Tickled pink!

Look what I won!!!  My tip is featured in the latest Sew News magazine!

It's also in the latest Threads magazine too!  They paid me $25!!!!!!!! 

Threads published my actual e-mail.

It's prom and wedding season!

Hi blog friends....I promise I'm sewing!!  However as I await a client's arrival, I was surfing the web and came across this!!!  Enjoy!!!!

This is what I call the perfect demo!!!!

Well I'll Be...

With only an elementary school education, Garrett Morgan, born in Kentucky on March 4, 1877, began his career as a sewing-machine mechanic. He went on to patent several inventions, including an improved sewing machine and traffic signal, a hair-straightening product, and a respiratory device that would later provide the blueprint for WWI gas masks. The inventor died on August 27, 1963, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Early Life

Born in Paris, Kentucky, on March 4, 1877, Garrett Morgan was the seventh of 11 children. His mother, Elizabeth (Reed) Morgan, was of Indian and African descent, and the daughter of a Baptist minister. It is uncertain whether Morgan's father was Confederate Colonel John Hunt Morgan or Sydney Morgan, a former slave freed in 1863. Morgan's mixed race heritage would play a part in his business dealings as an adult.
When Morgan was in his mid teens, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to look for work, and found it as a handyman to a wealthy landowner. Although he only completed an elementary school education, Morgan was able to pay for more lessons from a private tutor. But jobs at several sewing-machine factories were to soon capture his imagination and determine his future. Learning the inner workings of the machines and how to fix them, Morgan obtained a patent for an improved sewing machine and opened his own repair business.
Morgan's business was a success, and it enabled him to marry a Bavarian woman named Mary Anne Hassek, and establish himself in Cleveland. (He and his wife would have three sons during their marriage.)

With only an elementary school education, Garrett Morgan, born in Kentucky on March 4, 1877, began his career as a sewing-machine mechanic. He went on to patent several inventions, including an improved sewing machine and traffic signal, a hair-straightening product, and a respiratory device that would later provide the blueprint for WWI gas masks. The inventor died on August 27, 1963, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Another Black History Month Fact

More interesting Black history facts....click on the link to read her interesting story!

http://www.africanamerica.org/topic/fyi-zelda-wynn-valdes-black-fashion-designer-who-created-the-playboy-bunny-outfit

Black History Month

  Seamstresses are awesome!!!!!!

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/achievers/par0-020

Grab Button Available

For those of you who joined my sew along in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of DVF's Wrap Dress.  I created a grab button for your blog.  I found this awesome blog that walked me, step-by-step, through the process!!! Awesome!!!!

Look to the right for the HTML, copy and paste to your blog! Thanks for joining, it should be fun seeing people's progress and finished projects.  The Facebook page has been created!  Let me know if you need to be added!

Wrap Dresses

I just came across this bit of interesting news....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/14/diane-von-furstenberg-celebrates-40-years-of-the-wrap-dress.html

Who wants to join me in making a fab wrap dress (long, short, or in between).....my first sew along!!!! Wow

I don't know how to make badges, but if you'd like to join me--post a comment. If I get a lot of takers, I can start a Facebook page were we can post our pics!!!!

Who's in????????