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Hello, KC ASG Member.

I am pleased to invite you to reserve on your calendar the dates for the upcoming Original Sewing & Quilt Expo. Mark your calendars for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 21, 22, and 23.

The Kansas City Chapter of the American Sewing Guild always rents a booth in the Expo hall. Our chapter gains many new members through this booth. In order to get the booth free of rental charges, our chapter members volunteer their time to become Ambassadors for the Expo. You may go ahead and enroll on the Original Sewing & Quilt Expo web site as an Ambassador and Terri Sheetz will contact you to schedule the hours you are available to work. One of our member’s husbands worked on Saturday last year and had a blast. He’s coming back to help again this year!

The class schedule for the Expo will be available on their website the middle of August. At that time, you may review the schedule and decide if there are any sewing areas (quilting, embroidery, garment making, etc.) or any particular instructors you would like to work with as an Ambassador.

In addition to working as an Ambassador and earning our free booth fee, please consider volunteering time to work in the Kansas City chapter booth. Jeannine Miller, Vice President, Membership, is in charge of the booth schedule. Watch the Kansas City chapter web site for details on signing up to work in our booth. We will need many volunteers for our booth who can “talk up” our chapter and the many benefits our members enjoy.


Following is a letter from Terri Sheetz to introduce you to the 2010 Expo.

ORIGINAL SEWING & QUILT EXPO brings inspiration, motivation, education, shopping and personal satisfaction to everyone who enjoys sewing, quiltmaking, embroidery, embellishment and related needle arts.

Kansas City, MO KCI-Expo Center - October 21-23, 2010

For three days once each year you’ll have the opportunity to spend time with others who share your interests, learn from experts in the field, find new products, project ideas and techniques...enough for a year’s worth of creative fulfillment and the satisfaction these practical arts provide. Don’t miss the very latest in patterns, fabrics, notions, machines and resources available when you browse the booths of more than 125 exhibitors. Complete class schedules will be available at sewingexpo.com in mid-August.

QUILTMAKING: "Cutting and Piecing for RookiesSM" is back with Sheila Kuhn. Debby Kratovil, Kim Montagnese and Nelly Vileikis employ just about every technique out there, including some you've never thought of! Kim’s inside out techniques open the door to more creative quiltmaking. Debby will attempt to release the artist in you with her improvisational quiltmaking and Nelly’s colors…all you can say is WOW! Hope Yoder is offering a most romantic crazy quilt embellished with bobbin work.

Always favorite instructors Cynthia Guffey, Barb Callahan, JoLee Tarbell, Emma Seabrooke and Gail Yellen (and more!) have been working on new FASHION SEWING workshops and lectures. Topics will include fitting, alteration and construction techniques designed to improve or update your look. Specializing in alterations and tailoring is Carol Steinbrecher.

MACHINE EMBROIDERY: We are stepping up the embroidery program with a renewed focus on "non-average" fabrics by adding two hands-on embroidery class experiences with Dini Yan. Many will include a view of the software process behind the design, including "Computer Driven Quilting" with Diana Cedolia and three great workshops with Debra Bohn. New: Floriani software workshop.

THE EXHIBIT HALL will have more of everything: more shopping, more activity, more fun. Choose from bolt after bolt of fashion fabric, bin after bin of fat quarters, the latest in sewing, embroidery and quilting machines, patterns, embroidery designs and supplies and more; daily runway fashion shows; make-it and take-it projects; national traveling displays; product demos and other presentations.

The New Designers Fashion Show will feature fashion models of two sizes (the fashionable size we’ve always had and life-size 14s as well) daily; designer clothing displays, dolls and quilts, quilts, quilts…so much to see and do.

Exhibit Hall Hours are Thursday & Friday: 10am - 6pm; Saturday: 10am - 5:30pm.

General Admission is $10. Classes can be purchased separately at the door. Reduced class fees and FREE General Admission tickets are available in advance with the purchase of Value Packages. Call 1-800-699-6309 for a FREE 20-page brochure, with all event, class and registration information. For information on volunteer opportunities and the Ambassador Rewards program, call 1-888-400-7414.

Yours,
Paula Bradfield
Newsletter Editor

428!!
Wow! Is all I can say ladies. I have received 428 tote bags for the military community service project. I new this chapter was great and this really shows where our hearts are. This is great and I keep hearing from more of you that more bags are on the way. Just keep them coming my way and I'll see to it that they go to Operation Care Package. One of the neighborhood groups that turned in such a large number let me in on their secret . They had volunteers do some prep work before the Sit N Sew. All the bags were pre-cut and surged on all four sides so on the Sit N Sew day they had ladies sewing up the bags and others running the cord through the casting. It went very well for them. I have a new donation of end bolts of home deco fabric from a local business. Let me know now if and when you want some of it. It will go fast for the fall Sit N Sew's. Watch this count go up every month to see what we're doing.
Jeannine Miller
Community Service Coordinator