August 2015 Meeting

Hill Country Smocking Guild

August 17, 2015

Meeting Minutes

 

Feather Stitch

Present:

Kim                 Lise                 Melissa B.

Deanna            Mary                Monica

Toni                 Dot                  Melissa A.

Patty               Kit

Guests: Charlotte, a friend of Monica's

Visitor: Deana T.

The minutes from the May meeting and the financial report were accepted as presented.

Old Business - The Nominating Committee report was postponed until the September meeting.

New Business - Mary showed a model of the project for the October and November meeting project and handed out a supply list for the project.  The project is an ornament that fits pleated fabric on a Styrofoam ball, and then completes the decorative smocking and embellishments.

The door prize of making button jewelry was won

by Melissa A.

Show and Share:

Kit missed the May meeting because she was in Turkey, but she brought an assortment of ceramic thimbles and let everyone pick one.

Charlotte showed us the Christening dress and hat she had made.

Patty shared pictures of the completed first communion dress she had been working on earlier in the spring.

Lise described attending the first annual Sassy Southern Sewing event in San Marcos.  She brought the works in progress from her three classes - a broderie anglais piece taught by Susan O'Connor of Inspirations magazine,

and peg pocket dress and an heirloom dress with pleated front insets, both taught by Trisha Smith Owen of Children's Corner.

Melissa A brought one Wee Care bonnet she had completed, and announced that Stitch Lab is now carrying Imperial batiste.

Mary announced that she had gotten all the light fixtures in her house down and scrubbed them.

Deana showed the needlepoint piece she was working on.

Deanna brought the quilt that her brother had bought the kit for and that she and her brother made together for his grandson.  She also brought a romper made out of the Jeffery pattern with a base fabric with tools on it,

and a smocked insert with tools; and in honor of back to school season, a plaid dress with a smocked insert that said "a b c  1 2 3"

Melissa A brought a book on button jewelry and a lipstick needle holder she had found.

The program was a notebook project reviewing variations on feather stitching.

Respectfully submitted,

Lise W.

Secretary

Hill Country Smocking Guild