Memphis Area Smocking Guild

November 6, 2015

November, 2015

This Month’s Meeting

Our monthly meeting will be Tuesday, November 10th at 7:00 pm. We will meet at Holiday Ham for dinner at 5:30. All are welcome! Please join us! Bring a friend!

Kit’s Korner

Hello Ladies,

Well Halloween is behind us but at my house, not so much the candy!! Is it so wrong to have a Butterfinger or two for breakfast?? I bet I'm not the only one!! Come on, you know who you are 😊!

Hard to believe Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away, and then OMG! Christmas!!! So some of us start getting the house organized for the holidays with sewing projects, cleaning up etc. This is a really good time to mark your calendars to attend our guild meeting on November 10^th as we have Jennifer Gammill visiting us to help us get our sewing rooms organized. Something I can sure use help with. I would love to have a large crowd to show her our support!

Also, Lace Cottage will be having a Christmas open house on Saturday, November 14th, to show off all our adorable Christmas outfit samples we have put together for you. Let's all show our support for our small businesses that support us! ❤️

See you all at our next meeting!

Thanks, Kit

Calling all Wee Care gowns!

Look high and low – finished or unfinished - for your Wee Care gowns and bring them to our meeting! It's time to gather the gowns together to share with our "littlest angels". Thanks!

Program and Refreshments

Our program will be presented by Jennifer Gammill – helping us organize our sewing space. Let's all make an extra effort to be present.

Refreshments will be provided by Amy and Regina.

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

Our next Wee Care Workday will be January 26, 2016 at Lord of Life Lutheran Church (Poplar Pike). Please make plans to 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 7 ladies who helped at October’s workday: Amy Johnson, Regina Sanford, Jane Soffos, DiAnne Drennen, Jane Gross, Connie Scott and Susan Batson. Jane brought wonderful homemade soup and cake for all to enjoy!

Show and Share:

Thanks, Amy! PhD takes on new meaning for us all!

Molly, 8 year old granddaughter of Susan Batson, modeled her nightgown while we were in Baltimore last September. She is the 2nd generation to wear this gown - her mom and aunt wore it many years ago. Smocked outfits do span generations!

Media Reminders:

Memphis Area Smocking Guild Group - Facebook. Be sure to Join and follow the latest news from our members and other interested smockers and sewers!

Lace Cottage – Join and Share on Facebook! Classes are available at a variety of days/times!

2024 Exeter Suite 1

Germantown, Tennessee

(901) 308-1964

http://wwwlacecottage.com/

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.

Subscriptions now available.

Birthdays This Month

Nov 23 – Susan

Nov 26 - Amy

See you Tuesday!

Susan

October 8, 2015

October, 2015

This Month’s Meeting

Our monthly meeting will be Tuesday, October 13th at 7:00 pm. We will meet at McAllister’s for dinner at 5:30. All are welcome! Please join us!

Kit’s Korner

Hello ladies!

Well I'm glad to say that our wedding was a complete success and is finally over! I'm slowly decompressing from all the details that stay in your head for what seems like months!! Now time for a little rest and relaxation in Florida with my sister next week. Just when we might get fall weather here, I go south?? Oh well, quality time together!!

On a sad note, I wanted to share with our sewing family that our own Rose Smit underwent a long and arduous 10 hour heart surgery Monday week ago. There was extensive damage and many repairs were necessary. She will be unable to continue to work at Lace Cottage for the remainder of the year, so we will need to double up on our schedules. She is still in the hospital now, but hopefully will be home soon. Her family is close around her and we need to keep them and her in our prayers.

The Lace Cottage family asks for your patience as we figure out our schedules on classes Rose was teaching. Thank you in advance!

See you in November and don't forget our guest speaker Jennifer Gammil is coming!!

Calling all Wee Care gowns!

Look high and low – finished or unfinished - for your Wee Care gowns and bring them to our meeting! It's time to gather the gowns together to share with our "littlest angels". Thanks!

