Don't miss our Super Big
Game-Day Football party!

(Nobody's allowed to say Super Bowl anymore, so we didn't. At least not in the headline.)

Sunday, February 7, 12-4 pm

Potluck:We'll supply a main meat or sandwiches; you bring a project and your machine and supplies. We'll sew away on game day!
Are you working on your jacket for the National Jacket Challenge? There's still time! And - IMPORTANT - you'll be judged on your ideas. NOT your sewing!

Dr. Cindy's here with the Winter Fabriholic Feelgood Report!

Cindy writes:

Great news - IT WAS LOST BUT NOW IT'S BEEN FOUND!

I bet you're wondering why in the world the November-December print newsletter was so late.

Well, I lost the mailing list on my computer.

I had to get a new hard drive, and everything wass transferreed but the mailing list - so my techie guy got a program to retrieve lost files, and it found 11 mailing-list files!

When he emailed them to me, I could see the files and how big they were. But when I tried to open them, they siad they had 0 contacts.

I called my guy.

He was going to look into it and get back to me, but he had a LOT of computers in there to work on.

I spent days. Hours upon hours, trying to find my list.

Finally I came upon one (don't ask me where I was, or how I got there...) and opened it. It was one of the biggest, newest lists I'd seen, so I didn't shut my computer off for three days because I didn't want to lose it.

(I copied it to a flash drive.)

I did have to go back and research about 200 missing people, and when I finally finished that, we could mail out the newsletter.

I HOPE I've learned my lesson:

Always back up your important files.

I had backed up the list, but not every time I added or deleted names. I will, from now on.

P.S. I'm still waiting to hear from my techie guy.

And now. The new fabrics are arriving!

We love Tencel!

And we've got some in: A dark red and a khaki are the heavier ones, and then, in a lighter weight, an off-white and a tan.

(Read more from Cindy, after the jump . . .)

 

Enter the National Jacket Challenge!

That's right. NOT your sewing.

So if that's been holidng you back, get busy - you've still got most of this month!

Here's what the judges really care about - your ideas and your fashion sense:

They don't care about a silly puckered seam.

When you're the winner, and they're shooting the picture for Threads magazine, they'll fix the puckers in Photoshop. (Or we'll have our webmaster do it. She spends her life in Photoshop anyway.)

And you'll be on the home page of this site, too!

One more time. The rules:

Your jacket can be for women or men.

Eligibility:

First, come into the store.

Then: