Even though the weather wasn’t cooperative and it’s Christmas season, many of you found your way to the stores to see our “Lingerie, Loungewear and Sleepwear” offerings. We teased about baring all but the weather kept most of us from sewing or modeling anything too risque.

Here are the photos. We saw lots of great Christmas gifts-there are many lucky grandchildren out there. If you are still sewing (yeah, like mine’s all done-NOT) and want to share/do a little bragging, either send a picture to the email address or put it up on Facebook. There’s even a prize for the favorite picture sent in.

Show and Tell Offerings

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 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.