Everybody’s Talking Sewing

A while back I had several excellent conversations with Cathy Gallagher of Housedressings - Fashions for Your Home.

She was very interested in our Pleat N Go, and had a bunch of questions as to whether or not it would work for her, with her drapery and home decor custom sewing. Well to make a very long story short, here are her words and a few pictures.

“You had asked me to send pictures of my finished project using the pleater board. I made 440″ of pleated edging for the valances in this room. It was the most wonderful detail I have ever used! I hope you like it - I enjoyed your product so much and plan to offer this custom detail to many customers!”

A view of the large, triple window with the new draperies.

The top of the drapes and topper - again you can see the very top is pleated.

A great close-up shot of the pleats at the very top and the corded edge.

Terrific results and Cathy is happy! That was a lot of pleating and she discovered an easy way to do it. You can sew for me anytime Cathy

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I’ve been playing again.

Because of all the pewter charms and buttons I horde… I mean offer for sale, expanding the line into having those great little 6mm colored bells seemed perfect.

That meant I also found some wonderful Sterling Silver charm bracelets and fishhook earrings, jumprings and split rings to add too. Then I slapped my hands and sternly ordered myself to stop, at least for the moment.

Okay, so I stopped adding… but now I got to play.

My sister Kelly came down to visit for the long Thanksgiving weekend, so besides pretty much losing our voices because of non-stop talking and laughing, we played with the new toys.

These are some pictures of the earrings we made (she and I both made a set of the three styles - we might be sisters but that doesn’t mean we don’t want our own things!).

All they took were:

• A set of the fishhook earwires
• As many jumprings as we decided to use: total of 24 for the bells, 12 for the Christmas lights, and 2 for the holiday charms
• The embellishment of choice: 11 bells for each earring, 5 Christmas light buttons for each earring and 2 holiday charms
• We used 2 sets of thin-nosed pliers to open-and-close the jumprings (saved our fingers)

The first set - the bells - took the longest as we had no idea what we were going to do, about 30 minutes total. After that it went much faster.

Fast, easy and wonderful to keep or give away. Did I mention inexpensive too? My kind-of holiday play time!

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