July, 2015

This Month’s Meeting

Our monthly meeting will be Tuesday, July 14 at 6:30 pm. (We will not meet at Panera this month due to our annual salad supper meeting.)

Current signup includes the following – please bring your favorite dish

Kit – Grape Salad

Vivian - Drinks

Amy – Chocolate Dessert Delight

Susan – Applesauce Salad - Rolls

Kit’s Korner

Dear Ladies,

I'm hoping everyone had a happy and relaxing Fourth of July! Is it me, or does everyone feel like this sort of marks the halfway time for summer? Seems like it just got here, and now it's halfway over! However, it also marks some exciting things happening in our sewing world!! 

Hopefully you know by now that Lace Cottage has been purchased! If you don't know the good news, let me be the first to tell you!!!!! Our own Vivian Sturks and her partner Phyllis have decided to keep the legacy going! They are in the process of restocking merchandise and changing locations. 

As of now, it looks like Lace Cottage will be relocated to a space off Exeter off Poplar. The driveway right after Germantown Rehabilitation Hosp. and straight to the back on the right. Previously a hair salon. It is all freshly painted and remodeled and best of all, has classroom facilities!!!! So it's basically just at the opposite end of where we were before. I believe the target date is mid-August, but I think this will be posted on the Lace Cottage Facebook page.

This is a huge step in anyone's life, so let's not forget to support our local shop when they re-open!!

So, Just when we think all is lost, it seems miracles do happen!! Thanks to Vivian and her partner!

kit

Calling all Wee Care gowns!

Please remember to bring your Wee Care gowns - ready or not - to our July 14th meeting. It's time to gather the gowns together to share with our "littlest angels". Thanks!

Program and Refreshments

Our July meeting will be our annual salad/dessert supper. Please note the time change is 6:30. Bring a salad or dessert to share and your current sewing project. See you there!

September Program – Special Request

Please start saving selvages for a program Debbie doing in September.  More information to come.

Wee Care Gowns – 4^th Tuesday of Each Month from  January – October

Please bring in any finished (or unfinished) 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, July 28 from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm.

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 9 ladies who helped at June’s workday: Amy Johnson, Regina Sanford, Jane Soffos,  DiAnne Drennen, Jane Gross, Glynda Whitlow, Marty Cobb, Connie Scott and Susan Batson

Show and Share:

Our June Wee Care Workday was really productive – see our ladies hard at work!

We celebrated Regina’s birthday!

Connie shared her finished quilt project - 6 months in the making!

Susan’s granddaughters in Baltimore, Molly (8) and Leah (5 ½), are taking sewing lessons from their mom (Susan’s daughter), Jen, this summer. Here they are concentrating on sewing samples during Lesson #2. Both girls are sewing on actual sewing machines!

"You can't buy happiness, but you can buy fabric, and that's pretty close." – Unknown

Media Announcements:

Memphis Area Smocking Guild Group - Facebook. 

Marty Cobb has created the MASG Facebook page. Be sure to Join and follow the latest news from our members and other interested smockers and sewers!

Sew Classic For Children – Facebook - Sew Classic for Children is a group for all levels of sewing children's clothing. We love classic, tailored and heirloom designs. Share your Children's Corner Pattern creations along with your comments. In addition we are delighted to answer questions.

Classic Sewing Magazine Group - Facebook…..Classic Sewing will have 132 pages of glorious sewing ideas, patterns, tips, techniques and will include at least two full size patterns in each quarterly issue. The magazine will feature heirloom and everyday sewing projects to delight the most discriminating sewist. Patterns will come in a separate envelope along with the magazine. No more tearing out pattern sections……all of the patterns will be easy to read and store! Unlike anything you have seen before, Classic Sewing will feature designs from top designers in the industry. There is something fabulous for everyone in the magazine.

Lace Cottage – Facebook Watch for information about reopening

July Birthdays – None known this month

See you Tuesday!

Susan