Sulky. Express yourself; fabriquilt. The fabric of inspiration; omnigrid. Providing quilters with specialty rulers and accessories for over twentyfive years; Quilters Club of america, offering patterns and videos to the passionate quilter. Welcome to love of quilting. Youre watching series 2100. Im so excited to have pam mahshie back on the show. Hi, marianne. Its great to be here. If its me, its going to be serging. Today were going to be sharing this great little baby quilt. Its called periwinkles in bloom. Its adorable. Thank you. With the texture that we have on the quilt the little one laying on top of the quilt could certainly get a lot of tactile information processed in there. Because they learn constantly. Absolutely. Being that its a girly quilt since i only have boys, i love to be able to share some of those girly colors and work with those colors. Its super girly. So often what we like to do for you all is show you the blocks removed from the quilt because it gets to be easier to understand. Its a twoblock quilt. It is. We have our serger block here. With the serger block theres going to be several different elements in it. Lets start by looking at the middle of that block. Thats the puffing. Thats going to be puffing. The elements we have in this block are traditional heirloomtype techniques that might be used for garments but were going to incorporate them in this quilt. Bring them from the garments; put them in the quilt. So the puffing and then its mirror image out, well go over here to the side. Thats called bridging. Thats called bridging. With the bridging were going to do Something Else to it later on and show you how to weave some ribbon or spaghetti bias through that. The next is going to be a victorian embroidery. Or you could use some other stitches to create your own which well show you later. And tucking i can recognize that. Those pin tucks. But those pin tucks are done with our serger. The other block looks familiar to us mainstream quilters. Its a cute patchwork pinwheel block. On your quilt, you put the yoyo at the center. It wasnt because your centers werent good. That is a possibility but they add that texture. I guess probably you would want to check with the records on what age child because anything sewn on a button or anything like that. Check your records. You moms know about that. You want to give it to an older child. What i thought was so neat when you utilize these heirloom sewing techniques, were really just making a fancy strip set like we do for so many things that we make with our quilts. To just review again, always make sure that when you work with your serger were going to be creating these elements, were going to be working in a long strip section. We need a lot. We need a lot. Why do it in individual steps when you can do it all at one length and then cut it apart. Which appeals to me because we like to mass produce things. We like to use the most efficient techniques. I think i can set this aside, just to show that you need what was it . 1, 2, 3 6 blocks. You want to make a lot so that you make it quicker so you can go on to the next quilt. Keep in mind that today were working on a smaller section. Again, youd work with a much longer section. So we have the puffing piece. These are just the elements broken out to show them what theyre going to look like. But it would be long. It would be long. Heres where you need to make sure you have double the amount of all of your products because as you said earlier, its mirror image from side to side. You need twice as much of this fabric because it shrinks down. You need twice as much of this because of the mirror image. Again, we have our bridging. As you look at this bridging, youre going to see that it has what we call Railroad Track running through the middle. Its going to have fabric on either side. Thats where were going to be doing our stitching. So bridging would be laid on either side. Then the victorian embroidery would be laid on either side of that bridging piece. If we were doing it this way, this block is going to be raw 8 1 2, trimmed 8. So if you were making it block by block, youd want to make sure you have extra of everything. What i recommend is that maybe work with about 10 inches. If youre doing it block by block. Then were going to add our pin tuck section on either side of that. Pin tucks going out. Pin tucks going out. If youve stitched the first pin tuck and you find that your pin tucks are going inward go with it. Go with it. Just say its random. Its random. Im just going to scootch this stuff over here so youve got plenty of room. Its much more efficient to do the long chunk since you have to have extra on each end. Im sure you know what i mean. None of us have any extra time so it certainly makes your stitching a lot faster if you can do it in longer lengths. As we mentioned were going to start with double the length of the fabric for that puffing strip because it takes up a lot. It does. Double the amount of the fabric. Its going to gather it up. Were going to gather using a narrow cover stitch. Since youve only made napkins on your machine you probably havent worked with the cover stitch side at all. This way when we work with our pin tucks excuse me, with gathering were going to use a fabric guide as well. With the fabric guide this is just going to help us in positioning our fabric and keeping an accurate distance from the edge. Do you want to sit down or are you happy standing up . Its going to go really fast. Dont waste time sitting down. Why bother. Im going to increase my differential feed. The differential feed is whats going to create those gathers in our fabric. Like you would on your sewing machine to create more gathers we lengthen our stitch. Watch how fast this is going to go. There it goes. If you gather just one side its called a ruffle. I knew that now were going to place the fabric in on the other side. Sometimes you might just need to help it along because this is drawn up, it wants to twist. Right. We just want to stitch that in so that it lays flatter. Now that we have this done, we do the puffing wiggle. All we do is give it a little wiggle or shimmy side to side. It makes the stitching more across from itself is what its doing. Its evening those out and keeping them parallel. Wasnt that fast the bridging you bought at an heirloom sewing store. So we just cut the lengths from our coil. Before we do that im going to do the pin tucks because with this same setting on our serger were going to create the pin tucks. That way we dont have to set our serger two different ways. Efficiency when were stitching really helps your sewing. I dont know about you but i dont have a lot of extra time. When i talk to people who dont quilt, the first thing i tell them is if youre an impatient person youd probably really like sewing and quilting because somehow people think were patient. Right. Im the opposite. Are you patient . Not all the time. Im patient with people. With my sewing, i want to get it done. We like to see the end result. Its satisfying. Thats right. When we work with some of you might think were sewing on a serger so we always have to stitch on the edge of our fabric. When we make our pin tucks were going to actually stitch in the middle of our fabric. The easiest way to make our pin tucks, were going to take the strip of fabric fold it in half so we have that crease. You could either use your finger or a wooden iron to press that. You dont need to have a real sharp crease in there. I pressed this before the show started and i made it pretty strong. Sometimes ive pressed a line and then press it out. Then you can still see it if you dont want a sharp crease. When you stitch this, youre going to stitch right down the middle. One thing i forgot to do is take off my differential feed. Thats always very important to do. Youre going to notice that as we start to stitch, its going to lay nice and flat right now. Good save. So here we go. Were going to stitch down one side using that middle crease as a guide on that groove in the front of the foot. Just stitch right off. Theres tuck number one. Theres tuck number one. Theres no other measuring required. All i need to do is slide this back into the machine and line it right against the edge of the presser foot. Thats amazing. Again a great time saver. I think id put some 50 tucks on something. It seems addictive. Thats right. Were sewing in the middle of our fabric using our serger. Its not cutting anything off. Its not cutting anything off. For this we have three tucks. Again, we would sew down the opposite side or the other side from the opposite end. You want plenty of margin on this because this way you can hold onto your fabric and guide it very easily. If your pin tucks are not real even you can take this back to the cutting board and you can measure from each side. So it needs a press. Im going to give it a little pat down. Im going to make them go the right way. This is really cool. So once youve got your puffing made and youve got your bridging cut to the right length or youd be making it a whole long chunk then youre ready to assemble the block. Im going to lay this out. It looks great. Im just rethreading real quick for you here. While youre rethreading, ill talk about the elements. The puffing is made. The tucks are made. Now you start assembling, correct . Correct. In the assembly were going to use an overlock stitch, a narrow three thread or threethread overlock stitch. Typically when you do heirloom sewing, what happens is that you have to do three steps in order to accomplish one step with our serger. This time when you sew, you are going to trim off. We are going to trim off. Were going to trim off an overcast so theres no raveling and its going to be very secure. Its secure its finished and you dont ever really have to do that line of stitching