Program and Refreshments

Our program will be presented by Debbie Clark on making a selvage needlecase. . Debbie’s program will be mostly demonstration. You will need to bring:

Selvages ironed and pressed. (We will be covering a 9 ½ x 10 ½ inch piece of muslin.)
Paper scissors
Regular scissors

Refreshments will be provided by Phyllis.

Wee Care Gowns Workday– 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, October 27th from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm. Our next Wee Care Workday will be January 26, 2016.

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.

News from our Librarian, Glynda Whitlow

Over the years MASG has invested in quality French handsewing and smocking books for member's use. They are now treasures, so many are out of print. This is a valuable resource for Guild members.

Kitty taught the "honeycomb" stitch at our September meeting. It is an advanced stitch. Did you struggle getting it just prefect? A-Z of Smocking has step by step picture directions. Did you know there are 2 honeycomb smocking stitches? Check this book out to help you with your pleating and smocking techniques.

Coming Soon---the new Creative Stitching Magazine!! Hope to have it by Dec. 8. Someone may take it home and enjoy it over the holidays.

(Please talk with Glynda about deposit for book/magazine loans.)

Show and Share:

Tag blankets – Susan Batson. My husband and I made these 2 tag blankets for our son-in-law’s sister who is expecting a son in November. Bob prepared and pinned the variety of ribbons while I stitched the layers (fleece front and minki-dot back).

Media Reminders:

Memphis Area Smocking Guild Group - Facebook. Be sure to Join and follow the latest news from our members and other interested smockers and sewers!

Lace Cottage – Join on Facebook! Classes are available at a variety of days/times!

2024 Exeter Suite 1

Germantown, Tennessee

(901) 308-1964

http://wwwlacecottage.com/

Birthdays This Month

Marty Cobb – Oct 26^th

DiAnne Drennan- Oct 28th

See you Tuesday!

Susan

September 3, 2015

September 2015

This Month’s Meeting

Our monthly meeting will be Tuesday, September 8th at 7:00 pm. We will meet at McAllister’s for dinner at 5:30. All are welcome! Please join us!

Kit’s Korner

Dearest Ladies, Because of your concern for my niece and her baby, I wanted to share the latest update with you. Please know that your prayers and thoughts mean so much to me and my family. Since this posted, Libby has moved back to oncology to start yet again chemo treatment. Tough, as this is in another building from NICU.

Hudson McGee Lightfoot was born 8/24/2015 at 9:49am! He was 4 lbs and 17 inches long and came into the world screaming. He was taken immediately to NICU level B because he was successfully breathing on his own. Being only two weeks off chemo and having to go through a surgery under complete sedation, my body took a while to be strong enough to meet my baby boy, which was very hard emotionally. Luckily for our little angel it was love at first sight for his daddy and Frankie barely leaves his side. By the time I was able to make it down to see him on Tuesday he had been moved up to NICU level A because they discovered a hole in his right lung. They put in a chest tube to relieve the pressure and he is healing slowly but nicely. If this continues and his breathing steadies, the tube should be removed in a few days. I haven’t been able to hold or touch him because we are both neutropenic with very low white blood cell counts. His counts are slowly increasing with the help of a drug that stimulates his marrow. My WBC counts are going up as well, but my cells are leukemia cells not actual healthy cells. So for me, they want to start the next round of chemo right away. I will most likely start a WBC suppression pill today and take that until they think I have healed enough from the surgery to be moved from Labor & Delivery back to the hematology/oncology floor. Now that Hudson doesn’t have to go through the chemo with me, they will start me on a harsher more aggressive chemo drug on Monday or Tuesday of next week that will last 5 days. At day 14 they will do a bone marrow biopsy to check if my bad blasts are below 5%, and if so, they will immediately start the bone marrow transplant. My brother and sister have been tested as possible matches and we are still waiting on the results. They have found a few potential matches in the national registry already so that’s a good sign!

