President`s Letter

Advancing sewing
as an art and life skill
May, June and July 2010
Vol. 23 Issue 2
President’s Letter
CAB Meeting
Information
Date: June 28, 2010 &
Mon July 26, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Location: Flap Jack, 6927
South Cedar, Lansing, See
website for map.|
All members are welcome
to join us and help guide the
guild.
Education and Special
Events Committee
Meeting Information
Date: Wed. May 19, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Location: Flap Jack, 6927
South Cedar, Lansing See
website for map.
All members are welcome
to join us and help plan and
lead events for our guild.
Apron from March 2010 mtg.
WOW, another well planned year’s on a roll and it’s been great to see how
much you are enjoying this year’s theme of Reuse, Repurpose, Remember!
February’s hands-on valentine sewing indeed had us reusing some of our
scraps and trims we save but also included some great machine embroidery ideas
for some special valentine gifts.
You all outdid yourselves in March, wearing an apron and oh my the stories
during the over-the-top Show & Tell! The round robin of seeing many apron
ideas was great, recycled & old classics, tea towel aprons and free pattern sites.
Yards of Fabrics provided a great display of aprons and oh so much more.
Great job everyone! April’s Community Service Sew-In boosted our collection of the drawstring bags to over 200! These will be sent to Operation Care
where they in turn are filling them for the military and sending phone cards and
much needed toiletries. November will be our final collection month. A special
thank you to Richard & John Gilbert for being the coordinators.
May’s newsletter is our official call for election, to be held at our guild
meeting on Monday, September 13, 2010. We will be voting for all elected
positions: President, 1st VP, 2nd VP, Secretary, and Treasurer. Ginger Petty,
Mary Harvey and I are on the nominating committee, seeking those interested in
running for an elected position, as we know President, 1st VP, and Treasurer will
be retiring from the board. Of the appointed positions, the following are retiring:
Membership Chair, Email Manager, and Newsletter Editor. Here’s a thought, if
you would like to see the Chapter Advisory Board in action, please join us for
our dinner meeting the 4th Monday in June at Flap Jack on S. Cedar St., just
south of I-96. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, so check us out, enjoy the camaraderie of it all to see if you may be interested in helping your chapter.
Mark your calendar for Saturday, May 8th from 9am to 2pm for our Sewing/Craft Garage Sale at the Holt United Methodist Church at the corner of Cedar and Aurelius! You won’t believe the deals that you will find. Thank you to
Mary Ann Davis for chairing this event!
It’s almost here, our sewing retreat at Farmstead Inn in Shipshewana, May
13-16! We are all looking forward to the sewing retreat and the great time we
have and oh the shopping & sewing! Thank you to Pam Iwanicki for chairing
this event for us!
I’ve signed up for the ASG National Conference in Atlanta in August. Be
sure to check out the ASG website if you are interested! This will be my last one
as president and I’ve so enjoyed them: Sacramento, Chicago, Albuquerque, and
Atlanta. Thank you all for the opportunity!
Joyce Savage
Visit us at www.lansingclippers.com
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BOARD MEMBERS
May, June and July 2010 Vol. 23 Issue 2
LIBRARIAN
Jean Gilbert
rgilbert [email protected]
PRESIDENT
Joyce Savage
517-641-6876
[email protected]
517-575-9140
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
Ginger Petty
517-339-8812
[email protected]
RETAIL LIAISON
Ginny Surette
989-224-2528
[email protected]
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
MEMBER-AT-LARGE Sharing Chairs
Colleen Bofysil
517-337-1167
[email protected]
Mary Harvey
517-669-7003
[email protected]
Donna Craft
517-589-5204
[email protected]
SECRETARY
Becky Gilbert
517-887-6168
[email protected]
HISTORIAN
Joan Harris
[email protected]
TREASURER
Mary Ann Davis
517-676-4509
[email protected]
MEMBERSHIP & EMAIL MANAGER
Stoney Bretz
517-646-8684
[email protected]
NEWSLETTER EDITOR and
WEBMASTER
Sheron Snyder
517-676-2064
[email protected]
PUBLICITY
Jane Schoneman
[email protected]
517-694-2717
ASG REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Carol Asman
734-464-0426
517-699-8062
Moving?
Please notify the
national office.
ADVERTISING RATES
One Time One Year
Insert (8½ x 11 sheets, Preprinted):
$30
$102
Full-page ad (7½ x 9):
$60
$204
Half-page ad (3¾ x 9 or 4 ½x 7½):
$45
$153
Quarter-page ad (3¾ x 4½):
$35
$119
Business card size ad (2 x 3½):
$15
$ 51
Classified ad (35 words):
$5
$ 17
The mailing list we
use is created by National. They must be told
in order for us to
receive the correct list.
