April 10, 2015

April 2015

April, 2015

This Month’s Meeting

Our monthly meeting will be Tuesday, April 14 at 7:00 pm. We will meet at Panera for dinner at 5:30. All are welcome! Please join us!

Kit’s Korner

Happy Spring Ladies!!

Hopefully we have turned the corner from winter and are on our way to more great weather! I hope everyone had a great Easter and Passover. Along with the obvious at this time of year, I must say I still love to see if any little ones are wearing any of "our favorites" at church, brunch or egg hunts!!! 

I guess I still have too many fond memories of my own little ones on Easter morning, sometimes dressed alike, sometimes dressed nothing alike. Some years we had bonnets, some years they were torn off our heads in screaming fits! Nope, not gonna happen! Some years I can remember being too short of time, and Sylvia White or Florence Eismann came to the rescue!!! Now quite a few of you ladies from the old days will remember these brands, as well as Ance' K and Monday's Child!!! 

It was in these days our guild was numbers strong!! Our children were little, young mothers were smocking like crazy, sewers were plentiful! As often happens with a loved art, it comes, it goes and then it comes back again. While our guild right now is not as large as it once was, it's still great memories, great friends, and the love of the ART!

Keep Coming Back!
kit

Program and Refreshments
Vickie will present a program on pleating and DiAnne will bring refreshments.


Grace Knott Business Closing
Grace Knott's grandson is closing her business. Here is the web site http:glksmocking.com/index.html, if anyone is interested. Jane Soffos can bring her book and anything else she has from her to the meeting, in case we have some members who don't know about her.


May 1 – 2 (Friday – Saturday):  Trip to Stitcher’s Playhouse for Class
Join us for a fun trip to Stitcher’s Playhouse in Smyrna, TN on May 1 – 2. We will leave on Friday, May 1 and have lunch in Nashville. We’ll shop at Children’s Corner; then buy our supplies for the class at Stitcher’s. We will stay at Comfort Inn in Smyrna.
The class on Saturday will be from 9 am – 3 pm. The cost for the class will be $35 plus $10 for lunch.
To join others on this trip will be on a “first come, first serve” basis. The class size is limited to 7, and a few ladies have already made plans to go.
Feel free to contact Amy Johnson to answer any questions.

Wee Care Gowns – 4th Tuesday of Each Month from  January – October
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, April 28 from 9:30 – 2:00.
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.  


Local and National Dues Reminder
Please remember to bring your local MASG dues of $15. Please make out checks to MASG. You can also mail them to Susan Batson at 7071 Riverwood Street, Germantown, TN 38138.
Also please remember to pay your National Dues by going to the Smocking Arts Guild of America website http://www.smocking.org/

Show and Share:

Marty Cobb: Here is an Easter dress that I made for a child at Sherwood Elementary. It was mostly sewn on my serger (not heirloom).



DiAnne made these for granddaughters Hazel and Clara (Australian Smocking issues 95 & 99)



Susan’s grandkids Emily and JJ wearing Easter outfits again this year



Amy’s latest creations



Miscellaneous

Kellie and a friend are having a massive yard sale May 7-9 to fund raise for their adoptions. They are collecting donations for the sale. If anyone is spring cleaning, Kellie would be glad to come by and take discards from you.

Happy Birthday !
Judy - April 4th
Meryl - April 5th
Cat - April 9th
Leslie - April 22nd

See you Tuesday night! 

Susan