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SEWING TIPS ON ATTACHING GATHERED LACE TO ENTREDEUX: CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK

Tip #5 Cut a piece of Stitch in the Ditch stabilizer the length of the entredeux; gather the lace to fit; spray KK2000 onto the Stitch in the Ditch and place the gathered lace down on the Stitch in the Ditch sprayed with the temporary spray adhesive.
Tip #6 Some people like to spray starch the lace and iron it dry to give it more body. They say they have an easier time controlling the lace before gathering it if it is a little stiffer. Put a pillowcase over the end of the ironing board to protect it from getting gummed up with starch while you starch your lace. Also put a piece of fabric over the lace before you start ironing it to make a press cloth.
Tip #7 Butt the gathered lace up beside the entredeux. If you are right handed keep the gathered lace on the right side of the entredeux. Stitch slowly.
Tip #8 A tool like the "purple thing," your seam ripper or a shish kebob stick are very helpful in pushing things around to control them. They will fit in places that fingers won't, and they don't complain if the needle hits them! But I haven't had a problem with the needle getting in the way of the tools.

GREAT IDEA FROM MARY CAVINESS - A MARTHA PULLEN LICENSED TEACHER - From our round robin e-mail newsletter the group has set up.

"When I read about Penny's embroidered flags, it gave me an idea for a baby shower present for a young Navy wife who is staying with her parents across the street from us. Her husband is on a ship, out who-knows-where right now, and she will be having her baby alone in a few weeks, without him. She doesn't even know when she will see him again. So, in addition to a couple of knit rompers sewn quickly on the serger, I also made her a special patriotic bib, with lots of patriotic fabrics, in diagonal stripes of differing widths sewn together to make a new fabric. It cost me nothing (fabric from the endless stash...) and I think she really appreciated my honoring him, even in such a small way. Having been a Navy wife with a husband who was gone often for 6 months at a time, I wanted her to know also that she is not alone in this time of what must be fear and uncertainty for her. Thanks for the inspiration, Penny. If you know a military family, this is the perfect opportunity to show how much you appreciate all their sacrifices, even with something as small as a bib...Love to all, Mary C."

LETTER FROM MARTHA

Dear Friends,
So many exciting things are happing back here in Huntsville. We begin the Pfaff licensed teacher week on Tuesday night. We will be "sewing and sewing and sewing" some more all week. This is our second Pfaff Martha Pullen Licensed Teacher class and we are beyond thrilled. Each of these individuals will leave with a new business skill and new possibilities for either growing their sewing teaching business or starting a new sewing teaching business. Many people become a Martha Pullen licensed teacher who have never been in business at all - they come to prepare to start their own business. Many dealer/teachers come to gain new skills and obtain a new curriculum to teach. I love being a mentor to other women and men who have dreams about a business in sewing just like I did over 20 years ago. We started our teaching licensing program nearly five years ago with a group of Pfaff educators who came from all over the world to become Martha Pullen Pfaff Licensed Educators. The first group came right before Christmas and we had our farewell party with the house all decorated for Christmas. They made up a "Twelve Days of Christmas" song for me which they sang by candlelight in a group outside my back door, like they were caroling. Welcome to Huntsville, our newest group of Martha Pullen Licensed/Pfaff Teachers!

The baby doll dressing book has GONE to the printers. It will be back before the dolls arrive from their long journey which I told you about last week. The doll clothes fit our brand new Dress Me Baby Dolls - being manufactured as we speak - by the Gotz Company in Germany. We have two sizes coming. Two dolls are 16" tall and two dolls are 21" tall. By the way, the smaller baby doll dresses fit "Bitty Baby" from American Girl. Their doll dresses in four colors are in the warehouse. These dolls are just so special, and I can't wait for some of them to go under your Christmas tree. Sarah Joy loves dolls as much as I do. Yesterday, she had bought a new baby doll with her "reading contest money" that I had given her. (I paid my grandchildren $1 per hour for reading during the summer. Sarah Joy read 18 hours.) She said to me, "Nannie, am I too old for dolls?" I told her that you are never too old for dolls and that every Christmas I still ask for a doll and I am a grandmother! Sarah Joy and Rebekah cannot wait for our new baby dolls to arrive, since two of them are named for them. I am thrilled that each of our granddaughters has had a doll named for them, except for little Anna Garrin who is not quite a year old. You can probably guess what the next doll's name will be!

For all of you IEC members, your FIRST embroidery design for October is on the web site today for you to download. There are also antique poems and articles to download. Ready to download TODAY is a beautiful picture of a little boy in a sailor suit at the beach, painted about 1900.

