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In New York City -- on my MONDAY -- I ended up at one of my favorite spots -- Rockefeller Center! You KNOW how much I love this part of the city. But I have never had the privilege of actually visiting a REAL office...until this wonderful day...the shoes belong to: (from the top, clockwise)...Lynn Browne (Coats & Clark), Alden Davis (Burdastyle), Rita Farro, Carol Chow (Burda) and Ann Sagawa.

Here's a full body shot of the five of us: Rita, Ann, Carol, Alden and Lynn.

Coats & Clark offices are in North Carolina -- but Lynn happened to be in NYC for a color conference. It is fascinating to hear how they develop the color palette for thread, ladies. Maybe one day Lynn could be a guest blogger and let us in on the secrets of how they determine what color the future is...



We took the subway (Rockefeller Center has it's own subway stop!) downtown -- all the way to the Bowry. The Burda crew had reservations for Pulino's -- a fabulous New York City pizza place...the interior was SO MUCH FUN. Our table was actually made out of copper. Most of my pictures are fuzzy...but you get the idea...

One of my favorite pictures of the day -- Alden, standing in front of the Burdastyle "stash". Oh, yes, WE ARE SISTERS...!!

In a future post -- I'll tell you about the SURPRISE PERSON I ran into at Burdastyle...a Project Runway Designer...I squealed with delight...

Maybe you can figure it out if you go to their website. If you haven't already joined -- DO IT NOW. Burdastyle is THE hot spot on the internet for sewing action. They have a huge community -- and you can get lots of free tips and project ideas -- it's fun to follow the "challenges". And the one they did with us (for the 2010 Coats & Clark Charity Event) was the BIGGEST EVER...

Just wait to see what we're cooking up for next year, eh?

Red Thread Jacket?

Who's booth is this? And who are those beautiful women? I know for sure the brunette is Nancy Jewell -- and there's a good chance the blonde babe is Lynn Browne. They tag-teamed a great booth for COATS & CLARK at Expo last year. No, the more I look at it -- I'm not so sure it's Lynn. But I AM sure it's Lynn in the second picture....(keep scrolling).



Lynn made and modeled a red dress for our GO RED event -- and the little bolero jacket was made entirely out of THREAD. With any luck, Lynn & Nancy will read this post -- and send me a close-up picture of the jacket. Because it is AMAZING. (if I know Nancy Jewell, that picture will be in my mailbox before the end of the day).
Hey -- wouldn't it be cool if I could hyperlink you to the Coats website, and with one click of your mouse -- you could get the instructions for her jacket? Hummm.... it's been awhile since I practiced my "hyperlink" skills.....
One of the best things about last year's GO RED Event was that every single attendee got a really wonderful Goody Bag, including a free spool of Dual Duty XP RED thread. They also got a fun coupon book, and if they went to the Coats Booth after the style show, they got a SECOND free spool of Red Thread. The Coats booth was SWAMPED -- and, altho I'm sure I took a picture -- it's just possible that I can't even tell it's the Coats booth. My photo is nothing but the backside shot of 600 women, all worried that they'd run out of thread!!

Coats and Clark run out of thread?? Is there corn in Iowa? Rain in Seattle? Puhleezzee....