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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
We hope the new year is inspiring you to spend time on your favorite craft-garment sewing. Did you see some of the pattern companies have released spring fashions!
This month’s Fashion Sewing Clubs will be held at the following times and places:
Tuesday, 1/10, Treadle Yard Goods, St. Paul, 10:30 am
Thursday, 1/12, Bernina/Hancock/Southtown, 10:30 and 6:30
Saturday, 1/14, Treadle Yard Goods, St. Paul, 10:30 am
The Monday meeting at Make It Sew won’t be held this month but we’ll try again next month. Thanks for hanging in there while the Bernina/Hancock location gets figured out.
Some of you also caught my typo-Bernina/Hancock subscription should be $17.50 for Jan/Feb. Oops!
Hope to see you and your sewing next week!
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Everybody that is coming to my house is now on the road, the kitchen smells like gingerbread so it’s time to wish all of you wonderful Material Girls, “Happy Holidays and All the Best in 2012!” And then I’m going to turn off my computer and enjoy Christmas.
Here are show and tell pictures from December Club. We hope the receivers of your gifts enjoy them as much as we did. Garment photos are found under the heading Club Sheets and Garment Photos in top bar along with the Club sheets from December.
Dupioni silk quilt
Lucky granddaughters
Sweater vest made at Expo-see dresses on wall too.
A bit of knitting
pretty pillowcases
View December Club garments.
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
We’re busy sewing for Fashion Sewing Club at the Expo. We hope to see many of you Thursday at 9:30 or Saturday at 10:15. Wear your garments so you can model them on the runway. I registered for classes yesterday and some of them were full and the hotel is fully booked so it should be a great Expo.
If you want to see us before then or get a jump on some Christmas sewing, we’ll be at Eagle Creek at 1 pm on Saturday (11/5) for Cute Skirts or serging yoga pants/leggings at Treadle on Tuesday, 11/8 or napkins/scarves at 6 pm. A phone call will get you registered-Eagle Creek-952-233-3774 or Treadle-651-698-9690.
Cute Skirts Class
October Fashion Sewing Club pictures are on the website-our first Saturday morning meeting at Treadle was well attended with 10 people and Dress Your Best was a packed house with 22 people! It was a great day and I’m trying to continue the momentum of managing my stash and sewing wardrobe capsules.
Wedding was great-loved my dress. New display option-don't we look good?
Well, it’s back to my machines. I’m trying to get into a Project Runway frame of mind-they get their garments done quickly, right? and everything goes perfectly? I can always dream…
Dress Your Best event
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
We need a few more people to make the Dress Your Best event happen on Saturday. If you are on the fence, please get off of it by 8 pm. today, Oct. 12, by calling Treadle Yard Goods (651-698-9690) and registering. Then look in your closet and find a favorite garment or winter fabric that you’d like to build a wardrobe around. Bring it on Saturday with any complementary fabrics in your stash and get started with a productive winter sewing agenda. We’ll talk latest trends, what not to wear, make up and image ideas….
And just in case you missed the Missoni at Target….
It’s at Treadle!! This is only one of them-they arrived after Club yesterday. Must have!! I hope there’s some left on Saturday when we’re back for Fashion Sewing Club and (hopefully) Dress Your Best.
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
OK, I’m really excited about it and hope many others will be. Two years ago we had a booth at the Expo but this year we get to do our Club presentations-twice-Thursday at 9:30 am (I think I’m going to stay overnight) and Saturday at 10:15. There will be a runway to walk so everyone that brings show and tell should wear it so you can walk the runway too. Come on, you only go around once, right? There will be no Fashion Sewing Club meetings in November at our other locations.
We’ll also have a booth right next to Treadle Yard Goods. We’ll have demos of our favorite techniques/notions/patterns, etc. Some of our garments will be shown by models at the noon runway shows.
Looks like the Expo website is all up and running. There are quite a few garment sewing classes-lots of fit and some serger classes to get you going. Click here to go there.
Club will be free for November because you’ll be paying to get into the Expo and all. Subscription for Sept.-Dec. is on the website for $25. This year the Expo moves out of downtown to the Northland Inn in Brooklyn Park.
Classes will be posted this weekend and maybe even a new look to the website as I’ll have some undivided attention from my web consultant.
Hope to see what you’re sewing next week-
Monday, Sept. 12-Make It Sew, Chanhassen at 1:30 and 6:30 pm
Tuesday, Sept. 13-Treadle Yard Goods, St. Paul at 10:30 and 6:30 pm
Thursday, Sept. 15-Bernina/Hancock/Southtown at 10:30 and 6:30 pm
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
The pictures and Club sheets for August are on the website under the “Club Sheets and Garment Photos” heading. If you weren’t there, we missed you and if you were, this should help you remember what you saw. As always it was good to see everyone and the weather was fine. Such beautiful summer days we are having.
