August 2012

Our August meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 14th at 7:00pm.

Program
Our program this month will consist of all of the new things for fall from The Lace Cottage!

Convention
Please bring your completed items for convention!

Education
Join us on August 24th and 25th for a 2 Day course with Lezette! We will be making a Beach Portrait Dress. The course fee is $125 and we will furnish our own kits. Registration will be open until August 20th. Lunch will not be provided.

Supply List:

Fabric (a) and yardage	2 3/8yards           Martha’s swiss batiste 45” wide $12.00 yd
Fabric (b) and yardage(lining)	1 ½ yard              Victorian or Martha’s fav batiste
Fabric (c) and yardage
Insertion Lace (width & yardage)	8 ½ yards  L-2/15028
Edging lace (width & yardage)	4 ½ yards  L-2/15022
Entredeaux	9 ½ yards
Beading (width & yardage)
Pattern	Teacher will bring
Interfacing
Stabilizer (kind & amount)	wet and gone tacky – 64” of at least 12” wide for embroidery or students can do tucks, people doing lawn will do tucks. No stabilizer for tucks
Sewing Thread(s)
Decorative Threads
Ribbon (type & yardage)
Floss
Silk ribbon
Hand sewing needles
Sewing machine needles
Sewing machine feet	¼” . edge joining or lace joining, buttohhole, embroidery foot for embroidery, overcast,manual buttonhole
Buttons	7 diamond shaped pearl buttons from beautiful buttons
Misc.
Room requirements	Board with markers, tracing paper
Student supplies	White 50 and 60 weight Mettler sewing thread, Size 75 machine sewing needles, needle to sew on buttons, washout marking pen pencils, ruler at least 3” x 24” or longer,  tracing paper

July 2012

Our July Meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 10th at 7:00pm. This months meeting will be a Salad Supper! Here is the current list:

Salads - Judy P, Dianne M, Glynda, Chris, Kittie, Laura
Bread-Kellie, Susan Dessert- Jane, Kittie, Amy
Drinks- Amy, Regina Plates, napkins, silverware,
cups-DiAnne

Program
For this month's program, we will have a Wee Care Sit n' Sew and talk about the construction of Wee Care gowns.

Education
August 24th and 25th Lezzette will be here to teach a 2-Day class on a beach dress using the Louise pattern. We will have a signup sheet and supply list available at our next meeting.

Convention
If you have finished your project for the convention basket, please bring it!

We look forward to seeing everyone at our salad supper on Tuesday!!

June 2012

Our June meeting will be held Tuesday, June 12 at 7pm. We will meet for dinner at 5:30pm at Holiday Ham in Germantown for anyone who would like to join!

Program

For our program this month, Chris will be demonstrating how to do Surface Embroidery (embroidery on smocking). This will mainly be a demonstration but if you would like to practice some of the stitches, then please bring: milliners or straw needles, floss, embroidery scissors, and a small pleated sampler.

Wee Care

Please bring in your completed gowns and be prepared to sign out some more! We have a few orders to fill and would also love to start a stockpile of gowns for when we are hit with last minute orders!

Please bring any show and share that you have to our next meeting! But, in the meantime, check out this sweet dress Dianne made for her great niece Maisye's first birthday!

Sweet Maisye's Dress

And, here is Laura's daughter Emily in her completed basic yoke!

Lee Pattern and "Count Your Blessings" plate. 

  See you all on Tuesday! Our July meeting will be a Salad Supper and Sit 'n Sew!!

May 2012

Our next meeting will be at 7 p.m. on Tuesday , May 8. We will meet for dinner at 5:30 p.m. at the Holiday Ham in Germantown.

Program
We will be learning how to pinstitch! You will  need to bring basic hand sewing supplies.

If you have your Basic Yoke Dress, please bring it to the meeting for Show & Share. If you no longer have your dress, please bring a picture.

And speaking of pictures, here is a picture of DiAnne's granddaughter Hazel in her beautiful dress. Isn't she just the cutest thing!

If you are looking for smocking designs for a Wee-Care gown, look at the Newsletter for the Cactus Cablers. They have lots of designs at cactuscablers.org.

April 2012

The next meeting of the Memphis Area Smocking Guild will be at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10. We will meet for dinner at 5:30 p.m. at the Holiday Ham in Germantown.

Program
We will continue on our Basic Yoke Dress with a lesson on hemming. Jane will  also show us how to make a scalloped hem. No supplies are needed. Please bring your completed or nearly completed dress to the meeting. We all want to see your beautiful creations.

Here are pictures of Jane's beautifully created Basic Yoke Dress. She also made the wonderful little boy outfits to match the dress. The Dress is Lee by Children's Corner with the Bessie sleeve. The larger boys suit is a Jeffrey by Children's Corner and the baby romper is by Kathy Crisp. The dress is smocked with Brooks by Ellen McCarn and both of the boy's outfits have designs from the Chella Thornton book.

We had a great time at the Jeannie Baumeister workshop. We made a slip and a daygown, and had fun shopping for treasures that Jeannie brought with her. Here are pictures of our fun weekend.

 

I wish all of you a Blessed Easter. I hope all of your special sewing is finished to perfection just like Jane's - and matching doll dresses,too! Jane made these dresses for her grand niece and step sister, hopefully to wear for Easter.

March 2012

Our next meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13. We will meet casually for dinner at the Holiday Ham in Germantown at 5:30 p.m.

The program will be taught by Rose of the Lace Cottage. She will be teaching on collars for our Basic yoke dresses. She will teach an easy way to make a ruffled collar. If time permits, Jane will teach the scalloped hem. No supplies are needed.

Those of you who have wee care gowns out, please finish them and bring them to the meeting.  

Jeannie Baumeister class supply list

Fabric marking pen or pencil
fine white 100@ cotton sewing thread (cotona #80 for stitching lace and DMC #50)
cutting out and fine embroidery scissors

fine pins

18" see thru ruler and Lace Shaping Board (can be small)
Size #10 or #11 Sharps needles, #9 milliner (straw) needles.  
Optional but helpful: Magnification and a light plus cord 

We have a few members that still need to renew their SAGA membership. It is important for you to do this now so that we will remain in compliance with the SAGA guidelines for affiliate chapters.

As we are all preparing for Easter, take a look at Easter preparations of the past!

February 2012

February is National Smocking Month!

Please join us at our next meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 14. We will meet casually for dinner at 5:30 p.m. at Holiday Ham in Germantown.

The program for Tuesday night will be a continuation of working on our basic yoke dress. We need to begin moving towards completion. We are going to discuss piping and the placement of it on your dress as well as buttonholes. You will need to have either made your piping or purchased your piping if you are uncertain how to make it. A variety of pipings are available at Lace Cottage as well as mini-cording to make it. Please bring your dresses with you as well. Next month Rose from Lace Cottage will be showing us how to make a perfect collar!

If you have not already paid your dues, both local and National, please note they are now due. Remember that National dues must be paid online at the SAGA website.

Please continue working on your Wee-Care gowns and remember to return them at the meeting.

We are so excited to be hosting Jeannie Baumeister of the Old Fashioned Baby March 30-31! There is still time to register so please contact Laura Hill at mrslaurahill@gmail.com for more details or just bring your checkbook to the next meeting. The deadline for registration is March 1, so don't delay! We look forward to seeing you there!