NEWSLETTER JULY 2017
SEWING CENTER OF TAMPA BAY & WESLEY CHAPEL THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD OF SEWING JULY 2017
Summer
TIME
REVISITING THE 18TH CENTURY. EMBROIDERY SOLUTIONS BY MARIE DUNCAN
FREE SEWING PROJECT! Organza Shawl
JOIN MELISSA BOORITCH FOR THE DIME VINTAGE CHIC EVENT
4TH OF JULY FUN FACTS
UPCOMING
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DIME VINTAGE CHIC EVENT
THE FUTURE OF MACHINE EMBROIDERY IS...
Vintage!
July 15, 2017 Register online or call us. www.sewingcentertb.com (813) 792.1855 (813) 591.1838
EMBROIDERY SOLUTIONS BY MARIE DUNCAN Former Education Coordinator for Husqvarna Viking.
PROBLEM "The fabric I am using for a brides maid dress is very sheer and very delicate. All the designs I have tried so far are too “heavy” looking. Is there a way to get a more delicate look?"
SOLUTION Try using a finer thread. The standard embroidery thread is 40 wt. A 50 or 60 wt. thread is much lighter, and will not lay down such a heavy coverage. Try to find more open designs as well, rather than the satin stitched ones.
SEWING CENTER
FREE SEWING PROJECT CLICK ON THE ICON BELOW TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE PROJECT
RED ORGANZA SHAWL. IT IS STILL EARLY FOR THE HOLIDAYS, BUT LET’S START PLANNING OUR OUTFITS AND ALL THE BEAUTIFUL GIFTS WE CAN MAKE FOR OUR BELOVED ONES.
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FUN FACTS ABOUT
4th of July 1. Initially adopted by Congress on July 2, 1776, the revised version of the Declaration of Independence was not adopted until two days later. 2. The oldest, continuous Independence Day celebration in the United States is the 4th of July Parade in Bristol, Rhode Island; it began in 1785. 3. The Declaration of Independence was penned by Thomas Jefferson and signed by 56 men representing 13 colonies. 4. In July 1776, the estimated number of people living in the newly independent nation was 2.5 million. According to the U.S. and World Population Clock, the nation’s estimated population in July 2013 will be 316.2 million. 5. The Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first newspaper to print the Declaration of Independence.
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JULY CLASSES AT A GLANCE
Best classes to learn and improve your sewing skills.
VISIT OUR WEBSITE
www.sewingcentertb.com/classes.htm
Call store or visit our website for more details!
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CLASSES AT A GLANCE
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CLASSES AT A GLANCE
Here we have one of our students just after two weeks of sewing, and she made this beautiful backpack!! Congratulations Mia, great job.
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COUPON Thanks for your support! As a token of our gratitude, please use this coupon with your next purchase!
20% OFF CODE SCTBSUMMER-17 MARIA & JOHN
Valid through 7/31/2017
MUST USE THIS COUPON Valid through 7/31/17. 20% off all designs during the month of July. One per customer does not apply to classes. NOT VALID WITH OTHER PROMOTIONS
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SEWING CENTER OF TAMPA BAY & WESLEY CHAPEL
CLEVER CLOVER TIPS
Problem: Thread loops on bottom
Causes: • Thread not in top tension • Machine incorrectly threaded • Top tension too loose • Burr on hook mechanism
Solutions: • Rethread the machine with presser foot “up” • Rethread machine incorporating take up lever • Reset top tension • Remove burr
Revisiting The 18th Century Celebrating the 241st anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America (1776-2017), let’s take a moment and step back in time to explore just a little bit of the fashion of the time. In researching information from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we happened upon a portrait by Gilbert Stuart of Matilda Stoughton, an American and daughter of Spain’s consul in Boston.
The sixteen-year-old bride of Josef de Jáudenes, Matilda Stoughton (1778–after 1822), was an American whose father served as Spain’s consul in Boston for thirty years. Although her richly fashionable costume and jewelry would have been regarded as excessive for a young Anglo-Saxon, the splendor was completely appropriate for the wife of a wealthy and ambitious Spanish diplomat.
