Create attractive handbags-without breaking your budget. Nancy showcases four handbags, each of which can be made in an evening. Start with your favorite handbag pattern, then make the bag one of a kind using one of Nancy's easy sewing techniques. Learn to use unique foundation fabrics, to accent bags with precut fabric strips, to sew faux leather or vinyl, and to add piping.
Nancy demonstrates additional attractive bags that can be created in an evening. Learn more creative techniques as Nancy fashions four additional handbags. Foundation piece a bag using lovely fabric scraps and ribbons; combine O-rings, faux such as recycled ties; accent bags with straps and O-rings; and design a beautiful vintage lace bridal bag.
Use Nancy's simple techniques to add style and versatility to handbags. Nancy demonstrates how to make strap, to add an easy ribbon/zipper closure, to accent a handbag with precisely positioned embroidery, and organizer that can be interchanged with all your handbags. Nancy's bag options are fast and easy.
Nancy features single layer jacket techniques using unique fabrics and easy edge finishes. Eliminate time-consuming sewing techniques by using a pattern designed for single layer construction, or by modifying an existing jacket pattern following Nancy's suggestions. Learn how to select suitable fabrics and how to add serged or bound edge finishes for easy sewing and a carefree look.
Simplify curved piecing using the appli-curve technique. Nancy and guest Elaine Waldschmitt create curved quilt blocks such as the Drunkards Path and Hearts and Gizzards with Elaine's amazingly easy appli-curve technique. The steps are streamlined and sewing curved seams is a thing of the past.
Create a seemingly complicated New York Beauty block with the easy appli-curve technique. Stitch quilt designs with curves without traditional seaming using the appli-curve technique. Nancy and her guest Elaine Waldschmitt demonstrate easy paper piecing for the spike designs, and then position the arcs with the help of fusible web to create perfect New York Beauty blocks.
Use versatile ombre fabrics to create a lovely gradation of color in home decor and quilting. Nancy shows how to create beautiful color gradations using only two ombre fabrics for the Ombre Symphony table topper or wall accent, and four ombre fabrics in the small Gradation Medley quilt. Strips of fabric in a variety of widths and easy straight stitching are all that are required.
Subtle to dramatic gradations of ombre fabrics are ideal for landscape quilting. Nancy enlists the help of designer Natalie Sewell to create gorgeous art quilts with a sense of depth using ombre fabrics. They quickly cut trees, branches, and sky from a single ombre, and fussy cut leaves from another. Natalie demonstrates how a change in the stitching motion creates both sky and water.
Use ombre fabrics to create super-sized quilt blocks that are fast and fun to make. Nancy makes large quilt blocks with gradated fabric for an Ombre Fan quilt with Asian influence and an Amish Ombre Shadow quilt. She stitches super-sized fans using Dresden wedges of ombre fabric, then pairs an ombre with black fabric for another dramatic quilt.
Learn quick embroidery tips to streamline embellishment. Nancy and guest Kate Bashynski demonstrate embroidery tips that save time, energy, and money. Beginner and expert embroiderers will benefit from these techniques. Learn tips for embroidering on ready-made garments, expanding design collections by changing colors, skipping stitches for design flexibility, and eco-hooping to save stabilizer.
Incorporate designer tips to simplify the embroidery process. Embroidery specialist Kate Bashynski and Nancy share useful embroidery tips for stitching flawless-looking designs. They show ideas for hiding background colors, stabilizing with spray for extra support, using grid and ghost templates for placement, creating dimensional projects, and adding sparkle with beads and crystals.
Evoke a passion for recycling and repurposing as you learn to sew green. Guest Mary Mulari and Nancy repurpose and recycle as they share delightfully simple ideas and projects. Learn to felt and reuse wool sweaters for mittens, gauntlets, glass cases, scarves, and tea cozies. Plus, make an ingenious variety of bags from scarves, curtains, ties, and more.
Become a makeover advocate as you sew green projects for yourself and others. Make a unique bistro apron from a vintage tablecloth, or repurpose men's shirts into children's or adults' aprons, gift bags, a dog collar, and more. Nancy and her friend Mary Mulari demonstrate creative makeovers that not only transform the items, but emit a spirit of change in America-time to recycle and sew green!
Learn how to applique with Nancy's easy and creative variations. Nancy presents an applique techniques primer in these workbook style lessons, using the same simple design as the foundation for each technique. She starts with the basics, then shows how to stitch inner details, minimize the use of fusible web, incorporate decorative stitches, and create easy folk art variations.
Discover interesting applique techniques with Nancy in this creative session. Host Nancy Zieman inspires you to explore the many facets of applique. She illustrates several favorite applique techniques including couching, free-motion zigzagging, innovative confetti appliques, and varying the width of satin stitching.
Embellish your appliques with easy techniques detailed by Nancy. Pointers from Nancy will give you confidence to create a variety of fast and fun appliques. Nancy demonstrates multi-layer applique, button embellishment, felting, reversible applique, edge-turning techniques, and using fusible bias tape.
Use versatile serger stitches to add pizzazz to your projects. Serger expert Pam Mahshie joins Nancy in showing how to creatively incorporate overlock, rolled hem, and flatlock stitches in a variety of projects from heirloom to home decor. These simple to make projects will get you serging, no matter what your level of serger expertise!
Add excitement to your serging using unique serger stitches plus accessory feet and attachments. Nancy and guest Pam Mahshie serge a bit of magic into elegant handbags and children's boutique-like clothing. See the exciting effects that can be created using a chain stitch, cover stitch, specialty serger feet, and attachments.
Learn to quilt a Reversible Cotton Theory Jacket that's perfect for business or casual events. Nancy and guest Betty Cotton construct a one-of-a-kind reversible quilted jacket using Betty's Quilt First-Then Assemble method. This jacket is perfect for quilters who want to wear what they make!
Complete the Reversible Cotton Theory Jacket and use the remaining quilted pieces for a tote bag. Again using the Quilt First-Then Assemble method, Nancy Zieman and guest Betty Cotton demonstrate finishing techniques for completing the reversible jacket. Use the same highway and one-way seams to create a matching tote bag.
Learn decorative stitch thread painting, a fun, funky, and free-form process. Karen Linduska, fiber artist, joins Nancy to teach the basics of her thread painting technique. These fun and colorful pieces incorporate decorative stitches found on most sewing machines in addition to paints and other mediums to create the highly detailed work.
Explore the design possibilities using thread painting techniques, materials, and ideas. Nancy and guest Karen Linduska invite you to explore decorative stitch thread painting. Use decorative stitches to create outline stitches, filler stitches, weaving techniques, and images of flowers, ferns, grasses, and trees. Paint with thread to produce botanical images in this artistic process.
