November Meeting Project

Our November meeting will be at a different place and on a different date!! We will meet at Tawana's house on Monday, November 23, at 7:00.
Our project will be a wool embroidered ornament. Stitches used will be blanket stitch, back stitch, and French knots. Cost of the kit for the project is $4.00. Items in the kit will be pattern, wool fabric, thread, needle, beads, ribbon, and bell.
You will need to bring paper scissors, fabric scissors, a thimble (if you use one), and don't forget your sewing glasses!
Please email Tawana if you want a kit prepared for you.

October Meeting Program

To see an enlarged version of the pincushion, click on the photo above.

Debbie will be teaching our October Meeting Program - 7 pm, Tue. Oct 27, 2009, at the John Powell Center, Springdale, AR. She will show us how to make this beautiful wool pin cushion. It measures 4"w 7"l 3"h. The Kit will be $5.00.

The kit includes precut hand dyed 100% wool for bottom, 100% felted black wool for top and sides 5 colors of wool thread for embroidery, glass seed beads and pattern.

You will need to bring the following items:
tapestry needle
embroidery needle
scissors
clear ruler
white chalk pencil
( 2 ) 3/4" buttons. Debbie used mother of pearl. You can add these later.

Stitches used in this project:
Ladder stitch
Siennese stitch
Single loop stitch
whipped double running stitch
fern stitch
design also covers French knots and bullion knot

Debbie will have extra rulers and chalk pencils.
Please email Debbie and let her know you need a kit.

September Meeting

The September meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 22, 7:00 p.m. at the John Powell Senior Center. Diana McGruder will teach us how to put a beautiful monogram on a white linen baby pillowcase. The cost of the pillowcase is $5.50. You will need to bring floss, needles, paper scissors, transfer marker, tape, embroidery hoop, and a light box if you have one. Bring whatever color (s) of floss that you would like to use. White on white is particularly beautiful, but you may use any color that you like. The monogram will have additional simple embroidery accents.
See you there!

Program for August - Bonnet Stand

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Here is the project for our August meeting on Tuesday the 25th. You should have recieved your list of what to bring to make this bonnet stand. Everything else will be in your kit. Barb will be teaching the program.

Meeting July 28

We will be making a handkerchief bonnet. You will need to bring a sewing needle, white thread, a few pins, scissors, and a thimble if you use one. All other supplies will be in the kit. Kit fees are $3.00.

Hope to see you on Tuesday at 7:00 at the John Powell Senior Center in Springdale.

Get'er Done!

The count for our convention favors stands at about 220 finished! Yea!!! OFC members!!
Just 130 more to do.....
They are all cut out and ready to assemble. We had a very productive working meeting last week and everyone works so well together.
Let's have these in the mail by the last weekend in Aug. Then we will all relax!

June Meeting

The June meeting will be held at the John Powell Senior Center on Tuesday, June 23, 2009. We will be working on the table favors for convention. Please check your email for a list of things to bring. We need lots of helpers in order to make quick work of this fun project.

See you there!

Ozark Foothills Girls are Amazing!!

Here we are all stitching up a storm at our hostess Diana's home on Saturday, June 6. We had lots of fun and accomplished a lot! We did not get finished, but we are well on the way. Here are pictures of those that were hard at work so that everyone will have a fabulous favor at their place setting during lunch one day at the national SAGA convention. Thank you Diana for putting up with us. We enjoyed the working area and the picnic overlooking your beautiful vegetable garden.

Here is Tawana sewing on buttons, wonder if she dreamed of sewing buttons that night. She sure did a lot of them.

Here is Joan doing some fine assembly work. The favors have been creatively warped for now so as not to give away the surprise of the great little gift from OFC. If you want to see what we are doing, come join the fun at our next workday. We really need your help!

Sandy is just amazing at keeping track of all the favors. The empty seat next to Sandy belongs to the photographer. Barbara was sewing our special labels on the favors.

Our hostess cutting a few corners!

Carol spent a lot of time on her knees to cut out about 150 pieces.

Convention Favor Work Day

Don't forget that we will be meeting at Diana's house for a work day at 10 am Saturday June 6. We will continue working on the table favors for the national SAGA convention. We can probably get most of the favors finished if we have enough workers. You can bring your favorite salad or dessert. Scissors, and needles will be needed by all who attend. If you are unable to attend, please ask how you can help with the finishing. This is a large effort and the more we have working on it will make it easier to complete. Lipstick alert...photos will be taken...........

It's a Favor Sweatshop!

How many more?

Precision sewing from this team.....

The favors are well under way. The work was easy and we were able to catch up with our visiting while working. Here are some photos of the action. Tawana, Cheryl, and Bedetta were stitching them on the machine. Debbie put her quilting expertise to work to cut out the pieces at record speed. Gluing, stitching, stacking, cutting, it all went like clockwork. Sandy kept everyone supplied with new stacks of parts and kept the quality under control. Tawana filled us in on her recent trip to Spain while stitching away. Barbara brought all the labels ready to stitch on, and that helped to get more done during this session. Our next workday will be at Diana's house on June 6. Don't miss out on the fun. We could sure use your help.

Tuesday's SAGA meeting

For the program on Tuesday night:

Come and join us as we work on the table favors for SAGA Convention. Barb and
Bedetta are collecting all the materials so members don't have to bring anything. We'll be gluing the beads on the picks and deciding what we want to do for a holder.

See you Tuesday!

Mark your calendar!

We will have a work day on June 6 to make table favors for convention. We are going to make decorative picks. Place is Diana's house. Time to be established.

June 27, 2009 - Shiloh Museum Fiber Arts Day...we will demo smocking. Come if you can!

Nov. 6-7, 2009 - Cindy Foose

April 16-17, 2010 - Carol Ahles

Bullion animals. April 28, 2009 meeting.

We had a great time learning to make bullion animals and strawberries (an original design!) at our meeting Tuesday evening. Holly is a great teacher with lots of patience for those of us who ripped out strawberries or made multiple bunny tails before we got a "good" one.


There are 4 onesies left with directions, photos, needle, and floss, so if you did not make it to the meeting and want a kit, they are stored in the cubby at the Sr. Center, and you can get one for $3.00 at the next meeting.

Bring your finished slips for show and share!

Bring your finished slip to the April 28 meeting for show and share and receive a free ticket for the door prize drawing.

Meeting on April 28

Holly will be teaching us some bullion animals with which to decorate onesies. We will provide a kit that includes a white onesie, a #9 milliner needle, and a couple of skeins of floss. Estimated cost of the kit will be $3.00.

Here is a list of other things you should bring:

scraps of white fabric

scraps of small print fabric (about 4" square)

washout marker

ruler

Opt. sewing thread & needle ( to sew the patch on the onesie)
scissors, thimble, sewing glasses, etc.

Helpful:

A-Z bullions

Kari Mecca's kit for the bullion bibs that we did a couple of years ago. (This kit has a variety of sizes of milliner needles if you still have them.)

Welcome to Ozark Foothills SAGA Blog!

This is the beginning of a blog for the Ozark Foothills Chapter of SAGA. We will post photos and information about meetings and classes.