On a more creepy note-some of you may have gotten an email or Facebook message from me about being mugged in London. The good news is it’s not true and I have my accounts back again (I think anyway, this makes you feel like you should always be looking over your shoulder or checking your accounts). If you sent any email to me between Monday, 8/15 and Wed. 8/17, I didn’t get it but someone else might have enjoyed it. Please resend anything so I can get back up to date. And thank you to those of you that alerted me to the problem as soon as you saw it.
Here are show and tell pictures from the Hancock meeting. Lots of fun and inspiration!
Designer added some very Vogue details to the common peasant blouse
Traveling iron cover doubles as an ironing surface
Great diaper and cover pattern if that's where you are in life-Hancock has the specialty fabrics
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
Show and Tell on Valentine’s Day! We even got birthday treats and bookmarks as we celebrated Ruth’s birthday at the Treadle morning meeting. Yet another good reason to come to Club 
This month’s offerings came from a larger pool of sewists. Thanks to Cheri and Carrie for filling out the line up as Laurel improved her vision and Debbie and Kristin worked on an early tan. Thanks to all of you who attended and keep up the wonderful show and tell.
Here are pictures of most of the garments:
Debbie's Silk Banded Tee
Debbie's Boat Neck Dress
Carrie's Embellished Cardigan
Carrie's Arty Cardigan
Flower Embellishment
Cheri's 2x4 Top
Cheri's Liberty Tee
Laurel's Vogue 8611
Kristin's Ruched Tee
Kristin's Red Wool Tee
Kristin's Lizzie's Tee
And a few Show and Tell highlights:
Katherine Tilton's Zip Tee in a Girl's size
Christening Gown
Tunic dresses with trim belts
Little Girl's Outfit
Happy Sewing and hope to see you in March!
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Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Another month of weather that wasn’t on our side but thanks to all of you who braved the weather to see this month’s offering plus all the great show and tell.
If you don’t have the Club sheets, click on “Club Sheets” in the top bar.
Don’t forget the arty t-shirt challenge for February. Check out Marcy and Katherine Tilton websites for inspiration-shopping is also great for picking up ideas. We’ll have a few new presenters in February as some of us have other time commitments.
Carrie in Laurel's LBD
Kristin in Laurel's Hudson Top
Knit Jacket a la Von Maur
Debbie's Corduroy Tunic
Little Girl's A-Line Dress
Zona Jacket
Hong Kong finish inside Zona Jacket
Ribbon Tee Detail
Classic Tailored Coat
An Ren Coat
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
We’ve had two meetings-Make It Sew and Treadle-so much great Show and Tell and people shared info right away so I thought I would too. We still have Club meetings Thursday and Saturday at Hancock. Hope to see the rest of you.
1. Becky’s dress pattern was Vogue 8666. Everybody loved it and it’s an Easy Vogue-click on the pattern number to see it.
2. Donella’s microwave bowl or plate hotpad instructions-sorry I didn’t get a pic 
Microwave Hotpad
Supplies:
Two squares coordinating fabrics 11 ½”X 11 ½”
Two squares warm and natural 11 ½” X 11 ½” (Do not use polyester batting. It could melt in the microwave.)
Thread- cotton if possible. (I was told the polyester would melt also. But I’ve not had a problem.)
Lay one fabric on one batting. Quilt together. I sewed an X across the square.
Sew 3/8” darts -2 ½” long in the center of each side of the square. Shorter would make it more of a bowl. You can experiment with this.
Repeat with other square of fabric and batting.
Put quilted and darted squares right sides together. Sew all the way around leaving an opening. Turn right side out. Topstitch close to edge all the way around closing up the opening.
Lay in the microwave. Put dish on top. Microwave. Use like pot holder as you take the dish out and use on table as a hot pad, too.
One can make it in several sizes. The one I copied was 6 ½” square.
Laurel modelled Lucy's wrap
3. This is a great wrap for showing off a beautiful piece of fabric. In the picture is a velvet burnout from Treadle. We all thought it would be the perfect travel piece too!
Simply take a 23″ length of fabric-this one is 54″ wide-and roll hem serge all edges. Fold in half so selvedges would be together (yes, they’ve been serged off-or not if they are decorative). Stitch one of the two identical sides leaving a 14″ opening at folded edge for your head to fit through.
And then a few pictures of Show and Tell! We get so inspired by what you do!! It seems like most Show and Tell is crafty or for kids but those are the easiest to photograph-I’ll work on getting more garment pictures that look good.
Stylin' Olivia-lowering the average age of Club attendees!
Watch for the Club garment pictures after Saturday.
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