Blend strong solid colors and geometric shapes to make Amish style quilts. Nancy and her guest Klaudeen Hansen, an authority on Amish quilts, teach basic color, design, and technique. Create small Amish style quilt projects with characteristic bold geometric shapes and solid colorations. These plain and simple projects are made with techniques that are fast and fun.
Explore the link between Amish culture and artistic quilting. Klaudeen Hansen's knowledge of Amish culture is apparent as she presents detailed information about Amish quilting patterns along with traditions of Amish life. She and Nancy teach the basics of making a unique Amish postcard quilt using solid colors and geometric shapes to capture the spirit characteristic of Amish designs.
Be inspired with creations made from vintage hankies. Amy Barickman and her staff of designers have created fashions and home decor using vintage and modern hankies to give a nostalgic feel to the projects. Nancy and Amy show how to incorporate hankies into wearable art, and give a multitude of designer tips for additional ways in which to utilize beautiful retro hankies.
Express yourself by using beautiful hankies as a focal point in your projects. Amy Barickman and Nancy continue this nostalgic series by incorporating vintage hankies into ready-made garments as well as home decor accents. Amy's designer styles and decorations are expressive as well as economical to sew.
Designer Kate Bashynski and Nancy demonstrate classic appliqued Dresden designs. After showing how to stitch and applique wedges to a fabric background, they add traditional or dimensional yo-yo centers. Then they showcase innovative design options using full, three-quarter, and half fan blocks, including a Patches & Plates Quilt, a Serpentine Table Runner, and a Poinsettia Table Topper.
Nancy teams up with designer Kate Bashynski to continue exploring interesting variations for the Dresden applique process. They show a never-fail method of shaping scalloped edges using fusible interfacing. They make four projects, including a Dresden Dahlia quilt, a mini Christmas Tree Skirt, a Peacock Table Runner, and an Eleven Pines Wall Hanging.
Transform a rectangle into a drapable spiral scarf, tuck and gather challis fabric for a cascading scarf, or create clever knit infinity ring scarves. Nancy and guest Donna Fenske share the simple process for making creative new fabric accessories-sensational scarves!
Designer Donna Fenske joins Nancy to showcase textured scarf creations using fabrics ranging from light and airy bridal illusion to a lofty fleece. Traditional techniques like making chenille give way to unique designs such as the no-sew Fairy Dust Scarf. Whether you're ruffling, tying, cutting, or felting, the results are dramatic!
Nancy demonstrates how to create a pattern from a ready-made garment with a reverse sewing process, using a front-opening jacket to illustrate. After discussing basic tools, she reveals the tricks of tracing. She shows how to transfer grainline, seams, seam and hem allowances, side panels, collars, buttonholes, and sleeves, as well as how to replicate a garment section with a center fold.
Nancy illustrates how to prepare a pattern from a purchased garment and add enhanced details. Learn how to transfer darts, pockets, tucks or gathers, pleats, collars and collar stays, and raglan sleeves. Using Nancy's technique, you'll develop a pattern that reproduces the style or fit of your best-loved garment.
Kay Whitt, author and designer, joins Nancy to create a dynamic duo as they share winning ways of combining fabrics, clever designs, and friendly techniques. Think outside the box as you learn ways of teaming appliqued ruching, invisible zippers, and ruffling with streamlined patterns and unusual fabrics.
Nancy and designer Kay Whitt begin with patterns with streamlined styling, and then they blend them with interesting combinations of fabrics and techniques. Adding details like rose accents, double collars, two-sided fabrics, simple tabs, and faux fur makes the finished results anything but ordinary.
Fiber artist Isabella Hoffman joins Nancy in showing how to creatively incorporate felting, shading and blending, and hand embroidery skills for a fiber art masterpiece. Machine felting makes the project quick, while fabric marker shading techniques and hand embroidery give it personality.
Embellish your felting with fabric markers and easy embroidery techniques.
Nancy and guest Mary Mulari use 2-1/2" strips to embellish a top with faced and folded stripes, and a fitted vest with staggered stripes that are pinked and fused to form cross bars. Then they serge and twist strips for a shaded striped vest, and make 3D bias vines and chenille blossoms the focal point on another top. These expressive tops and vests all start with sweatshirts!
Nancy teams up with Mary Mulari to make a fashionable cowl neckline by using the bottom ribbing in the Bottom to Top Sweatshirt. Then they trim the neck and cuffs of the Denim Do-Over with denim strips and buttons. A shirt and sweatshirt are recycled for the layered Calico Country top, while the asymmetrical Oriental top is styled with shaped hems, cuffs, and a V-neck.
Nancy and Maggie Ball, author and quilt designer, demonstrate easy to piece Bargello quilt blocks and twist them to yield a variety of designs. They teach a basic plan to select fabric, arrange and stitch the strips, cut strips into segments, and layout the blocks. Then they make a Tessellating Butterflies runner with 12 identical blocks and sashing strips. Maggie showcases several quilts.
Author and prolific quilter Maggie Ball joins Nancy to present her ingenious Bargello quilt block. Maggie and Nancy share the secrets for planning the blocks, choosing color and value, and making versatile designs by combining strip sets. They show how to make a one of a kind quilt using 24 identical blocks with various layout options. Maggie showcases several of her Bargello quilts.
Nancy explains the simple process of quilting in columns instead of the traditional squares, triangles, and blocks. The color flow is continuous with one color leading into another color. Learn to do reversible quilting using flannel or conventional batting, and how to transform a quilt to a larger size by simply adding length and more columns.
Use leftover fabrics to make an easy to sew Scrappy Column Quilt with dimensional inserts. Folding and pressing are the secrets to making this fun quilt with interesting shapes. Also learn new tricks with batting, and add bridging strips to traditional blocks to create a column concept.
Nancy and her quilting mentor Natalie Sewell show you how to cut, shade, paint, and stipple trees. Their landscape quilt designs feature light and dark plus distant and close-up trees. Learn "messy cutting," shading/highlighting with various mediums, and learn how to stipple in a way that adds dimension to the trees.
In the second episode of this mini workshop class, landscape artists Natalie Sewell and Nancy teach you to make gorgeous blooms, buds, and leaves. Shade and highlight blossoms, buds, and leaves for a 3D effect, and resize to add realism to your artwork. Stipple details, and outline petals, grasses, and leaves--let your fabric and design dictate how you stitch.