again on your sewing machine. Youre going to change feet. Im going to change the foot. The foot that im going to be using is going to be a clear foot. The clear foot allows you to actually see if you want to show everyone that. So you can watch what youre doing. So you can watch what youre doing. Marianne, if you would grab that puffing piece and the and the bridge. And the bridging. The pin tuck and the bridging. Or you mean the puffing and the bridging. Its those two key words that were working with today. With the clear foot youll notice that there are some marks on there and those marks line up exactly with the needle. Were going to use the black mark on the clear foot and align it with the bridging as we stitch. Let me show you how were going to stitch this. Were going to line up the black mark. Its going to stitch right along the concentration of stitches on my little film strip or Railroad Track. Right. As you stitch again youre trimming off all of the extra fabric that you dont need and overcasting it all at the same time. Again, instead of having to stitch three separate times were only going to have to stitch one time with our serger. So putting the block together is just more of the same because this folds out. Then we continue to make like we said, wed do it in one long one long strip. When we have that long chunk we cut those into 8 1 2inch sections. That makes our six blocks. The other block like we mentioned before, its use your favorite halfsquare triangle method and make pinwheels. Then the framing brings that up to the same size the 8inch finished block. What is really special on this quilt is that is it fake rickrack . Faux rickrack. It looks like rickrack. Its not rickrack. We actually are going to show you how pam made this. It starts with this right . Right. Youre going to start with a flat strip of fabric. Were going to be using this great ruler. The ruler, as you can see has slots in it. These come in various sizes. Marianne is going to cut this for you. Were going to use a small 28 mm rotary cutter. This is going to make 1inch quick points, prairie points or zigzag. Well put this information about what the specific tool is in the tv section of the 2100 series so youll know where to find that, the information about the serger, our sewing machine so youll know exactly what we used. This is the size. This ruler comes in different sizes in different widths depending on the width of the points youre wanting to make. Then how you fold it makes those different points. This is a single layer of fabric. You showed me ahead of time instead of going in from the outside it really works better to put this cutter toward myself, like a mat knife kind of. I like to start at the inside point and work my way out because then i can rest my blade down and draw toward me. Im not going to nick the edge of the blade. Youd miss that little slot. We can lift this off and you can see these are now little flaps. We would do it on the other side too. Weve got one that weve trimmed ahead. I can reach that. You want me to reach that for you . So now this is what it would look like. It looks kind of like a caterpillar, and it has all those little cuts in it. Youre actually wanting to have the wrong side facing up when you do your first step. Were going to do it at the ironing board. Im going to step aside so youve got plenty of room. I want to watch this. This is a lot of fun. What i like to use is a glue stick. Were going to simply take the glue stick. Dont work too far ahead. Maybe put glue on the first four set that off to the side, and were going to fold right to the center. Accuracy when youre doing this is real important. For filming, we like to have it sitting horizontally so people can see at home. At home i like to work with it vertical on my ironing board. I could put a little dab on that one. I dont know if i did that the right direction. It doesnt matter which direction you place it. You dont want to work ahead because the glue might dry out, although we had something to do with this glue stick. Its a really good one. Still, it hits the air. Yes, once it does hit the air it does tend to dry out a bit. You want it to. Youd work your way down this making these arrowheads. We happen to have one. This is the one where you can see that once you folded it in half one way lets put our iron right up here. Let me put it over here so its out of your way and you can show now we have as you can see, this would be our strip once it would be cut. Then we have several that are already folded. Then you fold again a second time. Again, that dab of glue is going to hold in place until you get the iron on it. It saves your fingers. One thing i didnt mention is that it really is best if you spray your fabric with some starch because thats going to help create that crease and hold the fabric crease in place. Id spray it with starch and take steam off my iron. So it doesnt get too wet. Its going to provide the steam that way. You work your way down the whole length. Once you have your whole length pressed, what i like to do is use a small strip of paperback adhesive. This is the glue side that youre holding. You can feel its bumpy and it has a smooth side. Then were going to place that on top of our little rickrack. The piece i picked up actually has some of those on there. The reason i did that is so that when we press it to our border, we dont have to have all pins at each one of these which would be a pain. Is the paper still on this one right here . On these the paper is still on. You can see when i raise this up let me make sure im understanding. When you put the papers on, you can still press that. You are pressing it on. Youve got the glue stick the pressing, and this is all holding that all together. Its holding all of your points very neatly together. After you have your points all fused with the little strips, then were going to take that strip set lets put it on the green mat because it will show up great. Just like home; weve got our mat covered up. So as you can see we press this in place. I found the center of my inner border. You could press a crease or draw a line. Press a crease draw a line. Then i just use the inside edge of each one of those points, the valley of the point and i line that up with my center line and pressed it in place. Thats just to hold it in place. Then we would take this over to the sewing machine with a straight stitch. Were going to stitch along the outside edge of topstitching. Which you can see on the finished quilt. Before anybody out there quilters freak out when they see this torn edge. I learned this from pam today. Maybe we mentioned it earlier in the show. Torn strips are normal. So one thing i want to be sure we promised wed show it. You did that extra little enhancement on this block that is with this spaghetti bias. Remember, when we first started out we started out with that real long strip set. Before you would weave your spaghetti bias through you definitely want to cut these into smaller segments because the entire length as you feed through the spaghetti bias it would be a little bit too cumbersome. You dont want to do 45 or 44 inches of the weaving. Its going to be a lot easier in this chunk. When you have a longer length that youre weaving it through what will tend to happen is its going to start to draw up. As you pull it, your block or your strip section is going to become much shorter. We dont want to loose any length. Ive never used a bodkin before but this is what youd use. It comes with two but you want the flatter one. There we go. I just simply cut the edge at an angle so it threads better. So it threads better. The trick to using and threading with the spaghetti bias is im going to just go in and out. Dont go more than four or five lines. Then youre going to hold it down and pull it. You can see how easily that goes through. You want to pull it through so you have enough because you could then cut off some of that. You want to be sure you have plenty to go all the way, but you dont pull the whole thing through. I dont want to pull the whole thing through because thats going to gather it. When you pull this back you dont want to twist your hand because you want the spaghetti bias to lay nice and flat. I place my finger right at the point where i finished and then i weave four or five more. Some of you, the viewers out there are going to go i can do a whole lot more than four or five. Go ahead. Well, youre going to do that only one time because then youll end up with maybe sometimes a little twist. It wants to twist and you prevented that. Its like loading your needle when youre hand quilting. You only want to put so many stitches on because you want to be able to pull it through. Our time has gone so fast. I know youve got tips for us. Before we go to tips, lets take a quick look at periwinkle in bloom. Its darling. Thank you. Grab a pencil. Tips and other useful information coming up next. Pam, lets see your first tip. When we worked with our serger block we had a beautiful piece of victorian embroidery. You can buy that with all different pretty designs. All different pretty designs that are available. You can purchase that at an heirloom store or online. Or online, definitely. We all buy our sewing machines and even our machine here has over 500 decorative stitches in it. But when it comes down to it, what stitches do we use . Straight stitch zigzag. The blanket stitch. We have all these beautiful stitches. Heres a great way to use those decorative stitches from your sewing machine and create your own victorian embroidery or decorative strip. So the victorian embroidery is traditionally white on white. You do whatever you want. You can bring those colors in if you want to. This is a neat tip. This is our fake piece of sewing our binding on our quilt. On this piece just a standard application