Memphis Area Smocking Guild: November, 2014

Our November meeting will be Tuesday, November 11 at 7:00 pm. We will meet at Panera's for dinner at 5:30. All are welcome! Please join us!

Program and Refreshments
Our program and refreshments will be given by Jane Soffos and Regina Sanford.

December Christmas Party Sign-up

We will be signing up for food to bring to the December meeting - our Christmas party.

Kit's Korner

Dear Fellow Members,

Whew, Halloween is now behind us and we can begin that arduous task of quietly sneaking that leftover candy into our daily diet!! Love those miniature butterfingers!!!

This is also the time we start thinking about the "Real" holidays with family and friends, projects to be done, and decorations to put up. It starts to get really hectic now for most of us. I can't help but reflect over the years of past smocking guild members that have come and gone, some because they have moved, some because their interest have changed. There were times our group was so big it was hard to find a place large enough to hold us all, and times we are so small, a few tables will do. Even tho it seems that is where we are now, we are no less important! Friendships forged through our group are important in ways we will never know, support in sewing and projects are valuable in those who have done these before us, and just knowing we can depend on our friends as sure as we can depend on that leftover Halloween candy.

In what may seem like an effort sometimes to get to a monthly meeting on that second Tuesday, just remember, someone else has put a lot of effort into their program and snacks for the evening. Your friendship may be the very one someone else is depending on to ask just a simple question or just someone to sit at your table.

So as the holidays start in full force, remember our little group represents friendships through sewing, smocking, health, good times, not so good times. I know this for a fact as you ALL have been there for me when I needed it!!!

Thank you ALL for your continued support!!!

kit

Wee Care Gowns
Please bring in any finished Wee Care gowns and be prepared to take home some new ones! Our next Wee Care workday at Lord of Life Lutheran Church (Poplar Pike) will be Tuesday, January 27 from 9:30 – 2:00. (No workdays are held during November or December.)

If you can come for all or part of the day, it would be a great help. We need folks to bring sewing machines to sew the outfits that have been pinned. Kudos to those who helped at October’s workday: Amy Johnson, Regina Sanford, Connie Scott, Glynda Whitlow, Jane Gross, Jane Soffos, Sandra Peterson, Meryl Rosen, Susan Batson

Did You Know…….

History of Read Pleaters (link from SAGA website/Facebook)

http://www.readpleaters.com/html/company_history.html

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Amy: Parker shorts with appliquéd shirts I made this summer. I had to shorten the shorts.