We're excited to bring you a new contest for fall/winter 2008! Treadle Yard Goods is bringing you a contest for all you sewers around the Twin Cities Metro area! For a two-month period crafters can submit pictures of their own bag via email to info@treadleyardgoods.com. At the end of the two-month period we will pick a top winner and five runners up among the entries. **Official Rules** 1. No purchase necessary to enter. A purchase will not improve your chances of winning. 2. Contest begins at 12:01 AM Central Time (ET) on 11/01/08 and ends at 11:59 PM CT on 1/29/09. U.S. residents only Everyone may enter by submitting their information to Treadle Yard Goods so it is received by 11:59 PM (CT) on 1/29/08. Limit: one entry per person. Each entry will be considered to win the grand prize and decided upon by Treadle Yard Goods. 3. Winners will be selected by Treadle Yard Goods Staff from among all eligible entries received. Winner will be notified by e-mail. Acceptance of winning constitutes permission (except where prohibited by law) to use each winner's name, prize won, hometown and likeness for purposes of advertising, promotion and publicity including online posting without additional compensation. 4. Contest is open to adults, 18 or older. Employees of the Sponsors, their affiliates, subsidiaries, distributors, retailers, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families of each are not eligible to enter or win. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Void where prohibited by law.

News and Updates

WELCOME SPRING!

Our temperatures are inching slowly upward and with them our spirits. We have been receiving new spring fabrics every day and we are very excited to show them to you. Recent arrivals include colorful linen prints, soft summery knits, drapey cotton lawns and voiles and fun batiks. The pattern books are loaded with cute styles for warm weather garments. Stop by and let us show you the latest arrivals.

MEMORIAL WEEKEND SALE!

April showers bring May showers and savings! The weather experts are predicting rain, rain and more rain. The crack staff at Treadle thinks this is an excellent opportunity to head to your sewing room and spend some quality time with your sewing machine. And, being the evil temptresses we are, we are not above offering an incentive to entice you to visit Treadle and pick up a new project. All fabric, ribbons and trim will be discounted 20% Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 24th through 26th. As an added bonus, the Amy Butler Trunk Show, featuring fabrics from her Alchemy collection, is currently on display. Loads of inspiration! We are eager to help you find a fun and creative project and invite you to stop in and take advantage of the savings.

Amy Butler's new fabric collection, Alchemy, is on the way to Treadle. Read on below for information about the Alchemy Trunk Show which will be on display at Treadle from May 15 through June 2.

We invite you to join the Material Girls for Fashion Sewing Club. Debbie and Kristin are creative dynamos and present a new and inspiring program each month as they share the latest and greatest in patterns, sewing techniques and trends. Bring show and tell to share. Attendees enjoy a 10% discount on regularly priced fabric on club days. Fashion sewing club meets on the second Tuesday and Saturday of each month in Treadle 2 at 58 South Hamline Avenue. (Just around the corner from Treadle.) Cost is $10.00, payable directly to the Material Girls.

Next club meetings are on Saturday, May 11 and Tuesday, May 14.

Alchemy Trunk Show,
A Complete Fashion Statement

Alchemy Studio and Alchemy Decorator Collections
Amy Butler’s first premiere collection for Rowan
dedicated to fashion sewing!

“We all need great new ideas to get the
fire going, and this is an exciting time to
introduce the bright spark of fashion!”
...xo Amy

Treadle will be hosting this Trunk Show from May 15 through June 2.

Treadle Yard Goods Sponsors Goldstein Museum of Design Exhibition on Sustainable Fashion

The juried exhibition Redefining, Redesigning Fashion: Designs for Sustainability reveals the exciting potential for creative recycling, repurposing, and reclaiming to reshape fashion design in the future.
The clothing designs featured range from whimsical (a dress made from colorful pop-top tabs), to sophisticated and wearable (a little black dress made from one piece of cloth with no cutting or waste).
“We sought a partnership with Treadle Yard Goods for this exhibition because Treadle has been fostering creativity in sewing since 1976. It’s a great match,” says Goldstein director Lin Nelson-Mayson.
Exhibition title: Redefining, Redesigning Fashion: Designs for Sustainability
Duration of exhibition: January 19 through May 26, 2013
Where: Goldstein Museum of Design, St. Paul Campus of U of Minnesota, McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue

More information: goldstein.design.umn.edu

We are proud to be a sponsor of this fascinating exhibition and hope you pay a visit to the Goldstein Gallery. It is a true treasure right in our own backyard.

Tulle is more coarse than burlap and has a really stupid spelling. As fabrics go, this barely counts, if at all. Brides like to use it in their wedding decorations, but give me a break.