of attaching your binding in the traditional way with 1 4inch seam. Whatever depth you want your binding finish to be. Heres where the trick comes in. Were going to wind a bobbin and use fusible thread. The fusible thread here is just to show you what it looks like, but we wind it on our bobbin. So regular thread is in the top of the machine and the fusible thread is in the bobbin. Its in the bobbin. As you stitch, were going to select a wider zigzag stitch. I used the inside edge of my foot as a guide and run it right along the stitching that i used just inside that stitching or right up to it. You dont want to come too far to the left or its going to dig in to your binding edge. Dont outside the line. Color within them. Were going to zigzag all the way around the quilt. All the way around. Then youre simply going to take and wrap. You might be able to see this on the bottom side. You have that wide zigzag stitch. You press it. Thats what i did before the show. I didnt spend much time. Its going to hold it down so you dont need pins when you do that finishing, whether you do it by machine or by hand. Great tips. If you have tips you want to share with our viewers, you can mail them to fons porter tips p. O. Box 171 winterset, ia 50273 if you send us the props that go with your tip thats a great idea. You can go to the tip segment of our website, fonsandporter. Com, and you can email your tips to us. If we use one of your tips on a future show, youll get a oneyear free subscription to our magazine, fons porters love of quilting. Pam, i always have a great time when you come to the show. Thank you so much for being with us. Thanks for having us. Get those sergers out and start serging. Additional quilting ideas from marianne and liz are available in fons porters love of quilting magazine. A oneyear subscription contains 60 or more projects easy to follow stepbystep instructions and our tips, techniques, and shortcuts. 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I hope youll enjoy sewing a to z. Thats whats coming up next on sewing with nancy. Sewing with nancy tvs longestairing sewing and quilting program with nancy zieman is made possible by baby lock, a complete line of sewing, quilting and embroidery machines and sergers. Baby lock, for the love of sewing. Madeira, specializing in embroidery, quilting and special effect threads because creativity is never black and white. Koala studios fine sewing furniture custombuilt in america. Clover makers of sewing, knitting quilting and embroidery products for over 25 years. Experience the clover difference. Amazing designs and klasse needles. A is for anchor cloth. Stitch on an anchor cloth, a small folded fabric to solve issues when seaming tricky fabrics. Im going to start the a to z sewing process by working with one of the simplest of all techniques. Sometimes when youre working with sheers or knit fabrics when you start a seam you may find a beginning stitch that looks Something Like this. Its not flat, because the needle has forced the fabric into the feed dog area. This doesnt happen on all machines, but if it does this is a simple way to resolve it. Reach into your wastepaper basket, find a scrap of fabric maybe fold it in half so you have two thicknesses of Medium Weight fabric and start to sew into this fabric. When working on the sheer fabric i double check my needle because that could also solve the problem. I use a size 70 a universal needle. Its a very fine needle. Perhaps a 60 if the fabric is was very fine. And then start to stitch into the anchor cloth. And as you get to the edge of the fabric then simply butt or kiss the fabric next to the anchor cloth and sew from one to the other. And as you might guess when you reach the end youre just going to clip off the anchor. Just like a boat anchor youre going to release it. And there you have your seam and its nice and flat. If youd like to start sewing with a little shorter stitch length that might be a great idea. Replace the area back stitching, or reverse stitching. Knits are another fabric that sometimes need a little help with an anchor. When working with a stretch knit fabric as im going to do right now. I often like to work with a wobble stitch. Were going to talk about knit seams later on in this series but ill set my machine for a zigzag stitch. And rather than have this wide stitch im going to shorten it to a 0. 5 or 1. 0. The length i like to increase to 0. 5. Grab your anchor cloth place it underneath the fabric start sewing into that area. And for a stretchy seam, a very slinky fabric you just simply easily go from one fabric to the other. A little side note. Notice how i pinned parallel when working with knit seams. And after cutting the threads, you get the picture. Youre going to remove the anchor just by a clip. Thats our first sewing tip of sewing a to z. B is for belt loops. Theyre easy to make with your serger or your sewing machine. When working with your serger, you can make great belt loops. Or truthfully, i use this technique more to make trim. This is a cover stitch belt loop. You can see on the underside the cover stitch. There are three threads. Or, you can use two threads as i have done in this belt loop. To work with this on your serger make sure it can work with a cover stitch or a chain stitch. I have my machine set up for three threads and a cover stitch. You can see the serger cones. And then, for the cover stitch theres a fourth thread. Or, if you just want to use two needles then simply use the left and the right needle not the center needle. Follow your instructions. I always reference my guide for setting up for a cover stitch because it seems i dont always remember the steps. So, work with a twothread or a threethread cover stitch. Follow the directions. Then, on the plate of the cover stitch which covers the blade area youll be able to attach a belt loop maker. Its a terrific little guide. It fits in the two screw areas. You align it. It adjusts and you align it so it goes down the center of the needles. Ill just tighten this. The tray that feeds the fabric is about one inch wide. The instructions will tell you exactly how wide to cut your fabric. This has been cut that width. Notice that the end has been shaped. You place, right sides up, the end through the guide. Pass it through a little bit and just start to serge. Keep on serging. As it serges thats all you ave to do. You can kind of just use the presser control. You dont have to really guide he fabric because it comes out perfectly stitched with three parallel rows of stitching the cover stitch covering the raw edges. Trim on this side, belt loops on hat side. You have a lot of variety. But if you dont have serger you can certainly make belt loops in a very simple way. I have a quick little sample to how you. You can cut strips any size youd like to make them perhaps starting off with 2 inches or 11 2 inches. Fold it in half and press meeting the raw edges on the side. Then, press the edges to the middle. Press each edge to the middle. On this sample, ive pressed the edges to the middle. The final stitch just use your straight stitch and stitch down the edges. This is a wider belt loop. You could make a narrower belt loop using this pressing technique. Press in half, then press the edges to the middle is the fastest way and a great technique to add to your sewing repertoire. C is for cutting out patterns. Use these streamlined techniques whether you use a shears or a rotary cutter. If you do any garment sewing youve seen a layout such as this. The first thing that i do when working with pattern pieces is roughly layout the pieces. I dont always follow the pattern guide. Im trying to make certain that all these fit within a certain area. Just roughly lay them out. I do tend to like to lay everything with, lets say the shoulder all in one direction. In other words oneway layout. Its just a sure thing to make sure things are even. I match the cut edges of the top. I dont necessarily use the prefold. Then, start placing. If there are any pattern pieces on the fold you can see in this particular piece ive laid it on the fold. Then, i pin at a diagonal. Pin to the corners. It makes it easier to cut with the pins at the corners. When placing a pattern on the grainline rather than measuring using a tape measure i like to use a quilting ruler a 6 x 24 quilting ruler. Its wider, flatter easier to measure from the cut edge to the grainline to get the pattern piece on straight. It covers a big area so that you know that it is on the grainline. I put all pattern pieces on the grain or if theyre on the fold, on the fold line. Then i pin the corners. Double check that area. It was straight. Then i would pin around in the corners. Pin at a diagonal. When cutting out use a shears a long shears, or use a rotary cutter. If youre using a rotary cutter notice that i have a mat underneath. But with a shears, you can simply cut. I think you get the idea with this. If you have the mat, using a small blade, an 18mm this is a 28mm blade. You can simply cut all common areas. Then, after youve cut this out, and notice i dont always have all my pins in pace. But you cut all hemlines. Then you can cut right in the middle. You can start in the middle of the area, and cut around. After youve cut out your pattern pieces in this section you could gently move your mat out to accommodate the other pattern pieces. These are my favorite techniques. Speed and accuracy, as long as you place things on the grain you can easily cut them out. D is for double needles. If one needle is good, sometimes two can be even better. If youve never used a double or a twin needle i encourage you to give it a try. There are so many options for creative to functional, and very heirloom sewing techniques that can be accomplished with the use of one shank attached with two needles. You only need one bobbin. The bobbin will zigzag between the two threads and accommodate both. It works with either lightweight fabrics, to knits to heavyweight denim fabrics. The sizes of the denim needles are determined by the millimeter distance between the needles. This is a 6. 