Welcome to our Garden
June 25th, 2009Welcome to the new home of Garden Fairies Smocking & Needlearts Newsletter.
The main fairy has been busy spiffing up the websites
and is now paying attention to the heart of soul of our life, the newsletters.
(See The Gathering Thread Issue Three for info on this nightgown - submitted by Pam in Australia many years ago)
Home is where the heart is and the heart of Garden Fairies is the newsletters since 1997. We have shifted to the blog format as it fulfills a dream we’ve had for years on how to develop our gift to you. So keep coming back or subscribe to our blog and every time we post a newsletter you will be notified.
How to Subscribe? This has taken the fairies a while to figure out but we think it’s pretty clear now, you subscribe to the Feed delivery service that match your web browser’s entry page or your blog feed page. For example if you use MSN as your home base choose MYMSN and it adds our newsletter to your home page. I have signed up for iGoogle where the feed to this blog sits on my front door, what fun. We’re still working on an email option as many still prefer to receive our newsletters by email and we apologize for that section of our site being stuck as Yahoo and Google shut us out of our newsletters due to their rotten customer service.
If you have a burning question on smocking, heirloom sewing or silk ribbon embroidery please post a comment, send us an email to Smockingstore@att.net and the main fairy will answer as quickly as possible. Our phone hours are M-F 7:30 AM - 7PM Pacific Time. S-S we will answer if we’re here otherwise leave a message.
Who is Yakshi? Yakshi is the name of the nature spirit whose job it is to kick trees into bloom, a fitting companion for someone who’s job it is selling sewing supplies.
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We are creating a new members only area which is specifically for our customers and have figured out the sign up aspect of this feature - it will be activated soon.
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We wanted to remind you that if you are in a Non Profit Group you are welcome to quote from our newsletters as long as you ask permission and give full copyright credit to the author, myself Beth-katherine Kaiman. If you are a commercial site and copy our writings without permission we will turn you in to the internet police as well as to the fairy militia who will haunt you in your dreams, shame on you. All others standard copyright laws apply.
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June 15th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Hello,
I tried using my Amanda Jane pleater for the first time and have broken a needle…is there some place that I can get a clear illustration of how to get the needles back into the pleater? In all my smocking books, I cannot clearly see how it’s done, and my needles keep falling out…help!
June 16th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Once you have taken the top roller bar off get to where you are eye level with the roller bars. Where the needle sits in the notch look at the back of the notch and you will see that there is a small square created by the conjunction of the three stationary roller bars. (You have to be eye level to see what I am talking about.) This is where the point of the needle goes into and then the needle sits properly on the notch, first “hump” from the eye of the needle is down. If the needle does not sit right down your needle point is NOT in that square notch.