Nancy and Natalie Sewell show how to achieve movement and depth in ground cover by layering a multitude of fabrics in a random, unruly way. Enhance your designs by highlighting and shading with markers and oil pastels. Then stipple to your heart's content following the movement of the fabric.
Designer Mary Mulari joins Nancy to "zip up" functional and decorative projects! Learn easy zipper techniques for lanyards, picnic totes, cosmetic bags, storage for electronic devices and more. Plus, you'll find new options for using zippers in unique and unusual ways to make trim such as piping and appliques for all your projects.
Nancy and Linda Lee, fashion designer from The Sewing Workshop, share their penchant for sewing to create cool runway finishes such as mitered corners for hems, a trendy method for sewing a detailed Hong Kong Finish, baby hems for sheers, and a crisp shirttail hem on a classic shirt. The finishing steps are all simple, yet effective.
Linda Lee, pattern designer and author, joins Nancy to showcase runway raw edge finishes suitable for woven and knit fashions. They extend cool edges to home decor using bold fringe that effortlessly fits into seams. They also feature fuse and stitch underlays for couture garments, including a selvage with ribbon and fringed edges, plus a petticoat edge on a T-shirt.
Nancy reviews various types of elastics including braided, knitted, and woven, and then she teaches updated techniques for buttonhole and drawcord elastic. In addition, learn how to make a traditional elastic casing and a ready-to-wear technique for a no-worries elastic casing, especially nice for knit garments.
Nancy uses clear, narrow, and fold-over elastic plus elastic thread in conventional and creative ways. Stabilize shoulder seams and add stretch to neckline seams with clear elastic, use 1/4" elastic for stretchable gathers, elastic thread for smocking, and soft flexible foldover elastic to finish soft knits such as baby clothing and fleece.
Nancy takes a look into the past and compares sewing techniques from sewing books written in the 1920's-1950's to the same techniques sewn now. Among the techniques included in this 2-part series are stitching pockets, piping, hems, and zippers, plus many more comparisons between sewing "then and now."
Nancy demonstrates how easy sewing has become over the years. She compares the sewing techniques from decades ago with present techniques made fast and fun with one-task wonders and other tools made to simplify our sewing, quilting, and embroidering.
Techniques such as preparing Anchor Cloths, making Belt Loops, Cutting Out Patterns are shared. [26 minutes]
Techniques for using Interfacing, Lining Jacket Sleeves, stitching Knit Seams, Layering and more. [26 minutes]
Attaching Snaps, Topstitching, Understitching, sewing Vinyl, making Wrapped Corners and more. [26 minutes]
Fiber artists Laura Wasilowski and Frieda Anderson share their nature inspired artwork. [26 minutes]
Quilts are embellished with hand embroidery, decorative machine stitches and whimsical stippling. [26 minutes]
Nancy explores traditional quilt blocks such as the time-honored tumbler. [26 minutes]
Nancy transforms hexagon blocks into super-sized blocks created without any "Y" seams. [26 minutes]
Trims and fabric pieces are used to refashion what's already in your closet. [26 minutes]
Make a quick turn-around shirt by switching the front to the back and vice versa-a great pullover! [26 minutes]
Waist-tie aprons are an easy in-vogue wardrobe addition for daytime or evening hostess events. [26 minutes]
Upgrade your cooking and serving attitude with a festive reversible apron. [26 minutes]
Author and designer Joan Hinds helps sew a versatile collection of clothes for 18" dolls. [26 minutes]
Nancy and designer Joan Hinds create quick 18" doll clothes that are simple enough for beginners. [26 minutes]
Learn to serge knit seams, chain stitch patchwork, serge wrapped corners and serge decorative edges. [26 minutes]
Learn rolled hem and flatlock stitch basics as you serge samples for a workbook. [26 minutes]
Nancy and serger specialist Pam Mahshie focus on cover and chain stitches in this serger workshop. [26 minutes]
Design a world class handbag with inspiration from your embroidery machine. [26 minutes]
Add finishing touches to your designer-inspired handbags. [26 minutes]
Use your fabric stash and vintage designs to create quick and easy quilted projects. [26 minutes]
Join Nancy and Darlene Zimmerman for innovative ways to use reproduction fabrics and designs. [26 minutes]
Start with yardage of fleece or other "fleecy" fabrics and learn how to create quick projects--perfect for gift giving. Scarves, wraps, and even capes can easily be sewn or serged with a little sewing know how from Nancy.
Accessorize your home with fleecy projects, creating fast-to-sew blankets, pillows, and much more. These projects, which can easily be made in an evening, are ideal for first time sewists and stitchers.
Join Nancy and designer Amy Barickman as they take a simple swing jacket/coat pattern and give it different looks with a little creative sewing and charming vintage elements. In this first episode you'll learn basic sewing tips plus quick serging and embellishment ideas to fashion several new jacket versions.
Use an easy unlined jacket/coat pattern and express your personality with embellishment options for three new looks. Nancy and guest Amy Barickman detail how simple changes to fabric and technique allow you to quickly sew creative jackets with unique accents.
Designer and sewing legend Pati Palmer joins Nancy for a 2-part series on sewing a designer jacket. In this first program, learn the latest in interfacing to sew an Armani-style jacket. In jacket making, it's what's inside that counts!
Pati Palmer, designer and celebrated sewing instructor, joins Nancy to share her tips on a no-fail welt pocket, "bagging a lining technique," easy mitered vents, and much more. Streamline the process of making a fashionable jacket with these innovative ideas.
Design smart and innovative bags by making easy changes to your pattern. Add a strap variation, work with a palette of fat quarters, use gathers and ruching accents for piping, plus more. You’ll learn ways to make a bag with panache for a fraction of the cost of a designer bag.
Use savvy techniques for both decorative and functional changes to your bag patterns. Tweak your bag patterns to make them more innovative. Learn a smocking technique achieved with yo-yo makers, add a secure zipper closure to an open-top tote, change your bag into a backpack, or add a drawcord top to your tote. Make any of these unique changes for a new look to your bags and totes.
Make a personalized cover for your e-tablet or paper tablet. Learn how to sew covers for your electronic devices and paper tablets using templates or commercial patterns. Then embellish them with appliqué, quilting, techie circles, undercover stitching accents, plus more. With Nancy’s expert guidance, your personalized cover is fast, fabulous, and fun to make.
Showcase creative embellishment on a cover for your paper or electronic tablet. Nancy transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary when it comes to a cover for a paper or electronic tablet. Learn Dresden hi-tech patchwork, e-cycling with the help of a denim shirt, and letters of distinction using your embroidery machine. These tablet keeper covers look “techie” and are so much fun to make!