Phone: 713 729 3000
Email: [email protected] or
Mail to:
American Sewing Guild
9660 Hillcroft, Suite 510
Houston, TX 77096
You receive a 15% discount on four consecutive prepaid ads
(one year). Ads may be camera-ready or JPG, BMP, or PDF
electronic formats. Inserts must be preprinted (may be printed on
both sides). Provide 200 copies and ship to Sheron Snyder (address
below).
Make checks for all advertising payable to American Sewing
Guild. Send payments and camera-ready advertising to:
Sheron Snyder, Editor
700 Hawley Road
Mason, MI 48854
517-676-2064
An Apron to be Biased about.
Sandy Theisen
Due Dates in Column to
the RIGHT.
Deadlines for
Coming Issues:
Aug, Sep, Oct 2010: -Jul 8, 2010
Nov, Dec, Jan 2010-11: -Oct 8, 2010
Feb, Mar, Apr 2011: -Jan 8, 2011
May, Jun, Jul 2011: -Apr 8, 2011
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Off The Shelf
No Library in May due to Retailer Appreciation Night.
Thanks for the compliments on the reorganization, so many more items being
shared. That’s Great!
Remember no cost to member, IF returned the next month.
Fund Raiser Parade of Homes ‘10
Sue Warner
Well, ladies, it’s time for the Parade of Homes
again. The parade has been smaller the last couple
of years because of the poor housing market, and
we’ve been very fortunate to be assigned a home to
host.
Last year we earned about $300 for our treasury through this project. The dates for the parade
this year are Thursday, 6/3 through Sunday, 6/6,
and Thursday, 6/10 through Sunday, 6/13. This
is one weekend less than last year, and I think the
Home Builders Association made a good decision
in this regard.
The home we have this year is in the Grand
Ledge area. Please help us with this fund raiser by
signing up for a time to sit at the house. Assignments will run from 1:00 to 3:30 or 3:30 to 6:00 on
weekends and 6:00 to 9:00 on weekdays. I will be
present at each session, so you’ll have someone
familiar with the ticket sales and so on.
We’ll have a sign-up sheet at guild meetings,
and you can also sign up by calling me at 646-7297
or emailing at [email protected]. Your
treasury and I thank you for your help!
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PAY FOR YOUR ASG MEMBERSHIP WITH
ASG SPECIAL OFFERS!!!
Your ASG membership more than pays for itself,
when you take advantage of the many generous discounts and other offers from our industry supporters.
When you visit our Local Newsletter Advertisers,
show your ASG Membership Card and tell them thank
you for supporting our chapter. Be sure to check their
ads in our chapter newsletter, as they frequently have
coupons, specials & opportunities they want you to
know about.
• Country Stitches: newsletter & email specials
• Everlasting Stitches: 10% & 1st Saturday specials
• Fabrications: 10%
• Fields Fabrics: 10% & newsletter specials
• Gall Sewing: 15% & newsletter specials
• Haberman Fabrics: 10%
• Keans: 15%
• Yards of Fabric: 10%
• Retailer Showcases offer discounts & specials for
the event
• May Retailer Night discounts & prizes
• JoAnn Fabrics provides their 10% card in the Summer Notions.
Check out the offers from ASG sponsors and advertisers posted on the ASG website www.asg.org.
The "Notions" quarterly publications offer members
even more discounts from advertisers.
FOR SALE
Easy Quilter II – turns your home sewing machine
into a long arm quilting machine!
See it at www.easyquilter.com. Gently used. Paid
$249.95 new. Selling for $125 or best offer.
Sally Boron – 517-669-9468 or [email protected]
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May, June and July 2010 Vol. 23 Issue 2
CHAPTER ADVISORY BOARD (CAB) POSITIONS
Our guild has become quite the girl friend group and it only happens when people get involved and take the
opportunity to get to know members. Consider inquiring about the open board positions, both elected and appointed. Having a computer and email or access to a computer to receive email, is required. The year is from
January thru December.
Elected positions voted on in September:
President: serves as the chapter’s official representative and presiding officer; has the responsibility to keep the
chapter running smoothly for the good of all the chapter members and ASG. .
1st VP: may be asked to help on any matter that may need some special assistance, serves as President if need
arises, and presently works closely with the president on all chapter matters and reviews the treasurer report
and checkbook.
2nd VP: may be asked to help where positions require assistance and presently serves on the Education &
Events Committee.
Secretary: keeps the record of the CAB meeting minutes, guild meeting, and the chapter annual meeting.
Treasurer: serves as the financial officer of the chapter, keeping the financial records as policies require, providing monthly reports to the CAB and files quarterly financial reports with ASG.
