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Construction Techniques Made Easy
with Connie Palmer
Easy techniques for
creating outstanding construction details.
If you’ve ever struggled with plackets that pucker, collars that need a
little something extra, or bias bands that wrinkle, then you need to bring
Connie Palmer’s years of sewing expertise home to your sewing room. You’ll
learn about her must-have notions and tools and see why her “right-side” and
“1/3” rules are the keys to unlocking pleasing results every time. Connie
guarantees that her techniques are fool-proof and you’ll see how easy they
are for even the novice sewist as she demonstrates and explains each
technique from beginning to end. Once you have this visit with Connie, your
sewing will never be the same and you will be sew excited to show off every
project you make.
$39.00
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Exquisite Construction Techniques
with Lezette Thomason
Lezette Thomason brings
her classroom to you once again, and this time her series of lessons will
teach you how to fashion designer construction details on the inside and
outside of every garment. The step-by-step instruction demonstrates how to
neatly line and finish armholes, side seams, hems, and romper legs. You’ll
also appreciate Lezette’s tips for embellishing garments with scallops,
ruffles and ruching. Her easy pattern alterations show how to create
multiple variations from your patterns and she leaves you with ideas and
inspiration for a whole wardrobe of garment possibilities.
$39.00
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Heirloom Embroidery II DVD
with Wendy Schoen
Wendy Schoen uses
finished garments to introduce eight new hand embroidery stitches and
demonstrates each one in stitch by lovely stitch fashion. This is an
heirloom classroom you will return to again and again.
$39.00
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Bullion Whimsies
with Kari Mecca
Step-by-step instruction in creating bullion
magic.
Kari Mecca’s land of Whimsy is where her masterfully created bullions live.
Flowers, fairies and a whole kingdom of creatures magically appear – all as
a result of her easy to learn steps for wrapping strands of floss around a
needle. Join Kari as she guides you in selecting her favorite tools and
following simple rules for creating the much admired basic bullion. It won’t
be long before striped, looped, or coiled bullions appear beneath your
fingertips and you will be learning how to gather bullions together for your
own family of creatures and floral whimsy-scapes.
$39.00
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Madeira Appliqué
with Martha Pullen
Learn the secrets to magic Madeira Appliqué
using wash away basting thread. Discover which supplies are needed, how to
prepare the fabric and the variety of machine stitches that will add the
finishing touch to your appliqué. See how it can be applied to create shaped
hems and borders, windows, frames and motifs. Madeira Appliqué is not only
magic, it is so easy!
$39.00
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Add A Little Smocking
by Lezette Thomason
Take patterns to new horizons of style with
Lezette’s creative step-by-step instructions. Using simple tools and
supplies, she shows how to alter plain patterns to add fashionable smocking
or pleats. Following her timesaving tricks for magic bindings and bishop
collars will give your garments a designer finish.
$39.00
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Sewing With Whimsy DVD
by Kari Mecca
Kari Mecca and whimsy go together as naturally
as hot fudge and ice cream or peanut butter and jelly. It’s hard to imagine
one without the other. And now you can pair your copy of Kari’s book, Sewing
with Whimsy, with an inspiring instructional DVD with a title that leaves no
room for confusion. The new Sewing with Whimsy DVD brings all the
benefits of Kari’s sought-after teaching style to your sewing room. You’ll
be able to watch and listen as Kari shows you how to duplicate the trims and
fabric techniques that consistently put her garments on the cover of Sew
Beautiful magazine and make her a popular teacher at the Martha Pullen
School of Art Fashion. Step-by-step instructions come alive through Kari’s
voice and hands as rickrack and ribbon flowers bud and blossom before your
eyes. You’ll learn Kari’s secrets for contrasting hembands, mitered and
layered trims, using your sewing machine’s ruffler foot for gathering and
adding the sparkle of beads. Kari’s sewing artistry abounds from beginning
to end, and her fanciful designs will leave you completely enchanted!
$39.00
companion to Sewing With Whimsy
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Perfect Peter Pan Collars
by Lezette Thomason
Peter Pan collar perfection can be yours in
every garment! Simply follow Lezette Thomason’s step-by-step instructions
for construction and placement of four different collar variations while
taking advantage of the magic tricks she demonstrates throughout her
lessons, and your collars will be perfect every time. Lezette has included
simple garment alterations and provides Elizabeth Travis Johnson’s Boo-Boo
collar technique, so no one will ever know if your quest for a perfect Peter
Pan collar took an unexpected detour. You will be perfectly inspired as
Lezette shares her collection of garments for girls and boys, each with a
classic Peter Pan collar.
$39.00
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Heirloom Sewing by Serger DVD
with Martha Pullen & Kathy McMakin
Do you love heirloom sewing and serger
sewing? Why not combine the two, making heirloom sewing twice as fast. You
will learn about appropriate trims for heirloom serging as well as the
importance of needle placement when serging. This DVD will unveil serger
techniques you never thought possible.
$39.00
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Beginning
Heirloom Sewing by Machine DVD
with Martha Pullen
Mastering the basics of heirloom sewing
will be clear and easy as you learn how to use the sewing machine to combine
laces with entredeux and fabric, how to select and apply specialty stitches
that add an heirloom finish, and how to take flat fabric to enticing levels
of three-dimensional artistry. You’ll feel like a master designer as you
create your own classic Heirloom Party Dress. Heirloom Techniques:
Lace to Lace, Lace to Fabric, Lace to Entredeux, Gathered Lace to Entredeux,
Entredeux to Flat Fabric, Entredeux to Gathered Fabric, Top Stitch
Hemstitching: Wing Needlework Pinstitch, Entredeux Stitch Specialty
Techniques: Puffing, Double Needle Pintucks
$39.00
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Heirloom Sewing by Serger DVD
with Martha Pullen & Kathy McMakin
Do you love heirloom sewing and serger
sewing? Why not combine the two, making heirloom sewing twice as fast. You
will learn about appropriate trims for heirloom serging as well as the
importance of needle placement when serging. This DVD will unveil serger
techniques you never thought possible.
$39.00
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Lace Shaping DVD
with Martha Pullen
Detailed explanations are given about
the various supplies that are used for lace shaping and how to prepare your
fabric before you begin. You will enjoy learning how and when to use several
machine heirloom stitches along with the techniques for the basic shapes of
lace shaping and the adaptations that are made for pinless lace shaping. By
the time the DVD is finished, you will be making exquisite lace-shaped bows
and dreaming of a wardrobe of heirloom garments featuring lace shaping.
$39.00
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Basic Heirloom Embroidery DVD
with Wendy Schoen
This DVD will take
you through the very basics of hand embroidery, setting the foundation for a
variety of hand stitches. You will enjoy learning about the correct
supplies and methods for working several classic stitches. Before long, you
will be an expert at this timeless art form!
$39.00
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Shadow Work Embroidery DVD
with Wendy Schoen
The art of shadow
work embroidery is revealed in this DVD with step-by-step instructions! You
will learn to work the simplest of shapes to the more intricate designs.
This charming embellishment will surely become a favorite.
$39.00
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