Upgrade your sewing ability with popular presser feet and instructions from Nancy. Nancy’s techniques are amazingly simple for using the Invisible Zipper Foot, Roller Foot, Walking Foot, and Satinedge Foot as you make samples for this workbook lesson. Basic techniques and new ideas merge for a comprehensive class on presser feet.
Use specialty presser feet to help improve your basic and decorative sewing skills. Nancy includes characteristics, uses, settings, and how-tos for the Stitch-N-Ditch Foot, Teflon Foot, and the Flower Stitch Foot. Learn new options for binding, sewing difficult fabrics, and making beautiful circular flowers. Store the samples you make in the designated spaces in the workbook for future reference.
Dig out your specialty presser feet and save some sewing time and effort using the Bias Binding Foot, Buttonhole Foot, Sequins ’n Ribbon Foot, and the Free-Motion Quilting Foot. Nancy teaches you how to use these feet to their full potential in this workbook style class that has you sew and save your samples.
Create attractive floral accessories using small pieces of fabric & some savvy techniques. Felted Poppies, Rosettes, and Petals; Bias Strip Blooms; and Budding Yo-yos are some of the first fabric flowers that you’ll learn to make in this two-part series with Amy Barickman and Nancy. Combine texture, fiber, dimension, and shaping for these dramatic accessories that are easy options for gifts.
Be inspired to make floral accessories and accents that have a big visual impact. Author/designer Amy Barickman teams up with Nancy to reveal the secrets for making lovely flowers with beautiful fabrics and items rescued from your closet. Make Coil Blossoms with bias strips and cording, denim Ragged-edge Roses.
Create modern free-form designs using traditional quilting methods—fast and precise. Nancy and author/designer Tula Pink start with designs inspired by nature and create unique modern quilt designs, as they create Tula’s Beanstalks, Houndstooth, and Any Which Way quilts. They showcase strip quilting with wedges, supersizing a traditional design, and a scrappy fusing technique.
Make, use & love artistic quilts & projects created with large prints and tubular strips. Designer Tula Pink works with Nancy to turn chaos into beauty for the Stacks quilt—stacking pinwheels, blocks, and continuous tube strips. Use squares and rectangles as a base to feature a Shattered Glass design. Then Nancy & Tula work with framed large-scale prints to create the Grand Salon quilt.
Organize and tote your valuables for vacation, shopping, and work with quick and classy gear. Nancy’s guest, Mary Mulari, has designed unique travel accessories that are clever and trendy. She and Nancy show how to make a roll-up blanket, easy zipper pulls, a roomy fold-up tote, a tray for gathering travel supplies, and much more. Organize your stuff so you can kick back and enjoy the ride!
Stitch travel projects with inspiration from Mary Mulari’s ingenious creations. Author and designer Mary Mulari teams up with Nancy to make travel gear perfect for gifts or yourself. Learn the basics of making a travel trio bag set, jewels and treats bag, curling iron tote, tee with secret pockets for valuables, and other travel inspired projects. Versatile designs—simple enough for beginners!
Nancy commemorates 30 years on TV with a trip down memory lane. She introduces her family, friends, special guests, and several coworkers in this celebratory show with old TV clips, bloopers, and more. Nancy’s friend, Mary Mulari, and coworkers chitchat about crazy things that happened on and off the set over the years.
Gail Brown, Natalie Sewell, and Eileen Roche are among the special guests that reminisce with Nancy about past TV programs and their experiences then and now on Sewing With Nancy. See touching “Creative Kindness” and “Nancy’s Corner” excerpts and hilarious TV clips and bloopers. Plus, hear from several of Nancy’s sewing fans.
Designer and playful stitcher Vicki Tracy joins Nancy in a quest to embellish without any rules. They decorate a variety of clothing and accessories with beads, buttons, and nontraditional trim as they do easy and clever techniques such as carefree couching, button collages, sassy sandwiching, edgy ruffles, and more.
Nancy and designer Vicki Tracy turn embellishing into “playtime,” as they use twisted trim for edging, create no-hassle machine embroidered appliqués, sandwich and stitch scraps and trims to make textured fabric, and more. They follow Vicki’s mantra “Buy retail, add detail” to change traditional clothing into trendy chic styles.
Serger specialist Barbara Goldkorn and Nancy team up to serge projects that are chic, easy, and fun. Learn new applications for basic serger stitches, fabulous attachments, and delightful projects using cover and chain stitches. They create a textured pillow, a sheer gathered scarf, beaded fabric accessories, and an elastic smocked sundress.
Use your serger to make a ruffled tee dress, a vintage stitched or woven fab finished pillow, and a trendy table runner with an innovative cover stitched binding. Nancy and serger specialist Barbara Goldkorn share their expert techniques for serging impressive projects that are timelessly chic, yet simple to make.
Embroidery expert Eileen Roche joins Nancy to help you tackle those embroidery projects that have been on your “to do” list forever. Experiment with stabilizers, play with color, use the editing features on your machine, practice perfect placement, and make a basting file for design realignment—all easier than you ever thought possible!
Nancy and embroidery specialist Eileen Roche teach you to master the basics of embroidery. Learn to rehoop—with the hoop off the machine and fabric out of the hoop! Create monograms by resizing and respacing letters. Learn to quilt and make lace with your embroidery machine. Plus, embroider projects that are seemingly impossible to hoop.
Author and designer Joan Hinds and Nancy share the secrets to sew a seasonal collection of clothes for 18" dolls. Each outfit is sewn with speedy techniques and easy flat construction. Learn to use a variety of fabrics and embellish with ruffles, ribbing, snaps, and trim. Create a raincoat, recital dress, hiking outfit, and a sassy little sundress.
Nancy and designer Joan Hinds create adorable doll clothes that are easy to sew and incorporate fast closures for little fingers. Learn to make impressive special occasion clothing including a fairy princess dress, a cheerleader outfit, a snowy day ensemble, and a sweetheart dress. Sew gathers, sweet necklines, easy hems, fancy trim, and more.
Knit fashions are in vogue and Nancy provides up-to-the-minute sewing tips to make them quickly. Learn about the vast array of knits, smart pattern choices, great tools, and easy techniques for seams, elastics, necklines, hems, zippers, embellishments, and lots more. From simple ribbing to ruffly accents, you’ll learn the basics from an expert.
Learn easy techniques to add finishing touches to knits—ruffles, flounces, embroidery, floral embellishments, and more. Nancy teaches creative techniques to accent knits, plus she features several new knit projects designed to make for yourself or as gifts—a flouncy tee, texting gloves, a T-shirt makeover, and more.
