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 🙂

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!