Hill Country Smocking Guild
Meeting Minutes/Notes
April 16, 2018
In attendance:
Kim
D.
Helen
Melissa A
Sabitha
Lise
Mary
Roberta
Guest – Jacque
Old Business –
Helen wants to set up a Facebook page for the chapter
New Business –
- Helen wants to apply for a grant to help bring in an instructor
- Dates for summer meetings were set. Both will be at Helen’s house in south Austin.
- June 15-16, a capri set from Sew Beautiful magazine
- August 10-11, heirloom items sewn on a serger
Door Prize –
set of projects bags won by Jacque
Show and Share
Items –
Mary – two Wee
Care sets in pink
Roberta – dolls dressed by her grandmother, one about 2 inches long and the other about 16 inches long also a doll dress pattern from the early 1900s
Melissa –
finished all the choir costumes
Helen – a small
machine embroidered Wee Care gown, knit outfit for 5 inch doll
The program was
a smocked dress and pants set for 5’’ inch doll. Helen offered these
additional program notes:
1) The dress is a bishop with the sleeve built into the pattern piece.
2) The front is slightly shorter than the back due to the neck curve
3) The neck of the dress is bias bound. Use a bias strip about ¾ inch
by 6-7 inches long
4) Pleat four (4) ½ rows
5) Deal with folding and ironing the sleeves before drawing up the smocking threads
6) The panties have elastic on the back only – Helen recommends 1.5 mm
beading elastic.
Respectfully
submitted,
Lise Waring
Secretary
Hill County
Smocking Guild