Join Nancy and guest Donna Fenske as they stitch quilts with head-turning simple circle techniques. Learn to make a Scrappy Orange Peel quilt—no tedious backing and binding—a Crazy for Circles quilt with chic circle appliqués, a Wedding Ring quilt stitched in circles, and more. Express yourself using these momentous new circle concepts!
Nancy and quilt designer Debbie Bowles use 18" blocks to make large quilts using ideas from Debbie’s versatile BQ pattern designs. Basic cutting and assembly are combined with creative variations such as a T-shirt quilt, cut-up panels, combining 9" and 18" blocks with style, and more.
Quilt designer Debbie Bowles joins Nancy to make magnificent quilt blocks with large print fabric squares plus angled side blocks. Fussy-cutting, one-way design, and large print block know-how are among the techniques used, in addition to ideas from Debbie’s BQ3 pattern designs.
Nancy addresses basic border options with ideas for cutting, mitering, working with odd angles, flanges, and cornerstones. She includes pieced border techniques that are simple, yet inspiring, such as piano key, scrappy checkerboard, and 4-patch.
Nancy takes the “ouch” out of finishing quilt tops—fearless and fun! Start by layering and pinning (or fusing), then learn easy no-fear quilting options, basic to creative, and all done on your sewing machine—no hand sewing. Quilt layers by stitching in the ditch, “decorative tie” stitches, or fearless stippling.
Learn how to cut and apply traditional binding and binding for unique shapes (curves, hexagons, and more) including effortless mitered corners. Plus, Nancy shares ideas for using prepackaged binding with perfect results.
Nancy starts with tote basics and adds variety with fabric, trim, and techniques. She adds belt loops to hold a partial belt or a scarf for interest. Prequilted fabric makes a speedy serged bag, and faux sheepskin warrants new sewing techniques. Finishing tips, like attaching legs and adding a hanging snap, are handy options for other bags.
Donna Fenske, guest designer, and Nancy create easy knit ruffles using several different methods to gather and finish them. They accent tees using ruffles terraced on the yoke, down the front, and to complement a round or V-neckline. These clever ruffle variations produce “knock out” T-shirt fashions that are simple to sew, and easy on your budget.
Light as a feather flounces created with circles, soft graceful ruffled strips, and easy retro pleats are among the flattering variations used to create upscale T-shirt fashions. Nancy and Designer Donna Fenske make stylish tees with ease using updated techniques, a little effort, and a lot of creative know-how.
Finish the edges of a fashionable “O” Sew Easy pattern, create double layer bias scarves, or add the latest pendants and jewels to scarves for smart and chic creations. Learn easy sewing techniques and creative draping ideas.
Create flirty textured scarves in a matter of minutes using a few knots and a little sewing. This program features Knot Your Average Scarf, 20-Minute Scarf, S-Curve Scarf, Flirty Scarf, and All Knotted Up Scarf—as easy as it gets! Learn new and innovative techniques that are perfect for scarves.
Nancy shows her infamous wrapped corner, elastic thread shirring options, embroidery, fringing, and more. Create easy scarves such as the Loop and Tuck, Fringed Folly, and Embroidered Elegance that are chic, stylish, and fun to wear!
Mary Mulari, "Queen of Applique," guest hosts as Nancy takes a well deserved break. Mary details easy up-to-date appliques. She features many new techniques using "chips to chunks" of fabric, texturing, and even Kaleidoscope ideas.
Mary Mulari guest hosts and teaches new and different appliqué techniques. When there's little time to sew, but you want to stitch something fun, learn how to add a modern applique-large or small. No more detailed satin stitching! Use common machine stitches that often never get used.
Nancy takes the stress out of piecing traditional quilt block designs such as the Drunkard’s Path, Blackbird Pie, and Mill Wheel. Learn the secret that eliminates concave and convex curves as you create easy quilt projects.
Tedious quilting methods are a thing of the past! Nancy gives a facelift to timely quilt block designs such as Hearts and Gizzards, Fan, and Wagon Wheel. Learn unconventional yet simple techniques for quilting curves, plus options for making big, dynamic quilt blocks.
Tame the trickiest tasks of stitching a designer handbag using sewing and embroidery tips from Nancy and embroidery specialist Eileen Roche. Learn how to add grommets for function and flair. Take sewing handbags to a new level.
Start with a rectangle of fabric and add unique embroidery accents such as shaped corners and precisely stitched grommet holes to make a stunning designer bag. Join Nancy and embroidery expert Eileen Roche to learn these exciting details. Get the inside scoop on customized pockets, straps, and linings.
Nancy and embroidery guru Denise Abel teach you how to piece quilt blocks using a combination of machine embroidery and techniques borrowed from paper piecing. There’s no precise measuring or cutting needed! Piece blocks by layering fabric over guidelines that the machine stitches onto stabilizer. Perfect blocks every time!
Easily achieve amazing results when you combine quilting and machine embroidery. Nancy and Denise Abel, embroidery guru, demonstrate how to get the look of free motion quilting without the stress—let your embroidery machine do the quilting for you! Quilting in the hoop creates superb consistency for prize-winning quilts.
Nancy demonstrates how to make Dresden Plate quilt designs small, to a super-sized 40". Or, totally update the look of the quilt by changing the design using Nancy’s new “Twirling Parasols” techniques. You’ll be delighted with this fanciful quilting rendition.
The Lone Star Quilt pattern is noted for its beauty, striking design, and hmmm, difficulty to stitch. Nancy has totally redesigned the cutting and piecing process of this traditional design and made it speedy to sew. Plus, you learn creative design options.
Fabric designer Patty Young joins Nancy to inspire you to sew for the favorite little girls in your life. Use knit fabrics along with Patty’s compelling designs, and learn to create fashions that allow children to run, stretch, and play comfortably with flair and style.
Kids and knit fashions fit together like hand and glove, so why not sew, serge, and create fashions for your favorite little girls? You’ll have fun; they’ll reap the benefits! Guest Patty Young joins Nancy to continue the series designed to make mom/grandma smile, and to make little girls twirl with delight!
Take the lead from Nancy and serger pro Pam Mahshie to get your serging skills up to speed! Learn the basics, and get the confidence to gather, add puffing or textures, and serge on ribbon trim with ease. You’ll be surprised as you learn new-age serging techniques for your projects.
If you keep your serger set at the basic 4-thread stitch, join Nancy and serger pro Pam Mahshie to take your creative sewing and serging in a new direction. Explore stitches and threading possibilities as the journey continues and you learn the basics. Then branch out into new directions with techniques you’ll love, for an ultimate serger experience!