The "Sew Kool for Kids" book that Joanna and I are co-authoring is coming along very nicely. It has clothing patterns that kids can really make, and it also has hand embroidery projects, easy machine/craft projects, and 18" doll clothing that a young child can really make. After having kid's school for the last two summers, I realize what great seamstresses kids really can be and how much fun they have sewing. We will have our first February home-schooling class at our School of Art Fashion and two of my granddaughters are attending. My missionary children are home-schooled, both in Africa and in the US on stateside assignment. I'll be much more specific about this book as it gets a little closer to completion. Most of the projects in the book are ones that Joanna has done on our television series for two summers. The clothes will be on next summer's TV shows.

Have I told you that the main projects for last summer's TV series are women's tailored clothing with wonderful embellishments? There are two jackets, two skirts and two blouses for the basic patterns. They are all flattering on small women and larger women. We will model most of these suits for you at the fashion shows in Pasadena, Orlando and Puyallup. We can't wait for our first big Martha Pullen California School, our Martha's Sewing Market in Orlando, our big February School of Art Fashion and the Puyallup show in Washington. State. How exciting! You can go to our web site www.marthapullen.com to read about all of these events except Puyallup. We hope the women's clothing book will be ready for Puyallup. You are going to LOVE the fit of these jackets and the style of the skirts and blouses. I promise!

One of the classes I took at the Christian women's conference last week was on good nutrition. Linda Steakley told us to cut down on meats and eat more vegetables and whole grain foods. I think after that lecture I will be reading labels more carefully for fat content, calories, and fiber content. She mentioned that if we would exercise "250 calories off" per day and leave off "250" calories of food per day that it would result in a one pound per week weight loss. ( It takes a 3500 calorie deficit to lose one pound.) I am going to the gym two times a week and doing my exercise tape in the family room 3 times per week. So many of you have written to me about your weight loss or adding exercise to your day and I am proud of you. I need to get busy and start losing again. I have lost 14 pounds since last September, not a lot, but better than gaining! Eh?

We are so excited about California that we cannot stand it! This week we are mailing to all of the students a supply list, a schedule of events, and the hours of operation for the retail store. If you would like to order your supplies from us in advance, that would be great. You may already have all of the supplies and that is even better, of course. If any of you would like to read the supply list as well as the schedule, it is on the web site - http:// www.marthapullen.com/ We will begin "on site" registration from 6-9 on Tuesday night before the school begins on Wednesday. Wednesday morning our staff will begin "on site" registration at 7am. Here are the evening activities. Wednesday night I will do my slide show/fashion show. Thursday night is table clinic night. After table clinics I do my "How To Make Money With Sewing" workshop. Friday night is the big banquet with Sue Hausmann as the main speaker. Saturday night is "going home" night. By the way, you need to wear your nametag to enter any event other than the retail stores.
We will have the retail store open to any of you who can come while we are in California. You don't have to be a student in the school to shop in the retail stores - either the Martha Pullen store or the Viking store. Both will be in the Pasadena Convention Center. Both will have loads of beautiful things with good discounts for all. The hours of operation are posted on the web site in case you lose this letter. The Martha Pullen retail store hours are Wednesday from 7am-9pm. Thursday from 7am-6pm. Friday from 7am-6:30pm. Saturday from 7am-7pm.

The Sew Beautiful talent search entries are arriving daily. They are fabulous! We are having so much fun opening them, CAREFULLY cataloging them and enjoying your creativity and talent. We extended the entry deadline to October 7 so you have about one more week for your garments to arrive.

The Sew Beautiful Vintage Collection CD's (for subscribers) are ready to ship. Hopefully they will begin mailing this week. I am thrilled with this CD. The antique clothing details on the 21 garments from my private collection look beautiful blown up full size on the screen. The antique pictures are ones I have been saving for years to share somehow with our Sew Beautiful friends. They will be perfect for picture transfer onto fabric, machine or hand embroidery on the pictures or around them, and hanging on your wall. What a beautiful Christmas gift that would make. Ten of my antique embroidery designs have been digitized for your collection and Lindee Goodall has digitized five of her designs for you also. Actually Lindee digitized my antique designs also! With 21 antique garments pictured with close up details, 15 machine embroidery designs which are gorgeous and six of my personal antique color pictures for you to enjoy, this CD is quite a bargain for only a $4.99 additional charge when you subscribe to Sew Beautiful magazine for $27.99. Total for both is $32.98. You must renew or subscribe AT THE TIME you order your CD to get it for this incredible LOW price of $4.99. This offer is made possible with underwriting help from Cactus Punch, Sulky of America and Martha Pullen Company. Go to the web site http://www.marthapullen.com to see some of the designs you will get with this CD.

