Martha's Newsletter - April 21, 2008

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SEWING TIP FROM ANNETTE FROM RINGGOLD, GA
Recently, I ironed the pellon interfacing to the wrong side of the collar of my new suit. Usually that doesn’t matter, but with this particular collar it did! I found that Carbona Stain Devils for Chewing Gum and Glue took the glue off the collar with no ill effects.

SEWING TIP FROM SANDRA, PENNSYLVANIA
I have begun cutting my threads at the end of each thread change instead of pulling the thread back through the thread disks which can cause maintenance problems. I now keep a box of these cut threads to use for future projects such as a scarf or making my own fabric with lots of different textures and colors of thread.

SEWING TIP FROM BETTY CONLEY, CA
I’ve been reading the suggestions concerning sewing machines and sergers using surge protectors. I live out in the country and our power fluctuates so to prevent any mishaps with my computerized machines (sewing/serger) I purchased a battery back up with surge protector all in one. I purchased it several years ago at Costco or Sam’s Club for about $50. It is a blessing especially if I’m working on a design on the computer or machine and the power goes out, you have approx 10 min to close out and save. If I’m on my machine stitching a design, I write down where I am stitch number and color so I can pick up where I left off. I’m not sure if anyone has suggested this but if not it’s for your newsletter.

SEWING TIP FROM DR. SUSAN SLESINGER, CA
If you use a computerized embroidery machine plug it into a UPS (uninterruptable power supply). These devices are designed to power computers for a period of time so that they can be shut down safely in case of a power surge or outage. In the embroidery world, they provide enough power to finish your color, or even your whole design depending on how much back up power it provides. (They are rated according to the number of minutes of backup provided.) When using one only for an embroidery machine you do not need to install the enclosed shut-down software. If your embroidery machine and computer are sharing the UPS then you should install the software on the computer so that you can shut it down safely. UPS devices are available at office supply stores, computer stores and “big box” stores.

Martha's Letter

Dear Sewing Family,

First, I would like to share how much I have loved listening to some of Pope Benedict’s sermons which he has shared with such love in the United States this week. It was truly thrilling to me to hear how much he loves us and to see coverage of this precious man of God on television. He asked several times for us to pray for him and I for one will certainly do that. His messages reminded me that we need to pray more for all of our pastors.

As you can see our “sewing sisters in Africa” are thrilled and grateful to God for the latest contribution to their ministry from the Baby Lock Licensed Teachers. When John was there last September he had his heart practically torn out over the street children who come several times a week to the Africa New Life Mission for food. I had asked Florence to send a picture of their “kitchen” which as you can see is a large pot where they fix something for the street children to eat. She sent me this picture and I would ask that you pray for these children and for the ANLM that they will continue to have funds not only for sewing but for feeding the 800 children who are served by the orphanage as well as the street children. As you feed your little children tonight please thank God that they do not have to practically stand in line to fight for a cup of food. Also thank God for this mission where they do cook a pot of food to give to the children.

Sometimes an embroidery design CD is simply breathtaking. I thank Martha Demere, designer extraordinare, for sharing her gorgeous creation which was stitched by hand for her daughter’s high school graduation dress. Martha is certificated by the Royal School of Needlework in England and is one of the most talented needle artists in the world. She allowed us to re-create her gorgeous designs in machine embroidery for you. As you can see there are two different versions for a skirt; the more narrow version and the wider version. Both are exquisite.

Kathy Barnard, our Sew Beautiful editor/designer extraordinare, created a dress and pattern using Martha’s graduation masterpiece so that you can have something which resembles Martha Demere’s dress-all done by machine. This pattern is very versatile and can be used many ways. I think the machine embroidery design would make the most beautiful skirt for a christening dress IN THE WORLD! This pattern is the perfect dress for evening wear, wedding wear, special occasion wear-any where. I thank Kathy Barnard and Martha Demere for making this combination “happen.” The cost of the CD is $75; however, if you belong to the IEC your cost is $45.

    Please go ahead and put June 19-21, 2008 ON YOUR CALENDAR! These are our ARLINGTON, Texas dates! Martha’s Sewing Market, at the Arlington Convention Center, will be celebrating 11 wonderful years. THE ARLINGTON COMPLETE BROCHURE IS UP ON THE WEBSITE! You can go ahead and call to register for your pre-day SIT AND SEW classes (June 18,2008) and to register for your admission tickets which will be mailed. To register for your sit and sew classes please call 1-800-547-4176 ext. 4 or 114.

