The Ozark Foothills SAGA meets on Thursday at the Springdale Country Club.  The following dates are for the upcoming meetings:

Thursday, June 15

Thursday, July 13

Thursday August 17

Wednesday, September 13

Thursday, October 12

The meetings begin at 11:00.  You may purchase lunch from the Country Club.

The Ozark Foothills SAGA chapter will meet at 6:00 at the Ozark Natural Foods meeting room on Monday, October 8.  The program will be led by Joan Busby on Temari Balls

Temari are beautiful little thread balls. They don't have much more use than any other ball. They bounce a little. They're pretty.

 We like to make them to keep our hands busy on road trips or while watching movies. They're low-key and relaxing. They're amazing demonstrations of non-Euclidean geometry.

Joan will be bringing kits for participants to purchase.

The Ozark Foothills SAGA chapter will meet on February 12, 2018 at 6:00 at the community room of Ozark Natural Foods.  The program will be a Blackwork pincushion from Inspirations issue 76.

The Ozark Foothills SAGA chapter will be changing their meeting location and the date.  The meetings will begin  at 6:00 on the second Monday of each month.  The January meeting is on January 8, 2018 at the Community Room of Ozark Natural Foods in Fayetteville.  The address is: 

1554 N. College Ave.
Fayetteville AR, 72703
Phone: 479.521.7558

We hope to see everyone there!

Judith Adams Workshop

March 23-24, 2018

We welcome Judith Adams of Australia to our next Stitchin in the Foothills Workshop.  The workshop will be held March 23-24, 2018 at the JBU building in Rogers, AR.   Judith is a former high school math teacher who lives in Sydney, Australia. Smocking since 1984, she calls it her "portable passion." She loves smocking on embroidered English netting, and using beads wherever possible. She has had articles published in Australian Smocking and Embroidery, Embroidery and Cross Stitch, Sew Beautiful, Creative Needle, and wrote the soft-cover book Step by Step Smocking. Her business, Status Thimble, supplies embroidered English nettings, French laces, Swiss embroideries and needlework notions.

Judith will teach her Pretty Pink Possum dress over this two-day class. She explains that Australian Possums are adorable fruit eating little animals that every Aussie loves. So a dress for a  child in white Swiss satin batiste, French lace and smocked in her favorite  color, most probably pink, should naturally be called “Pretty Pink Possum”.

Students will work with the laces learning to construct the lace front yoke and will learn numerous heirloom techniques. Handworked Feather Stitch to complement the smocking is worked above the lace band at the hem.  Suitable for can experienced beginning smocker, and all levels for heirloom sewing. Heirloom novices welcomed!

 Contact Diana McGruder at 479-466-1893 for further information.

Ozark Foothills SAGA will meet at the Ann Henry boardroom at the Fayetteville Public Library at 6:00 on Tuesday, April 25. The program will be a stacked cable sailboat by Michie Mooney.  All members will be given the material already pleated to construct the inset.  Please call Diane McGruder if you are interested in attending 479-466-1893

The Ozark Foothills SAGA chapter will meet at 6:00, Tuesday, January 24, 2017  at the Fayetteville Public Library in the Ann Henry Board room.  New officers will be installed.  The meeting will discuss our upcoming class with well known teacher Vaune Pierce leading us in making an adult nightgown and robe. The class will be held April 7-8, at the John Brown University building in Rogers, Ar.  On Tuesday, we will make a smocked heart ornament.  Diana McGruder will lead the meeting.  We love to share our talents and encourage everyone to bring something for show and share.