April 14, 2003
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HISTORIC HAND EMBROIDERY TIP — Needlecraft Magazine, June 1925
Here is my way of making French knots: Instead of winding the thread around the needle as is usual, bring the needle up through the cloth where the knot is to be, take a tiny stitch in the cloth, throw the thread over as if to form a buttonhole, draw up, and repeat; usually two stitches are enough. These knots keep in place and are very quickly and easily made.
SEWING/MACHINE EMBRODIERY TIP FROM Michelle Rietz, a Martha Pullen Husqvarna/Viking Licensed Teacher
In an attempt to organize my machine embroidery collection, I have found the following useful: I purchase the clear plastic sleeves/pockets, 8 1/2 x 11 (lettter size) that are pre-punched for a three ring binder. After downloading the CD/disk from the original producer, I insert the original CD/disk into the pocket in its original smaller plastic bag. I also then insert my own disk, in MY machine format into the sleeve. Most CD's/ disks. fit their stitch order, thread #s etc. into a sheet that is an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet when it is unfolded. If it is, I insert the sheet, with the thread info UP in the "Top layer" of my pocket. If it is not on one 8 1/2 x 11, I copy as needed. I then put the pockets in a three ring binder behind divider tabs that make sense to me. To be honest, I have only have 5 tabs: MP (Martha Pullen), kids, florals, animals and borders. If I have downloaded an internet design, I usually don't have a CD/disk from the original producer, so I just skip that step.
I keep this notebook (3 ring binder) near my sewing machine & if I need a design, I can usually find it quickly. I then open the three ring binder to the appropriate pocket. The needed stitch information is then before me as I stitch. I usually mark the specific design, on the plastic front of the sleeve with a "Post It TM"as I sew so my eye is drawn to it as I sew it out. If you subsequently "lose" a design, due to computer problems, you then can easily find both the original CD/disk and your own format disk to reconstruct both.
SWEET LETTER ABOUT OUR GREAT LAKES SEWING EXTRAVANGANZA IN DETROIT LAST WEEK FROM June Gould Chelmsford, MA
What an outstanding experience at the Great Lakes Extravaganza in Detroit! As a former educator, I have attended hundreds of workshops, conferences, etc. and yours was the very best that I ever attended. The quality of instruction and the enthusiasm and helpfulness of the instructors was excellent. I was especially pleased with wide variety of skills that were taught. The kits were generously supplied with high quality materials which resulted in very nice projects.
Added to the instructional piece, the friendliness of the entire group from you, Martha, to each participant made for a wonderful environment. You made it so special with your great presentations and your spiritual leadership. Thank you! Thank you!
PERSONAL LETTER FROM MARTHA
Dear Sewing Family,
Have you ever stopped to think about the absolute best 12-15 days in your life? I have done this recently and I would like to share some of mine with you. I had one of those top days in my life last Monday when we did a photo shoot at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. Another top day in my life was a few weeks before when I visited St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for the first time. I became totally committed to praying for the patients, their familes and the staff at this unbelievable hospital which treats catastrophic illness in children and I prayed all the way home to let God use me and Martha Pullen company somehow to help raise money to keep the work going there. Both times I have been at this hospital I have thanked God that none of my grandchildren has needed this facility.
I have also thanked God that St. Jude Children's Reasearch Hospital is there if any of my grandchildren ever are faced with a catastrophic illness which cannot be treated with local facilities. I have thanked God for the research which is going on for children all over the world that they may live. Danny Thomas, the founder, said, "No child should die in the dawn of life." I believe everyone reading this newsletter totally agrees with that statement and I am thankful for the life commitment of Danny Thomas and his wife and their family in their role at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
The best day of my life was in 1983 the day I received the Lord into my life, totally, as Lord and Master of my life. I had known him intellectually and loved Him but I had never really asked forgiveness of my sins and asked Him to come into my heart as the complete Lord of my life. The second best day of my life was the day I married Joe, my husband and partner. The next three days came with the birth of my birth children, Camp, John and Joanna. The next two days came with my marriage to Joe and getting two more wonderful sons, Mark and Jeff. The next best days of my life came with the birth of each of our 12 grandchildren (12 so far, I might add). I would have to add that another top day in my life (although I don't remember that exact day too well) was the day I was born to my parents who were the world's greatest parents, Anna Ruth and Paul Campbell. God gave me such a blessing choosing my whole family for me.