    READY TO START SEWING TO WIN FABULOUS PRIZES IN ARLINGTON??? The judged categories for Arlington are 1. Christening Gown (or boy christening suit) 2. Quilts or Quilted Wearables (no larger than 45” by 60”) 3. Women’s Machine Embroidery (clothes or accessories) 4. Baby’s or Children’s Machine Embroidery 5. Machine Embroidery Embellishment on Purchased Items 6. Hand Smocking or Embroidery 7. Textile Creations (anything else such as doll dressing, home dec, hand embroidery, textile arts, beading, accessories.

    The First Place prize in EVERY CATEGORY, will be a collection of Floriani Stabilizers and thread valued at $339. The Second Place prize in every category will be a Rowenta Pressure Iron and Steamer valued at $215. The Third Place prize in every category will be a Sulky Blendables Dream Package of 42 new colors of 30 wt. Blendables thread valued at $209. The Best of Show award chosen from the 7 first place winners of each category will be a $400 gift certificate from the Martha Pullen Booth.

Some very BIG NEWS FOR ARLINGTON THIS YEAR is a People’s Choice category with the prize being an Ellegante Baby Lock sewing machine!! This is underwritten by Baby Lock USA! Each day every person who has a ticket to the market will get to vote for ANY ENTRY by number on one ticket. The People’s Choice winning entry will be based solely on the number of votes by all of the people who come to the event. It will not necessarily be any of the other winners chosen by the panel of judges. Please get all of your friends to come to the show-3 days-to vote for your entry!

    The pre-day sit and sew classes will be on June 18, 2008. The classes will be day-long classes with one or two projects per day. Cost is $125 per day and includes classes, kits and lunch. Martha Pullen and Dody Baker will teach French Lace T-Bonnet and Linen and Lace Envelope Pillows. Louise Cutting will teach “Cutting It Apart..Sit and Sew..All Day..All New.” John Flynn will teach Dresden Plate and Arabic Lattice. Kathy McMakin will teach Heirloom Camisole by Serger and Heirloom Lingerie Bag by Serger. I will let you know when registrations begin for these pre-day classes. Phone registrations only.

    We have THREE huge celebrity events-FREE to daily ticket holders. John Flynn, quilting celebrity (underwritten by Janome) will speak on Thursday evening. Sue Hausmann (underwritten by Husqvarna/Viking) will speak on Friday night on the topic “Give the Gift of Sewing” and bring tons of fabulous gift making ideas. Eileen Roche, Founder and Editor of Designs in Machine Embroidery magazine, (underwritten by Baby Lock) will present a machine embroidery professional fashion show on Saturday around noon. Each of these celebrity events will be totally FREE to ticket holders. A Janome machine will be the door prize drawing for John Flynn; a Husqvarna/Viking embellisher will be the door prize for the Sue Hausmann event; a Baby Lock Ellegante will be the door prize for the Eileen Roche Event. WOW WHAT EVENTS AND WHAT DOOR PRIZES!

    We have never had special event door prizes at Arlington like this - ever, ever. After purchasing a daily admission ticket, your classes (over 70 choices daily) will be FREE. You will be able to take 5 classes on Thursday and Friday (plus the John Flynn and Sue Hausmann evening events) and 3 classes on Saturday. Plus, ticket holders will have admission to Eileen Roche’s machine embroidery professional fashion show. Please e-mail angie@marthapullen.com to have a brochure mailed to you. THE SEWING CONTEST will be bigger and better than ever with fabulous prizes. You need to make a $5 donation to Cook County Children’s Hospital for each of your entries.

    We are thrilled by your UNBELIEVABLE EARLY REGISTRATIONS for the Martha Pullen School of Art Fashion in July! PLEASE CALL TODAY IF YOU PLAN TO COME. I DON’T WANT YOU TO BE DISAPPOINTED WITH A CLASS BEING FULL! It is my 65th birthday party celebration-AND I AM NOT RETIRING. No birthday presents please, just your presence is desired. You can click here to see the FABULOUS line up of classes including the classes the kids are taking. Three of our granddaughters are coming to the kid’s school and they can’t wait. Cecil will be in the younger kids school and Sarah Joy and Rebekah will be in the teen class. I have my swim suit ready for the “now famous Sunday afternoon swim with Miss Martha and the kids.” Call 1-800-547-4176 ext. 105 or 106. I am so sorry we cannot accept e-mail registrations-only phone or fax. We check the fax machines often.

