If you weren't able to join us, please read on for a short recap. Members are welcome to request the full minutes by e-mail.
- Welcome Back for the 6th Season of the Ottawa Garment Guild
- Guest Speaker
- Helen Brady from Square Lemon made an inspirational talk about about the value of creative communities. Helen is the founder of Square Lemon. a not-for-profit corporation based in Ottawa with a mission to foster creative community in around that national capital region and celebrate local artistic and crafting talent.
- Name Tags
- This year we would like to have name tags for each member, we will keep hold of them in-between the meetings. This meeting we had some temporary ones and we asked members to let us know their pro-noun and instagram handle.
- Call out for Volunteers
- We are looking for volunteers to bring snacks to each meeting
- We need more volunteers especially if as a Guild we want to put on special events like Frocktails.
- Fall Calendar - Sew-Ins (members only)
- In Person
- Location: St Marks' Church, 1606 Fisher Ave, Ottawa, ON K2C 1X6
- Time: 10-4pm
- Saturday Oct 28th
- Saturday December 9th
- Virtually
- Every third Sunday in the month via Zoom link
- 7:30pm to 9pm
- Sept 17th, Oct 15th, Nov 19th, Dec 17th
- Fall Calendar
- Workshop: Resin Button Workshop
- Location: St Marks' Church, 1606 Fisher Ave, Ottawa, ON K2C 1X6
- Time: 1-3pm
- Purchase on the square store here
- Workshop: Vintage Sewing Machine Repair with Skipped Stitches
- Date and Location TDB
- Fabric Sale
- Location: St Marks' Church, 1606 Fisher Ave, Ottawa, ON K2C 1X6
- Time: 2pm
- Nov 12th
- Movie Night - Details to come
- Spring Planning
- Workshop: Bundle Dying with Plants and Natural Dyes
- Montreal Shopping Trip
- Sewing Retreat
- Frocktails - On Hold
- Dates TBD - More updates to come
- Discord
- After a successful trial over the summer we are moving chats away from Facebook onto Discord.
- Stephanie guided us through our members only space for online sewing discussion
- An email will be sent out to members for their invitation link to join our Discord
- If you are new to Discord, Stephanie has produced this short video to guide us through this social media platform.
- Sewing SOS
- Carmen asked us about alterations to swim suit patterns for shorter torsos.
- September #OGGPOM - #SewSmallSeptember
- See below for more info
- Sew and Tell! and Pattern of the Month (#oggpom):
- Thank you all for sharing your Double Gauze makes
- Don't forget to use #oggpom for your OGGPOMs and #oggsewandtell on Instagram for other projects you would like to show off!
You can find September's slides (and all of our past meetings) here!
