1301 Dimensional Cutouts	Use your embroidery cutwork card or free hand stitch the shapes of leaves on fashion fabric with fusible webbing. Stitch, then cut out. What you have are these leaves. Here they are a camisole. In chapter 1304, they are fall leaves in purples and plums. Choose the correct stitch, fabric, interfacing and stabilizers to create embroidered cutwork lapel, neckline insets.	Imagine yellow sunflowers with a brown button center on a girl's dress, hat or pillow!
1302 Denim Plus	Sequins on denim? Handle it for evening casual wear with ease. Denim also goes to dressy with addition of matte gold fabric and golden piping for a whole suit, work or play. Machine embroidery brings alley cats to life on denim work shirt - see below.
1303 Plum Tuckered Out	Tucks include twin needle stitching and are not difficult, but add much in architectural interest to an otherwise plain garment. Shirley demonstrates pleating method to create fabric for a tucked, twin needle stitched vest including pattern layout.
1304 Permanent Pasta	Create this lattice work vest with your Fasturn Tubes. Cutwork embroidery brings your falling leaves to life. Tubes also add western fringe to item.
1305 Developing Roundness	Not our bottoms, our collars! Correct those gaps. The roll lines where lapels fold back are shown and the techniques to achieve professional looking results. Follow her methods for eliminating puckers from shoulders, and hem your sleeve bottoms professionally.
1306 Lavish With Lace	Shirley demonstrates a lace camisole and neckline inset. She demonstrates application of lace on not so eye-catching sweaters. A Sewing Connection crew favorite is her attempt at dying faux fur and lace. Whoops! DO NOT try this at home.
1307 Correcting Patterns	Find a mistake in a paper pattern? This section offers solutions to a myriad of pattern fitting problems and what to look out for when purchasing a pattern. Create a simple wrap skirt, tie skirt, and add a yoke line to a tailored shirt pattern.
1308 Pieces of Enchantment	Shirley and friends offer a fun "show and tell" of different refabrications they have used. Peekaboo fabric (slash and wash repeatedly so the outer layer frays to reveal fabric colors underneath), white denim applique, box pleats that open to different colors.
1309 This Lining Works	Finally, a formula to cut, construct, insert, and hem a lining that fits perfectly, looks professional.
1310 Just Doodling	Become a machine artist with free-motion techniques that inspire unique embellishments for any garment. Create a moonlight scene with cats on a fence. Take a picture of a beautiful garden and reconstruct it on a jacket or dress.	Stray cats strut on the brick wall under a quarter moon. Just perfect for the cat lover on your gift list!
1311 Becoming Bias	Convert straight grain to bias? You bet! On a paper pattern, fold the bottom corner up so the grain arrow becomes a 90 degree angle- a square. Give the resulting fold a sharp crease and it becomes a bias arrow, 45 degree. Position that new line on the fabric straight grain and viola! True Bias. A bias fabric conversion chart is included at the end of the book.
1312 Flowery Finishes	The Victorian floral is becoming popular again. We sewers never let it go away. Floral embellishments: reproduction of garden beauties in fabric with bead, ribbon embroidery, red Dior roses, red machine embroidery on red vest speak elegance.
1313 Two Fold Jacket	Use elaborate fabric or elaborate embellishment on a simple fold and cut jacket - but not both or you might be overwhelming. Shirley demonstrates the ribbon jacket from 1201 and a sequined denim jacket.

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