We are excited to give you a little preview of the guest speaker’s topic for tomorrow’s ASG meeting.

Brenda Boudreau will do a presentation of her husband Bob’s quilted wall-hangings. She will show how he constructed them, supplies he used and the inspiration behind the nature and people-themed works. 

A few examples of Bob’s beautiful work.

Bob is unable to be present at the meeting himself….he will be out shopping for supplies to make his next wall-hanging!

See you tomorrow!

September 12 saw the first 2017-18 meeting of
Atlantic Sewing Guild

Our Autumn Meet-up did not fail to fulfill expectations.  Many old & new friends excitedly buzzed the registration tables – after all, we’d been waiting to get back at it since June!  Our new members are already contributing to the great ASG energy.  Many people contributed during the run of this grand evening, which bodes well for this upcoming year.

A Warm Welcome from President Lorna with approval from VP Suzanne

Lorna

Suzanne

Lorna inspires us with her outfit in which she created fabric for the top with bits from other projects.  Suzanne wears an ASG favourite sew, her Farrow dress.

Presentation and Discussion of many Independent Pattern companies

Leanne, Cindy and Kathleen each spoke for a few minutes about their experiences with ordering, downloading and creating from the Indies.  It was interesting to hear the different perspectives.  Our members have such varied interests and skills that the ensuing discussion and questions were lively and informative.  No doubt there will be more Indie garments shared with the guild in coming months.
As promised, here is the link Cindy mentioned, for a blog called Diary of a Chain Stitcher.  For the adventurous among us, it is a list of independent pattern designers (oh my! – don’t get so lost that you miss our next meeting-)

Cavalcade of Creations

Oh Canada Edgar’s version

The Agate Energy shirt

EDGAR’S McCall’s 6044 – the Oh Canada & Agate Energy versions

Norma’s Canada 150 quilt

Brenda’s new friend

NORMA’S CANADA 150 quilt (that’s our home on top centre!)
BRENDA with new friend from old pattern

Angela aft

Angela fore

We’re happy that new member ANGELA showed the top  she refashioned from a Mexican dress

We’re also pleased to welcome newbie KATHY, who sewed her lucky granddaughter a Vogue 9043 coat

Marilyn summer warm

Marilyn summer cool

Who can keep up with our MARILYN?  This time it’s variations on Butterick 6247.

Barb surprised by all her makes

Anita speaks from her heart

BARB”S world of Emmaline & Peek-A-Boo bags.
ANITA shows us a Clone she created from one of her favourite dresses.

Dress of MANY colours aft

Many colours fore

We’ll miss MINH at next meeting, so he showed his own design for the Summer Challenge – he used 8 Fabrics.  Such an over-achiever is our Minh!

REMINDERS

• Please bring your Summer Challenge projects to share at the Oct. 10 meeting: a garment made with a minimum of 3 visible fabrics – can’t wait to see them!
• Bits & bobs – haberdashery & scraps & interesting smalls wanted for next meeting, which we’ll use in the November Great Halifax Sewing Bee
• Your Devoted Executive has surprises to share
• Slow Fashion October 
• Visit the Atlantic Sewing Guild on Book of the Face Atlantic Sewing Guild
• We’ve been eagerly looking forward to the showing by Brenda of her husband Bob’s landscape quilts Bob’s quilts, which had been postponed due to nasty weather last winter.   We’re finally going to able to have her presentation, which is rumoured to be very very interesting (as are all the wonderful things Brenda shares with us!)
  

  NEXT MEETING OF THE ATLANTIC SEWING GUILD IS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 7PM AT THE CAMPBELL CENTRE (BEHIND ST. AGNES CHURCH), CORNER OF MUMFORD & CHEBUCTO
  

   

As we approach our first meeting after the summer hiatus, your Atlantic Sewing Guild Executive is getting very excited about new plans for the new season.  We’ve all missed your sewing camaraderie and look forward to getting together on September 12.  Look for an email from us shortly.

To tide you through these next few difficult anticipatory days, we thought you might like to visit some of the blogs we’ve been reading to keep us company as well as inspired:

From Karen LaDelpha, our Membership Coordinator:

Goodbye Valentino
Emily Hallman
Colette
Margot Berman (local Halifax creator!)

