August 2024 – Helios Stitches & Stuff

We celebrated our chapter’s birthday by – what else? – shopping for fabulous fabrics and finding new inspiration in fabric stores in our area.

Sewing machines and sergers are our workhorses. The machines that make us happy. Today, we learned how to make our machines happy. Russ B., a sewing machine repairman, spent the morning with us showing how to clean and oil our machines to keep them in tip top shape. It is ok to take the bottom…

In the sunny heat of the summer, what better to wear than linen? Without any local sources, where do you go? And how do you know what you’re getting?

Judy Ramsey of House of Colour came to talk to us about colors. She showed us why wearing the right colors is important and explained how color analysis works.

Melissa Marie Collins, a new chapter member, is an artist who creates amazing artwork which is turned into fabric collections. She shared her artistic journey and then showed her artwork and the fabric it became. Her new collection’s art was made with inks she created from natural sources, like the seeds of avocados or walnuts….

No more wondering what fibers our fabrics contain. We learned exactly how to tell what they are.