It is a great privilege to come to visit with you in your home each week. I look forward to writing this newsletter all week. Truthfully, most weeks, I work on it off and on for the whole week. Usually, about 4am on Monday morning I begin to finish the newsletter as well as edit. Right now it is five minutes after 4, Monday morning, October 1. Mama's 83rd birthday is October 3 and we will have her birthday luncheon with the Pfaff ladies at the Hilton. Later this month, we will have a family birthday party at our house. I praise God that Mama is doing well on her special birthday. I love her so much - her whole family does. October is such a special month to me. My Daddy's birthday was October 31. Anna Garrin's birthday is October 24. As most of you already know, little Anna Garrin was named for my mother, Anna Ruth. Thank you so much for letting me visit with you this week. I appreciate each of you.

May God Bless Each of You and Those You Love,
Martha

SALE NUMBER ONE FOR THE WEEK - October 1 - 7, 2001! A DREAM QUILTERS PACKAGE! 50% OFF! TWELVE BOOKS/MAGAZINES! JENNY HASKINS QUILT AND JENNY HASKINS EDITING IN TWO OF THE BOOKS! $105.50 Value for $58.25 ( includes s&h). WHILE QUANTITIES LAST! SOME ARE VERY LIMITED! PLEASE ORDER TODAY NOT TO BE DISAPPOINTED!

We received the sweetest letter from a "true quilter" last week telling us that our new quilt book was the best one she had ever purchased. Patsy Vaughan, in retail, copied the letter and gave one to each of the people who had worked so hard writing the book. To celebrate our new quilt book, Martha's Quilts, we are offering a wonderful quilt special. It has FIVE Australian Quilting books/magazines and SEVEN Australian magazines with at least one quilt project in each! 1. A Federation Quilt, by Jenny Haskins 2. A Millennium Quilt, edited by Jenny Haskins 3. Scrap Quilts (9 projects) 4. Naïve and Country Quilting No. Two (12 projects) 5. Miniature Quilts (12 projects) 6. Mach. Emb. - Busy Bee Quilt (2/4) 7. Mach. Emb. - Luscious Cream Quilt (6/1) 8. Exciting Mach. Emb - Family Tree Baby Quilt 9. Mach. Emb. - Fantasea Quilt and Picnic Delight Quilt (5/1) 10. Mach. Emb. Where Waters Meet Crazy Patch Quilt (5/2) 11. Mach. Emb. - Bear Cuddles Quilt (4/2) 12. Mach Emb. - Crazy Heart Cushion and Appliqued/Quilted Sewing Machine Covers.
$94.50 is the cover price value of these 12 books/magazines. 1124 pages of projects are included in the 12 books/magazines and their pull-out pattern sheets! You can purchase, this week only, this package for 50% off or $47.25. The shipping is $11 for the package of over 1124 pages of fabulous quilts and other projects for machine work! Total of books plus shipping is $58.25. Please call 800-547-4176 ext 2 for this special which is not on the web site.

SALE NUMBER TWO FOR Oct. 1 - 7, 2001 -- PERFECT TO GO ALONG WITH YOUR QUILTING MAGAZINE/BOOK SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK!

The Compact Mini Iron - $25.95 -Sale 30% off=$18.17 (plus S&H)
The compact mini iron is perfect for pressing "quick bias" in quilting, appliquéing, pressing seams, paper crafting and more. Easy to use on even the smallest details. Easy guide sole plate. Equipped with multiple temperature settings. Heats up to operational temperature in less than 10 minutes. Stand included.
Mini Iron Cooling Tote Bag-$5.95 -30% off-$4.17 (plus S&H)
Perfect for storing your mini iron. Great for traveling and taking to class. Shipping for the iron and bag alone is $6. If you add the iron and bag to your magazine order it will only be $2 additional shipping to the quilting magazines/books.
Please call 800-547-4176 ext 2for this special since it is not on the web site.


SALE NUMBER THREE FOR OCT. 1 - 7, 2001 --BRAND NEW PRODUCTS! NEVER BEFORE PRODUCED! BLUSH COLORED (ECRU WITH SLIGHT PINK TINT) VICTORIAN BATISTE AND VICTORIAN EMBROIDERIES! 20% off for this week!

