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Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Love Your Serger

This Thursday, March 25, is our Love Your Serger Class day. The project will be Total Serger Tee Techniques and Tips. A mouthful and two hours full of how to put a tee together with your serger. We’ll bring a pre-cut American Girl Doll size t-shirt for you to work on or you can cut out a tee of your own and bring it to class to sew together. This means an opportunity to use your coverstitch if you’ve never done that before (you know who you are) or if you don’t have coverstitch, we’ll use the rolled hem lettuce edge to finish edges.

The class is held at Associated Sewing in Bloomington, March 25, from 2-4 or 6:30-8:30 and the cost is $15. Click on the class name to register and pay through PayPal or send an email to kristin@materialgirlsewing.com

Here’s a picture from the February class where we made a ruffled pillowcase.

Ruffled Serger Pillowcase

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Thursday, January 7th, 2010

New Classes for Winter ’10

And what a winter it’s turning out to be! Actually it’s very conducive to sewing. But I digress. We have a new listing of classes-Skirts That Fit, Jacket Techniques, Love Your Serger, Beginning Sewing-and then our two events-Clear Your Clutter Stash Swap and Dress YOUR Best. Check them out and sign up!

Speaking of the Stash Swap-this is a great time to be cleaning out closets and reevaluating the fabrics you have collected. Bring your items to January Club meetings (or arrange a drop-off) and we’ll give you “cash” to spend at the Swap. Then let’s all get together on Jan. 30 and get that creative energy flowing. Change is good.

Love Your Serger was the best I could come up with for a name for a hands-on serger class. I toyed with “Exploratory Sergery” but that’s as far as I got for catchy names. Any wordsmiths out there that can come up with a better option?

It’s been some time since I’ve had to update the site so please advise me of any errors you see. Thanks to those of you that keep at me to get classes posted. And as always, feedback is crucial. Are these the classes you want to take? Too cheap? (just kidding) Wrong times? Let us know how we can best meet your creative sewing needs.

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Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Keeping up

It’s amazing how quickly we get hooked on technology-my internet has been sketchy of late. But I’ve got a window here so a few things on which to follow up-I did make it to the Envision Style Show that kicked off the MN Fashion Week events. I got a friend to go with me and then ran into a Club member there! See Doreen’s comment. It was fun to be in a different crowd and I didn’t even use the earplugs that I had stashed in my purse at the advice of one of my kids. I only stayed for the first show and was surprised at all the fur-not that I object-there was just an abundance of it. My favorite designer was Peloria who had about five dresses all playing with the same theme of collars and asymmetry. I would certainly go again.

And my online fabric arrived this week! It’s Gorgeous and I can’t wait to get at the sewing of it.

We had four people make the Silhouette Yoga Pant at a class this week. Hands down approval of the Treadle (they are having a sale this week) Ponte Roma knit and the fit of the pattern. One student had her pants sewn in an hour. We hope to see them at Show and Tell this month.

Are you working on your list of classes to take at the Original Sewing and Quilting Expo? The first section of classes is even named “Fashion Sewing”. Lots of great things to learn and do.

Speaking of…I stopped at Creative Sewing in Apple Valley and since many of you may be Babylock serger owners or wannabees-they are having a Babylock educator in town next week, Oct. 9 & 10. Great time to see the new serger or maybe get a deal on feet. I will be there.

Hope you are staying warm and finding comfort in your sewing endeavors. See some of you next week at Club.

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

And Then There Were Pictures

New to the site and ready to enhance your class selection-it’s photos!

Ponte Roma knits at Treadle

A picture doesn’t do justice but Treadle just got in these great colors of Ponte Roma knit. Great for a pair of “Not Just for Yoga” Pants (check it out in Class listings.

Or maybe you’d rather make them in something a bit more casual like the French terry with stretch.

French Terry with stretch at Treadle

Either one would be nice in the Button Pleated Cardigan.

Just a few of the new classes to investigate. Pictures just opened up a whole new way of communicating.

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

October Schedule and Classes

We’ve got dates for October Fashion Sewing Club meetings and now you can even pay online through PayPal. So if you didn’t get a subscription paid for last month you can do it here. We swapped the Saturday Treadle meeting for a weekday morning as suggested and rearranged just a bit at Associated:

October Club meetings are:

Associated Sewing/Lyndale

Wednesday, October 7 at 6:30
Thursday, October 8 at 10:30
Saturday, October 10 at 10:30

Treadle Yard Goods/St. Paul

Tuesday, October 13 at 10:30 and 6:30

We’ve also got some fun classes which we hope will appeal to many of you. Each month we’ll offer just a few classes and see how it goes. At this point only one class will be offered at Treadle during the afternoon on the Treadle Fashion Sewing Club meeting day. Let us know if you want more.

The rest of the classes will be offered at Associated Sewing in Bloomington.

All classes will be paid for through Material Girls and listed only on our website. We hope this will avoid confusion.