Christmas in July Sew-In

Our next Christmas in July Sew-In will be held on Saturday, July 13 at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Fishkill.  Did you know that after July 13, there are only 164 days left until Christmas?  So come early, come late, stay as long as you want. Use the time to jump start your Christmas sewing!  Is July to early for you to start?  Come to work on your Unfinished Projects or start new ones.

No phone calls, no interruptions....but lots of fun to be had!  There will be giveaways, a raffle, and time spent with encouraging and supportive sewing friends.  Find the details below:

June Impressions

Usually the Sewphisticuts' June meeting is a pot-luck dinner and tour of someone's sewing room.   Pat M. graciously consented to be the hostess this year if it could be switched to July, so we had to act quickly to put together a program for tonight's meeting:  Maura and Peggy provided an overview of the show "Fashion, Impressionism and Modernity" that they had seen recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Using images from several websites (links are in a previous post), they took the group on a virtual visit to the Met and described their own "impressions" of the fashions and art they had seen.

On the business side of the meeting, there are lots of things coming up in the next few months.  There is a Sew-In planned for July 13th, a polymer clay workshop on July 27th, a beading workshop on August 17th, and a re-run of March's recycled jeans handbag workshop in September (date to be announced).   The quilt show at DCC will be held this October on Columbus Day weekend.  The annual meeting will be held on Nov. 3rd at Arbor Ridge in Fishkill again, at the same price as last year's event.  So watch this blog or your email for details on all this good stuff!

Next month will be our pot-luck dinner at Pat's house;  there is no meeting in August.  Ideas are needed for Make A Difference Day in October - who can we help and how, keeping in mind that we would like to keep it as local as possible.

Peggy's refurbished jeans - ribbon trim to replace the waistband.

There were quite a few show-and-tells.

Pat's bag made from a vintage tablecloth.

A shirt that matches the ribbon trim.

Peggy had spiffed up her jeans by replacing the waistband with some ribbon trim, and used the same trim on the pants hems to lengthen them as well.

Peggy's handbag with a touch of curtain fabric.  The lining was the same fabric as the outside pocket.

Rose Alice showed us a quilt she was working on, with 24 embroidered panels.  Made in two gorgeous shades of blue, they will become part of a Victorian-style quilt.

A detail of one of the panels

Some of the fabric from City Quilter

 She also had a stack of fabric to show off from City Quilter in NYC, a series they had made up in honor of Grand Central Terminal's recent 100th anniversary.  The fabrics can be ordered on-line from the store as well.

Judy modeled her cotton knit tee.

Sue's quilt panel

Sue's bathroom beautification project