The Wonderful World of Vogue Fabrics

Laughing Moon #100 by Raquel So you want a fun way to look more svelte? Lace up a corset in a decorative print.  No plastic surgery needed to cinch the waist. No matter your size or age, corsets are fashionable, hitting the runways, clubs, music videos and ready-to-wear venues.  This summer at Vogue Fabrics we were honored to have the return of a fan favorite, Linda Sparks from Farthingales in Canada, who taught two classes in corsetry.  At the bottom of this blog post we've embedded her recent interview on CHCH TV in Toronto this week to promote her corset fashion show at the CreativFestival .  Rye & Ginger Kit We hope to have Linda back soon, but in the meantime Elizabeth at the Vogue Fabrics in Lansing has been hosting Corset Day where she offers product demonstrations and answers your questions for corset building (check our posts on Facebook & Twitter for Corset Day info). We also offer the Rye & Ginger kits on-line, so no matter where i...

Members of the guild put together 500 pillowcases for donation to children at Camp COCO and the Ronald McDonald House. Jason Johnson/The State Journal-Register By ANN GORMAN THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER Posted Jun 12, 2009 @ 12:00 AM As sewing machines whir around her, 86-year-old Helen Landreth of Springfield carefully feeds brightly colored fabric under the presser foot of her “old Singer Featherweight,” creating a multi-patterned pillowcase. “It’s my traveling one. It has its own case and works so nicely. I was offered $10 for it on a trade-in one time, but I said no,” Landreth said of the black, portable machine she’s used since the late 1930s or early 1940s. She also owns two other sewing machines and a serger. Landreth — the oldest member of the Springfield Lincoln Land chapter of the American Sewing Guild, recently joined other members at the University of Illinois Extension Building at the Illinois State Fairgrounds to sew hundreds of cheery pillowcases for children who are ill o...