Sewing . . . Good to Great: It's in the Details
by Marta Alto;Pati Ethel Palmer (9780935278767)

Addressing the difficulties of at-home sewers, the topics in this DVD will improve skills in making beautiful finished garments. The segments are devoted to subjects such as sewing and pressing darts; finishing both lapped and invisible zippers; stabilizing knit faced edges; adding single-welt pockets; lining methods including a lined-to-the-edge camisole; machine embroidery tips; and covering snaps for a couture touch. By following along at home, anyone can create professional-quality fitted garments of their own.

Included: perfect darts, lapped and invisible zippers, facings, edge finishes, pocket styles, Hong Kong finish and to-the edge linings, hems in many fabrics, machine embroidery tips, and covered snaps over BIG buttons.

Perfect Darts
Fitting darts
Sewing Darts
Pressing darts
Zippers
Lapped zipper
Lapped Zipper facing
Invincible zipper
Invisible zipper facing

Facing
Finish the Edge
Fusible tape
Bias binding
Serger bias binding

Pocket Styles
types and creative ideas

Single-welt Pocket
Piping the Welt and other ideas

Lining
Hong Kong finish
Camisole lined to the edge

Hems in Many Fabrics
Hand blind hem
Machine blind hem
Hand rolled hem
Narrow machine hem
Serger rolled edge
Jeans flat-felled seams & hems

Machine Embroidery Tips
Stabilize with Perfect Sew
Placement tips

Covered Snaps Under Bid Buttons


See the most difficult sewing details demystified. Marta Alto has been teaching sewing since the 1970s, both as a traveling educator and in hands-on workshops. She has learned her craft by doing it and teaching it, so she knows first-hand where people have difficulties. The techniques she demonstrates here will improve your skills in making beautiful finished garments.

USD $19.95

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