We had the joy of doing a photo shoot at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital last Monday. Our July issue of Sew Beautiful magazine will feature these adorable children in these fabulous St. Jude Design fabrics with some of the world's cutest smocking design plates, rick rack embellishments, machine embroidery and other things too numerous to mention right now. I flew to Memphis from the wonderful Detroit Sewing Extravanganza Sunday night and met the Sew Beautiful staff and Joe. You simply won't believe the adorable clothing that our designers had made - very very quickly - with the brand new St. Jude Children's Research Hospital line of fabrics which will be available at Hancock Fabrics in May. Our top designers stopped everything they were doing to sew and smock the cutest casual clothing you have ever seen. When the clothing came in, we found that NOT ONE OF THEM HAD CHARGED US ONE PENNY FOR THEIR LABOR! Each one wanted to have a part in our fund raising effort for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
We are working with Hancock Fabrics' brand new St. Jude fabric line which will be available in their stores May 15, in an effort to help Hancock toward their goal of raising one million dollars for St. Jude this year. They raised over $500,000 last year. We are beyond excited about the clothing made in record time by our fabulous designers, and about the St. Jude children who modeled for our July issue of Sew Beautiful. I'll tell you all the plans and how we need you to help in the upcoming months.
Actually I'll tell you another secret. We are helping Hancock with their $1,000,000 goal in several ways; however, I have an additional dream: that the Martha Pullen sewing family will be able to donate $834,100 in addition to Hancock's $1,000,000, so that we can say that our sewing family has donated enough money to run St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for one day. We are developing a St. Jude machine embroidery CD, which matches the fabrics soon to be available at Hancock Fabrics, which will be part of that fund raising opportunity. Cactus Punch is playing a major role in that particular contribution.
July will be Martha Pullen/St. Jude/Sew Beautiful month (at Martha Pullen Company) and we will have a "web a thon" that I will let you know about later. Hopefully, each of us will be able to contribute something from $10 on up. With as many thousands of people who receive this newsletter, I believe we can make our goal of $834,100. I will need each of you to help with this July fund raiser. St. Jude will set up our branch of their web site and I'll let you know all of the details later.
QUICK FACTS ABOUT ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL (PART I)
– St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, treats about 160 patients every day on an outpatient basis and maintains 56 inpatient beds.
– It is the first institution established for the sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research into catastrophic childhood diseases, mainly cancer. St. Jude is the largest childhood cancer research center in the world in terms of the number of patients enrolled on research protocols and successfully treated.
– Since St. Jude opened in 1962, it has treated about 19,000 children from all 50 states and 60 foreign countries.
– Research findings at St. Jude are shared with doctors and scientists all over the world. St. Jude also enjoys a worldwide reputation as a teaching facility. The medical and scientific staff published about 400 articles in academic journals in 2002.
– St. Jude, which is non-sectarian, has approximately 4,300 patients in active status. It treats children without regard to race, religion, creed or ability to pay. ALSAC/St. Jude, the fund-raising arm, covers all costs not covered by insurance for medical treatment rendered at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Families without insurance are never asked to pay.
– The hospital's daily operating costs are approximately $834,100, which are primarily covered by public contributions.
– During the past five years, 86.7 percent of every dollar received by ALSAC/St. Jude has gone to the current or future needs of St. Jude.
We are so excited about the upcoming wedding (May 10) of my niece, Anna Jackson to Travis Holly. Anna and my sister, Mary, have just about everything ready. Anna's dress is white with beautiful crystal beads on the bodice. She looks like a princess. As a matter of fact, Mary, her friend Leslie, and I all cried when we saw it on Anna at the bridal shop. It was definitely the one!
Anna had asked Cecil, Joanna's little 4-year-old daughter, to be the flower girl. What would be the prettiest dress to go with this gorgoue white satin dress? We decided that a white silk dupioni high yoke dressed smocked in white with crystal beads would be perfect. Of course, we had to add some white on white embroidery, feather stitching, etc. to make the dress complete. Cheryl Davidson designed and made the flower girl dress and I almost cried with joy when it arrived at our shop. Cheryl had even put little scallops gathered on the bottom of the skirt with ribbons and little crystal bead in the center of each ribbon. The lace trimmed slip peeks out of the bottom of each scallop.
