“Women clad in aprons have traditionally prepared the Thanksgiving meal, and it is within our historical linkage to share our bounty.” EllynAnne Geisel
Six years ago, I noticed that Thanksgiving was talked about in terms more commonly associated with stress, than joy. I remembered my mother’s absolute love of Thanksgiving, as a day more than anything else of sharing and gratefulness. So I created National Tie One On Day™ as an annual opportunity to return the “give” to Thanksgiving by sharing our good fortune with someone in need of a kind gesture.
National Tie One On Day™ has nothing to do with purchasing anything special or even driving!
Participation is simple. On the day before Thanksgiving, November 21st this year, pause in the preparation of your own meal, wrap a loaf of bread or other baked good in an apron, tuck a prayer or note of encouragement in the pocket, and tie one on…an apron, of course! and deliver the wrapped bundle to someone without your bounty… a neighbor, friend or family member in need of physical or spiritual sustenance, a bit of recognition or just a kind word.
I know it to be true that whether you live in a high rise apartment building or on a quiet block, no matter which direction you walk out of your own front door, someone deserving of a gesture of kindness is close by.
National Tie One On Day™ is a win-win, for the participant and the receiver. By embracing National Tie One On Day™, you will make someone else’s day brighter.
For More Information, email EllynAnne or call 1.719.545.5704
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MikWright is a nationally known greeting card company founded in 1991 by friends Phyllis Wright-Herman and Tim Mikkelsen, better known as the “Wright” and “Mik” of MikWright. In addition to 2000 independent retailers nationwide, the MikWright brand can be found on licensed products with Andrews McMeel Publishing, Design Design, Luckie-Street and High Cotton. MikWright’s feature credits include Donny Deutsch’s “The Big Idea”, CNBC Power Lunch, Seattle PM Magazine and numerous national and regional publications.
When MikWright “ties one on,” it usually involves vodka and olives. Accordingly, MikWright is a proud sponsor and supporter of “National Tie One on Day™” and EllynAnne Geisel, author of The Apron Book.
Phyllis Wright-Herman |
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Ashley Leckey Schoenith was inspired at a young age by the surroundings of made-from-scratch birthday cakes, splattered family recipe cards and hand-sewn Halloween costumes. Born and raised in Tallahassee, Florida, Ashley is a seventh-generation Floridian with a deep love and appreciation for her Southern roots. Her passions include history, small towns and design with a special affinity towards combining antiques and classic design in a neutral, rustic palette. In 2007, Ashley founded IceMilk Aprons, a gourmet line of heirloom aprons, as a creative collaboration and a way to spend more time with her Grandmother, Cecile Marcoux. Cele was a masterful seamstress who previously had a line of luxury gentlemen’s ties, and was a delightful hostess made for entertaining. Each IceMilk apron comes with its very own heirloom kit – a heritage tag, an apron story, and three blank recipe cards – perfectly preserved within a jam jar. IceMilk Aprons was selected as a “Top Holiday Gift of 2010″ by Martha Stewart. IceMilk Aprons has given our family the ability to spend more time together & to pass down our traditions from generation to generation. We hope they afford you the same luxury.
Ashley Leckey Schoenith, heirloom designer |
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MODERN JUNE Cool Stuff for the Hip Housewife Specializing in retro-inspired aprons and other goodies for the cool “housewife,” Modern June sells handmade housewares for the hip home. Modern June started out as a simple creative outlet for semi-desperate housewife, Kelly McCants. Anxious to do something that was just for her, Kelly turned her love of vintage aprons into a start-up business, first selling her aprons at local farmers markets. But when she couldn’t bear to see them go, she drafted patterns of her favorites. By Christmas of 2006, Kelly had taken those pattern and modernized them for the modern housewife. Modern June is now sold in over a dozen brick and mortar shops across America and Canada. The best place to find Modern June is on ETSY! Go put on your apron and be creative!
Kelly McCants |
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Since 1983, Mary Mulari Productions has provided inspiration to the home sewer through a creative line of stylized, hand-drawn patterns from vintage-inspired aprons to zipper bags and home accessories, machine embroidery appliqués, books and CDs.
Mary is a popular lecturer and guest on the PBS series, Sewing with Nancy.