Nancy steps out of the Sewing With Nancy studio—at least for one episode, and takes the show on the road. During this stop Nancy visits Quilt Expo, showing you the newest trends in quilting techniques, fabrics, and more. See an “eye-candy” quilt show and learn about the quilter’s bonds of golden threads.
Nancy creates time-saving gifts such as a cosmetic bag, tote, and luggage saddlebag using comparable sewing steps, straight stitching, and double-sided quilted fabric. Plus, all of the projects start with easy patterns—rectangles and squares!
Hold-it Sacks for electronic devices, fabric bins for organizing, and wall pockets with a decorator’s touch create pizazz in your home. Nancy uses easy rectangles and squares for patterns. Work with cotton or laminated fabric in your own customized color range—fresh and functional!
Organize accessories, update décor, or travel with these simple projects—great gifts! Start with rectangles and squares, then add specialty fabric and trim to create attractive usable projects. Nancy highlights projects such as jewelry caddies, ironing blankets, a closet organizer, and a pillow wrap. Sew these simple projects using straight stitches, unique fabrics, and easy sewing techniques!
Nancy sews Heartbeat Columns and Interrupted Columns—both provide pleasing movement. The Heartbeat Quilt looks much like an EKG. It’s a perfect baby quilt in bold colors! Interrupted strata columns teach basic color coordination, and the horizontal strips provide artistic interruptions.
Use Nancy’s quick method to make the time-honored Tumbling Tumblers block—turning a traditional quilt into a modern one. Learn to audition fabric, use templates, and stitch with ease! Create a speedy column quilted table runner using hexagon shapes with a template that eliminates the dreaded Y-seam—it’s fast!
Nancy uses columns of fabric and straight stitching to create magical quilts, which include floating squares, 3-D Flying Geese (with no half-square triangles), and Wind Chimes. She demonstrates techniques such as angled strips, Prairie Points, color shuffling, and lots more! Plus, she presents a Carefree Column Quilt.
Nancy and author/designer Amy Barickman show how to use contemporary patterns and add creative touches to enhance a wardrobe. Tiling computer printable patterns with ease, changing a tank top to a retro or modern design, and stretching creativity with a magical swirl skirt with several fashion possibilities.
Mary Brooks Picken’s idea from the 1920s to “take what’s given and add a spark of originality” is the concept Nancy and Amy Barickman use in this program. They transform a cardigan into several styles, mix and match features of a magic dress with new sleeve options, and add unique closures and pockets to a coat pattern for carefree styling
Nancy demonstrates how to make no-hassle ½-square triangles using the speediest, most accurate and no-math ways. Among the ½-square triangle quilt blocks featured in this program are the Box Quilt, Shadow Play, Godey Design, Square in a Square, May Basket and Nancy’s Spool blocks. Nancy uses these blocks in a sampler quilt featured in the series.
Learn to make ¼-square triangles and modified ¼-square triangles—Nancy teaches an easy method where no actual triangles are cut, only squares. Quilt blocks featured in this program range from beginner to experienced levels including the ¼-Square Dance, Boy’s Nonsense, Silent Star, Ohio Star, Star of Hope, and Card Trick blocks.
Joan Hinds, author and designer, joins Nancy to share her latest doll costume patterns and sewing tips. They sew up a fairy, princess, bride, southern belle, and mermaid—they’re all easy to sew, using flat construction and fabulous tips from Joan and Nancy.
Attend a make believe rodeo, jump tall buildings in a single bound, become a mod-style witch, or try a bug’s life with these 18" doll costumes. Guest Joan Hinds uses a minimum of pattern pieces in her easy-to-sew designs. Nancy and Joan sew doll costumes from unique fabrics and include a variety of techniques.
Nancy and guest Mary Mulari present quick to sew coverups for elegant evenings, travel, to the beach, and more. They start with clever and useful ways to wear classic shawls, and ways to keep them in place. Nancy and Mary then demonstrate how to make unique wrap shapes that are easy to cut out and sew or serge.
Transform specialty fabrics and clothing into fabulous fabric wraps with the help of Nancy and designer Mary Mulari. See the magical morphing of a sweatshirt and necktie into a casual wrap designed by Mary. These cozy wraps, both practical and stylish, are a great gift or personal wardrobe accessory.
Nancy visits the Sewing and Stitchery Expo in Puyallup, WA. Nancy interviews Pati Palmer, renowned pattern designer; Tula Pink, fabric designer; Kathy Marrone, editor of Vogue Patterns magazine; Candice Jewett, sewing/quilting teacher; Tina Torrey, Kathy Ackley, Brittany Revel, and Debbie Wilson, customers/students; and Joanne Ross, celebrating 30 years as director and founder of the expo.
Over the years Nancy tweaked sewing and quilting steps to make them easier and for the best looking results. In this program she shares some of the easiest ways to layout, cut, and mark fabric; sew darts; gather four different ways; and add elastic. Whether you’re a new sewer or looking for a refresher class, these techniques are the easiest!
Nancy minimizes sewing effort and makes it easy and fun to sew clothing and home dec accessories using nontraditional methods. Learn the “hands-down easiest way” to sew collars, corners, and sleeves.
Sew simple pockets, facings, and even an invisible zipper—Nancy shows you how, using the absolute easiest techniques. She includes the easiest method for mitering a corner, grading seam allowances, stitching facings that lie flat, and a new approach for stitching an invisible zipper.
Free-motion quilt with ease—it’s fast and fun! Learn to free-motion quilt on your sewing machine and you’ll never look back. Nancy and guest Molly Hanson show how to quilt like 
a pro and create finished projects without using a long-arm machine.
Create free-motion quilting designs with confidence. Learn how to master all the fundamentals of free-motion quilting. Nancy and guest Molly Hanson show you how to confidently stitch different quilting designs, including stippling variations, swirls, and wood grain.
Create digital crazy patch designs that look like handwork. Nancy and guest Eileen Roche, machine embroidery expert, show you how to duplicate your grandmother’s crazy quilt hand embroidery stitches with today’s digital techniques—all in the hoop.
Accent your crazy quilt blocks with decorative in-the-hoop designs. Crazy quilting has come a long way! Learn an easy stitch and flip technique and embellish quilt blocks with delicate and decorative stitches—all in the hoop. Nancy and machine embroidery specialists Eileen Roche show you all the details.
Create a modern version of the Double Wedding Ring Quilt design. Victoria Findlay Wolfe, called a “mod-quilt celebrity” by the Wall Street Journal, is Nancy’s guest. Learn how to take a traditional Double Wedding Ring Quilt design and give it a modern interpretation. The results are breathtaking in their originality and diversity.