They started feeding Hudson today through a tube in his mouth with some donor breast milk per my request. Only a few drops at a time to see how he digests it. I finally got to reach inside the incubator and hold the tube up to help out with the feeding. I also got to hold his paci in his mouth while they stuck his foot. He didn’t even cry, just held on to my hand with his tiny fingers and stared over at me. It melted my heart, I never wanted him to let go. Little moments like this make every bit of this worth it. The aches, the pains, the fears, the doubts, all of them just disappear and we get to have a true moment of peace and happiness with each other. He is my strong little angel and has carried me through each day. I will continue to fight just as strong knowing he is counting on his mommy to come home soon after he does. I’ve waited 33 years to be a mom and nothing is going to stand in the way of that. Life will never be the same, and I’m counting on that. Only good things could possibly be ahead with this little miracle in the world now. Thank you all sincerely for helping us through this.

Also in Show and Share is a reminder sheet from Lezette Thomason on Heirloom Techniques by Machine. Always helpful to have by your machine!!

Calling all Wee Care gowns!

Look high and low – finished or unfinished - for your Wee Care gowns and bring them to our meeting! It's time to gather the gowns together to share with our "littlest angels". Thanks!

Program and Refreshments

Our program will be presented by Kittie. Supply list for Tuesday night is just a Smocking needle, favorite color floss and a small pair of scissors.

Refreshments will be provided by Kristen.

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

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.

Show and Share:

Amy – Tipsy Curvy Lucy and Charlotte

Virginia’s Quilt

Here is a photo of the twin sized quilt I made for my grandniece. My 89 year old mother embroidered the kitty designs and I constructed quilt. Best of all I finished a week before deadline - can you believe that!!

Heirloom Techniques

Media Reminders:

Memphis Area Smocking Guild Group - Facebook. Be sure to Join and follow the latest news from our members and other interested smockers and sewers!

Subscriptions now available.

Lace Cottage – Facebook Grand re-opening was August 15^th! Classes are available at a variety of days/times!

Birthdays This Month

Virginia - September 4th

See you Tuesday!

Susan

August 5, 2015

August, 2015

This Month’s Meeting

Our monthly meeting will be Tuesday, August 11 at 7:00 pm. We will meet at McAllister’s for dinner at 5:30. All are welcome! Please join us!

Kit’s Korner

Hello ladies,

Hope this finds everyone well as we all try to survive the summer heat! Seems August heads us into fall and just maybe cooler temps are not too far behind.

I guess our most exciting news is all the things happening with Lace Cottage. The girls, myself included, have been busy getting things ordered, painted, shelves built, and organized to open August 15th!!! They have been checking out other shops, to take the best of all, to make sure they can offer you the most fun, pleasant shopping experience you can have.

On a quick visit to Children's Corner, Viv and Phyllis found out that a new pattern will soon be introduced. Need to keep checking the shop about that. Some of the fall fabrics are in already and more on the way.

Classes are already in discussions and sit and smock on Thursday evening has already begun. Pack up your hand projects and join us for that!! 5-7 p.m.

So come together and let's support our members Vivian and Phyllis, and local shop!! It promises to be exciting!!!

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 August program and refreshments will be provided by Kristen Benjamin. She will be teaching us to make a Ribbon ruler case. You can find it in SAGA News Vol 35, Issue 2 (May, 2014) page 22-23.

Kristen will furnish the grosgrain ribbon. Please bring the following:

1 skien variegated stranded floss

1 yard floss for the flower centers

1 yard green floss for leaves

One 7/16” shank button

6x1 gridded ruler

Size 8 crewel or embroidery needles

Size 9 betweens

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

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.

Show and Share:

Our July meeting with salad/dessert was relaxing and fun! We had 16 gals there!

Media Announcements:

Memphis Area Smocking Guild Group - Facebook. Be sure to Join and follow the latest news from our members and other interested smockers and sewers!

Lace Cottage – Facebook Grand re-opening August 15^th!

August Birthdays

Aug 23 – Jane Soffos

Aug 26 – Kittie Hadskey

See you Tuesday!

Susan

July 9, 2015

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

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!

Lace Cottage – Facebook Watch for information about reopening

July Birthdays – None known this month

See you Tuesday!

Susan