Anyone Can Sew Fashion Show!

fashionftCome be a part of our Anyone Can Sew Fashion Show and Pot Luck Brunch!

Date: Saturday, June 22
Time: 10 AM-12 PM
Cost: no cost, but please contribute to the pot luck
Location: Bent Tree Bible Fellowship
4141 International Parkway
Carrollton, TX
Room J108 (northeast corner of building. See Google Map below)

Our first real fashion show.… Read the rest

ASG Contest 2013

Anyone can win!

Last year’s “Anyone Can Win” event was so well received that we’re doing it again. “Anyone Can Win” is open only to ASG members and anyone age 18 and under who is a Junior Member of sponsored by an ASG member (Open to U.S. residents only).

To enter, make all or part of any of the ASG patterns shown on this page.… Read the rest

Plano ASG Rewards Program

planoasgrewards 252x300 Plano ASG Rewards ProgramIn appreciation for and to encourage ASG member participation in Plano ASG Chapter activities, Plano ASG members will be rewarded with the gift card of their choice for the following:

• $5 – Written articles of 500 – 700 words for the chapter newsletter. Topic must be submitted to and approved by the newsletter editor for submission.… Read the rest

DFW Fiber Fest

DFW Fiber Fest is taking place this weekend in Grapevine! This would be the perfect place to look for roving for needlefelting projects.

DFW Fiber Fest is the premier annual fiber event in the Dallas-Fort Worth community.  2013 will be our eighth event.  Held in early April each year, DFW Fiber Fest is a locally focused non-profit organization that offers both vendors and classes. Read the rest

Child’s Own Studio

A few years back Wendy Tsao began her business in making softies based on children’s drawings: Child’s Own Studio. Since then, she has custom made around 400 soft toys based on children’s drawings, each one as unique as the child who drew it.

Below are some images of her work, but her own website and Flickr Photostream are truly inspirational and worth looking at.… Read the rest

Quilting…240 Miles above Earth

Below you’ll find an article from NASA about Astronaut Artist Karen Nyberg and her crafting adventures in space.

Mention the words “NASA Astronaut” and you’ll usually conjure up the image of a brilliant, number-crunching engineer or a super-smart scientist. Yet, rarely are we given the chance to consider the other dimensions to this elite group of explorers or that they may share some common hobbies many of us more Earth-bound citizens enjoy.Read the rest

April – May – June Newsletter online

Wow! It is hard to believe that spring is here. The past few months have just flown by.

We’ve just posted the latest Plano TX Chapter newsletter. It can be downloaded here. You’ll need your Plano ASG password to get into the page.

This edition of the newsletter has articles about:

  • the ASG/Simplicity “Anyone Can Win Contest” 2013
  • the Anyone Can Sew Fashion Show & Pot Luck Brunch
  • 2 new Neigborhood Groups
  • our Annual Retreat in January
  • 2013 ETA Dallas
  • T.A.G.
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Floriani’s First Ever Texas Sit N Stitch

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May 3-4, 2013, Floriani Embroidery and Plano Sewing Center are organizing the first ever Floriani Sit N Stitch at Hyatt Place Dallas/Garland.

Learn to embroider like the Master of Embroidery himself, Mr. Walter Floriani.

Two days of hooping and hollering – six fabulous projects all created to teach you Mr. Floriani’s techniques to beautiful embroidery every time.… Read the rest