The Sewing Room News from Columbia River Sewing

What's Out There: Vintage Dinner Roll Cozy

Supplies: 6 12” circles of cotton fabric coordinating thread small snaps sewing needle sewing machine pencil, chalk pencil, or washable quilting pencil Steps: Prewash fabric. Using 12 inch template, trace and cut out six...

February 2016 Quarterly with Marla Kazell

MORNING TRUNK SHOW, 10 AM-Noon (Open to All)  Explore the fabric collage techniques used by designer Koos van den Akker and learn to combine a variety of fabrics and fibers into a work of...

2015 Fall Retreat Review

Happy 10th Anniversary Fall Retreaters!!! You know it was another great event when even the coordinator actually got to sew while checking in 24 sewists this year! Kudos to Leenie Risser for hosting her 7th...

September 2015 Quarterly – At the Movies

Saturday, September 12, 2015 Please join us for our first movie review. Lunch is included. 10:00 AM Announcements. 10:30 AM MOVIE: The September Issue An intimate, funny and surprising behind-the-scenes look at VOGUE’S legendary...

ASG Conference 2015 Recap

In July, I had the privilege of attending the annual Conference representing our chapter. Over the five days, I listened to reports, took classes, participated in workshops, and shopped for supplies and fabrics. The...

What's Out There: Home Economics

I’ve been reading The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish by Linda Przybyszewski. In it, she talks about the beginning of Home Economics courses and departments in the land-grant...