We found support and acceptance.  All of it in the name of sewing, ASG style.

ASG is about sewing, but it’s more about life.  It allows us to move beyond sewing for economy and into sewing for creativity.  It allows us to participate in a community of like minds, where working with fabric and needles is the norm, not the exception.  Gone are the days of whispering and apologizing for a solitary pastime. Now we celebrate our uniqueness among friends.

We can talk about the obvious benefits of ASG—the discounts, the workshops, the newsletters.  We can even talk about the camaraderie and the community service.  But only you know the truth—you can’t replace what your heart knows.  You belong.

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NOTES FROM THE SECRETARY:

Martha Bellos would like to have news of members or their spouses who need a little sunshine  in their lives. Please tell your group leader, or send it to Martha (941)480-1032 mbellos@earthlink.net 

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I have a name! I have a name!

I am no longer nameless!

Sewphie is my new first name,

Thanks to you all for playing the game!

The member who submitted my name to the pool

is-- non other, than our own ---Diane Deuel

Holy seacow!  She's so cool!

You sent in names, lots and lots of great names

But, just like at the Olympic games,

only one name could be the winner.

It' really too bad, I can't take you ALL out to dinner!

Thanks to you ladies who gave a vote,

One of the prizes was a trip to Mote!

Another prize is a trip to see Snooty.

My distant relation is such a beauty!

Thank you, thank you, thank you all

Without you ladies I wouldn't exist

Thank you again!  ---Oh, you get the gist!!! 

Sewphie

by Elaine Chapman  

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American Sewing Guild’s Newest Member

   The Sarasota-Gulf Coast Chapter of ASG’s

newest member is a manatee,

 Their own little mermaid of the sea.

 As an ASG member, she has many friends, 

as many as the classes, meetings and programs she attends. 

All these sewing friends are part of the key

 to her wonderful life by the shining sea. 

Look at all the beautiful colors in the glistening water. 

Why–they match the outfit she just made for her daughter 

Armed with fabric, scissors, needle and thread, 

She has tons of ideas swimming ‘round in her head. 

Dreaming of show and tell, and all her new classes, 

she sure looks swell in those funky sunglasses.

 No time for cooking, no time for cleaning,

 —–Oh , my gosh–the stash pile is leaning!!! 

That pink flamingo over on the sandy beach, 

has just asked if a sewing class, she would teach.

 Of Course she will, 

  it would give her a thrill 

to teach someone to sew in 2003

 for the American Sewing Guild—ASG. 

The Sarasota/Gulf Coast Chapter of ASG 

hopes you’ll join us on our next shopping spree; 

To purchase much needed fabric galore,

 all along the beautiful Gulf Coast Shore. 

She’s got no time to sit and ponder—–

She’s got no time to squander—–

Is that a fabric sale over yonder?