April Meeting: Claire Upcycled & Annual Swap!

 

Join us next week, Tuesday April 8 at 7 pm for our Earth Month Celebration meeting! (River Gardens Celebration Room, 10 Romeo St N.) Visitors welcome, $5 at the door, as always!

We will hear from Claire Upcycled, a Stratford based company with international reach. Claire will share some info about her process and her eco fashion, gender-neutral, streetwear upcycles. She will also share a bit about running her business.

After Claire's presentation, we will be holding our annual Fabric and Pattern swap. Same rules as always: bring things in good condition, label the type of fabric and amount when possible, take home anything you brought that isn't claimed by end of night. We will be swapping following our talk, no grazing beforehand please, to keep it fair for everyone.

See you all there!

March Meeting CANCELLED

 

We are sorry to announce that our March meeting has been cancelled due to illness.

 We will move our swap to the second half of our April meeting, following our guest speaker. We are sorry for the inconvenience but want all our members staying healthy! 

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February 2025: Deb Cooke: Sewing for Fashion Dolls

 

Barbies and Beyond! Are you ready for some tiny delights at our February meeting? 

SGG member Deborah Cooke will be regaling us with her expertise on sewing for Fashion Dolls of all kinds. Did you know that there are many varieties of fashion dolls all with their own quirks? Deb will be taking us through the variations and all the gorgeous miniature couture she's made for her dolls over the years.

Tuesday Feb. 11, 2025, at 7 pm

River Gardens Retirement Residence, Celebration Room

10 Romeo St N., Stratford ON

ALL WELCOME! Non-members $5 at the door.

January 2025: Anne Whalley, the Pattern Whisperer

We are thrilled to welcome Anne Whalley to the Guild in January for a talk on Personal Style, Pattern Choices, and Sewing Plans. This will be a hybrid meeting, with Anne zooming in to us from Australia -- but we will meet in person and have our regular meeting and Sew & Tell afterward. 

Anne is an expert on personal style and wardrobe planning, especially from the perspective of the home sewist. She will provide guidance on ways to identify our own style, and how to match this up with sewing patterns and fabric to maximize our efforts in the sewing room. Don't waste time and effort -- learn what will suit you before you sew! 

Tuesday January 14, 2025, 7 pm

River Gardens Retirement Residence, Celebration Room

10 Romeo St N., Stratford ON

ALL WELCOME! Non-members $5 at the door

 

December Meeting: Holiday Social!

Our December meeting is coming quickly! On Tuesday Dec. 10, 7 pm, we have our holiday get together, with Potluck and Penny Auction 🙂 

This means, please bring some finger food with you (we do not have places to heat things up so make it buffet style).

Bring along a small gift (unwrapped) of something nice that you might like to receive (not expensive). It doesn't have to be sewing related - wine is always a hit 😉 We will be putting all the gifts out on a table and you can buy 10 tickets for $5 and put a ticket in each bag for the gift you would like to win. You can buy as many tickets as you like!

We will have a short business meeting, our regular Sew & Tell, and our 50-50, and then enjoy some socializing, snacking, and auctioning. Everyone welcome, guests too, $5 at the door.

November Meeting: Sewing With Boning

 

We are excited to welcome local sewing star Linda Sparks of Farthingales Corset Making Supplies to our November meeting! Linda is an expert in the area of historical and corset sewing, with a business that has been supplying sewists since 1998.

What Linda doesn't know about boning isn't worth knowing! She'll be sharing lots of information with us on all aspects of boning - from which type is the best for your project, how to use various types, tools and techniques you might need and more - and this is not just about corsets. Boning can be helpful in many sewing situations, and Linda will share how boning can be incorporated in your contemporary sewing projects to make them the best they can be. 

Join us on Tuesday Nov. 12, 2024 at 7 pm for her presentation and our regular Sew & Tell time. We meet at the River Gardens Retirement Residence, Celebration Room at 10 Romeo St. N. (please remember to sign in and out at the entrance). 

Everyone is welcome - if you aren't yet a member, drop-ins are $5 at the door. 

October Meeting!

Our next meeting is next week!! Join us for an introduction to Projector Sewing, by our very own Laura Van Niejenhuis Have you ever been curious about how in the world projector sewing works? Come on out and find out more!

Topics covered will include:

Selecting a projector for your space, high ceiling not required!
Basic setup
Calibration - 2 methods with patternprojector.com or pdf viewer of your choice
Quick demo of pattern editing, making alterations and digitizing patterns

Don't forget your toonie for the 50-50 and your Sew & Tell items!

Tuesday, Oct 8, 7 pm

River Garden Retirement Residence, Celebration Room

10 Romeo St N.

ALL WELCOME, VISITORS $5 AT THE DOOR.