If you look prettier in pink than in yellow, this color of "blush ecru" is just what you have always wanted in an ecru fabric, I think. For the very first time we have a "new ecru" and we have it in Victorian batiste as well as some of our Victorian embroideries. Please go to the web site -http://www.marthapullen.com/whatshot/hot.html - and see the embroidery selections available in this color. The prices marked on the web site, at this time, are 20% off since it will be easier for you to order specifically from the web site. We have several selections. The blush Victorian batiste is normally $9 per yard; this week it is $7.20 per yard. You can also call 800-547-4176 ext. 2 for our order line.

DRESS ME BABY DOLLS by GOTZ !! SHIPPING LATE OCTOBER!! ORDER NOW FOR LOWEST NUMBERS POSSIBLE!!

The Dress Me Gotz baby dolls, made exclusively for Martha Pullen Company, are ready TO ORDER! Delivery will begin late October, 2001, but many people like to get their orders in so they will get the lowest possible number. I will personally sign each doll and each doll is numbered. We have four baby dolls - Sarah, Alex, Sydney and Rebekah. Please go to the web site http://www.marthapullen.com to get more information on the dolls and to order. Or call 800-547-4176 ext. 117 or 119.

DRESS ME MARTHA, MARY AND JOANNA DOLLS!!

Don't forget that the Dress Me Martha, Mary and Joanna dolls are almost gone. Please order yours if you have not already. I don't want you to be disappointed when they are gone. They will not be re-ordered. The cost of these dolls is $79 plus $8 shipping. You can see all of the dolls by going to http://www.marthapullen.com. Mary, Martha and Joanna also come with a "play with" doll dress and a book of beautiful doll patterns ready for you to sew her some really beautiful clothing.


PASADENA, CALIFORNIA MARTHA PULLEN SCHOOL IS FILLING FAST! NOVEMBER
14 - 17,2001! ONLY 9 PLACES LEFT IN THE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL!!

November 14-17, 2001, we are coming with our 20th anniversary Celebration school to CALIFORNIA at the Pasadena Convention Center! I AM SO EXCITED! I LOVE CALIFORNIA AND THIS IS OUR FIRST BIG SCHOOL OUT THERE! We have a GREAT group already signed up for the school, and we want YOU to come also. Won't you come for our first BIG Martha Pullen School on the West Coast? We have six of the world's best heirloom sewing teachers - all of whom will teach you a class. Kits, lunches, classes and tons of fun while learning are all furnished for the total cost of only $625, the same price as our four day school here in Huntsville! Please call 800-547-4176 ext. 105 or 106 to register. Only $100 holds your place for you. The rest of your class fee will be charged in October. We have a few places left, but space is limited! We are thrilled that this event is underwritten by Husqvarna/Viking! They will furnish a brand new machine for each person to sew on, so you don't have to bring your own sewing machines.

REGISTER NOW for MARTHA'S SEWING MARKET in ORLANDO, FLORIDA on January 24-26, 2002 at the Tupperware Convention Center.

Admission is $15.00 per day (plus sales tax) at the door, or you can call 800-547-4176, ext 109 to order discounted tickets through December 15th. A one-day pass is $14, two day pass is $25 and a three day pass is $35. Exhibitors will be there selling sewing products, fabrics, notions, sewing machines, books and patterns. You will also be able to choose from over 60 different lecture/demo seminars a day with national and international celebrity teachers. The classes are FREE after you pay your admission fee.

SIT AND SEW WITH MARTHA on January 23rd OR January 24th, 2002.

We are now taking phone reservations for this limited seating Sit and Sew. Martha and Kathy McMakin will be teaching an ALL-DAY SIT AND SEW on Tuesday, January 23 OR on Wednesday, January 24. Your fee for this all day class is $125.00 which includes the kits and your lunch. Registration is limited so call today to reserve your space! 1-800-547-4176, ext. 109

HUNTSVILLE SCHOOL OF ART FASHION, FEBRUARY 3-10, 2002!

We are having a huge response to our February school here in Huntsville. Please call as soon as possible to get your place in the schools in which we still have a vacancy. Several of the schools are filled but we still have A FEW places in most of the schools. Pre-day classes for the February school begin on Sunday, February 2, and run through Wednesday, February 6, 2002. The school is February 7-10, 2002. For your first choice of classes and pre-day classes, please call as soon as possible, 800-547-4176 ext. 105 for Louise Baird (our school director) or Hilda Wright ext. 106 (assistant director). Please go to the web site to see the schedule and make your selections.