We need a photographer, Newsletter Editor, Education & Events Chair, so please consider helping for the good
of your guild and see Ginger Petty, Mary Harvey or Joyce Savage, your nominating committee, or any CAB
member.
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Spot Light on 5th ANNUAL RETAILER
APPRECIATION NIGHT
Sew are you ready? May 10th is Retailer Night, one event none of us wants to miss! It’s our way
of recognizing and showing our appreciation of our current annual newsletter advertisers. It is a tremendous opportunity to meet the retailers one on one and to learn about their business, the services
they provide, and oh the marvelous products they bring to sell. There are prizes some advertisers offer all night long and the shopping specials are wonderful! What a marvelous opportunity you have
to get to see some of the very latest of their Spring/Summer line of products, upcoming events and
classes!
We realized when national posed the question to the chapters, “are you showing your appreciation
to your newsletter advertisers”, that we needed a way to get everyone in one place and it has been one
of the best attended events. May 10th will be attended not just by members, but by the community as
well. We are educating not only our members about these wonderful advertisers’ businesses, but we
are educating the community about them and about ASG. We were featured in Notions’ Chapter
News in the summer 2007 issue, at the suggestion of Mesee Wilson, of Fabric Gallery, to make other
chapters aware of the importance of this type of event.
Sew come and enjoy the opportunities and the excitement of the evening and realize the importance
of partnering our efforts to advance sewing as an art and life skill right here in our own community!
(SPOTLIGHT ON MEMBER by Sue Warner returns in August.)
Membership Stoney Bretz
Please welcome the following new members:
Ann Baker
Sharon Howell
Patricia Flanagan
Gloria Mason
De Chamberlain
Irene Armock
Marsha Rosenberger
Elaine Bluck
Leedona Miller
Faith Barton
Jennifer Beggs
Beverly Walker
Estina Banks
Judith Martinson
Pay your dues timely! If you are late, National requires that you pay $50 instead of $45. To get a
chance of having a year’s dues paid, invite a friend/acquaintance to join the guild. If they do join,
your name will go into a drawing at the December potluck. The catch is that Stoney Bretz
([email protected]) has to know how the person found out about us. So have the person put
the information on the Visitor’s sign-in sheet, your name on the form that is sent to National or email
me or give me a note at a meeting. Do not just tell me, I will never remember.
The following members have their name in the jar for the December membership drawing:
Jane Schoneman for Faith Barton
Char Thelen for Judith Martinson
Helen Novak for De Chamberlain
Donna Craft for Estina Banks
Linda Pothoff for Patricia Flanagan
Nancy Jenkins for Leedona Miller
Joyce Savage for Irene Armock
De Chamberlain for Marsha Rosenberger
If there are additions/corrections notify me or your name will not go into the drawing.
Contact me, Stoney Bretz([email protected]), if any of your information needs to be updated such as: Name change
Address
Phone #
Email address
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Out and About Susan Oleksinski
Kean’s in Mason is our newest retailer.
They are located in downtown Mason. It is sort
of a variety store. The selection of fabrics is
very nice.
The store is giving us a 15% discount when
we show our ASG card. What a great opportunity!
When you have exhausted yourself shopping
for fabric, stop at the candy counter for a quick
pick-me-up or the toy area for that special child.
Don’t forget to get the hubby a card or some
candy to have while you admire your newest
purchases.
Start now to plan you trip to Kean’s in Mason.
News from Education and Events
Donna Craft
Hope everyone has enjoyed this wonderful weather and still found time to sew. Maybe a road trip is instore to one of our retailers with this beautiful weather. Hopefully everyone can come out to our May meeting
and meet all our wonderful retailers.
Our retailers will be showcasing all their new spring fabrics and there will be many give-away prizes. Come
out and see all the new and exciting items and support the retailers who support us all year.
In June we will have an exciting program with Celeste Huhn. She will be showing us all the exciting, unusual, and one-of-a-kind garments and items she makes from recycled items. You will remember Celeste
from our March meeting who brought in all her aprons and did a wonderful display for us.
Also remember we are going to have a challenge where you buy something from a thrift store and bring it
to the meeting and get suggestions on how to repurpose it and then bring it to the September meeting to show.
If that is not your cup of tea , we are also having a fabric swap of 1 yard of nice fabric and then you make
something out of it and bring it in September. So lets have a lot of participation and have "sew" much fun doing it.
July we are having “Christmas in July”, so start thinking about items we can use to recycle and repurpose
for Christmas presents. If anyone has any good ideas please let me know.
Everyone had a great time doing the T-Shirt class and I'm hoping everyone will bring their quilt to the June
meeting.
‘Till next time, Happy Sewing! As always I welcome suggestions and you are welcome to come to the Ed.
& Events meeting.