Diversify basic techniques to create an original Double Wedding Ring Quilt. Nancy’s guest, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, is a unique quilter whose work is rooted in tradition, yet she produces quilts that push the proverbial quilting envelope. Learn the basic technique to create a Double Wedding Ring Quilt, and then how to diversify the technique.
Add the finishing touches to a gorgeous photograph wall hanging. During this first episode with guest Tammie Bowser, learn how to put the finishing touches on a quilted photograph wall hanging. Also, learn how to improve your design by using specific fabric values and positioning of the fabric pieces in an random manner.
Add the finishing touches to a gorgeous photograph wall hanging. During this second episode with guest Tammie Bowser, learn how to put the finishing touches on a quilted photograph wall hanging. Also, learn how to improve your design by using specific fabric values and positioning of the fabric pieces in an random manner.
Create fashion forward handbags by making easy changes to your bag pattern. Learn easy functional handbag changes, add ribbon inspiration accents, create a recessed zipper closure or clutch handles, and more. Nancy’s favorite handbag techniques make personalized bags with designer appeal.
Learn Nancy’s secrets for making a designer handbag with panache. Add grommets and piping to a cinched tote, embroider monograms on faux leather, or create a continuous strap to hold a yoga mat or baby blanket. Nancy’s easy handbag techniques can be adapted for your favorite bag pattern
Nancy highlights a simple, yet unconventional, approach to clothing repairs. Learn the Fool’em Jeans Hem, the No-Bump Jeans Hem, a Snug-Up the Waist Fix, and a Cover-up Zipper Fix. You’ll be surprised at these easy methods to do your own clothing repairs quickly!
Nancy takes an easy and lighter approach to clothing repairs. Replace broken zippers, mend jeans, sew on buttons, and more with this unconventional approach to repairs. Nancy breaks all the traditional sewing rules with these easy clothing repair techniques. Zipper Remedy, Holes to Art, Lumberjack Patches, Too Much Cake Fix, and more.
Add a designer touch to an easy-to-make T-shirt—fast and fun! Designer Pamela Leggett joins Nancy to share fitting techniques that flatter “real” figures and to show simple knit sewing tips for T-shirts. Pamela’s easy T-shirt pattern has a flattering style that gives options for the necklines that are featured.
Sew a classic tee dress with easy fitting, sewing, and designing techniques. Nancy and designer Pamela Leggett show how to apply sewing and fitting techniques from a T-shirt pattern to a wardrobe classic—a comfortable tee dress. Also learn tips for several neckline variations and hemming options ideal for dresses.
Learn landscape quilting using this simplistic approach & easy techniques. Nancy and her quilting mentor Natalie Sewell streamline the landscape quilting process using a beginner’s prospective. Learn to use inspirational photos, choose fabric, and master messy & fussy cutting techniques. Create trees easily with raw-edge appliqué techniques & give them dimension with fabric markers or oil pastels.
Learn to create a garden scene in fabric with this easy landscape quilting process. [26 minutes]
Spontaneous landscape quilting techniques are the secret to creating picturesque scenes. [26 minutes]
Join Nancy at the Quilt Expo in Madison, WI, for a modern gathering of all things quilting. [26 minutes]
Learn tried and true sewing and quilting tips from the experts. [26 minutes]
Sewing and quilting specialists discuss some of their favorite sewing and quilting techniques. [26 minutes]
Nancy and Mary Mulari inspire you to use repurposed meaningful fabric for your heartfelt creations. [26 minutes]
Gift ideas made from vintage hankies and doilies, ties, towels, and laminated bags are shared. [26 minutes]
Nancy teaches pattern fitting using her time-tested pivot and slide techniques. [26 minutes]
Gain sewing confidence when you learn Nancy's easy pattern fitting techniques. [26 minutes]
Modern quilt blocks are easily made from the traditional Log Cabin quilt blocks. [26 minutes]
Discover tricks of modern quilting inspired by the traditional Log Cabin block. You might think that Log Cabin quilt blocks are very predictable-red center block with dark fabric strips added to one side and light strips added to the other. Nancy and guest Natalia Bonner, a modern quilt designer help you discover that with an unconventional approach the expected turns imaginative! [26 minutes]
Use your embroidery sewing machine to create unique gift bundles for a baby, kids, or friends. Wondering if you're up to the task? Let Nancy and guest, Marie Zinno, show you how to hoop for success on a variety of standard gift items such as baby bibs, tote bags, and hooded towels. You'll soon find that learning the right way to attach fabrics to an embroidery hoop leads to embroidery success. [26 minutes]
Learn how to successfully use stabilizers and embroidery designs to stitch top-notch projects. Embroidery pro Marie Zinno joins Nancy to share her tips on how to successfully embroider by machine. As a professional, Marie knows the ins and outs of attaching a ready made T-shirt, baby onesie, tote, or slippers to an embroidery hoop, and she's willing to share all her trade secrets. [26 minutes]
Make the most of your fabric stash and make striking quilts from scraps to yardage. Nancy and guest Lynn Harris show numerous ways to refresh traditional quilt designs by giving them a scrappy look. Plus, you'll be inspired to create quilts with minimalist charm when small scraps are used on broad backgrounds. [26 minutes]
Create different quilt designs from a 4-patch block by changing dimensions and color. Nancy starts this mini-series with a basic quilt block, the time-honored 4-patch design, and details the piecing techniques. Then watch as she changes it up, adjusting the sizes of the 4-patch design and working with modern color options. The results are dramatic, yet the sewing techniques are the same. This is an ideal series for beginner quilters. [26 minutes]
Make a Square Within a Square quilt block; then vary the fabric sizes for creative options. Learn to make a Square Within a Square block the traditional way; then change the mix, varying the length of the fabric pieces to stitch a Rectangle Within a Rectangle and a modern Floating Square block. All blocks and quilt designs are made with Nancy's signature streamline quilting techniques. [26 minutes]
Make a 9-patch block; then change fabric sizes to show artistic options. Nancy shows you the basics of stitching the versatile 9-patch quilt block, and then she details how to take a fresh approach toward assembling the block to change it up! Modify the size of the fabric strips, use fabric scraps to make a vintage quilt, or change the color to provide artistic options. [26 minutes]
Learn how to update a plain top with embroidery that is fashionable but also flawless. Nancy and guest Eileen Roche show you how to update necklines with fashionable embroidery and other easy yet creative accents. Learn how to hoop a ready made top in your embroidery machine and then watch as the programmed stitching not only adds beautiful embellishments, but changes the neckline shape. [26 minutes]
Learn how to easily and creatively use your embroidery machine to give a plain top a new focus. Nancy Zieman and embroidery expert Eileen Roche give you the confidence and inspiration you need to update the neckline of a top with designer touches. Use embroidery to add thread motifs and programmed stitches to change the shape of a neckline. [26 minutes]
The Season 30 premiere shows how to turn a pullover sweatshirt into a sweater.