Cheryl used the smocked dress pattern from our Silk Ribbon Treasures book. I think this is the best smocked dress pattern which has ever been put into any book in the smocking industry. By the way, the back is "to the waist" and has buttons and buttonholes. A very special sash completes the dress. You will get the smocking plate and the embroidery designs in a future issue of Sew Beautiful; however, I just could not help but tell you about our excitement about Cecil's flower girl dress.
Although Chase is not in the wedding, he will attend. His suit is the fabulous sailor suit which buttons up the front from Heirloom Sewing for Jack and Jill. His suit is made of white linen blend, a great fabric for boy's clothes because you cannot see through it. This one piece, turn-of-the-last-century reproduction suit is not lined. I might just mention here that this book has at least $400-$500 of patterns included with the book, if you purchased them separately. It also has 4 quilt patterns in the book, has 416 pages with 48 color pages and over 2,000 illustrations for how-to instructions. It is considered the "encyclopaedia" of heirloom sewing and has almost every technique including many techniques for the wash away basting thread Madeira appliqué techniques. If you love Madeira appliqué (the easy way) there are many easy methods in this book.
Now is the time to subscribe to Sew Beautiful magazine at the sale price of $23.99!! We have a new Sew Beautiful Subscribers Internet Only Club starting in June, 2003 which will be totally FREE to those who subscribe. Six times a year (in the months when you do not get a Sew Beautiful magazine, we will inform you, via your e-mail address, that your secret page is ready for you to access. On this secret page will be a machine embroidery design (all formats and 4X4 size), a sewing project with complete instructions, and a hand embroidery design to use so you can choose either the machine embroidery design on the project or a hand embroidery design. You can call 800-547-4176 ext. 115 or 116 to subscribe or click here to order on line. A video can be added to your order for an additional $9.99.
Sew Beautiful subscribers get 6 issues of the country's best selling sewing magazine on the newsstands (latest statistics from Curtis distributing), the FREE Sew Beautiful Subscribers Internet Club beginning in July, 2003, 3 Martha Pullen catalogs mailed to your home each year, sales in each issue available only to Sew Beautiful subscribers, and more variety of sewing types than any other magazine. Sew Beautiful features women's clothing and patterns, children's and babies clothing and patterns, hand embroidery designs, machine embroidery articles, antique clothing ideas, doll dresses, paper dolls, quilting ideas, home decorating projects, beautiful photo shoots, accessories projects such as purses, and much, much more. All of this is available for only $23.99!!!
The blouse designed by Laura Jenkins Thompson in the current Sew Beautiful magazine has been so popular that we had to order more of the gorgeous Victorian embroideries to be able to cut the kits that you are loving. The blouse pictured below uses McCall's pattern #2608 View D (sizes 2-22). It has 2 and one half yards of Victorian batiste, 2 yards of MP #27640, one and one half yds of MP #25546, 4 yards of MP #27744, one and one half yards of MP #22568, 3 yards of MP 27643, 2 yards of MP 25614, 2 yards of MP #27632, and 2 yards of three eighths inch white silk satin ribbon. You also need white sewing thread.
This type of blouse is in the most expensive departments of every store and the young fashionables love this peasant look. Since is is an overblouse, it will be beautiful on every size and every age. For the true look of 2003 summer fashion, you might want to make this blouse. We are cutting kits like crazy for this blouse and we thank Laura for designing this blouse for Sew Beautiful readers. If you want the blouse, please call for your materials and if you don't have the copy of Sew Beautiful, you can purchase this issue also. The magazine has more specific instructions on pattern preparation, piecing the materials for sewing, and for assembling the blouse.
We have had a "huge demand" lately for back issues of Sew Beautiful magazine. You might want to check your collection and purchase back issues to fill in.
Have you ever wanted to start your own sewing business? We have had so many women and a few men to actually fulfill their dreams of beginning or growing a sewing business by attending our teacher licensing classes. Most of our licensed teachers are teaching classes. Many are also developing embroidery businesses and custom sewing businesses of many types including wedding clothing, wedding veils, wedding gifts, christening dresses, communion dresses, embroidery on purchased items and clothing, custom lingerie, and many other types of custom sewing. The sky is the limit to the possibilities of using your Martha Pullen Licensed Teacher week here in Huntsville in starting your own sewing business.
