October 2012

Our October meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 9th at 7:00pm. We will meet for dinner at 5:30pm at Holiday Ham for anyone who would like to join!

Program
For our program this month, we will have a mini market! Please bring anything you would like to sell, such as, fabric, patterns, notions, etc! It's a good opportunity to clear some space and earn some cash for all of your Holiday projects!

We will also have a show and share of any Christmas items you have made! Please bring anything current or from years passed!

Wee Care
Please bring your finished Wee Care gowns to the meeting and be prepared to take some new ones! We need to build up our stock for future orders.

Convention
Thanks to everyone who helped to create our beautiful convention basket! Debbie will fill us all in when she returns from convention! Here is a picture of the completed basket:

Library
We have purchased two copies of A to Z of Heirloom Sewing for our library. One of the copies will be available for purchase for $32.93. Names will be drawn if more than one person is interested in purchasing this copy.

Elections
We will be holding elections for the 2013 year.
Debbie Clark- president
Laura Hall- vicepresident
Judy Potter- secretary
Susan Batson- treasurer

Look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday night!!

September 2012

Our September meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 11th at 7pm. We will meet for dinner at 5:30pm at Holiday Ham for anyone who would like to join!

Program
For this month's program, we are lucky to have Virginia Goodwin-Gray show us how to put a smocked insert into pockets, t-shirts and other places!

Wee Care
Please bring in all finished gowns and finish up those that you have laying around! We need to build up our inventory of finished gowns.

Convention
If you signed up to complete an item for our convention basket, please bring it in finished on Tuesday. Convention is next month and Debbie will need to get our basket ready!

Education
Our August class with Lezette was a success!! An update and pictures will follow soon! Look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday night!

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.