0 double needle 4. 0, 3. 0, 2. 0 and the finest is 1. 6. If youre wondering where you use these various needles ill give you some guidelines. The 6. 0 needle probably has the greatest limitations. Thats why im going to describe it first. Most feed dog areas have an opening to accommodate a 4mm width. The newer machines go to much wider, up to 8mm. So, make sure that you have a machine that can accommodate a 6. 0mm opening. This will make a great needle to do decorative stitching using either the right or the wrong side of the stitch. The 4. 0 and the 3. 0, i often use for knits. You can also get the double needles in a stretch needle which the blue shows. The 2. 0 and 1. 6 are often used for heirloom sewing or lightweight fabrics. Regarding the thread, youll need two spools of thread. I like to work with one thread one is unthreaded from the top and the second thread is feeding from the underside. The reason . When threading the threads through the machine i like to accommodate it as one. And by having them go in opposite directions they do not twist. Ive pulled out the slack of the needles, closed the top lid. You can use just a straight stitch, obviously that would be what youd need to work with. Just let it stitch. Im going to use more of it as a decorative. Just do some scalloping. I have a 3. 0. You can see just by turning, you could use it for hemming but it sews like a straight stitch because it is a double straight stitch. As i pull it off let me cut the threads. I will do many more meanderings of this stitch. You can see how easy it works. Its decorative. Youll see later in this series, it can be very functional. E is for easing seams. When one seam edge is longer than the other let the machines feed dogs effortlessly ease the fabric as you stitch. Youll be surprised the number of times that youll use this technique of easing letting the machines feed dogs bite or gather the fabric. Always put the longer layer toward the feed dogs. Let me explain. In this pattern, we have princess style seams. The seams shape around the body. The dart or the shaping is incorporated within the seam. Youll see in a few minutes that one of the seam pieces is a little bit longer than the other. When i pin the front to the side front matching the notches above and below the area here is one area where it has a shape thats longer as it sticks out longer than the other area. You can kind of see the difference. Underneath, its a little bit longer, like this. You can see it kind of gaps. Traditionally, in a pattern the instructions usually express to do directional stitching. I dont like directional stitching at all. Directional stitching means always sewing both sides sewing from bottom to top. If you did that one side of your garment is going to be perfect. The other side is going to have puckers. I always sew with a longer layer toward the feed dog which means one time youll be sewing lets say the left side, from the bottom to the top and the right side from the top to the bottom. But you will not have any puckers. I have this area pinned together. The area thats exposed im simply going to match those areas so that as i stitch theyll be matched together a little bit better. Youll see what happens. The longer layer ill put it toward the feed dog. And this time, im actually going to be stitching from the shoulder seam to the hem. But its not going to matter. Itll be just a great seam. Now we have a 1 1 ratio of the seam just stitching along. As i get to this area that has the easing notice how this longer layer sticks out. If you just kind of match the edges this pattern has halfinch seam allowances so thats why im working with this narrower seam width. Ill just work with it. Even though it was extending quite a bit longer as the machine stitches it just automatically eases everything into place. Youll be surprised how much fabric you can ease into an area. So, all the shape of that seam. You can see, on the underside its a puckered a little bit because its been eased into place. After pressing it open as we have on this side everything has been neatly shaped and eased into place forming the great princess seam incorporating the dart without any puckers. F is for fabric tubes. Ill show you how one quick motion turns a tube right side out. Whether youre working with spaghetti straps or wide belts you can easily turn them right side out using your favorite notion. I like to use the turner that has the cylinder and the second part has a wire with a corkscrew end. The two go together along with the fabric. Sew a seam allowance for your fabric sewing the tubes together and sewing the end closed. If you have a very long tube leave an opening in the middle instead of at the end. Insert the cylinder inside the fabric and the wire inside the cylinder. The corkscrew comes out. Just turn it so it comes out the end. Its right in this area. Start to pull on the wire. You may want to slightly press the seam allowance open with your thumb as youre going down the cylinder. Just pull it. Now, half of this has been turned so go to the middle again. Insert the cylinder and repeat the process. Big or small from very narrow to very large you can quickly turn tubes right side out. Obviously, what wed have to do for this tube is to do a little pressing work the end out. In the middle, theres an opening. A little hand sewing or just even a little touch of a fusible web could fuse that closed. But with one motion pulling out that wire you can turn it right side out effortlessly. Its one of my favorite a to z sewing techniques. G is for gathers. Use this streamlined technique to gather any fabric. There are many ways that you can gather fabric. The technique that id like to share with you first of all is the very traditional technique. That is to sew two rows of stitches parallel with each other maybe lengthened a little bit about at 1 2 and 3 8 give or take. You can just kind of guess. Then to gather go to the wrong side and pull the bobbin threads. The bobbin threads always pull a little bit more readily than the top threads. But before you do the pulling youll need to go to the top side again. Place a pin in the fabric and wrap around your threads so that you dont pull out one end as youre pulling on the other. You can certainly do this. This is the most traditional of all gathering techniques and i use it on occasion. But truth be told, its not my favorite technique for gathering. Id like to show you that technique next. That is gathering over the bobbin thread. If youre wondering how this is going to work were going to be sewing one stitch in the fabric on the wrong side, not with a zigzag but with a straight stitch to begin with. Then were going to grab the top thread. I have the top thread that im holding. Lower the presser foot and take one stitch. As i raise the presser foot, you can maybe see that i am pulling up through the fabric this darker purple thread. That is the bobbin thread. Pull this thread as long or just a little bit longer than youre fabric. Im going to raise the presser foot. Then also, to release the thread to make sure that the top and bobbin are the same length tuck it underneath the foot and twist these together. Then, lower the presser foot. This is going to be the thread youre going to stitch over zigzag over, to be specific. Were going to set the machine for a simple zigzag stitch maybe widen it by one width. Do a little testing to see. Were sewing on the wrong or right side of the fabric, it doesnt really matter. Then just sew, zigzag over the threads. Now, you have two threads, so its a little stronger than just gathering one thread. Because im using the bobbin thread and the top thread im not going to have any issues of pulling out the threads. I dont have to, at this end of the fabric i dont have to have a needle or pin there to wrap the threads around. Now i just go to the thread that i have stitched over and quickly gather. It is the most streamlined way of gathering. If you want really tight gathers shorten the length of the stitch so that the zigzag is closer together and theyll be just a little tighter. This is the width i normally use. That is my favorite and i think the easiest way to gather. Im nancy zieman, obviously. Thank you for watching our First Program of sewing a to z. There are two other programs that are going to follow so that you get just about the entire alphabet of my favorite sewing techniques. Were taking a break right now so that you can support Public Television by calling the number on your screen. During this pledge special well be sharing with you three of these programs of sewing a to z. One of the thankyou gifts that we have for this program is the new book, sewing a to z, with all these techniques in it. You know sewing with nancy and Public Television kind of go handinhand. Weve been on Public Television, my show has been on for many years, and i thank you for watching the program in the convenience of your home. You can watch it in your jammies. You can have coffee with me. I know that many of you do that. I dont get to see you, but today, i would get to know if you like sewing with nancy, and if you like watching Public Television by you calling us and showing your support. I have two friends with me today, kerman and linda. Theyre going to be sharing some thankyou gifts and how you can support your local Public Television station, and mainly that i can share with you and say thank you for watching sewing with nancy. Kerman . Thank you very much, nancy. My name is kerman eckes. As nancy said, were here today so that you can join your local