Now is the time to follow your dreams and we would like to help. We would love to have you come to one of our Martha Pullen Licensed Teacher Classes. Not only do we have a fabulous curriculum for you to use, we have business seminars sharing many ways you can earn money with sewing in addition to teaching Martha Pullen Licensed classes. Read below to see the dates we have available for the remainder of this year. We have a Babylock licensing in June, a Viking licensing in October and a beginning sewing teacher licensing in November. Next year we will have more and we have licensings with nearly all of the sewing machine brands. Click here for more information.
Our Martha's Machine Embroidery, Quilting and Sewing Market in Arlington, Texas July 10-12, 2003 is going to be the best ever. So many celebrities are coming, including Walt Floriana, Ann the Gran, Lisa Shaw with Buzz Tools, Becky McNeill from Becky J Designs (the famous cross stitch software educator), Urban Zundt, Susan O'Connor from Australian Smocking and Embroidery magazine, Louise Cutting, Carol Laflin Ahles, Linda McGehee, Mary Lou Rankin, Sue Lord, Katie Pasquini Masopust and many, many more. Click here for more information. Call Diane at 800-547-4176, ext. 109 or Patti 114 for a brochure to be mailed to you.
The show this year will also include a lecture from Katie Pasquini Masopust on our special Quilting Night, Friday, July 11. Kathy McMakin and I will teach a full day of sit and sew on Wednesday, July 9. This class is filling fast so please call if you want to sit and sew with us.
We are busily working on my brand new sewing room which will feature furniture by Horn Cabinets. I think I told you that I have had the honor of being chosen the international spokesperson for Horn Cabinets. We will tape a video in May which will be available from Horn, and I will certainly be sharing my new sewing room with you. I am thrilled about having a newly designed sewing room. By the way, I am converting one of my bedrooms into my sewing room. I love Horn cabinets which are the most wonderfully designed and constructed cabinets in the world. I can't wait for my new sewing room to be finished and for you to see it.
Charlotte Gallaher loves the new Zundt machine embroidery design exclusively for Martha Pullen. This week she brought in a little pillowcase that she had embroidered by placing two corner flower designs from our Zundt Designs Volume 1 CD to create a beautiful embroidered frame for a monogrammed initial. This would make a beautiful gift for a special person. I loved it so much I thought I would share it with you in this newsletter.
By the way, the imported baby pillowcase is available from us for $6. The Zundt machine embroidery CD is available for $54 plus shipping if you are a member of the IEC and for $90 if you are not a member. Now is the time to join the IEC if you aren't already a member!! Such a value for $59 per year!
Last Friday, we had a small reunion of some of the people who went to London with us in December. Nancy had flown in from Denver to spend some time with Diane and the Huntsville crowd got together with them for lunch Friday at our business. Diane told us how much she adores the new Zundt CD for Martha Pullen. She has a friend who belongs to the red hat (purple dress) club and she used the hat design from the Zundt CD and embroidered the hat in red for her friend. Isn't this a cute idea? I'm sure that I want to join the red hat club so I might just embroider myself that cute Zundt hat in red on some guest towels for my bathroom. Or I might embroider a whole denim shirt with those red had ladies!
To see other Zundt designs other than our CD please click here. Zundt has an incredible web site with downloadable designs. Just wait until you see his corner pieces which can be embroidered to make beautiful tablecloths. Just wait until you see his whole web site. If you are coming to Arlington, you will meet Urban Zundt in person and see his gorgeous samples in person.
By the way, in the future we do have a trip planned to Italy and another sewing cruise to a wonderful destination. I'm not sure about the travel times but we are certainly planning more group vacations. We have had such fun on our two trips to London and to the Caribbean.
