Teaching another generation to sew is near and dear to the American Sewing Guild. Today we welcome the first of a series of guest posts from Sue Slottke, ASG member, and E’s grandma & sewing teacher. By the way, Sue served on the ASG Board of Directors in the recent past.  Enjoy her post. We’re utterly [...]

This cold and wintry week (not), I bring to your attention a sewing booklet published in 1935. If your mother, grandmother or great-grandmother (depends on who’s reading this blog) was a fashionable sewing enthusiast in 1935, she may very well have made the two items in this booklet.  I had to photograph the actual booklet and [...]

This post is an example of how our members move other sewers to go forth and SEW BRILLIANTLY. Judy Gonzales is an ASG member who personified the ASG mission statement (see banner above) when she issued this sewing challenge first to her Neighborhood Group, then to ASG members of the Houston Chapter. Here was the challenge: [...]

I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by Dr. Carolyn Weber of Columbia University. The subject was Marie Antoinette, the unfortunate queen of eighteenth century France. The lecture was based on Dr. Weber’s fascinating book “Queen of Fashion, What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution”. It painted a picture of a dauphine (princess) obsessed [...]