February Fashion Sewing Club Begins Tomorrow

My apologies to anyone who received multiple emails or none at all. I will get it fixed.

In the mean time-here’s the content of the email some of you did or didn’t receive 🙂 Hope to see you at Club!

Dear Sewists,
Saturday morning at Treadle will start off the meetings for February. Hope to see you.

We have some fun classes this month-serger club will be making McCall’s 6844 cardigan which was voted by Pattern Reviewers as a Top Ten from 2013. You’ve seen three versions of this cardi at Club past meetings. Click here to see them again and come join us.

We’ve also started a Bag of the Month which can be made at any of our Sewing and Serging classes at Hancock or Chan. We will have the bags at the Club meetings or you can see them by scrolling down to the previous post.

And because we have been having lots of interest from the younger set, we are starting an After School Sewing class at both Treadle and Hancock, if you know anyone that would be interested.

February Fashion Sewing Club Dates

Saturday, February 8, 10:30 at Treadle Yard Goods

Tuesday, February 11, 10:30 at Treadle Yard Goods

Thursday, February 13, 10:30 or 6:30 at First Sewing, Bloomington Hancock Fabrics

Classes

Treadle Yard Goods: 651-698-9690,www.treadleyardgoods.com

Sew It Fits Presentation, Saturday, February 8, 2:00-4:30

Basic Sergery and Beyond, Tuesday, February 11, 2:00-4:00 (part 1)

Tuesday, February 18, 2:00-4:00 (part 2)

Tuesday, February 25, 2:00-4:00 (part 3)

Kids After School Sewing Club, Tuesday, February 11 and 25, 4:30-6:00

Duct Tape Double, Saturday, February 15, 10:00-4:00

Cover/Chain, Tuesday, February 18, 6:00-8:00

First Sewing, Bloomington Hancock Fabrics, 952-884-1938

*Please register with Material Girls website or call us at 952-201-3863

Sewing and Serging with the Material Girls

Monday, February 10, 10:00-12:00, 2:00-4:00, 6:00-8:00

Thursday, February 13, 2:00-4:00

Monday, February 17, 10:00-12:00, 2:00-4:00 and 6:00-8:00

Thursday, February 20, 1:30-3:30

After School Sewing Club, Monday, February 10, 4:30-6:00

Monday, February 17, 4:30-6:00

Serger Club (Sweater Knit Cardi), Thursday, February 20, 10:30-12:30

Chanhassen Vacuum Center: 952-938-7838, http://www.chanvac.com

Junior Project Runway, Saturday, February 22, 10:30-1:30

Sewing and Serging with the Material Girls, Thursday, February 27, 1:00-3:00

Kids After School Sewing, Thursday, February 27, 4:30-6:00

Kristin and Debbie

Material Girls
http://www.materialgirlsewing.com
952-201-3863

Bagging It

Taking a break from strictly garment sewing, we thought we’d try offering a Bag of the Month class for the new year. Here are the featured bags for January and February. Quick and easy with lots of design possibilities.

Blue Take Along Tote
Blue Take Along Tote

Loaded Owl Version
Loaded Owl Version

February Bag- Red Leather Purse-sonality
February Bag-
Red Leather Purse-sonality

January fits into February!
January fits into February!

Stash bags from leftovers
Stash bags from leftovers

You can make either or both of these bags by signing up for a Serging and Sewing class on the website at either the Chanhassen or Southtown location on the following dates in February. Just let us know you will be making a bag so we can bring appropriate supplies and samples.

Southtown
Mondays, Feb. 10 or 17, 10-12, 2-4, 6-8 pm
Thursdays, Feb. 13, 2-4, Feb. 20, 1:30-3:30

Chanhassen
Thursdays, Feb. 6 or 27, 1-3 pm

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Who-who would like to make one of these bags?

Monday’s Classes Postponed-Rescheduled for Tuesday

Thanks to more really cold weather, we are postponing the classes today at Hancock but will reschedule them for tomorrow.
Serging and Sewing With the Material Girls will be held Tuesday, January 28th from 10-12, 2-4 and 6-8.

We will also have After School Sewing from 4:30-6 on Tuesday.

As always, please sign up on the website, call or email so we know you are coming (otherwise we won’t be there 🙂

Treadle Article in St. Paul Paper

Just in case you haven’t heard about Treadle Yard Goods being for sale, there is a great article in the paper-here’s the link.

And while we’re on the subject-a few questions to think about:

How important is it to you to touch and feel the fabric you consider buying?

How important is the St. Paul address for Treadle-do you walk to the store or drive a distance anyway?

How important is it to you that there is a local store that carries quality garment fabric?

I realize this is nowhere near the importance of a professional sports team but in the world of sewists, not having a great store in a major metropolitan area is a disappointment, to say the least. Let’s all think inside and outside the box and see if there’s a great idea floating around out there that can be a good solution.

October and November Club Sheets/Photos

Trying to catch up before the new year begins-October and November sheets and pics have been posted. Click on Club Sheets/Garment Photos in bar above and see what you missed (or don’t remember 🙂

A few odds and ends:

October show and tell-
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Sewing for the twins-

Jackets
Jackets

Four mittens per boy and then some
Four mittens per boy and then some

All dressed up and ready to go!
All dressed up and ready to go!

Make It Sew Closes-New Class Location

With the closing of Make It Sew on Saturday (we wish Cathy and all of her wonderful staff the best of luck in future pursuits) we are pleased to move some of our classes to the Chanhassen Vacuum Center. Virginia and Mike have been very accommodating and hope you will have a wonderful experience learning to sew in the classroom they have set up.

The shop is located at 551 W. 78th St., which is halfway between the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre and Country Inn and Suites-the same place as the old Sampler store.

Rick Engel, the technician at Make It Sew, is also fixing machines through the Chan Vacuum Center so you can still bring your machines to him for cleaning and repair. We hope he can keep us supplied with good solid machines for us to use in class and also available for purchase.

For the month of December we are offering our After School Sewing class and any private lessons or group classes you might want to set up. We will have a more complete calendar starting in January.

Thursday Fashion Sewing Club will take place at Hancock/Southtown in the classroom (far back righthand corner of store).

As always, we welcome your feedback as things keep changing 🙂

August and September Club Photos Online and More


We’ve been chomping at the bit trying to get everything caught up after moving to a new (to us) house and a long weekend with the twins!

First sand experience

Show and Tell has been wonderful! We went over 50 people attending Fashion Sewing Club in September and new faces keep coming. There were 23 people at both the Tuesday and Saturday meetings! Make It Sew, look out as we try to increase numbers at the Thursday meeting also. Any ideas are welcome 🙂
Bridesmaid’s dress (after a trip to the dry cleaners:))

Su is back in the saddle and sewing up a storm!

These pictures make it look like we all sew children’s garments but the truth is, the children’s garments are much easier to photograph (and the models are much less discriminating:) We will try to do a better job of capturing the fashion garments that everyone is sewing so the inspiration can be shared online.

All three stores, Treadle, Make It Sew and Hancock have new calendars and they’ve been updated (whew) so help yourself around the website and keep that creativity flowing!

June and July Club Photos Are Finally Online

Whew! Apologies for taking sooooo long to get these posted but hopefully they are worth the wait. Without further ado, here are some photos from Show and Tell.

Lucia’s Chanel Jacket

Beautiful embellishment

Marge’s version of Katherine Tilton’s vest

Ready for rain-vinylized cotton

Marcy Tilton shingle dress
Mesh tee-great for summer

As always, click on “Garment Photos and Club Sheets above and see what you’ve missed or remember what you forgot!
August photos will be up very soon!