Taken as an excerpt from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin: Her dress is of white flowered silk, finished at the neck with a dainty fichu edged with lace. Her luxuriant hair is powdered and a coronet-shaped headdress with two tall feathers is set on top of her head in the center. Nestling in her hair, as the base of the headdress, are clusters of jewels – diamonds and pearls -- and Snowflake Piochas (hairpins). Jewels are in her ears, around her neck, on her dress and at her wrists. . . . Her hands are in her lap and she holds a closed fan. How spectacular and exciting it would have been in those days to imagine the ability to summon your dressmaker who, in turn, would produce exquisite fashions utilizing luxurious fabrics of the period imported from Europe or perhaps the Orient and create other opulent imported appointments with her Husqvarna Viking Designer Epic.
EPITAPH: The bride and her wealthy & ambitIous husband, reportedly described by some scholars as a “dandy & spendthrift”, a “swarthy Spanish provocateur”, “arrogant,” “slippery,” “shifty,” and even “cruel”, were married in New York. However, by 1796, the bridegroom was charged with corruption and was sent back home where he returned to his family’s ancestral estate, a vineyard near Palma, Majorca. Matilda had surely imagined a more illustrious outcome of the marriage. The portraits commissioned for their wedding is the reason the two are remembered today.
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SEWING CENTER OF TAMPA BAY & WESLEY CHAPEL
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Visit us!
SEWING CENTER OF TAMPA BAY 12635 Citrus Plaza Dr. Tampa, FL. 33625 Phone: (+ 813 )792.1855 Email: [email protected] Shop Hours: Monday to Saturday: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm Sunday: 10.00 am - 7:00 pm
Visit our online store: http://www.sewingcentertb.com/products.htm
SEWING CENTER OF WESLEY CHAPEL 2653 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. Suite 119. Wesley Chapel, FL. 33544 Phone: (+813) 591.1838 Email: [email protected] Shop Hours: Monday: Closed Tuesday to Wednesday: 10:00am 6:00pm Thursday to Saturday: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm Sunday: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Summer
TIME
REVISITING THE 18TH CENTURY. EMBROIDERY SOLUTIONS BY MARIE DUNCAN
FREE SEWING PROJECT! Organza Shawl
JOIN MELISSA BOORITCH FOR THE DIME VINTAGE CHIC EVENT
4TH OF JULY FUN FACTS
UPCOMING
19
DIME VINTAGE CHIC EVENT
THE FUTURE OF MACHINE EMBROIDERY IS...
Vintage!
July 15, 2017 Register online or call us. www.sewingcentertb.com (813) 792.1855 (813) 591.1838
EMBROIDERY SOLUTIONS BY MARIE DUNCAN Former Education Coordinator for Husqvarna Viking.
PROBLEM "The fabric I am using for a brides maid dress is very sheer and very delicate. All the designs I have tried so far are too “heavy” looking. Is there a way to get a more delicate look?"
SOLUTION Try using a finer thread. The standard embroidery thread is 40 wt. A 50 or 60 wt. thread is much lighter, and will not lay down such a heavy coverage. Try to find more open designs as well, rather than the satin stitched ones.
SEWING CENTER
FREE SEWING PROJECT CLICK ON THE ICON BELOW TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE PROJECT
RED ORGANZA SHAWL. IT IS STILL EARLY FOR THE HOLIDAYS, BUT LET’S START PLANNING OUR OUTFITS AND ALL THE BEAUTIFUL GIFTS WE CAN MAKE FOR OUR BELOVED ONES.
WWW.SEWINGCENTERTB.COM |
FUN FACTS ABOUT
4th of July 1. Initially adopted by Congress on July 2, 1776, the revised version of the Declaration of Independence was not adopted until two days later. 2. The oldest, continuous Independence Day celebration in the United States is the 4th of July Parade in Bristol, Rhode Island; it began in 1785. 3. The Declaration of Independence was penned by Thomas Jefferson and signed by 56 men representing 13 colonies. 4. In July 1776, the estimated number of people living in the newly independent nation was 2.5 million. According to the U.S. and World Population Clock, the nation’s estimated population in July 2013 will be 316.2 million. 5. The Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first newspaper to print the Declaration of Independence.
NOMADIC
|
24
JULY CLASSES AT A GLANCE
Best classes to learn and improve your sewing skills.
