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    Heirloom Sewing Instructional DVDS

    Like having your own personal teacher whenever you want!

    Basic Heirloom Embroidery DVD
    with Wendy Schoen

    This DVD will take you through the very basics of hand embroidery so you have the foundation for a variety of hand stitches.  You will enjoy learning about the correct supplies and methods for working several classic stitches.

    DVD-004........$65.98


    Lace Shaping DVD
    with Martha Pullen

    This DVD includes detailed explanations
    about lace shaping, fabric preparation
    and machine heirloom stitching
    techniques used for creating beautiful
    shaped lace projects.

    DVD-005........$65.98


    Pleating DVD
    with Martha Pullen and Dody Baker

    This DVD covers the parts of the pleater, the mechanics of the pleater and how to pleat various fabrics and styles of garments including bishops, overlays, plaids and using elastic thread.

    DVD-006........$69.98


    Smocking DVD
    with Martha Pullen &
    Dody Baker

    This DVD will take you from the very basics of smocking through a variety of smocking stitches to picture smocking and machine smocking.

    DVD-007.......$69.98


    Add a Little Smocking DVD
    with 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.

    DVD-008........$65.99

     

    Exquisite Construction Techniques
    with Lezette Thomason

    Lezette is the owner and founder of the clothing business Children's Corner and is a highly respected sewing teacher.  You can have her expertise in your own home through this DVD.

    Topics included are lined garment armholes, side seams and hems; scallop embellishments; inverted box pleat placket; ruffles and ruching; easy pattern alterations; and ends with sewing inspirations for a whole wardrobe of garment possibilities.

    A wonderful DVD!

    DVD-039.........$65.98

    Bullion Whimsies
    by Kari Mecca

    Learn to create flowers, fairies and a whole kingdom of creatures as a result of the easy to follow steps for wrapping strands of floss around the needle.  Join Kari as she guides you to her favorite tools while learning the simple rules to create the much admired basic bullion.  Before long you will be making the stripe, looped and coiled bullions and more.

    DVD-013.........$54.98


     

    Sewing with Whimsy DVD
    with Kari Mecca

    Kari Mecca and whimsy go togeter 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 hem bands, 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!

    DVD-011........sorry sold out


    More Sewing with Whimsy DVD
    with Kari Mecca

    Kari encourages you to sprout wings of creativity and then you will soon be ready to fly away to the Land of Whimsy and gather your own garden of embellishments. 

    Watch and learn how she makes a garden of beautiful flowers magically appear while whirling and twirling with the whimsy sticks, ribbons and trims.  Then set off to create your own magical garden of flowers.

    Kari gives great directions and shows you step by step how to create these wonderful embellishments.
    You will want to get started creating your own right away!

     

    DVD-012........$45.98


    Click for Whimsy sticks

    Whimsy Flowers
    and Trims

    with Kari Mecca

    Sparked by the book "Whimsy Flowers & Trims", This embellishment DVD teaches sewists and crafters alike the designer's unique approach to fashioning ribbon and trim embellishments.

    DVD-032....$34.98

    Whimsical Applique

    with Kari Mecca

    With today's modern sewing machines, applique has undergone major changes. A wide variety of technique and stitiches add to the interest and creativity of traditional and whimsical applique. Kari will introduce you to essential tools and products to ake applique fun and EASY.

    DVD-033......$44.98

    Sale - $36.98

    Silk Ribbon
    Embroidery
    by Hand 1

    Come, sit beside Beverley as she teaches the basics of silk ribbon embroidery.  You will learn the basic stitches and how to turn these stitches into beautiful bouquets of flowers

    DVD-023.....$59.98

    Silk Ribbon Embroidery
    by Hand 2

    Beverley teaches you how to make more flowers as well as tiny creatures.

    DVD-024.....$59.98


    Know Your Stabilizer
    for Perfect Embroidery

    When should I use a tear-away stabilizer
    as opposed to a cut-away?
    Can't I always use a wash-away?
    Why should I use a topper?

    With so many stabilizing options today, matching the right stabilizer with your fabric

    DVD-028.........$39.98


    Embellishing Crazy Patch 2

    Create wonderful texture in your projects as you learn Gloria's over dying technique and tips for bead and button embellishment.

    DVD-036.....$54.98


     

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