Our Atlantic Sewing Guild met in a new space at the Msgr. John Campbell Centre at St. Agnes’ Church on April 11.  Attendance was at an all-time high with some guests and members who have been unable to come for a while.

Tory LeBlanc gave a talk and trunk show about Zero Waste.  She modeled her beautiful blush silk Asian-influenced jacket, navy jacket and pants and a wrap-around dress all created with no wasted fabric at all!  Pretty impressive and stylish.

After Tory’s trunk show, the guild members were invited to try to figure out the construction process using paper and tape.   The results were amusing 🙂

We had our monthly show and tell including a variety of garments.  A challenge from a snowed out meeting earlier this year was to sew something “red/read”.   A couple of the “red” items created were the newly released Jalie cardigan pattern, Helène, (with it’s much touted ‘clever’ pocket construction and sewn up by several members) and a beautiful trench coat from a OOP Vogue 2915 from the 1970’s.

Other creations included a moto jacket, t-shirts and two iterations of the recently released Farrow dress from Grainline Patterns;  a top and a dress.

Anita MacDonald reported on the charity sewing day on April 22nd:

“The community sewing day was a great success. 9 volunteers made 42 fidget muffs for Northwood and St. Vincent’s Nursing Homes!  Thanks to all who helped and all who donated items for us to use!”

A reminder that elections for vacant positions on the Executive Committee are in June.  Are you interested in being our treasurer, librarian, membership co-ordinator or president?  Here we all are (Marcia Swanston taking the picture) enjoying a glass of wine at the Agricola Brasserie.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 9 and Amy Negus will give a talk and trunk show about her clothing line.