Mary Mulari |
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When you stop by the Double D Ranch corporate offices in Yoakum, Texas, you won’t find the stereotypical fashion house. Cheryl has her bare legs propped up to the design table sketching a new collection. Margie will be fresh out of her garden thumbing through invoices. Hedy might be buried under a shipment of fur, sorting out the pieces that don’t meet her standards. And you’ll find Audrey in a fitting session, scanning the month’s order forms, while seamstresses tuck and pin around her. They’re just four regular girls from Yoakum, building on their hard working Texas roots and a childhood spent in the Southwest. They don’t care how things are done in New York. They’ve managed to build a fashion and furnishing company deep in the heart of Texas and they wouldn’t have it any other way.
Started in 1989, the Double D Ranch apparel line has been called Western haute couture.
Ivy Koehler |
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Sew,Mama,Sew! is the entrepreneurial venture of Kristin Link, a former educator who loved teaching and training, but now feels incredibly lucky to be buying and selling fabric for a living. Browse our shop for modern cotton fabric and hip new sewing patterns from indie designers. Visit our blog for sewing tutorials from the pros, project ideas and giveaways. Join the supportive sewing community in our forum to share your skills and learn something new.
Sew,Mama,Sew! serves customers worldwide through www.sewmamasew.com.
Kristin Link |
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BERNINA is a fourth generation family-owned company. Swiss precision is at the heart of every product they make. Their products are known for Quality, Innovation and Design. With innovative features that make sewing easier, BERNINA emphasizes ergonomic design that lets you focus on your project―and not the machine.
BERNINA’s nationwide network of fully trained independent dealerships provides the highest standard of service, beginning with free guide classes after purchase. Find a BERNINA store near you at www.berninausa.com/dealer. BERNINA of America just introduced the new WeAllSew.com blog for sewing enthusiasts of all ages who share their love of sewing through ideas, projects, patterns and tips. The new WeAllSew blog offers a place for sewers, embroiderers and quilters to connect with fellow enthusiasts and sewing experts. Readers will also find tutorials, easy step-by-step instructions, new product information and inspirational ideas, including ways to help sewers step up to the next level. Find your next sewing idea on WeAllSew.com. With topics running the gamut on all things sewing, quilting, embroidery and crafting, you are sure to find something to spark your creativity.
Alice D. Voss, Marketing Manager |
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Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC (AMP), a division of Andrews McMeel Universal, is a leading publisher of general nonfiction trade, cookbook, gift, and humor books, publishing as many as 200 new titles annually. AMP is also the premier calendar publisher in the country. Andrews McMeel is the proud publisher of best selling The Apron Book: Making, Wearing and Sharing a Bit of Cloth and Comfort by EllynAnne Geisel, as well as EllynAnne’s Apronisms: Pocket Wisdom for Every Day and The Kitchen Linens Book: Using, Sharing and Cherishing the Fabrics of Our Daily Lives.
Tammie Barker, Publicist AMP |
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Rebecca Ruth Designs™ produces a popular range of retro-style apron patterns, as well as table runner, soft doll, and quilt patterns. Designer Rebecca Anderson believes a good pattern should be fun, easy to understand, and result in something you can be proud of. That’s what is behind her line of more than 35 patterns.
Dave Toht |
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After 27 years in corporate America, Cynthia Wadell followed her dream to establish her own business that she has named Heavenly Hostess, a line dedicated to upscale aprons and kitchen linens. All Heavenly Hostess products, including beautiful vintage inspired hostess aprons, retro inspired cocktail aprons and vintage inspired halter aprons, are designed and manufactured in Sunny California. Many Heavenly Hostess halter aprons are available small/medium up to Plus sizes, including the popular Mommy & Me aprons.
“Although the apron may have once symbolized a woman’s lack of choices in life, it is now an empowering icon for the abundance of choices in a woman’s life,” says Cynthia. Heavenly Hostess’s sponsorship of National Tie One On Day™ is in addition to Cynthia’s commitment to contributing and supporting charitable organizations that are addressing the world’s Global Giants: Extreme Poverty, Pandemic Disease, Crippling Illiteracy and Spiritual Emptiness.
Cynthia Wadell |
National Association of Baby Boomer Women &
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The National Association of Baby Boomer Women is the only association devoted to addressing issues concerning 38 million of the healthiest, wealthiest, and best educated generation of women to ever hit midlife, baby boomer women.
Anne L. Holmes, APR – “Boomer in Chief” |
 With a mission of Advancing Sewing as an Art and Life Skill, the American Sewing Guild has over 20,000 enthusiastic members in 138 chapters and over a 1,000 neighborhood groups throughout the country. ASG members are among the most passionate sewers you will meet. If you’d like to learn the basics of sewing, take your sewing to the next level or learn new sewing skills within a nurturing environment, join ASG! To learn more about ASG, become a member or start a group in your community, visit www.asg.org.
