The wind is howling around my house. Hope you are warm inside yours. Not a good day to be out and about so we hope you can make it to Club on Tuesday at Treadle if we haven’t already seen you.
Otherwise have a warm and happy holiday!
Debbie, Laurel and Kristin
Just a few pictures from the big event. Lots of traffic on Saturday-even Mayor Rybak! The ice slowed things a bit on Sunday but still a steady stream of visitors.
The Material Girls are expanding to the Linden Hills neighborhood! The Linden Tree is a great little shop right next to Turtle Bread and carries locally made handcrafts and fabric and customers that want to learn to sew. We are doing a make and take-kleenex holders-and meeting and greeting customers at their grand opening today (Saturday, Nov. 20) and Sunday.
We’ll start having classes and being available for private lessons and drop in help the first three Fridays in December. After December we’ll probably go to Thursdays.
Stop by and check it out! The Linden Tree-4404 Beard Av. S., Minneapolis, www.thelindentreeshop.com
Another great month-here are most of the pictures. Weather messed us up on Saturday morning. We hope you have electricity and internet-it made for a quiet weekend for some.
For future cancellations it will be posted on the website and Facebook so you can check it out. Of course if your electricity is also out, that may not be an option. You can also call the store or my cell-952-201-3863. We apologize if anyone ventured out and we weren’t there.
Club sheets (lots more detail about the garments) are available under “Club Sheets” on the top bar of the website.
As always, Show and Tell makes our day-pictures are after Club garments. Keep on sewing!
Debbie’s Garments
Laurel’s Garments
Kristin’s Garments
Show and Tell
And a ready made tee that we just had to look at very closely-inspiring!
Fashion Sewing Club at Hancock/Bernina is cancelled this morning-Saturday, November 13.
Debbie’s electricity is out. The roads are nasty.
I’m crawling back into bed-this weather is awful. Enjoy your Saturday morning!
I’ll post pictures and Club sheets soon.
So this is what the process of wrapping people in duct tape looks like:
Are you next?
So after the taping is done there’s still work to do. I’ve decided to hang my double instead of putting it on a pole and stand. I wore a long sleeved turtleneck and sewed a length of cotton knit around the bottom to cover my backside. It actually went almost to my knees and came in quite handy.
We cut our dummies in a zig zag up the back. I opened mine and sprayed an adhesive in the inside of the bust and pressed in an old underwire bra.
I had an old pillow so I separated it and hung it over the hanger to take up the middle of the space.
To retain the shape at the bottom of the dress form and to give you something to anchor the pole to if you are putting dress form on a stand, measure around bottom of dress form and around your legs at the same place. The circumference should be close to equal. Measure the with of this oval formed by your legs and the depth so you can draw this on 1 1/2″ insulation board.
So most of you know about the two weddings this past August-well, the boys are going elk hunting with my dad and last week at Treadle something caught my eye and, well, I may get in trouble or at least an eye roll, but I made pillowcases for all three of them (yes, my 81 year old dad, too) and hid them in my dad’s packed stuff.
And then just in case the new wives were feeling lonely…
The “Hunks with the Red Trucks” is no longer available at Treadle but they have new patterns that are attractive to females.
Have a great weekend. I’m dreaming of elk steaks and the safe return of the men most near and dear to my heart.
Thanks to everyone who attended! Another wonderful month of sew inspiring show and tell! I’m going to show you those pictures first. You can click on the pictures to enlarge them.
The children’s jumper and doll can also be seen at TaDa Creations on etsy. Amy is cranking out dolls and clothes now that the kids are in school. She was a wealth of information-the quilt store knits (Michael Miller and maybe Moda) shrink. I confirmed that with Tracy at The Sampler. She said 5-6″ per yard. Amy recommended Chez Ami as a source for great kids’ knits. The site has clothing for sale but also sells the fabric used in her garments.
And now for the Material Girls’ garments:
Kristin played around with two versions of a brown ponte roma (at Hancock) skirt, a long vest and was also inspired by Katherine Tilton to make the most of a “design opportunity” while modifying one of Marcy Tilton’s tee patterns.
Debbie was inspired by the August/September Threads’ blouse variations and an idea in Quick and Easy Sewing With Your Serger.
Laurel flashed us with a bit of red-I wish I could have had a video of it. We all agreed she should wear more of the color.
Well, that’s it for October. Bernina is now carrying Swedish Monster paper for tracing patterns. The calendar is full of classes-check them out if you are interested. Let me know if there are glitches in the website as you are my proofreaders 😛
Enjoy the leaves and happy sewing.
The Kyoko Dress is finished-actually two of them-and my niece has chosen her favorite. She’s wearing it in the picture below. The other one is hanging at the Bernina store inside Hancock. The fabrics came from The Sampler. We’re offering the class next Monday, October 25, 1-4 pm, if anyone is interested. Fun pattern to put together and the instructions are in color!
The Vest Class will also be available on Monday, October 25 at 6:30 and will conclude on Monday, Nov. 1 at the same time. We’re using McCall’s #6169 for the pattern.
Click on “Classes” in top bar or individual class name in right hand column to register.
The calendar for November and December has been added. We hope you see something that interests you.