pbs station. Its very easy to do. Just like that caller, you start by calling the number on your screen. Youll talk to somebody at your local station. Theyll help you become a member of your station. When you do, we have some thankyou gifts for you. These are items we send to you when you join your station as a member of public broadcasting. Lets start with our 60 level. This is an absolutely phenomenal book. This is a brand new book that nancy has just put together, sewing a to z. Its hardcover, spiral bound. And its also alphabetized. So for example, for gathering, if you wanted to go back and look up that information on gathering, you go to g and theres the information. Its illustrated, everything that you could possibly need. That comes with a pledge at the 60 level. If you call this morning and join us at the 100 level, we will send you both the a to z sewing book and the a to z dvd. This is a great combination. You can go back and see nancy demonstrating these techniques and then for further reference you can go back to the book. Of course, the book has even more tips than nancy could put on the dvd, so thats an absolutely phenomenal combination. We also have a 200 level. If you join your station at that 200 level, we will send you the sewing a to z book. We will send you the dvd as well, so youll have that combination, plus, an absolutely wonderful fiveinone sewing tool. Its good for measuring hems. Its good for doing circles. Anything that you need to do this tool can really help you with. So we have many ways to thank you when you join your local station. Call the number on your screen talk to one of your volunteers and theyll help you with any other information you need. But the most important thing that you can do is make that call right now. Linda . Thank you. Im linda berman. Im a volunteer with my local pbs station. Im here to encourage you to make that call. As nancy and kerman have both said, you know, it all begins with you. Your calls, your support is what has kept nancy on the air for over 29 years. This is the mostwatched sewing show on any pbs station. Its because of you, the viewer. This is your opportunity now to continue to be inspired and entertained, certainly watching with nancy, whether youre in your jammies or having coffee with her. But the fact is that youre watching the show to be educated. Now, we have wonderful thankyou gifts. At the 60 level, you get the wonderful a to z book. Unfortunately, you will not get to see everything on our air. Thats why we encourage you at the 100 level, that you can get the dvd and the book, so you can have both, so you can follow up. There are some of these letters that arent going to be shown today. So its an opportunity now to get the book. Also, again, this is your opportunity. It really is an opportunity. Where else can you watch sewing and learn . Its inspired everybody. Its inspired me to actually do more with my life and say, you know, i can handle that project. I can sew. But i also want to show you. This is something that comes at the 200 level. Now, as a teacher, this is perfect for geometry. This is a tsquare. Its a compass. Its got everything. Its an opportunity. Give us a call right now. Nancy . Thanks, linda. You know, when you call to support Public Television you are showing your station that you want to continue having howto programs such as sewing with nancy. Its a way of gauging and letting your Pubic Television station know what youre interested in doing. I appreciate all of you who are making the calls today. Sewing a to z is a compilation of techniques ive shown on television for i hate to say it but this is our 29th year. Sometimes i hate to say that because it sounds like you know, its been a long time but ive enjoyed every minute of teaching you on television so thank you for showing your support. With a to z, you are going to have a reference book during this television show, during the dvd and the book, of basic sewing and quilting techniques some of the newest ones. You know, like the one i showed you on gathering . The traditional way and the way i kind of like to do it now. Youll find the uptodate techniques, i hope in this reference book. On television, i like to show things for those of you who have been sewing for a while and those of you who are just starting. Thats the whole idea behind sewing with nancy, general education, some new tips as well as some tips for those of you who have been around the block a few times. We always try to bring you the latest and the greatest. And its so great to hear the phones ringing. We hope that you will continue to call. Sewing a to z, were soon going to have our Second Program. Well be doing that in just a few minutes. But now, kerman would like to tell you a few more things. Well, it is absolutely phenomenal to hear the response that weve been having so far from our sewing with nancy breaks. Thank you if youve already stepped forward and called the number on your screen and joined your local Public Television station. If you havent, theres no time like the present. It will only take you a minute or two. But when you go back to watching the program, youll know that youve done your part to help keep your public broadcasting station up and running and bringing great shows like sewing with nancy. And of course, when you do call, we have some thankyou gifts. Ill run through those briefly for you. If you call and become a member at the 60 level, we will send you this brand new book that nancys just put together sewing a to z. Its a great hardcover book. Its spiral bound. It lays flat out on the table. As weve talked about, its alphabetized. It has great illustrations. Theres over 100 tips in this book. Whether youre an experienced sewer or quilter, or youre just getting started, this is definitely a reference book that you would like to have in your library. If you call and become a member at the 100 level, we will send you both the hardcover book that i was just talking about and a copy of the show sewing a to z, so its a great way to see nancy actually demonstrating some of those techniques, plus you have the book for reference or for other more in depth information. Then we also have the 200 level, where we send you the book, the dvd, and this great fiveinone tool. We have many ways to say thank you. But we need you to go to those phones now and give us a call. Your call shows your support, your actual commitment to quality programming. Programs such as sewing with nancy are here to provide you you, the viewer, with lifelong education. Its expanding your boundaries. You know, theyre here to not only entertain you and educate you, but to inspire you. Im encouraging you now to make that phone call, to become our partner to show your commitment to quality programming. You can get these wonderful thankyou gifts. 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Coming up next on sewing with nancy youre going to see tips i through p. I through p, so interfacing, ill give you a hint i think thats the i. We taped it a while ago, but i think thats the i. It will be in the a to z book if that isnt the first technique. Youll be seeing that. Ill be giving you other techniques using your sewing machine, your serger and things that you can do at the cutting table. So stay tuned. Well be back. Heres our second episode of a to z. As you might guess i have been sewing a long time when i was asked to organize my favorite sewing and quilting tips as well as techniques a to z, i took the challenge. During this threepart series, id like to share with you a sampling of my favorite skills. This is the Second Program of a threepart series. During this show ill be sharing techniques starting with the letter i through p. This may sound like an opening to sesame street but as you know, its sewing a to z coming up next on sewing with nancy. I is for interfacing. Before purchasing interfacing, think less is best and youll add perfect shaping to your next project. When i talk about interfacing, its really fusible interfacing. I rarely sewin any type of interfacing. I press it into place. As i mentioned just a few seconds ago, use a lightweight one weight lighter than the fashion fabric is generally my guideline for interfacing. After purchasing rather folding it i like to roll it on an empty tube. Insert the instructions inside the tube so i have them there. That way, its stored easily and doesnt become wrinkled. I cut the interfacing on a 1 1 ratio with the collar, cuff, or whatever im interfacing. Years ago, if i had given this seminar or this Television Program i wouldve trimmed off the seam allowances. Thats way too much work i just lay it down 1 1. The first thing that i do is fused a base. Fuse it down just periodically around or in the area where the collar is, in this instance so that it holds and doesnt shift. Following the manufacturers instructions with steam i usually cover it with a press cloth and again, just steam it into place. Within a few seconds youll have your interfacing positioned. The important thing is that the interfacing does not change the hand or the drape of the fabric but it just makes it a little bit more stable. Thats what this has done. You can see, its still lightweight and pliable but yet it has a little bit more stability to it. You may find that youll have favorite fusible interfacings that youll work with. Buy it in bulk so that you have it on hand. Follow the simple steps for perfect interfacing. J is for jacket sleeve linings. Heres how to fully line and hem the sleeve in one step even if the pattern doesnt call for lining. Often, i like to make simple jackets. The jackets arent lined but having lining in the sleeve makes it easier to wear and makes the jacket look just a little bit better. So heres my technique. From the pattern piece cut a second tissue pattern for the sleeve lining but make