It is time to register for the Summer Martha Pullen School of Art Fashion. It is going to be the best ever and we have a star studded line up with teachers from two continents. The schools offered this July are Beginning School, Beverley Sheldrick School (New Zealand), Fine Embroidery for Little Ones, For Women Only, Joanna's Sew Kool 4 Kid's School, Lynne Holyoake School (Australia) , Mirella Arroyo School (Puerto Rico), Wendy Schoen Baby School, Bernina School, Husqvarna Viking School and Pfaff School. Remember that Beverley and Lynne only teach at our summer school so you need to head on toward Alabama this summer to be in one of their classes.
Last week at Weight Watchers I lost 4 pounds (for two weeks). I think I have maintained this week and I won't be in Huntsville to weigh in. I have found that writing down everything I eat really helps. Actually my goal is to average about one half pound a week over the next year. Our Weight Watchers leader for last week has lost 50 pounds and it took her two years to do it. That is very realistic for me.
As Easter approaches, I am greateful for the Son of God who died on the cross for the sins I commit today. I am grateful that he said, "cast your cares on me." I am very thankful for each of you, my sewing family, who allows me to write to you each week and share what is on my heart and what is happening at Martha Pullen Company. Don't forget that you are the heartbeat of Martha Pullen Company and without you it simply would not exist. Thank you.
May God Bless You and Those You Love,
Martha
NEWS FROM MARTHA PULLEN COMPANY-SALES, SALES AND MORE SALES!!
SALE - 20% OFF OF ELEGANT SEWING FOR BABY BOOK (I think this is the first e-mail sale we have ever had on this gorgeous book! REGULAR PRICE $19.95 (PLUS $5 SHIPING): SALE PRICE $15.95 (PLUS $5 SHIPPING)
Elegant Sewing for Baby has the famous lace cathedral windows technique that so many people ask about, as well as tons of other techniques and patterns. This gorgeous soft cover book has over 100 pages including eight color pages, full-sized patterns are included. There are 5 Christening Gowns (6-18 mo), 13 Daygowns (0-12 mo), Slip (0-12mo), 3 Blankets, Petticoat, Kimono (NB-6mo), 2 Sweaters, 5 Bonnets, 3 Booties, 4 Home Dec, 4 Pillows, Pillowcase, Child's Purse, Pinafore Panel Heirloom Party Dress (12 mo-2T) Reg. Price $19.95; 20% off Sale $15.95 Click here to buy!
SALE - 10% OFF OF BABY BONNET KITS
I thought you might like to order a baby bonnet kit to go with your Elegant Sewing For Baby Book which is 20% off. There would be no extra shipping for the bonnet IF YOU order it at the same time you are shipping the book. These make the most fabulous baby gifts of all and take just about a jiffy to put together. You might want to order several of these and keep them handy for your next baby showers or baby gifts. They are also gorgeous enough to use for a christening bonnet to go with your hand made christening dress. They are beautiful to frame to go in a baby's room or to sell at a craft show or in a shop. They are just beautiful, period.
SALE!!! 20% Off 18" Dress Me Joanna and Dress Me Mary signed and numbered Gotz dolls! Only a very few left! These dolls come with a dress (value $14) , tights, shoes and the book Martha's Doll Dressing (value $15.99). Regular price for this doll (plus the goodies) is $79. Your sale price is $63 plus $8 s&h. While supplies last. Go to: Online Store Doll Page
GOTZ BABY DOLL SALE EXTENDED! THANKS FOR YOUR RESPONSE! We have been shipping massive numbers of baby dolls out all week for your Easter basket sewing and gifts! 40% OFF SALE: GOTZ BABY DOLLS (Plus a FREE book)! (By the way, the large baby doll patterns in the book will also fit a newborn baby.) 21" dolls regular price: $79 (Sale price, $47.50 plus $8 s&h). 16" dolls regular price: $59 (Sale price, $35.50 plus $8 s&h). Go to: Online Store Baby Dolls PageSALE - VERY BIG SALE - ON Sew Beautiful SUBSCRIPTIONS! REGULAR PRICE $29.99 - YOUR PRICE $23.99!
Click on this link (Sew Beautiful INTERNET CLUB) to read complete details about the brand new Sew Beautiful subscribers Club! SAVE 35% off the newsstand price by subscribing and get MUCH, MUCH MORE IF YOU SUBSCRIBE! Don't forget about ordering the Sew Beautiful 2002-2003 Video for $9.99 if you subscribe. You can subscribe on the internet - don't forget to send your e-mail address on the form or call 800-547-4176 ext. 115 or 116.MARTHA'S MACHINE EMBROIDERY, QUILTING AND SEWING MARKET, JULY 10-12, 2003 - ARLINGTON, TEXAS!
