Author: Ellen Daly

Topic: Sassy Quilters ASG June MeetingTime: Jun 10, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/73104515734?pwd=M1BXdVNJNlpwbm8wL0VWOVhFMTJTQT09Meeting ID: 731 0451 5734Password: 9W1qcQ Megan Garvey is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Sew&SewsTime: Jun 3, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/79271194134?pwd=NmNwVGhXdUJLaHNuQnlpNk9aM3R1dz09 Meeting ID: 792 7119 4134Password: 5J3Txe

We're adding the submissions as we receive them - don't forget, you earn SPSASG Chapter dollars for participating! Sue McLauglin - Barbados Bag and Striped Shirt I attend Fashionistas on the 2nd Tuesday. Turquoise Bag Bag Pattern Nylon Bag My first is a new bag for walking.  It is lightweight and smallish but big enough … Continue reading Virtual Sew and Tell!

I recently spent the most creatively invigorating evening at a trunk show featuring Krista Moser of the Quilted Life, a modern quilter from Marysville, who spoke at the Washington Stars Quilt Guild November 19. Krista shared her beginnings and back story, and how she translates the quilt visions in her head to fabric, and how … Continue reading Krista Moser…wait til you see her designs!

MIchelle is a member of the Sew & Sews in Lacey, and moved to this area a couple of years ago from Amarillo, TX. At one of our recent Neighborhood Group meetings, Michelle did a fabulous trunk show of some of her leather bags - and does she do beautiful work! These bags, with clever … Continue reading Meet Michelle Haley!

Today I'm reintroducing Lee Kappleman of the Olympia Sew & Sews. Lee and her husband Donald moved permanently to Olympia from near Sisters, OR a couple years ago. Although I am only able to show a small fraction of the many things Lee has created, every time I visit her she has completed more things … Continue reading Meet another SPSASG Member!

Silverdale ASG Chapter’s Fall Fashion Fling with Robyn Spady (by Sew & Sews member Vicki Steigner, photos by Sew & Sews member Cathy Berg) Thanks to the Silverdale Chapter of ASG for hosting an excellent presentation and hands-on workshop on couture passementerie (paz-man-tre) on October 12.  Passementerie is a French term describing a multitude of embellishment techniques for garments and interiors.  Think braid, tassels, cording, embroidery, … Continue reading Passementerie…

at the talent our SPSASG members have. At the Oct. 2 Sew & Sews NG meeting, we had 2 of our members present a trunk show of their creative passion. Today I'm writing about Judy Lucas (and I'll write about Michelle Haley in another blog). I visited Judy and her husband Tom in their beautiful … Continue reading I’m always amazed…

What an invigorating Annual Meeting we had Saturday September 28, 2019 at the Emerald Queen conference center! There were 81 people in attendance and we were kept busy from the moment the meeting started, bidding on baskets with our ASG money, buying tickets for great prizes and visiting with friends. The table favors of machine … Continue reading SPSASG Annual Meeting

Saturday September 7 was the last SPSASG 5th Saturday event for this year. Dana Bontrager of https://danamarie.com spent the day wowing us with beautiful garments from her pattern line and showing us how to do fun techniques to make garments uniquely ours. Dana also has the Saf-T-Pockets line which has wonderful patterns for travel clothes. … Continue reading Dana Bontrager trunk show and techniques smorgasbord

Wednesday, September 18 was an evening there were no parking spaces left in downtown Chehalis! Sisters Quilt Shop brought in Kaffe for 3 days - a lecture filled with amazing pictures and interesting facts of his life in the art world. His knitting, weaving, sewing, painting and travel experiences left us wishing he would talk … Continue reading Kaffe Fassett visits Chehalis!