it just a little bit shorter. Trim off the hem allowance. This is providing that this is the correct hem that youd like for your sleeve of your jacket. The cut out the lining from that shorter pattern. On the jacket itself, i placed interfacing in the hemline. You can see that ive prepressed the hem over a hem gauge or your favorite pressing tool. Then, hem the sleeve first. Its the very opposite of what we normally do. Meet the hem allowances and sew this with a 5 8 seam allowance. After stitching this, heres what your sleeve looks like. Its been stitched as you might guess. Now, to sew the side seam. Its really side seams that were going to be sewing. We stitch, matching the cut edges of the jacket sleeve and it continuously goes to the sleeve of the lining. Pin these layers together and stitch this one long seam. This next sample shows that ive stitched them and started to press. I have a sleeve roll inserted. Ive pressed the lining section already. Now, i just simply press open the jacket sleeve. I like to press over a roll because it prevents the seam allowance from making an imprint. Reach in the sleeve, a little magic here. Well just grab the sleeve where it has been pressed. Its been prepressed. Shake it out. Match the cut edges at the cap. What youll find is that its already lined. The lining is shorter, just the way it should be. Its fully lined. Now you simply meet the cut edges at the top and treat this as one complete unit and set it into the armhole of your jacket. You can line the sleeves of your jacket in this simple step. K is for knit seams. When sewing knits, there are very few rules, just guidelines. Often, people steer away from working with knits especially if theyre beginner sewers concerned that their machine can not handle the knit fabric. Ill just give you a few ways to fine tune your sewing machine if you do not have a stretch stitch built in. Lets look at the knits, first of all. Knits have greater stretch in the crosswise grain of the fabric and less stretch in the lengthwise grain. If you used a straight stitch you might have popping seams. I think you all can figure that out. Heres just a straight stitch. This is the crosswise grain, and this is often what happens. We dont need or want that. So were going to change the stitch. Using a zigzag stitch is what i like to do but i modify it. This is a traditional zigzag stitch and the preset that it comes with. Rather than having it at a 3. 0mm width im going to shorten it to a 1. 0 width so that it wobbles. One guest a long time ago, betty cotton, used this stitch as a decorative stitch on quilting. Were going to use it as a stretch stitch. The zigzag gives builtin stretch. Let me show you a sample that i have that has that same fabric that no loner pops because it was stitched with a slight zigzag. In the needle, i used a stretch needle. If you dont use a stretch needle, or a ball point needle your stitches may pop or skip and not even sew through the fabric. This is a very important addition to your sewing machine. Change that needle. The very first a to z technique was using an anchor cloth and thats so important when working with knits. Start to sew in the middle of that piece of fabric and you just sew from one fabric onto the other. This is working with a seam allowance. Just sew away. Then youll trim away the excess anchor cloth. Then as the second thing that youd like to do is to do a second row of stitching. With knits, you do not need that full seam allowance. Trim the seam allowance down and do another row of stitching so that it has stretch as well as stability. Now, a serger, probably the best stretch stitch that you can work with. Im working with four threads on the serger. You can see that i have set it up according to the manufacturers instructions. This has great builtin stretch for crosswise grain which im going to do, crosswise stretch. I have the width of the blade set at 1 4 just a standard industry stitch. Theres an l setting that im simply going to guide the fabric along that area. You do not need two additional or another row of stitches because this simply just gives great stretch crosswise and lengthwise stretch. My two favorite seams, a wobble stitch as well as a serge stitch. Thats sewing with k. L is for layering a quilt. Fuse basting quilt layers together for an easy yet secure way of holding the layers together. Commonly, to have the top of the quilt, the batting and the backing secured together youd use pins. But the fast way that i like to use is with paperbacked fusible web that you cut into strips from the yardage. Or, you can simply use the strips that come on a roll. The choice is yours. Either way works. As with pins, you would place a pin about a fist width apart. Im just going to place, with the fusible side down little squares. You dont have to measure, just place the squares a couple of inches apart and press. Another option is that you dont even have to cut them. Fuse a section, hold it down tight, and just tear. Just fuse it. This is a very fast way of fuse basting. Were placing one layer on the batting and a second layer on the backing fabric. If youd like, you could place these both on the underside depending on the thickness of your batting you could place it both on the wrong side of the batting and on the quilt top. You can see how fast that goes together. On the second sample that i have we had the fused sections in place. In order to do the pressing you just remove the paper. Weve given these paper sections a head start because sometimes thats the trickiest part just getting the paper peeled off. Once you peel off the paper from the batting then go to the underside and peel off the backing area. Perhaps you may be able to see the shiny areas left. That is the web thats holding it together. This is not going to replace stitching. This is just replacing pinning. We have the batting, the backing and we have this all nice and flat. We have one more piece of paper. There we are. Then just do some pressing. Lightly press. Youll be pleasantly surprised when you open this up. The top portion has dried. It is tacked into place. Its pinned into place with fusible web. M is for mitered corners on a quilt. Like a picture frame showcases a photo the mitered borders frame a quilt. You dont see a fullsize quilt on my table just a small sample to show you the technique concentrating on the borders. Add a border to the left and the right side the east and the west side of a quilt stopping your stitching 1 4 before the end and making certain that the border extends at least an inch beyond the width of the border. So if this is three inches this would be four inches. Press the seam allowances toward the borders. After youve added the borders on the sides then add the borders on the top and bottom or on the north and south part of the quilt and stop stitching, again, at that 1 4 seam allowance. Press the seam allowances toward the borders. Thats been prepressed. Now to make the miter. This is just a little sleight of hand. Fold the top border so it aligns evenly with the bottom border. Making certain that those extensions are matched up press. The pressing will give you the stitching line. When you fold back keeping these edges aligned you can see that line is just where youre going to stitch. Youre going to stitch in the well of the pressing area. On this sample, weve already done the stitching. Just stitch. You may want to test it out, by opening this and testing to see if its a flat miter. As you might guess, this sample is right, in this instance. Then, were going to trim. Trim this down to 1 4 like you normally would trim that area. There we go. I like to have my hands underneath to make certain that im not cutting something i shouldnt cut. After trimming, there we have one corner of the quilt block just the way youd have a miter on a picture frame all by stitching folding and then doing another stitch in the press mark. Its my favorite mitering technique on a quilt border. N is notches, the quintessential pattern marking. Notches can be marked, clipped and even notched. It doesnt get more basic than this working with notches on patterns the little triangular shapes that are cut off right along with the cutting line of the pattern. Then for marking we have some suggestions. Most of you may do the simple nipping or clipping 1 4 or less, little nip right at the notches. One notch is always for the front armhole. Then youll have notches at the side seam just a small little nip or clip right in the seam allowance. Without doing these markings youll have a difficult time getting the pattern pieces just where youd like them. Some people dont like to clip the fabric especially if its really ravely, it really doesnt pay. So another option is to use a marking pen. We would like the notches marked. Simply fold this back a bit. Have this on the wrong side rather than the right side and mark notches and notches right across from the marking, right on the pattern piece. In college, when ias doing some pattern drafting and designing, we used a notcher, like this to mark the cardboard or the manilla type weight. A sloper, it was called, that we drafted patterns with. It takes out a notch of the paper. Weve incorporated this into sewing. Its used when youre going to be serging a seam. Rather than using the other two marking tools we notch out a section. It really is quite a large section that comes out. Let me show you up here, maybe one more time. You can almost hear it cut through the fabric. You get a substantial notch that comes out of the fabric. The reason for doing this if youre serging the edges, you cant see the nips. Many times you cant see the markings. Here we have serged over the edge. You still have a little opening so that you know where the notches are. Three ways to mark notches a sewing basic. O is for organizing fabric. Use