The brochures are ready! MARTHA'S MACHINE EMBROIDERY, QUILTING AND SEWING MARKET dates are July 10-12, 2003 (for the actual market) and our Sit and Sew day will be July 9, 2003! We have about one third of the registrants already signed up for the Sit and Sew day. By the way, we have a fabulous Friday night quilting event. Katie Pasquini Masopust will present a quilting lecture. If you have a ticket for the market, your admission to this fabulous event will only be $5 extra.
To register for any of the three days call 800-547-4176 ext. 109 or 114. To receive a free brochure, please e-mail diane@marthapullen.com All Sew Beautiful subscribers (in the 5 states surrounding Texas as well as Texas subscribers) and attendees from last year will automatically be mailed a brochure when they are ready, and some of the tentative mini-seminars are listed on our market web page: CLICK HERE
JULY SCHOOL OF ART FASHION REGISTRATION GOING ON NOW! Click HERE for online info!
We are now registering for our July School of Art Fashion! Pre-days are July 27-29, 2003. The four day school is July 31-August 3, 2003! Please call to register as quickly as possible if you want to come this summer. Not only do our women's schools fill very quickly, so does the kids' school. The summer is the only time we have a Joanna's Sew Kool 4 Kids School; we have some kids coming back for the fourth year! The complete brochure is on the web site so click here to see the complete guide to classes for the best summer vacation of your lifetime! The adult school is in the Civic Center; the kid's school is in the Hilton. The kids join us for the barbeque, the banquet and the heirloom table top clinic night. During the day, all of their activities, including lunch, are at the Hilton. Please call 800-547-4176 ext. 105 to register.
The schools offered this July are Beginning School, Beverley Sheldrick School, Fine Embroidery for Little Ones, For Women Only, Joanna's Sew Kool 4 Kid's School, Lynne Holyoake School, Mirella Arroyo School, Wendy Schoen Baby School, Bernina School, Husqvarna Viking School and Pfaff School.
MARTHA'S SECOND QUILT ACADEMY - SEPTEMBER 12-14, 2003: PRE-DAY CLASSES OFFERED ON SEPTEMBER 11, for the very first time.We have another FABULOUS date to announce. Our Second Annual Martha's Quilt Academy will be September 11-14, 2003 here in Huntsville. In addition to the three day academy (September 12, 13 and 14) we will also have pre-day classes on September 11. You must be registered for the 3 day academy to take the pre-day classes, which will have an extra charge. The tuition for the 3 day academy is only $150. Pre-day classes are $15 each.
Our STAR-STUDDED line up of teachers include Alex Anderson, host of the television show Simply Quilts, Ricky Tims, quilter and musician, Libby Lehman, Katie Pasquini Masopust, Angela Madden (from England), and Margaret Rolfe (from Australia). Our pre-day teachers are Barbara Vlack from Electric Quilts, Gloria McKinnon from Australia, and Ema from Japan and Julie Wallace from Australia. I will do two free workshops (for the academy registrants only): 1. Heirloom/machine embroidered quilts; and 2. Turning your hobby into a business.
