Add 1 each of the Fusible Stay Tapes to the above - regular $106.85 - for $89.00 

Other Special Combinations as I offer at the shows include those below - saving you anywhere from 15-25%!  As above, each title is a link to that product - just click on it...

• Refinedâ„¢ Talking Pattern...first, I designed and made 3 NEW jackets following the directions (pretty much) from the existing Refined pattern.  You can read more about that process at my Blog posts...  Having 'refined' my process, I generally take almost 100 photos for each jacket's creation - versus 25 or so when I started this all...  Then, I wrote the directions, or 'refined' the existing directions, meshing in new stuff, and THEN I recorded the oral directions for each jacket.  All 336 photos had to be sequenced, labeled, and put into albums on Picasa.  THEN, I scheduled and shot jackets in a professional photo session - hence they are on my body 'filling' them out instead of pins and tissue on a mannequin.    THEN.... yesterday I went to check the albums and they were all messed up - missing photos, all out of order - I don't know what gremlin attacked them - but that took all of yesterday and half of today to 'fix'.  After many re-writes, it all got sent to the printer, and after 2 rounds of proofing, I think they're ready to print next week.  My webmaster son holds my hand through all this - and is, as I write, loading all the photos and audio on a little thumb drive, and he'll do his magic to transform it all into the form you see online as the 'Talking Pattern'.  
  

 

Along those lines - let me explain the 'value' that still lies in the 'old' or 1st Edition of my patterns (limited quantities on SALE as given below).  When I improve a design from it's first format to the new patent-pending Talking Pattern™ format - I also re-write the directions, improving them, AND add the most important photographs of the process into the printed booklet (and pdf version if that is available and you order that format, printing it on your own paper with your own ink...).  The idea here is that by including the most important photos, that the printed booklet 'stands on its own' and is 'complete' even without internet access.  However, internet access definitely adds to the value - since it is there that all the EXTRA photos reside, in addition to all the audio of my tallking you through each and every step.  So - if you purchase an 'old' pattern, or have one from when they first came out - you now have access to the NEW version - all the talking™ part - AND all the new photos.  I hope that clarifies it all for you.  That being said, below find a list and links to the 'old', first editions of patterns that I still have left.  I just can't make myself toss them - I'm too 'German' for that! I realize this makes sense to me, and if it is still unclear to you - just give me a call. 

• Transformed - 15 left @ just $5
• Celebration - 14 left @ $5
• Unity - 9 left @ $5
• Worthy - just 5 left @ $5 
• Pathways - 16 left at $5
• Genesis - 8 left @ $5 (FYI - much of this is repeated in the printed book, Creative Sweatshirt jackets, Londa's Way)
• Refined - plenty left @ $10 - as I had to reprint this popular pattern about 6 weeks ago due to demand

• Creative Sewing Get-Away Weekend  May 12-15, 2011 is off to a great start!   I already have quite a few firm registrants - coming from Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri and Illinois.  The wonderful quilt shop/Retreat Center Threads of Time in Danville seems to have a wonderful reputation already - I visited there on the way to the Inaugural Indianapolis Sewing Expo last weekend - which wonderful too,by the way - that ASG chapter did a GREAT JOB!   There are 15 spaces left at the lower price of just $299 (plus food) - so consider joining us.  $100 can hold your seat.  Details are HERE.   More about this later - but just suffice to say it will be all creative sewing - you can do ANYTHING you so desire - and I'll be there to help you out with the creative part.  I also plan to have Gloria as my assistant - and perhaps a quilting expert there also.   I've already started a list of mini-lessons I"ll teach throughout each of the sewing days...Already can't wait! 

• Customer Jacket Gallery - I have some photos of jackets you've created - but I'm seeking MORE.  I want to get this gallery up and running here at the website by the time I start off on travels again (Sept. 21) - so please send me photos!  Digital via email attachments is the very best if possible.  Even if you already sent to me - if you can do it again, it would make things simple!  You have no idea what a mess all the photos on my computer are in!  I'll thank anyone sending photos by Sept. 15 with a $10 Gift Certificate!