Sew a tote for Keystone!
| Sew With Us! Sign up to join our monthly FREE event to sew for a good cause! This month's project is reusable grocery totes and grocery donations for Keystone Community Services. Join us Tuesday, July 12! Click here to register for your 2-hour time slot! |
 Can't join us to sew? Food shelf donations will be accepted through Friday, July 15! |
| Garment Sewing Group Join us this week for a monthly meeting featuring garments, pattern modification and review, and the latest news in the sewing world. Bring your sewing show and tell for a chance to win a sweet door prize! Group attendees get 10% off regularly-priced fabrics at Treadle on club day! Garment Sewing Group meets at 10:30 on Saturday, July 9 |
 Click here to learn more about Garment Sewing Group! |
| Floral Panel Print This breathtaking new floral panel print is simply amazing! Edge-to-edge design in painterly watercolor tones depicting big, full-blown flowers. One panel measures 44" by 24" and the print is totally different all the way across. This would be so pretty as a skirt or dress! Or use it as a central motif in a quilt! Get it here! |
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| New Cotton Prints Shiny, swirly marbles that sparkle and gleam! Deep azure leaves for a perfect tonal blender! The essence of steampunk - corroded old gears that look like they've been left out in the rain! Plus owls! Shop cottons here! |
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| Friday Fun Fact! It's Elizabeth here to tell you about my favorite way to sew perfect gathers! Gathering is crucial for cute ruffles, but it's also a great technique for making skirts First, it helps to have a different color in the bobbin and the spool. At right, I used yellow and grey. Lengthen your stitch length to the highest setting. Stitch two parallel rows on either side of the seamline. So if your seam allowance is 5/8", sew at 1/2" and 3/4". Don't backstitch, and don't cut the thread tails. Seriously, leave the starting and ending tails LONG! Grab one set of threads and gently pull to create the gathers! Spread them out evenly to the adjoining piece and pin the hell out of it. Finally, sew at the seamline, right between the gathering stitches! You can remove the loose gathering threads later. There are a lot of ways to create gathers in fabric, but I find that this method really gives you the nicest look. Sewing in between the two rows creates perfect, tiny ripples that lay smoothly and evenly. |
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| Friday Sewing Social it's tonight! Take advantage of our great workspace (and air conditioning!) and schedule some protected creative time! Bring a project and socialize while you sew. Cost: $ 25 Friday, July 8 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm |
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Sewing Salon We're here to help! Bring your tricky problems and questions to this sewing clinic. Cost: $ 35 Monday, July 11 Noon to 2:00 pm |
| Thanks, it has Pockets! Learn to put pockets in anything! Patch, invisible in-seam, and more! Cost: $ 45 Wednesday, July 13 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
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Weekend Sewing Marathon Spend a weekend sewing with us! Cost: $ 155 Friday & Saturday, July 15 & 16 10:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| Happy Sewing, Michele and the Treadlettes |
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