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Sew What Club News Cathy Sterns
5th Annual Bus Trip
In December, we made holiday table runners using the "sew easy" pattern from Country Stitches. In January we used donated patriotic fabric found on Freecycle (A website
for folks to recycle items at no cost. Many
cities are listed.) to make bags for the military. We are very grateful for the fabric as we
ended up with 62 bags ready to deliver to the
Lansing Chapter next time I come down.
In February, we used old blue jeans along
with sheets, nightgowns, or other flannel to
make tote bags. Friends are begging these
bags from the ladies faster than they can
make them. In March, we used the clothesline wrapping technique to make some small
baskets for Easter goodies. Our April meeting introduced faux chenille techniques to
make the fuzzy fabric or just small strips. We
made a potholder and embellished denim
squares for more tote bags.
The 17th annual Sewing Expo in Novi is scheduled for
Friday, September 24th. We will leave Frandor at
7:00am and Novi at 5:30pm. The price is still $35.00.
A real bargain!
Forms will be available at the June meeting and in the
August Newsletter.
One of the area churches has invited us to
make banners for their large multi-purpose
room. Once they have the designs finalized,
the ladies agreed to do the sewing.
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Next Retailer Showcase
Ginger Petty
Friday, June 11th. We will go to Haberman Fabrics
in Royal Oak. For those that wish to carpool and/or
caravan over, we will meet in the commuter lot off
Okemos Road at the intersection of I-96 at 8:45AM and
leave promptly at 9:00AM. We will be given a tour of
the store. They off ASG members a 10% discount.
They seem to specialize in making jackets from Home
Dec. fabrics and have examples in the store. The examples are always beautifully made.
There are many restaurants on Main Street in Royal
Oak from fast food to fancy.
Now, if, after Haberman’s and lunch, you still have
any energy and money left, there are several interesting
stores on a one mile stretch of 12 mile in Berkley (10
minutes from Haberman’s). First is Guildcrafter’s Quilt
Shop, 2600 West 12 Mile, Berkley. It is a small shop
but has lots of really great children’s quilt fabrics all
grouped together. Then just down the road on the left is
a great gift shop, Catching Fireflies. It has very unique
gifts in all price ranges. Then about one-half mile further east is Munro’s. This is a shop that was started by a
mom and her daughters back when macramé was ‘in.’
They just kept expanding as each new craft became
popular and now it is pretty huge. They have great
beads and crystals for jewelry making and the last time I
looked they even had some old macramé cording! And
for those with grandchildren, the Toy Soldier Shop is
across the street from Munro’s.
Well, all this shopping has made me hungry again
and, luckily, one of my favorite restaurants is just around
the corner on Greenfield, Sweet Lorraine’s. They have
great desserts – just perfect for the pick me up that we
will need to trudge back to Lansing!
Each car can decide their own itinerary -- I just want to
be in the one that ends up at Sweet Lorraine’s!
Hope to see you there! We will have a sign-in sheet
at the May Retailer’s Evening.
Sheron and Marilyn working on Solider Bags.
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First Retailer Showcase 2010 Ginger Petty
Was held at Country Stitches in East Lansing. Anita Covert gave a presentation that touched on this year’s theme, “Reuse, Repurpose, Remember.” She showed us examples of projects that could be done with fabric from our stashes – a neat tote bag, for example and, of course, she had patterns for all types of clothes for children and craft items, too. She also showed us some new notions.
The ironing spray with different scents may not make life easier, but at least it would smell better!
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Ginny Surette & Ingeborg Salazar
A Stellar Quilt in
spectacular colors.
Specially designed for a
special little lady. By Sue
Fiero.
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Pam Iwanicki’s Apron.
John & Richard Gilbert collecting drawstring bags
for the military at the April Sew-In.
Mary Harvey’s
Apron.
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American Sewing Guild
Lansing Chapter
13200 S Upton Rd
Bath, Mi 48808
Coming Events
GUILD MEETINGS
May 10
Retailer Evening
June 14
Repurposing , Challenge
and Fabric Swap
July 12
Christmas in July
August 9
Linda MacPhee Trunk show
with Judi Haas & Joanie Harris
EVENTS
May 8
Garage Sale
May 13-16
Shipshewana Sewing Retreat
May 19
Ed & Events Cmte Meeting
June 3-13
Fund Raiser Parade of Homes
June 11
Haberman Retailer Showcase
June 28
CAB Meeting
July 26
CAB Meeting
Week of August 9 Linda MacPhee classes with Judi
Haas & Joanie Harris
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President’s Letter
Off the Shelf
Fund Raiser Parade of Homes
ASG Benefits
CAB Positions
Spotlight
Membership
Out and About
Education and Events
Sew What Club
5th Annual Bus Trip
Next Retailer Showcase
First Retailer Showcase