Tag: Material Girls

Material Girls Embroider!

Barbara Renthal Within our Material Girls club is a group of members who have mastered the art and skill of machine embroidery. They enjoy bringing their specialized machines, lots of colorful thread, and complicated projects into the studio on Tuesdays to share their passion with their friends. Now the whole club is welcome to learn this skill, with…

Summer Sewing

Barbara Renthal Can you believe it is August already? Time to put away the little flags and patriotic table runners. The red, white, and blue quilts we bring out to mark the mid-summer holidays are being folded and stored for next summer. Out come the sunflowers and more muted colors of the approaching shorter days and…

Dear Santa

Susie Klopp We have been good little girls and boys this year, mostly. We can’t help it if Mary Jane buys fabric just because it’s pretty and she hasn’t figured out a project for it yet—and just because a pattern calls for a yard and we buy two. You just don’t know, you may need…

Material Girls Buzzing with Creativity

Susie Klopp It’s October already and the start of fall. As we turn the corner from summer, we all realize that this is a busy time of the year. Winter residents start returning, with any luck the weather starts to cool down, and the holidays are just around the corner! I don’t know about you,…

Material Girls—Come Join the Fun!

Susie Klopp We are busy this summer working on projects for our families and the November Craft Fair, but we are also thinking ahead to all the holidays that happen in the fall. One of our members found a printed panel of an eagle and the American flag. So, a group of us got together…

Material Girls Have Been Busy

Susie Klopp What have the Material Girls been doing with all that fabric that you saw last month? Getting ready for the Spring Craft Fair, of course! Our members have been working awfully hard to have lots of beautiful spring and summer things. Be sure to come see us in the Hermosa Ballroom on Saturday,…

Fabric Choices

Melody Peebles pictured in front of the fabric cabinet holding some of our newest fabric arrivals

Susie Klopp What do you see when you look at fabric in a store? I’ll tell you what the Material Girls see. We see bed quilts, lap quilts, and baby quilts. We see blouses and skirts, place mats, table runners, pillows, and wall hangings. We see microwave bowl covers, purses, wallets, and oh so much…