From Anita, our past Treasurer:

“fabric dictionary”
Curvy Sewing
Do it Better

From Bev D’Entremont, one of our two Librarians:

Lazy Girl
Sew Mama Sew (previously a blog & currently a facebook page)
Sewing Directory
Make It & Love It

From Marcia Swanston, one of our two Webmistresses:

Gayle Ortiz
Shams’ blog
Fool4Fabric
Marcy Tilton for Everyday Creatives

From Kathleen Soares, the other Webmistress:

Our very own Barb Emodi (of course)
Rhonda never fails to inspire
Katie makes dresses
4 Ladies who blog together

NEXT MEETING OF ATLANTIC SEWING GUILD
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 7:00 PM.
The Monsignor John Campbell Centre, behind St. Agnes Church
corner of Mumford & Chebucto: 6903 MUMFORD RD., HALIFAX
enter Mumford Rd. driveway only

On May 9 AMY NEGUS, owner and designer of All My Fashions, presented a very interesting talk and trunk show.  Amy is a local custom designer who specializes in up-cycling, with a focus on feminine design.  She is a graduate of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She showed us a number of her designs.  Our members found Amy’s presentation & process very interesting.

Show and Tell was, as usual, full of a variety of creations ranging from men’s, ladies’ & grandchildren’s wear to an inventive sewing room tool as well as wall hangings & floor mats.

Cindy

Edgar

Leanne

Sheila also showed us an example of the 44 very useful fiddle muffs that our lovely Community Charity Sewing contingent made up for several local homes to provide to their people with dementia.

Upcoming: a very special farewell celebration to honour Julie Culshaw who is an original Founding Member of the Atlantic Sewing Guild.

Our next meeting will also have the election for vacant positions on next year’s Executive.  Please seriously consider offering your rich energy to complement our Atlantic Sewing Guild.

See you all for our final gathering of the year:  Tuesday, June 13 at 7:00 at the Msgr. John Campbell Center at St. Agnes’ Church, 6903 Mumford Rd., Halifax.

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. 

…Or so we are told by TORY LEBLANC…

…This is the theme of Tory’s collection of Zero Waste garments for our Atlantic Sewing Guild’s April 11th meeting (which is 9 days from the posting date of this message).
Come join us to find out why Zero Waste garments are a growing fashion trend and how you can make you own!

Tory is going to enable us to have participation fun and asks that we bring our own paper scissors & scotch tape.

APRIL 11, 2017 7:00 PM.Meeting at our new venue: The Monsignor John Campbell Centre, behind St. Agnes Church at the corner of Mumford & Chebucto: 6903 MUMFORD RD., HALIFAX – enter Mumford Rd. driveway only.

I GOT NAWTHIN’!

Zero Waste clothing…

What is it?

Why are Zero Waste garments one of the latest “it” trend trends in fashion?

How do you make Zero Waste garments of your own?

Join us for the April ASG meeting when Tory LeBlanc will share her experiments with Zero Waste clothing.

APRIL 11, 2017 7:00 PM.Meeting at our new venue: The Monsignor John Campbell Centre, behind St. Agnes Church at the corner of Mumford & Chebucto: 6903 MUMFORD RD., HALIFAX – enter Mumford Rd. driveway only.

Mother Nature has not quite finished with us yet for this winter.

Sadly, we have decided to cancel our meeting this evening, March 14 due to the weather forecast statements/warnings for snow, wind and rain.  We want you all to be home safe, dry and warm.

Our first meeting at the Campbell Wing of St. Agnes’ Church will be in April 11th.  We will try to reschedule Amy Negus and her trunk show for later in the spring.

See you all in April!

AS OF OUR NEXT DATE, MARCH 14, WE WILL BE MEETING AT A NEW VENUE: THE MONSIGNOR JOHN CAMPBELL CENTRE, BEHIND ST. AGNES CHURCH AT THE CORNER OF MUMFORD & CHEBUCTO ROADS, 6903 MUMFORD RD., HALIFAX – enter Mumford Rd. driveway only.