Club sheets and garment photos have been posted. Thanks to all who attended. Show and Tell was awesome and inspiring. We’ve started having people walk out without paying so if you could make sure you do, that would be appreciated.

Tomorrow (Thursday) is Serger Club at Make It Sew. We have enough people to do both the 10:30 and 6:00 session. You can still sign up by calling the store-952-767-0701. The project is a zippered pouch using flat lock and optional coverstitch.

I’m a big fan of magnet pincushions so I thought the wrist magnet pincushions would be handy. Bottom line is: save your money!
I started with the Dritz version. The velcro rubbed against my skin so I took the velcro off and glued it to the top of my notions box.


Then I tried the slap bracelet version from Nancy’s Notions. The magnet kept sliding to the underside of my wrist so I put a piece of tape on the bracelet. But then I had to remember to take the bracelet off every time I tried on a garment. Many pins fell on the floor before I remembered!

Last but not least was the Gypsy Pin Pal. Sixteen powerful magnets that make it fold up like an accordion and propel any pins across the floor. It also took two hands to hold it open and velcro to my wrist. I haven’t figured out a second use for this one.

I’m going back to my magnet pin dishes next to each machine even tho they seem to be someplace else every time I need one 😛

Just in case you want to find a sunny window and read a good magazine, the latest issue of Sew News and a special Fitting edition of Threads just hit the newsstands and have the Material Girls’ stamp of approval-our humble opinion, of course! And we are discriminating 🙂

Cute blouse idea, bag by Linda Lee,sashiko, pretty blouse details and then the ever relevant, sought after fit information. If only reading could make it sew (so)!

Wouldn’t you know it quit snowing as soon as we decided not to meet in the morning!

Oh, well, we hope the roads are good enough for you to come tonight because we have a bit of spring for you in some of our garments.

See you soon in Chanhassen, we hope!

Old Man Winter is messing with us today! The reports of the roads sound pretty awful-Debbie would have to leave now to get to Chanhassen on time and we don’t expect any of you to spend that much time on the road. So we will be sewing by ourselves this morning instead of meeting at Make It Sew.

We will watch the weather and decide whether or not to meet tonight.

If you don’t see anything here at 2 pm we WILL meet tonight at Make It Sew. I’m keeping my fingers crossed 🙂

We still have Saturday morning at Treadle if that would work for you.

Just in case any of you are planning to be at Linda Lee’s lecture, “Great Style at Any Age”, tonight, we are meeting for dinner at School II Bistro which is just a few doors down from Make It Sew.

I’ll be there at 5 so join us if you can.

Debbie and I were so glad to be back with all of you and your inspirational sewing after our December “vacation”. Click on Club Sheets and Garment Photos above to catch up if you weren’t there. This month we took photos of the garments similar to what you see in Threads and other magazines to make us look in our closets and create an ensemble. Always trying to avoid creating closet orphans!

Check out the Sustainable Fashion exhibit at the Goldstein Museum. Treadle Yard Goods is sponsoring the exhibit that will be featured until May 26. Stay tuned for a group date-just thought we’d go as a group if anyone would like to join us.

We mentioned that Linda Lee of Sewing Workshop will be at Make It Sew for a pants fitting class. Those dates are Friday and Saturday, March 15-16. She also has a lecture Friday evening on latest style trends and using fabric to interpret them. Check out their newsletter for more info.

And here are a few photos-

Have a creative day!

So I miss you all very much. Today would have been Tuesday’s Treadle Club meeting, but as anticipated, I am up to my elbows in babies and wedding preparations. Being the luckiest grandma in the world, I am spending two weeks getting to know the new babies. But I haven’t been cuddling them ALL the time. Here are a few snapshots of what’s been going on. And Debbie misses everyone, too :))

The Dad pants are made out of a Norman Rockwell print I got at Eagle Creek. Mom said she almost cried when she saw them-all prints of dads and kids-so sweet.

Dad would have been modeling his baby-rocking pants but I thought I would be clever and make them low waisted like all the young women like them but that doesn’t work so well for the male version. I’ll be adding fabric to the waist so they don’t become “plumber pants”.

You might ask, “What will the mother of the bride be wearing?” We’d all like to know the answer to that question.

Yup, the fabric. I’ve ordered several dresses just in case my dream doesn’t come true.

Yes, her plate is full-overflowing, some might say. But then you look at two beautiful sleeping babies…


…and you wouldn’t give up a minute of any of it.

(Love that Treadle fabric.)

Just ten days till the wedding so plenty more to do but you probably won’t be hearing from me till after the New Year.

Happy Holidays and may all your dreams come true.

This is the one week birthday of my two new grandsons!!! I was lucky enough to greet them shortly after birth and hold them. The new family is doing great-no c section, no NICU and I just heard that they have both gained weight over the weekend. Benjamin was 6 lb. 10 oz. and Andrew was 4 lb. 8 oz. at birth.

Club sheets have been posted-we had a pretty good turnout considering the Expo was smack dab in the middle of it. We said goodbye to several snowbirds at Club meetings.

Thursday afternoon was our day to peruse the offerings at the Expo. It was OK and we heard from several people who had a great time at classes. A little updating wouldn’t hurt, though. Too bad the organizers don’t look at other offerings (Creative Connection for one) and the internet to see what we’re all up to and then attract vendors to feed our appetites. Maybe they’ll listen to constructive feedback??

We have two classes-Eternal Sergery and Sewing Cute Clothes for Kids, both at Treadle on Tuesday, Nov. 27 and then we will be done for the year. Treadle classes are still scheduled till the end of January and Make It Sew will come out with a new list of classes in December.

We hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas season and we’ll see you in January. Send pictures of what you are sewing and I’ll post them so that we keep in touch.

And I will be enjoying my daughter’s wedding and all that goes with it (and hopefully, the twins for Christmas 🙂