    There are no words to tell you how deeply I personally and Martha Pullen Company employees appreciate each of you. Your loyalty for 27 years is overwhelming to me. I thank you for the great privilege of coming to your home every week with this newsletter and I love writing it. We appreciate every prayer for us, every thought for us, every order, every letter, everyone who loves our books and products, every attendance at any of our events, everyone who reads Sew Beautiful magazine, everyone who watches Martha’s Sewing Room and our underwriters who make it possible, every company who helps us with our events, every company who advertises in Sew Beautiful, every designer and seamstress who help make all of this happen-the list is endless. Know that you are 100% appreciated by me and by every employee of our company. We TRULY THANK YOU FOR YOUR BUSINESS. To God goes the glory.

    I pray for our men and women serving in harm’s way. I pray for their families. I pray, especially this week, for our sewing family. I am aware that some of you have faced tragedy this week. My heart is broken and I am praying OUTLOUD for those of you who need extra special prayer. In the scripture for today Paul writes that it is impossible to be separated from Christ and his love for us. God knows about grief. He is the great physician of broken hearts as well as broken bodies. Please remember that God loves you. Of that I can be sure.

May God Bless You,
Martha

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April 21st - 28th, 2008

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2008 Internet Embroidery Club

With your membership you receive:

2 or more embroidery designs each month

3 large (5 x 7) bonus designs during the year

Plus. . .
Martha Pullen and Sew Beautiful Embroidery CDs
released in 2008 at special IEC pricing

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Reg. $75	–	IEC Special $45
Reg. $40	–	IEC Special $30

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APRIL 2008 DESIGNS!

Sweet Pea (2.93 x 2.88 in.)
Sweet Pea Redwork (2.89 x 2.87 in.)

MARTHA PULLEN LICENSED TEACHER WEEKS

The licensing dates are scheduled as listed below:

Martha Pullen/Teaching Beginners Licensing - July 11-17. 2008
Martha Pullen/Serger Licensing - September 12-19, 2008
Martha Pullen/Husqvarna/Viking III Licensing - October 1-8, 2008
Martha Pullen/Pfaff Licensing - October 10-17, 2008

For more info, call 800-547-4176 ext. 107, 131 or 108. Or 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:
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schools@marthapullen.com (for School of Art Fashion)
licensing@marthapullen.com (for teacher licensing questions)
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markets@marthapullen.com (for our sewing markets)
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SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK

Romans 8:37-39 (New International Version)
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Earlier this week I had the privilege of speaking to a group of missionary parents at our church, Whitesburg Baptist. I was to address what it was like from a parental point of view when our children thought they might be murdered in the uprising in Abijan, Ivory Coast. Many of you prayed that night, several years ago, after I sent out an emergency e-mail from my hotel room in California to our sewing family. I wanted to share my closing remarks to this group.

“God’s promise of victory is specific to the role he has given to you and me and to our missionary children. When faced with the Abijan situation (or emergencies with your missionary children) our intelligence, our talents, our businesses, our perserverance, our work ethics, our speaking and book writing experiences, nor our checkbooks could fix this situation or any situation like this. It was God’s love which saved our children and grandchildren and the other precious Baptist missionaries from being murdered. It was God’s love which kept me closer to his flame than probably I had ever been before since nothing Mama could do would help-except pray. It was also knowing that in the event that they were going to die that He would take them instantly to heaven and their lives would be perfect after that.”

John 14:27
Jesus said, “I leave you peace; my peace I give you. I do not give it to you as the world does. So don’t let your hearts be troubled or afraid.

RECIPE FOR THE WEEK from the editors Taste of the South, a magazine about the food and rich food heritage of the South. Each issue of Taste of the South features more than 60 easy recipes, which we know you will adore. It’s published by Hoffman Media of which Martha Pullen Company is a subsidiary. Thanks to their editors for sharing these recipes with us. If you have questions concerning these recipes, please contact taste@southernladymagazine.com, or Hoffman's main number, (888) 411-8995. Click here to subscribe to Taste of the South for $15.98 a year.

April is the perfect month for serving steamed asparagus with Quick-and-Easy Hollandaise Sauce. For more recipes like these, see the April/May 2008 issue of Taste of the South magazine.

Quick-and-Easy Hollandaise Sauce
Yield: 1 cup
Preparation: 5 minutes
Cook: 5 to 7 minutes

1 cup butter
4 large egg yolks, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper

In a medium, heavy saucepan, melt butter over very low heat. Add egg yolks and lemon juice, whisking to combine. Whisking constantly, cook for 5 minutes, or until slightly thickened. Add hot pepper sauce and red pepper, whisking well. Serve immediately over your favorite vegetable.

Note: We recommend using an electric stovetop with coil burners or a gas stovetop when making this sauce. Make sure to cook it over the lowest heat possible. Otherwise, it will curdle every time.

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