Congratulations to the Special Events Team for a fun, event-filled day for our Annual Meeting, Style Show, and Luncheon. Social Media has received lots of likes to our fashion show!… Read the rest
If you can volunteer, come.
If you can greet others, come.
If you can shop, come.
We will see you there!
Here are the neighborhood group topics for October.
Mark Your calendars!
Note – Community Sew has changed from 1st Friday to 2nd Wednesday, 9-11 a.m. at Richardson Senior Center
October 6– We’re Sew Special – scrap challenge – sew-in not decided
October 7 – Sewing Garments – studying correct proportions
October 1 – All Things by Hand (formerly beading) – individual hand projects from sewing, knitting, quilting, jewelry making, beading, etc
October 14 – Community Sew – pillowcases for Hope’s Door
October 10– TAG – making Halloween bags
October 12– Material Girls – making gift bottle ornamentations
October 19 – Upping Your Game – how to sew winter fabrics
October 20– Hoopla Sisters – guest speaker Amy from Amy from the new Ultimate Sewing Company in Grapevine/Halloween luncheon
October 27 – Designing Divas – drafting a flared skirt
For more information about any of these neighborhood groups, go to Calendar – Plano ASG
Have you voted for our guild officers for next year?
SUMMER HOMEGROWN WORKSHOP
Our workshops have been so much fun this summer. Cute quilts, cute bags. Now we are ready for cute umbrellas!
Saturday, September 26 – Umbrella Making Workshop – taught by Tammy Moberg and Roxanne Carder – $20 members/ $50 nonmembers, plus kit fee *** Registration is now open!!***… Read the rest
by Susan Clot de Broissia
When my daughter was nine years old, she announced she wanted to learn how to use a sewing machine to make clothes and accessories. We had been crafting together for several years, but I was unable to teach her, never having used a sewing machine before.… Read the rest
by Davie Marie Hurlbert
Plano ASG will be hosting our “Annual Meeting” on Saturday, October 12th at the Heard Craig House in McKinney. Since the fashion show was so popular 2 years ago, we thought it was time to do it again.
We’d love to see what you have been working on in the last year or two and give you an opportunity to inspire your fellow members. … Read the rest
Several ribbons were won by members of our chapter. Here are the pictures and stories they provided.
Creative Arts Department: Dolls
Category: Handcrafted Dolls
Class: Cloth
Ribbon: 1st Place
My doll is named Abby and she is showing her lamb at the state fair of Texas. She was inspired by a picture in the Livestock Exhibitors handbook from the fair. … Read the rest
Contributed by Davie-Marie Hurlbert
A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth—how we make it, use it, and what it means to us.
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest?
Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town?… Read the rest
by Jane Dempsey
by Jane Dempsey… Read the rest
The Last Runaway
by Tracy Chevalier
Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850–only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. … Read the rest
Welcome to the Clothes Making Mavens podcast. Helena and Lori are two women who love to talk sewing but have exhausted the good humor of their non-sewing friends and family, so they now talk to each other! From across the continent they Skype to discuss their obsession with garment sewing. They also interview other like-minded sewists and delight in the wonderful international sewing community.
This is the first of a series designed to help us know each other better and what better place to begin than our new president, Joanne.
Joanne was born in Queens, NY, and shortly after her family moved to the original Levittown on Long Island where she grew up. Joanne is the oldest of three daughters. … Read the rest
Markita loved to travel and to share her experiences. Even though she is no longer with us we wanted to share this last post that she wrote for us.
by Markita Hall-Gumble
My friend Kim – @quiltaholicsanonymous and I have been on a shoe adventure. Kim the amazing quilter didn’t stop with 2 pairs of SneakerKit shoes. … Read the rest
