We'll soon be attending the second Just Sew Retreat - Winter Session! It will be held January 13 - 16, 2017 at Hallowood Recreation and Conference Center, Dickson, Maryland
If you're like me, you need to be super organized in order to get anything accomplished at a sewing retreat!!!!!
This means lots of prep time!!!
I just returned from my annual American Sewing Guild retreat. In the weeks before the retreat I was busy with a last minute request to sew 13 ice skater dresses. Therefore, retreat planning was put on hold. I managed to pack the fabric and supplies I needed to make the 10-minute table runners I plan to sell at an upcoming craft show and finish up some satin shoe bags. I also put all the finishing touches on all 13 skater dresses!
Although I had packed a few projects for myself, I never touched them.
So I plan to take the un-sewn projects to the Just Sew Retreat Winter Session in January! Talk about being ready ahead of time!!!!!
Since I didn't get to pre-cut, I will do that and also fuse interfacing if necessary to each project!!!!!! I will double check my notions and group things together in my notions caddy. It didn't help at the last retreat that I had notions in several different bags and locations!!!!
Let me leave you with a tip on some useful things that you can never have enough of at a sewing retreat:
bed risers - excellent for raising those tables up to avoid back strain! We had several cutting and pressing stations and the tables were all at the perfect height.
mirror - nice to be able to look at your progress in a full length mirror
shelf liner - this will help to keep you sewing machine from vibrating across the table when you sew!!!
For more information on the retreat - shoot me an email justsewretreat@gmail.com
Happy Sewing
If you're like me, you need to be super organized in order to get anything accomplished at a sewing retreat!!!!!
This means lots of prep time!!!
I just returned from my annual American Sewing Guild retreat. In the weeks before the retreat I was busy with a last minute request to sew 13 ice skater dresses. Therefore, retreat planning was put on hold. I managed to pack the fabric and supplies I needed to make the 10-minute table runners I plan to sell at an upcoming craft show and finish up some satin shoe bags. I also put all the finishing touches on all 13 skater dresses!
Although I had packed a few projects for myself, I never touched them.
So I plan to take the un-sewn projects to the Just Sew Retreat Winter Session in January! Talk about being ready ahead of time!!!!!
Since I didn't get to pre-cut, I will do that and also fuse interfacing if necessary to each project!!!!!! I will double check my notions and group things together in my notions caddy. It didn't help at the last retreat that I had notions in several different bags and locations!!!!
Let me leave you with a tip on some useful things that you can never have enough of at a sewing retreat:
bed risers - excellent for raising those tables up to avoid back strain! We had several cutting and pressing stations and the tables were all at the perfect height.
mirror - nice to be able to look at your progress in a full length mirror
shelf liner - this will help to keep you sewing machine from vibrating across the table when you sew!!!
For more information on the retreat - shoot me an email justsewretreat@gmail.com
Happy Sewing
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