Each student will take every class for the 3 day academy. If you are ready to register now, call Diane Bradshaw at 800-547-4176 ext. 109 or Patti at 114. Or you can e-mail her with your physical mailing address and we will mail you a brochure. If you want brochures (which are ready now) to be sent to your quilt or sewing guilds, please give Diane a call and tell her how many you want. Go to: Quilt Academy Information
IEC IEC IEC IEC - Internet Machine Embroidery Club The time is now to renew or subscribe to the IEC for only $59 for the whole year! The machine embroidery Internet Embroidery Club is truly something to save for future generations. When you join you will get to download two antique alphabets. During the year, along with the new embroidery designs to download each month, we also have antique pictures and articles which can range from 60 to 120 years old. So far, there are SEVEN designs posted as the monthly downloads! Each month you ALSO get SALE prices on regular Martha Pullen Company merchandises and during the year our new machine embroidery CD members' price is $54 plus $5 s&h. Click here for complete information
MARTHA PULLEN LICENSED TEACHER WEEKSThe next machine groups (which have openings) and dates are as follows: Babylock, June 17-23, 2003; Viking, October 2-8, 2003 (full, but taking a waiting list); and Beginning Sewing Teacher Licensing, November 17-22, 2003. Call 800-547-4176 ext. 107 or 108 to get more information. Or visit our licensing info page: Licensing Link
MARTHA PULLEN BEGINNING SEWING LICENSED TEACHER PROGRAM - FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME - NOVEMBER 17-22, 2003! WE ARE NOW READY TO BEGIN TAKING REGISTRATIONS!! Call 800-547-4176 ext. 107 - Or you can e-mail beginninglicensing@marthapullen.com for complete information. We are now taking registrations for a licensed teacher group to teach beginning sewing (not learn beginning sewing). Please call soon if you want to come; we are nearly full. The demand is there in the fabric chain stores as well as in sewing machine dealerships for beginning sewing teachers. This beginning sewing teacher licensing will be different from the Heirloom classes in our other licensing weeks. Visit our licensing info page: Licensing Link
TO CONTACT US BY PHONE: 800-547-4176 ext. 2 or 256-533-9586
TO e-mail ONE OF OUR DEPARTMENTS, choose from this list:
catalog@marthapullen.com (send your postal address to request a color catalog)
orders@marthapullen.com (for order questions)
subscriptions@marthapullen.com (for Sew Beautiful subscriptions)
schools@marthapullen.com (for School of Art Fashion)
licensing@marthapullen.com (for teacher licensing questions)
markets@marthapullen.com (for our sewing markets)
marthap@marthapullen.com -- MY PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS
SWEET LETTER FROM ADRIENNE MASSEL
Thank you for your newsletter which inspires readers artistically and spiritually. I'm happy you pray for families who have lost loved ones, and I believe, though you haven't said so, you also pray for the great number of families in Iraq who have also lost loved ones. We must remember we are a world community.
(Note from Martha: Thank you, Adrienne, for reminding me to pray for the Iraqi families also. I have been praying for them, but I have not mentioned it on this newsletter. I have been praying also for the people and children of Iraq for the difficult experience they have been through. I am remembering everyone in my prayers and I believe I must pray even harder for peace to be established in Iraq and for terrorism to be abolished the world over. I still pray for the familes of the ones lost in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania. I am reading Lisa Beamer's book "Let's Roll" and I highly recommend it. She is the widow of Todd Beamer (one of the heroes of the flight which crashed in Pennsylvania). I pray so hard for our world to overcome terrorism so that events like this will not happen again. I remind myself that God is sovereign, God is perfect and God is in complete control of the world.
SCRIPTURES FOR THE WEEK – Romans 11: 34-36
"Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?
"Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?
"For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen."
The scripture says that no one has ever been God's counselor. I am fully aware that God does not need my advice and that I am not worthy of even thinking about giving him advice. I am dependent on God for everything and I know he is sovereign. God is all powerful. My new year's resolution for this year is "God." I'm not quite sure what that means from day to day but I know that it means I am to praise him, worship him, and trust him for all things. I know that it means giving him credit for everything in my life. I know he is merciful and I know without a doubt that I am his child and that he cares for me.
I know about true joy which comes only from knowing the Lord as master of my life. I know that God has taken care of me in the good days of my life and in the one tragedy of my life, when my little nephew, Al Jackson, was murdered by a drunk driver. I know that I do not pray enough. I know that I cannot completely comprehend an infinite God with my finite mind. I also know that I can know him better by reading his word more and by praying. I am sure I am not spending enough time with the Lord. In closing I would quote 1 Corinthians 2:16 - "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" I would pray that I will seek to know his mind more every day so that I may be instructed more by the Lord and have my own mind renewed and transformed through his power.
MODERN RECIPE FROM Rhonelda Blackbum, Brewton, AL
Corn Dip
3 cans Mexicorn
2 cups of grated cheese
4 or 5 green onions chopped
3/4 cup of Miracle Whip Mayonaise
1 cup sour cream
garlic powder to your taste
Mix together and refrigerate for a couple of hours. Serve with a good cracker (such as Ritz).