VISIT OUR WEBSITE
www.sewingcentertb.com/classes.htm
Call store or visit our website for more details!
WWW.SEWINGCENTERTB.COM |
CLASSES AT A GLANCE
WWW.SEWINGCENTERTB.COM |
CLASSES AT A GLANCE
Here we have one of our students just after two weeks of sewing, and she made this beautiful backpack!! Congratulations Mia, great job.
WWW.SEWINGCENTERTB.COM |
COUPON Thanks for your support! As a token of our gratitude, please use this coupon with your next purchase!
20% OFF CODE SCTBSUMMER-17 MARIA & JOHN
Valid through 7/31/2017
MUST USE THIS COUPON Valid through 7/31/17. 20% off all designs during the month of July. One per customer does not apply to classes. NOT VALID WITH OTHER PROMOTIONS
WWW.SEWINGCENTERTB.COM |
SEWING CENTER OF TAMPA BAY & WESLEY CHAPEL
CLEVER CLOVER TIPS
Problem: Thread loops on bottom
Causes: • Thread not in top tension • Machine incorrectly threaded • Top tension too loose • Burr on hook mechanism
Solutions: • Rethread the machine with presser foot “up” • Rethread machine incorporating take up lever • Reset top tension • Remove burr
Revisiting The 18th Century Celebrating the 241st anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America (1776-2017), let’s take a moment and step back in time to explore just a little bit of the fashion of the time. In researching information from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we happened upon a portrait by Gilbert Stuart of Matilda Stoughton, an American and daughter of Spain’s consul in Boston.
The sixteen-year-old bride of Josef de Jáudenes, Matilda Stoughton (1778–after 1822), was an American whose father served as Spain’s consul in Boston for thirty years. Although her richly fashionable costume and jewelry would have been regarded as excessive for a young Anglo-Saxon, the splendor was completely appropriate for the wife of a wealthy and ambitious Spanish diplomat.
Taken as an excerpt from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin: Her dress is of white flowered silk, finished at the neck with a dainty fichu edged with lace. Her luxuriant hair is powdered and a coronet-shaped headdress with two tall feathers is set on top of her head in the center. Nestling in her hair, as the base of the headdress, are clusters of jewels – diamonds and pearls -- and Snowflake Piochas (hairpins). Jewels are in her ears, around her neck, on her dress and at her wrists. . . . Her hands are in her lap and she holds a closed fan. How spectacular and exciting it would have been in those days to imagine the ability to summon your dressmaker who, in turn, would produce exquisite fashions utilizing luxurious fabrics of the period imported from Europe or perhaps the Orient and create other opulent imported appointments with her Husqvarna Viking Designer Epic.
EPITAPH: The bride and her wealthy & ambitIous husband, reportedly described by some scholars as a “dandy & spendthrift”, a “swarthy Spanish provocateur”, “arrogant,” “slippery,” “shifty,” and even “cruel”, were married in New York. However, by 1796, the bridegroom was charged with corruption and was sent back home where he returned to his family’s ancestral estate, a vineyard near Palma, Majorca. Matilda had surely imagined a more illustrious outcome of the marriage. The portraits commissioned for their wedding is the reason the two are remembered today.
think local BUY LOCAL BE LOCAL PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT LIKING US ON FB AND BBB. YOUR SUPPORT REALLY MATTERS.
SEWING CENTER OF TAMPA BAY & WESLEY CHAPEL
WWW.SEWINGCENTERTB.COM |
Visit us!
SEWING CENTER OF TAMPA BAY 12635 Citrus Plaza Dr. Tampa, FL. 33625 Phone: (+ 813 )792.1855 Email: [email protected] Shop Hours: Monday to Saturday: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm Sunday: 10.00 am - 7:00 pm
Visit our online store: http://www.sewingcentertb.com/products.htm
SEWING CENTER OF WESLEY CHAPEL 2653 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. Suite 119. Wesley Chapel, FL. 33544 Phone: (+813) 591.1838 Email: [email protected] Shop Hours: Monday: Closed Tuesday to Wednesday: 10:00am 6:00pm Thursday to Saturday: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm Sunday: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