pocket folders and a few clever folds to tame unwieldy fabric. Heres how. Sometimes my fabric stash is really unorganized. When i take a few minutes to organize it this is what it looks like. Its well worth it, because then i can see what i have. Here is my solution. One day, one of my kids School Folders was lying around and i just decided to use that as an organizing tool. Heres the fabric, 45. Ill just turn it the other way so you can see the fold already. Ill fold it in half again so that its about 11 wide. We have a folder thats 12, or so. We use this folder simply as a base. Organize the fabric as you go along, folding it. Fold the corner in half. Fold it around and then tuck in the corner. Then, get a paper clip or a pin, or a hair clip whatever you may have at home. Clip the end, pull out the school pocket folder and you have fabric thats easy to coordinate. If you have fabric that has been cut just simply fold the straight edge first and have the cut edge, the unwieldy edge right in this area. Tuck it in and you have organized fabric. One of my simplest organizing techniques. P is for pintucks. Take the guesswork out of creating even rows of stitching with my favorite techniques. When working with heirloom sewing whether its for creating Childrens Wear or for working in Home Decorating equallystitched tucks to add texture is simple to do as long as you have the right accessories. The main accessory will be the foot. The pintuck foot is found in most of the accessory boxes. It may be metal. It may be plastic. And on the underside youll see grooves. Grooves that will be five, perhaps seven. The more grooves there are the closer the stitching will become. Earlier in this series we did d is for double needles and i showed you how to set up a double needle stitching with a 2. 0mm needle for heirloom sewing which were going to be using. For the thread, unwinding in Different Directions so it doesnt twist. The first row of stitching is done with a marked line on the fabric, so that youre just stitching along that line. Sew slowly so you get it straight because this will determine the distances and the straightness of the other rows of stitching. After one row of stitching i like to cut my threads by hand this time so i have a nice thread. Then, i place the groove. Im going to place the second groove from the end over the first row of stitching. I did starch my fabric. Im working with a lightweight fabric and i find that if i make it crisp it sews a little bit easier, because were working, as you can see with lightweight fabrics. There you can see you can get equal distance between the rows. Its very simple. Its not very difficult. It just requires the set up the double needle, the pintuck foot, and making certain that the threads are unwinding in Different Directions and you can get these rows perfectly even because of these guidelines. So, if youre working with Childrens Wear if youre working with heirloom sewing perhaps making a decorative pillow this is a great way to add texture as well as interest. Welcome back to the studios of sewing with nancy, and for watching our Second Program of sewing a to z, where we just ended with p is for pintucks. Well, p is also for Public Television how about that . I dont have that in the book, but it could be your time to show support to Public Television, your local station by calling the number on your screen. Once a year on sewing with nancy, we have this special pledge special. This is the time for you to show your local area that you like howto programs such as sewing with nancy. We are going to have a Third Program coming up in just a little less than ten minutes where well show you the rest of the techniques. Some of the thankyou gifts that we have include the a to z sewing reference book. It shows over a hundred tips of updated sewing techniques quilting techniques, as well things that ive learned over the years, my favorites. Ive put them in one book. I thank you for considering being a supporter of Public Television and showing your station that you like the program. The reason that i do sewing with nancy, well, i like to teach. I like to teach. But i also like to get feedback from you. Today, hearing your calls, its very important. Kerman is going to share with you some of the thankyou gifts. Kerman . Thank you, nancy. Nancy just said something really important, that when you call and you join your local pbs station, and really, it just starts by calling the number on your screen you are casting a vote. Youre making your voice heard and saying sewing with nancy and other howto programs are important to me, and im willing to step forward and help make those be something thats here on this station for years to come. Thats why were encouraging you to go to those phones and give us a call right now. When you do, as nancy mentioned, we have some thankyou gifts. Ill run through those for you. If you call and become a member at the 60 level we will send you the book that nancy mentioned sewing a to z. This is an absolutely fabulous book. Nancy just published this book. Its a hardcover, spiral bound. I love the way that its laid out. Its all alphabetized. So for example, if you wanted to go back and look at pintucks again, you just go to the p section. Theres great illustrations, lots of information. This book is an absolute must, whether youre a beginning sewer, or somebody thats already experienced. This is a great thing for you to have in your book collection. If you call and become a member at the 100 level, we will send you the a to z sewing book again, thats the book i was just telling you about plus the a to z dvd. The great thing about the dvd, by picking this up today, nancy, because of the timing restrictions for the show, was only able to show you 22 different tips and techniques. But on the dvd, there are actually 25, so you have some bonus tips that come to you with that dvd. We also have a wonderful level its our 200 level, at which well send you the dvd, the program dvd, plus sewing a to z, the book and this fabulous fiveinone sewing tool, which has many, many different uses. Its a great tool for you to have. Its great if you can step forward at that leadership position and make that kind of financial commitment to your local station. But remember, it all starts with a call right now. Linda . Right, but you know p also stands for pledge. This is the time to pledge your support to your local Public Television station, and pledge your support for programs such as sewing with nancy. When you call now, you are pledging, you are saying hey i really have been inspired by this. I want to get more. This is the opportunity. I love this fiveinone gauge. This is at the 200 level. This comes with the book and the dvd. This is amazing. Its a compass, because you can actually make circles with it. You can hem with it. It doesnt slide around. Ive had unfortunate incidents with my hemmer, that it just kind of moves. Its a great tsquare. This is your opportunity to actually say, hey, you know what, i like what i see and im pledging my money right now with my membership in my local pbs station, as well as saying you know, those thankyou gifts are something that i can use at home, things i can use as a gift. I suggest that maybe when you pledge, even at the 60 level, you get the book, but give it to somebody whos starting to sew. What a great reference. Now is your opportunity, so p, pledge your support right now. Nancy . Thanks, linda. We could go a long way with this a to z stuff, but well just talk about how you can show your support. Obviously, thats what were talking about. Really, right now, i just want to say thank you. Thank you for watching sewing with nancy all these years, for being a local follower for sending me tips and ideas, and what youd like to see in the future. That is so valuable to me. So if you call in your pledge and you say, could you tell nancy id like to have a program on, whatever it is leave that message. Thats my way of knowing what you would like to learn. Were talking about sewing a to z, and were going to have more techniques in the Third Program. Were going to see s through z. As you can imagine z is for zippers the biggest one that we get lots of questions on. Youre going to see one of my favorite lap zipper techniques. There will be some other interesting things there s through z, so we hope you stay tuned. Therell be one final pledge time to show your support to Public Television. So, again, thank you for calling, showing your support to your local Public Television station, as well as to sewing with nancy. Well, it is absolutely phenomenal to hear the response that weve been having so far from our sewing with nancy breaks. Thank you if youve already stepped forward and called the number on your screen and joined your local Public Television station. If you havent, theres no time like the present. It will only take you a minute or two. But when you go back to watching the program, youll know that youve done your part to help keep your public broadcasting station up and running and bringing great shows like sewing with nancy. And of course, when you do call, we have some thankyou gifts. Ill run through those briefly for you. If you call and become a member at the 60 level, we will send you this brand new book that nancys just put together sewing a to z. Its a great hardcover book. Its spiral bound. It lays flat out on the table. As weve talked about, its alphabetized. It has great illustrations. Theres over 100 tips in this book. Whether youre an experienced sewer or quilter, or youre just getting started, this is definitely a reference book that you would like to have in your library. If you call and become a member at the 100 level, we will send you both the hardcover book that i was just talking about and a copy of the show sewing a to z, so its a great way to see