Shirley Adams Sewing Connection Series 5 will be available in print and ebook November 8. Visit her author page for other work.
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Join Shirley as she brings you new techniques and ideas to elevate your sewing from great to excellent!
- Setting Boundaries: Designer adaptations of borders provide a professional finish and a lovely frame for your face.
- Sueded Silk and Microfibers: Luxury requires special consideration in choice of pattern and purpose
- Shawl Collars: A shawl collar is equally appropriate on a blouse, dress, suit, or coat
- Testing 1, 2, 3: Invest time creating test patterns before cutting into expensive fabrics. It will save your time and your money. Address fitting problems as well as pattern matching concerns.
- Embellishing The Truth: Fix ugly fabric with style and creativity
- Love To Sew With My Feet: Jan Saunders joins Shirley to demonstrate the versatility of your sewing machine’s presser feet.
- Terrific Tubes: Fabric tubes offer endless fun and creativity, whether to cover a headband, add style to a simple jacket, create new fabric to show off as a bag or blouse.
- See It, Sew It: Anything you see, you can sew! Gather ideas from ready to wear and transform a simple pattern into the latest fashion
- See It Again: Alter an existing pattern to create anything you see in expensive ready to wear.
- Home Décor Camouflage: Create screen panels using sheets that match your bedding, shoulder protection for garment storage, lamp shades, and camouflage a box as an occasional table.
- Wearing Home Décor: Don’t overlook home decor stores as fabrics and textures abound as well as colors and patterns. Create fun and decorative kid’s rompers.
- Baker’s Dozen: Shirley answers viewer mail with a multitude of professional sewing techniques from smooth shoulder caps to buttonholes to hemming knit fabrics..
- It’s In The Bag: With any type fabric, bags provide opportunity for self expression. Easy to make hobo bag and shoulder bag look expensive, but only you will know the secret..