Abby Wright, Communications Director |
 With 30 diverse art and crafting titles, Stampington & Company is your source for creative inspiration! From paper-crafting and mixed-media art to doll-making and art-to-wear, our family of publications explores a broad range of artistic media. Stampington is also the creator and publisher of apron●ology, the first magazine dedicated to the art and artistry of the apron.
Sarah Meehan |
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As a “Pie Evangelist,” Beth Howard teaches others how to bake pie, hosting parties for groups of all ages, all walks of life, in locations as far reaching as London, Switzerland, and Mexico. From her home in Eldon, Iowa, where she is the proud (and privileged) resident of the famous American Gothic House, Beth sells pie to tourists from her pitchfork pie stand and teaches pie making classes. Beth’s memoir, Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie, the story of how pie helped her heal from the death of her 43-year-old husband, will be published by Harlequin Non-Fiction in April 2012.
Pie is meant for sharing. Pie connects people. Pie is the perfect partner to National Tie One On Day. Pie knows no cultural or political boundaries. Pie makes people happy. And happy people make the world a better place. That’s why the world needs more pie.
Beth Howard |
 For over 70 years, Aunt Martha’s has provided America’s craft lovers with the widest selection of transfer patterns for use in needlework, fabric painting, wearable art, quilting, woodworking and leather crafts. Visit Aunt Martha’s website for beloved vintage transfers, along with new designs, reproduction vintage dishcloths, aprons and much more!
Chris Price |
 Simplicity began selling patterns in 1927 and continues to sell patterns today to consumers looking for the most current looks to sew. Simplicity Creative Group is dedicated to encouraging and supporting your creativity with high quality, fun to use products, projects and services. Our family of well known craft, sewing, knitting, hobby and home decorating brands includes: Simplicity®, Pattern Company, Wrights®, Conso®, Boye® Needle, E-Z Quilting®, and British Trimmings.
Deborah Kreiling |
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Creative Machine Embroidery imparts machine embroidery enthusiasts of every age and skill level with the tools they need and the inspiration they crave to further their craft. Visit our site for free downloadable designs! And sign up for our newsletter full of tips from the experts at CME.
Ellen March, Editor |
SewNews is published six times a year by CK Media. For almost 30 years, SewNews has specialized in presenting sewing ideas, inspirations and techniques to our readers. We’re devoted to filling each issue of our magazine with fun features–from garment construction to quick-to-make gifts–and now you’ll find home dec how-tos and step-by-step instructions on current creative trends. SewNews is Sew Real. Sew Informative. Sew Inspiring. |
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Judi Ketteler has been writing stories since she was eight years old. Now, she makes her living telling the stories that help people connect to the products, services, and information they most need. Judi deeply believes that your story — whether it’s in the form of three lines of copy on a home page or a 2,000-word profile— is your best thing.
Judi got her start working at an agency as a copywriter, but has now owned her writing business for close to 10 years. She’s written for dozens of magazines and web sites, such as Better Homes & Gardens, ElleDecor.com, Do It Yourself, Creative Home, Self, Woman’s Day, and many others. Because she’s passionate about sewing, women’s history, and vintage bargain-hunting, she decided to write a book about it. Sew Retro: A Stylish History of the Sewing Revolution + 25 Vintage-Inspired Projects for the Modern Girl was published by Voyageur Press in 2010, and is coming upon its second printing.
Judi Ketteler, Copy Strategist |
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“More often, I should sit down and write a note of thanks to others who make me feel so blessed by their love and friendship. Thank you for putting into action what became a more wonderful day because I shared a loaf of bread.” Amy Bissell
“We have Christmas traditions that have developed over the years but hadn’t really found any for Thanksgiving Eve until now. Thank you! We love your National Tie One On Day.” Becky Smart
“I just got finished with my apron yesterday and I have to bake the bread today and tonight I will take them (along with a gift certificate at a grocery store) to a family whose dad has been out of work.” Bonnie Ellis
“I’ve gotten my husband involved and we decided National Tie One On Day is something we will do every year with our son as a way to give back and teach him the joy of giving.” Jennie Schaeffer
“I raided the local second hand store for old jeans and tattered old linens to make darling jean ruffle aprons I have 6 loaves and aprons to deliver and I feel so honored to a part of such a great give-a-thon.” René Groom
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