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Pati Palmer and Katrina Walker guide you through the steps to making a perfect pairing between fabrics and patterns. Make your fabrics work with your designs using special techniques. Pati and Katrina explain fabric sewability and discuss the easiest fabrics to sew. They not only discuss fibers and fabrics, they also teach important tips and tests to guarantee successful sewing:

2-hour DVD
$19.95

Pattern Tips and Fabric Choices
Let the Pattern Help You!
Fabric Choices for Shirts, Blouses, Dresses,  
   Jackets, and Pants

Fibers and Fabrics—Things to Consider
Fiber types and characteristics
Fabric Construction
Straighten Fabric and Cut on Grain
Fabric Care Considerations

Quick Fabric Tests to Guarantee Sewing Success
TEST 1: Does It Wrinkle?
TEST 2: The 10 Foot Rule—Do the Fabrics Blend?
TEST 3: Will You Need to Steam-Shrink
   Before Cutting?
TEST 4: Will the Fabric Shine When Pressed?
TEST 5: Will the Fabric Ease?
TEST 6: Will Seams and Darts Sew and
   Press Well?
TEST 7: Can I Get Even Gathers in
   Lightweight Fabrics?
TEST 8: What Is “Turn of Cloth?”

Pati’s Sewing Decisions—Two Patterns, Four Fabrics Simple Jacket Style—Heavy and Light Fabrics
Detailed Jacket Style—Heavy and Light Fabrics

Let’s Go Shopping! A Trip to the Fabric Store
Image consultant Ethel Harms shows Pati and Katrina how to shop with the color palettes she created for them. You will learn about matching fabrics to your personal coloring.

The Six Easiest Fabrics to Sew

Katrina Walker, designer and educator, specializes in textiles, particularly silk and wool. Her designs are featured in several home sewing magazines. She is a Palmer/Pletsch Certified Sewing Instructor and a faculty member of The Silk Experience. Katrina has worked as a Family and Consumer Sciences educator and in apparel development for Nordstrom and REI. She is a Wellesley College graduate and a National Make it With Wool adult division winner. For more about Katrina, visit her website at www.katrinawalker.com

Companion books:

   

Mother Pletsch's Painless Sewing
$9.95
Mother Pletsch's Painless Sewing Pati Palmer, Susan Pletsch This completely revised Mother Pletsch's Painless Sewing is a lighthearted book for both beginners and those who want a sewing brush up... the most uncomplicated sewing book of the century! Learn to sew FAST, with professional-looking results. And with Pretty Pati's Perfect Patter Primer, you'll find your clothes fit better than ever before, thanks to co author Pati Palmer, who also designs for The McCall Pattern Company as The Fit Expert.  128 pages.

Jackets For Real People
$24.95
Use this book and ALL of your sewing will improve. For a minimal investment and a little time, you can have a designer jacket. Using the latest interfacings sew it Armani-style and achieve a custom fit no matter what your figure. Includes pattern and fabric selection, patterns and fabrics fitting on real people, the latest on fusible interfacings, cutting and marking tips, how-to's for buttonholes, a NO-FAIL welt pocket, "bagging a lining", easy mitered vents, and much more, plus finished touches such as topstitching and piping.

                    

"Jackets For Real People" $24.95
"Jackets For Real People" (Spiral Bound) $29.95
"Jackets for Real People" (USED*) $15.95

LOOKING GOOD Live! DVD
Look like a million...for considerably less!

What you need to know about style, line, design, and color to flatter you.

Featuring wardrobe consultant Nancy Nix-Rice and based on the classic wardrobe book, Looking Good. Learn how to look like a million NOW—not after you lose 20 pounds, win the lottery, or build a bigger closet.

Nancy shows you how to dress the body you have and make it the best it can be. Learn to create “points of connection” between you and your wardrobe—colors, styles, design details and accessories—to spotlight your assets and minimize your challenge areas. See Cindy’s wardrobe transformation and discover techniques to update your own closet. Whether you buy clothes, sew your own, or both, you’ll never again have to utter those famous words: “I have nothing to wear.”

For more about this new DVD click HERE or on the DVD cover.

1 hour 40 minute DVD
$19.95  

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