INTERNET EMBROIDERY CLUB NEWS - Two Digitized Designs Coming for October, 2001

One design is ready for you to download October 1. Watch for your little note on the internet later in the month for your second design for October. Here's a hint: Your second design is a large format design. We also have two gorgeous antique pictures ready for printing out and framing for your sewing room or child's room or printing onto photo transfer paper and embroidering around the picture or for putting it into clothing or a quilt (one now and one in the middle of the month).
Our new Christmas CD is ready to purchase TODAY for Internet Embroidery Club Members! If you would like to see the front and back covers of this CD, please go to the web site, http://www.marthapullen.com You can look at the Christmas CD even if you are not a member. If you are a member of the IEC, please go to the web site and purchase on our secured order line. At this time this gorgeous Christmas CD is only available to IEC members.

If you would like to become a member of the IEC, please go to http://www.marthapullen.com and sign up. If you join the IEC, this Christmas CD, which is fabulous, will be available to you for only $49 rather than the regular price of $90 beginning in January 2002 for non-IEC members. You get so many goodies just for joining, and then the whole year's worth of designs to download. You will also get special rates on our new embroidery CD's and other Martha Pullen catalog specials. You also get antique illustrations, articles about sewing and fashion, and antique articles about sewing over the last 100 years. I think you will love the IEC. Please join today for only $59 for the whole year of membership.

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embroidery@marthapullen.com (Internet Embroidery Club questions)
editorial@marthapullen.com (for Sew Beautiful content)
schools@marthapullen.com (for School of Art Fashion)
licensing@marthapullen.com (for teacher licensing questions)
markets@marthapullen.com (for our sewing markets)
tours@marthapullen.com (for our trips!)
sewingroom@marthapullen.com (for sewing questions)
marthap@marthapullen.com (for personal letters to Martha Pullen)

ADVANCE PREVIEW FOR THE INTERNET EMBROIDERY CLUB FOR 2002: WE ARE NOT READY TO TAKE 2002 MEMBERSHIPS YET, BUT I WANTED YOU TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET!

Join or Renew The IEC, In a FEW WEEKS, for 2002 and Receive TWO ANTIQUE ALPHABETS!!

YOU WILL RECEIVE:
1. TWO complete antique alphabets (plus matching end pieces) for you to
download immediately ($180 value). (4X4 and all formats.)
2. One machine embroidery design to download every month. (4X4 and all
formats). 2002 membership monthly first design available to download January
1, 2002.
3. Bonus machine embroidery designs given throughout the year. Two bonus
designs in 5X7 size.
4. Discounts on new Martha Pullen embroidery CD packages. Regular price is
$90; IEC members discounted price is $49 (plus s&h)
5. Antique Valentines, antique pictures, historical poems and tidbits and
antique magazine articles to download each month. Valentines and pictures
are perfect for fabric/photo transfer.
6. Monthly sales, exclusive to IEC members, include fabrics, laces, books or
other items.
7. Membership (2002) is yearly from January 2002-December 2002.

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK

Lamentations 3:22-23
22 Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his
compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Just as Jeremiah saw hope in his distraught world, we can know that there is hope for our country at this time. God is sovereign. He is in control. He is faithful. He does not make mistakes. God's provision during times of need is always there. He is faithful day by day and every morning He is there once again. My prayers are with all of our leaders. My prayers are for continued healing for those injured. My prayers are with all of those families who are grieving over loss of loved ones. My prayers are with each of you, my friends.

PART OF A NEWSLETTER FROM His Holiness John Paul II

In trying to purchase a gift for a friend of mine who is Catholic, I found the Vatican's website in Vatican City. The gift was shipped from Vatican City. They have put me on a newsletter list, which I have thoroughly enjoyed. I wanted to share a few words from his newsletter.

"Today, my heartfelt sympathy is with the American people, subjected yesterday to inhuman terrorist attacks which have taken the lives of thousands of innocent human beings and caused unspeakable sorrow in the hearts of all men and women of good will. Yesterday was indeed a dark day in our history, an appalling offence against peace, a terrible assault against human dignity. I invite you all to join me in commending the victims of this shocking tragedy to Almighty God' s eternal love. Let us implore his comfort upon the injured, the families involved, all who are doing their utmost to rescue survivors and help those affected." I ask God to grant the American people the strength and courage they need at this time of sorrow and trial."

-- His Holiness John Paul II

RECIPE OF THE WEEK

Ground Turkey Meatloaf

3 lbs ground turkey
1 and one half cup oats
1 large onion, chopped
1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce
3 tablespoons Worchestershire sauce
1 large egg
1 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons ketchup

In a large bowl, mix all ingredients except 2 tablespoons ketchup. Put in a
large Pyrex bowl that has been sprayed with Pam. Spread the other 2
tablespoons of ketchup over the top of the meat. Bake for 1-1/4
hours at 400 degrees.

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