Part 1 of 2. Sewing with knits. Included: making a swing jacket and top.
Conclusion. Sewing with knits. Including: making a skirt or pants in an evening.
Part 1 of 2. How to use the fabric from T-shirts to create a rag-quilt, Christmas stockings or luggage tags,
Part 2 of 2. How to use the fabric from T-shirts to create a rag-quilt, Christmas stockings or luggage tags,
Part 1 of 2. How to make improvisational quilts using simple piecing techniques.
Part 2 of 2. How to make improvisational quilts using simple piecing techniques.
Maximizing fabric is discussed. Included: using fabric scraps to refresh traditional designs and update other quilts with a minimalist charm.
Part 1 of 2. Fabric accents, discharge fabric dying and carefree threadwork are discussed.
Part 2 of 2. Fabric accents, discharge fabric dying and carefree threadwork are discussed.
Part 1 of 2. How to use an embroidery machine for quilting.
Part 2 of 2. How to use an embroidery machine for quilting.
Unwrap those pretty precut fabric packs and start creating. Nancy and guest, Maria DeGroot, demonstrate how simple stitching and clever cutting can result in a variety of attractive quilt blocks. Learn the Charm Pack Scramble, and then try variations of the Charm Pack Double Scramble blocks. Create the Four’s The Charm sashed block.
Unlock the creative potential of the tasteful fabric combinations found in precut bundles. Nancy and guest, Maria DeGroot, transform 10" fabric squares into the stunning Chocolate Cake with Sprinkles Quilt and the beautiful Quarter Log Cabin Quilt, while 5" squares become the Charming Tote.
Experience the wonderful possibilities of precut fabric packs. See how quickly and easily Nancy and guest, Maria DeGroot, stitch projects like the Quilt & Go Tote and the Strip-by-Strip Reversible Quilt from 2½" precut fabric strips. With a little cutting, 10" precut squares transform into the Split and Spin Pinwheel quilt.
Need a sewing rescue? Nancy shares ideas to get you out of a pinch. She enlists household items to create unusual and reliable solutions to make your sewing, quilting, pressing, and pattern cutting go faster and easier. Also learn novel ways to organize sewing and quilting supplies.
See how fun and approachable free-motion machine quilting can be. Learn how to make loops, spiral roses, the flower power fill pattern, and versatile square flowers. Nancy and guest, author Lori Kennedy, share techniques that create beautiful results.
Learn techniques to abolish the intimidation of free-motion quilting. Nancy and guest, author Lori Kennedy, show how sketching before stitching builds muscle memory. See how easy it is to make the basic leaf, the elegant feathered leaf, whimsical schools of fish, and a fleet of sailboats.
Variegated fabrics and simple-to-stitch fabric strips known as strata, give these quilt designs great visual interest. Great as stash busting projects, Nancy and quilt designer, Donna Fenske, show you techniques to transform fabric strips into beautiful quilts to decorate your home.
Nancy and quilt designer, Donna Fenske, explore the use of color and design to achieve a rich depth of tone and dimension by using fabric strips to construct quilt blocks. Learn how fabric and block dimension changes produce an entirely new look. Projects include Jeweled Illusion and Tumbling Leaves table runners, and the Fractured Sunlight quilt
Make your own fashion statement when you stitch this stylish and versatile knit tunic with Nancy’s expert guidance and helpful sewing hints. Nancy walks you step-by-step through the sewing process, showing that knit sewing is enjoyable and easy. Learn how simple tools and notions streamline the stitching process of collars, sleeves, and seams.
Many quilters have a variety of fabric scraps that don’t seem to coordinate together. Nancy’s guest, Judy Gauthier, introduces viewers to a system of making scrap quilts that incorporates all sizes, shapes, and prints. Learn the “spacing” technique of separating colorful fabrics to keep them from fighting and how to sort fabrics by intensity for best results. Three unique quilt designs featured.
Sewing yards and yards of cotton rope or clothesline cording together to create baskets, trivets, or bags is not a new technique. Twenty-something Lindsey Zinno, took the tried and true method and added a modern look with clean lines. She joins Nancy to show how to incorporate thread and fabric with cotton rope to sew home décor and accessories that are functional as well as artistic.
Continuing the mini-series on using cotton rope to create handcrafted baskets and bags, Nancy and guest, Lindsey Zinno, demonstrate advanced rope-sewing techniques. Learn how to make an “Everyday Day Bag” in less than an hour. Plus, add tasteful accents to projects with leather strapping and signature details. You, too, will learn how rope-sewing projects are made to last and are one of a kind.
Nancy & her granddaughters, along with friends, take a modern approach to sewing. Nancy shares her team sewing-for-fun experience along with many tips for a big partner, & numerous insights for involving a little partner – all while making simple, easy to sew kid-friendly projects. Give a little partner a few project. Then let them choose their favorite project to complete, with your guidance!
Transform a wardrobe staple—the sweatshirt—into a unique garment that expresses your own personal style. Mary Mulari joins Nancy to inspire you with some of their favorite techniques and design ideas. Learn how to restyle a pullover to a cardigan, apply simple appliqués, and add plackets and zippers.
Nancy and Mary Mulari share creative ways to makeover sweatshirts with stunning results. With creative cutting and stitching, you’ll twist, turn, and topstitch a sweatshirt into your own personal style statement.
Turn a rectangle of fabric into a fabulous accessory. Scarves are fashion statements that are as enjoyable to create as they are to wear. Nancy and her guest, Donna Fenske, highlight some timeless scarf techniques that can be quickly created in a variety of fabrics.
With a minimal amount of fabric and a little bit of sewing time, you can create a fashion statement with an easy-to-make and easy-to-wear scarf. Select the Loop and Tuck Scarf, the S-Curve Scarf, Knot Your Average Scarf, the Convertible Ride Scarf, or the Double De-Lite Scarf and start sewing with Nancy!
Don’t junk those old jeans! Nancy shows you how to use deconstructed denim jeans in a variety of new ways to decorate your kitchen. See how durable potholders, pretty placemats, a stylish casserole carrier, and darling bibs are all constructed using the 10-20-30 Minutes to Sew philosophy.