Tips From Members

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="053785a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>  American Sewing Guild - Corpus Christi, Texas Chapter   </B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" American Sewing Guild Corpus Christi,"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="054d2b03.jpg"> <div> <B>For members favorite recipes shared </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Favorite Recipes"><U><I><B><U>click here</U></B></I></U></A></FONT></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Tips From Members </I></div> <div> <I><B>FROM GAIL CARGILE -  If you want some inspiration, take a look at the following site</B></I><I><B> </B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://magnoliapearl.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://magnoliapearl.com"><U><I><B><U>http://magnoliapearl.com</U></B></I></U></A><A HREF="http://magnoliapearl.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://magnoliapearl.com"><U><I><B><U> </U></B></I></U></A></FONT><I><B>T</B></I><I><B>his is what happens when you</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> turn the love of fabric and art into a passionate business.  This lady has remained a lovely person. </B></I><I><B> </B></I><I><B>Country Living is just finishing up shooting the exterior of her home for a spring issue and is doing a whole coffee table book on her and it is ready to go to the publisher.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>FROM MRYA SANCHEZ,  After you finish with a kleenex box don't through it away.  Put it beside your sewing machine and use it as a mini trash can.  When it is full just throw it away! </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>FROM JOANNE MASSENGIL -</B></I><B> tip on </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Favorite Recipes"><U><B><U>recipe page</U></B></U></A><B><U> </U></B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Kowl Neck scarf shown by Kay Martin at the January 2007 meeting.  Instructions from Hobby Lobby on this page:    </B><B><U> </U></B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.hobbylobby.com/site3/pdfprojects/HL-466.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hobbylobby.com/site3/pdfproje"><U><B><U>http://www.hobbylobby.com/site3/pdfprojects/HL-466.pdf</U></B></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>FROM JEAN GRIBI,</B></I><B> I read an old (2003) article in Threads by Kenneth King about seaming sheers. His secret weapon was an "as-cheap-as-possible men’s shaver" to remove the tiny whiskers after he has cut the fabric from the seam.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I found a $10 men’s shaver at Walgreen’s (corner of Saratoga/Staples) and tried it out this morning. It worked! It removed just the fuzzies. I tried it on a heavier fabric and it didn’t do anything because the fibers were too big.</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>FROM JAN FOSTER, </B></I></FONT><B>My soft handled Fiskar scissors broke. I called 866-348-5661, gave them a description of my scissors, and that the spring broke, rendering them useless. They sent me 3 springs within 4 days and now my scissors work again. Maybe this number and </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.fiskars.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fiskars.com"><U><B><U>www.fiskars.com</U></B></U></A></FONT><B> would benefit some one else. </B></div> <div> <I><B>FROM LYNN HARRIS,  </B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>On dark fabrics or dark interfacing, I could not get my tracing paper to leave a dark enough impression for me to see. I finally figured out that if I traced the darts with the tracing wheel on the pattern, spread a small amount of corn starch or powder on the pattern, rubbed it with my finger,the impression comes through beautifully on the garment. This is the same procedure you use to mark a quilt top. Don't know why it took me so long to do it, but sure glad I did.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>FROM NANCY DARNEL, </B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>If you are looking for sequins, beads or some nice vintage buttons this website has LOTS.  There were fast and easy to deal with. website address is:</B></FONT><B> </B><A HREF="http://www.ccartwright.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ccartwright.com"><U><B><U>http://www.ccartwright.com</U></B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>