April 2021: Maintaining your Machine, with Bernie Tobisch

Join us Tuesday, April 13 at 7 pm on Zoom as we welcome Bernie Tobisch. This author & frequent podcast guest has been repairing machines for over 30 years, and will be sharing troubleshooting & maintenance tips with us.

He recommends attending with your sewing machine handy so that you can follow along & ask any questions particular to your machine. Hope to see you all there.

(Ps - Don't forget your Vacation Ready project! 🙂🌴 )

If you are not a member and wish to join us for this meeting you can etransfer the $5 drop-in fee to membershipsgg@gmail.com & send another email with your name so we can send you the link 🙂

 

March Sewing Challenge for April Reveal!

 

Don't forget about our Monthly Challenge for April's meeting -- since we've now spent a year under Covid restrictions, and so have been unable to take our dream vacations, your assignment is to make something that you *would* have worn on vacation, had you taken one!

It doesn't matter what kind of vacation it might be, it's just YOUR dream that matters!

Be ready to explain where you would have gone and why

March 2020: Visible Mending with Arounna Khounnoraj

 

Join us on Zoom, Tuesday March 9, 2021 for a presentation by Arounna Khounnoraj, of the creative arts studio Bookhou in Toronto. She'll be sharing tips on visible mending and her latest book, also called Visible Mending!

Explore her website and social media to learn more, and get excited about hearing from her live on Zoom. 

February 2021: A Member's Muster!

Our February meeting is coming up quickly! Next Tues, Feb 9 at 7 pm, let's meet on Zoom to share our expertise. Come with a recommendation for your favourite source of fabric or notions right now, and your best suggestion for keeping your sew-jo active when we're all in this limited lockdown situation.

Have questions you want help with? Ask them in the comments or at the meeting. Have suggestions for others? Share those too!

 

January 2021! A New Year for the SGG

 

Delighted to announce our first speaker of 2021! The Stratford Garment Guild & the Ottawa Garment Guild are partnering up to host Marcy Harriell for a presentation on "Sewing With Joy!"

Fans of Marcy's blog Oonaballoona.com know that she's a high energy, colour & print loving sewist with great stories to share. As a professional actor & singer, she's also entertaining as heck! We hope you can join us for this January event to start the year off right.

Note the date change: this special event is not on our regular meeting date. It is on Thursday January 21, 2021 at 7 pm via Zoom.

December 2020: Our Holiday Social!

Our next meeting on Tuesday December 8, 7 pm via Zoom is a relaxed Holiday Social for SGG members -- plus anyone who just wants to check out the Guild and see what we're like! We'll be gathering to socialize and chat about our sewing...maybe even have a couple of party games...

Everyone is welcome: if you have a friend who'd like to visit us, all are welcome to attend. If you're not a paid up member yet, come to this meeting to see how we do things, and decide if $15 for 6 more meetings in the first half of 2021 is a good deal!

Don't forget to bring any Sew & Tell to share -- and relax with your fave beverage & snack while you're at it -- recipes welcome

To be sure to get the Zoom link when it's ready, join our Facebook page -- paid up members will also get an email with the link to remind them. 

Hope to see you all there! 

November Sewing Challenge for January Reveal

Photo by Laura Chouette on Unsplash

After our November meeting with Her Honour Elizabeth Dowdeswell we were all impressed with the quality of her fabric choices and complex pattern selection. 

 And so we set a challenge to SGG members to make something worthy of a Lieutenant Governor's wardrobe -- with a show & tell date of January to give us time to make something elaborate ;)

So if you have a jacket or a coat or a suit you'd like to try out, make it for our January meeting and be ready to show off your amazing work!

As always the parameters are fairly open -- make something that you feel represents the more formal style, or work wear, needed in a position like the Lieutenant Governor's, maybe inspired by her go-to of a neutral dress with an eye-catching structured jacket or drapier kimono-style topper. Make what you like and tell us why you chose it.