nancy actually demonstrating some of those techniques, plus you have the book for reference or for other more in depth information. Then we also have the 200 level, where we send you the book, the dvd, and this great fiveinone tool. We have many ways to say thank you. But we need you to go to those phones now and give us a call. Your call shows your support, your actual commitment to quality programming. Programs such as sewing with nancy are here to provide you you, the viewer, with lifelong education. Its expanding your boundaries. You know, theyre here to not only entertain you and educate you, but to inspire you. Im encouraging you now to make that phone call, to become our partner to show your commitment to quality programming. You can get these wonderful thankyou gifts. As i said, i love this fiveinone sliding gauge. Its amazing. Whether you want to call now to renew your membership, or have a new membership, the most important thing is you make that call, because its a call for quality programming. Im encouraging you to do it right now. Just call the number on your screen, right on your tv. Well, thank you. Its so phenomenal to hear all of the phones ringing, all the volunteers talking to people. Thank you, if youve already gone to those phones and made your pledge of commitment to your local pbs station. If you havent nows the perfect time. Youll talk to one of the volunteers. It will only take you a few minutes to become a member of your local station. It all starts by calling the number on your screen. One of the things that the volunteers can also tell you about are our thankyou gifts. Let me run through those one more time for you. If you call and join your local station today at the 60 level we will send you the brand new book that nancy just put out sewing a to z. Again, this is a wonderful reference book, whether youre an experienced sewer or quilter, there is information here that is something that is going to be of use to you. The book is laid out beautifully, with great illustrations. Its alphabetized. Its a great addition to your sewing library. If you call in and join your local station at the 100 level, we will send you the sewing a to z book, plus well also send you a copy of the show that youve been watching, sewing a to z. I like this, because you can see nancy actually demonstrating some of those techniques, and then you can go back and use the book if you need more in depth information, or if you want to look Something Else up again. Thats a great combination there. We also have a 200 level. If youre able to step forward at this kind of leadership position, this leadership spot well send you the dvd the book, and the wonderful fiveinone sewing tool. So we have many ways to thank you when you join your local station. But go to those phones and make that call right now. Soon well be coming up with the third and final program of sewing a to z. Im going to give you tips s through z. On sewing with nancy, every year, we tape 26 new programs, so you get education in your home, hopefully, 26 to 52 times a year, i think many of your stations do the reruns so that you get updated information. This is your time to say thank you to your local Public Television station for that education that comes to you, free of charge. So when youre supporting sewing with nancy, youre supporting Public Television. Well, now its time for that Third Program of sewing a to z. Welcome to the third episode of the threepart series on sewing a to z. Learning the abcs of sewing will boost your sewing and quilting skills if youre a newbie to this creative art. Or perhaps refresh your knowledge if youve been sewing and quilting for years. So far, weve gotten about twothirds of the way through the alphabet featuring one technique from each letter. Please join me as we continue this sewing journey. Sewing a to z is coming up next on sewing with nancy. S is for snaps snaps that swing. Its an ideal technique to effortlessly prevent gaping of two edges that must meet. In sewing a to z, were sewing with some very basic techniques, but important techniques. Ive used some supersized snaps so that you could see more clearly. But the snap that swings is sewn to one side of the edges that must meet just sewing onefourth of the opening to the fabric. Then, to find out where its mate should land on the other side of the fabric use chalk. Darken the ball of the snap, fold it over make sure the edges are aligned and depress. After you do this, you should have a mark right where the snap should be placed, where to center it. When youre working with smaller snaps this is even more important because sometimes its difficult to see. Then, this time, you can hand stitch all four areas of the snap of course, to the fabric. Sometimes, when youre sewing on buttons or snaps or doing any hand sewing like hemming your thread may tangle. A consideration is to use beeswax or a thread conditioner. Thread your needle. Im going to use a double thread right now. Then, over this thread conditioner you simply guide the thread over this conditioner and you wont have tangling. It will work easily. Then you can simply hand sew all sections down. Simple sewing. For snaps that are another type of snap or if it overlaps, you do the same thing. Put on the ball end of the snap, first of all wherever you would like it. Then darken it darken the ball portion. Then overlap it, making certain that its lining up just the way youd like it. Depress, and again youll have a marking. You can place the opposite side of the snap over the opening. Hand stitch it in place, using the same techniques. When youre doing some hand sewing and you need some snaps whether theyre plastic snaps, metal snaps, as i have here one of these two techniques will certainly help you make the snaps align and your edges meet perfectly. T is for topstitching. Add a custom accent with double threads in a topstitching needle. Often, when youre topstitching, youll need it as an accent and youd like it to show more than not show. One of the ways to do this is to work with double thread. I have two threads on the horizontal spool. I have them unwinding in opposite directions so that they will not tangle. One comes from top, and the other one from the bottom. Thread them through the machine as if they were one. Because youre using two threads make certain that you use a needle that can accommodate two threads. A topstitching needle has a larger eye. You can simply as i have done put one of these right into my machine. Im just about ready to sew. I also like to use a foot that allows me to guide the fabric right next to the edge. The edge joining foot, or edge stitching foot looks different on every machine. This one has a little lip. The one im using on with my machine does not have this lip. But you can adjust the guide so that the edge of the fabric can align right with the white in this instance, guide to make stitching very easily done. A straight stitch, but i adjusted it a little bit. I like to lengthen the stitch. A traditional length is maybe 2. 0 to 2. 5. Im going to make it longer, to 3. 0 to 3. 5 because i have those thicker threads. I have already determined this but im going to move my needle position. Ive adjusted this so im sewing right on the very edge. That way, i can align the guide of the foot right next to the edge of the fabric. Im coming upon a pin right now, so ill just remove that pin and then simply sew. When going around curves as i have here you can go a little slower. I always find its just like driving the mountains. Go slower when you get around the curves. Just guide that fabric along the guide of the foot. Ill just sew a little bit more of this. Get the pins out of the way. Very simple stitching. Ill show you this portion of the pocket that has been stitched. This topstitching only shows on one layer of the fabric. If you were stitching, lets say, on a lapel or collar where youd see both sides of the topstitching use double threads in the bobbin. Here i have some purple thread. Its unwinding, again, in opposite directions. I would just simply wind the bobbin with two threads and youll have the same width and thickness of thread. Another topstitching tip. U is for understitching. Although it doesnt show from the right side it plays a key role in keeping facings and undercollars in their place. I have a sample of just a portion of a facing a neckline facing. You could use it on armhole facings or a variety of places. For this facing that has been stitched around this curve ive already done trimming. Grade the seam allowance always making the facing seam allowance the narrowest and the garment seam allowance just a little bit wider down to about 3 8 and 1 4. After grading all the seam allowances then i press, prior to doing the understitching. My preference is to press from the wrong side. Here, i can hold the fabric so im not going to get any little tucks. I want to press it flat. Just press a portion of it at a time and youll have the seam allowances pressed to the facing. Now, most instructions will give us some guidelines to use a straight stitch to stitch the seam allowances to the facing. My preference is to use a zigzag stitch. This is a multiple step zigzag. I happen to know its a little bit too wide for that narrow seam allowance so im going to narrow the width to about 2. 5. Im going to increase the length to about 2. 0. This wider width allows the fabric to lie flatter. Thats why i prefer it over a straight stitch. Then sewing from the right side, just sew in sections. You kind of have to mold the fabric when you have a curve such as this. Just sew on the facing. The stitch will not show from the right side. It will certainly help keep that facing to the underside because the seam allowances have been sewn in that area. Let me just get that out of the way. Ill cut the threads. When i bring this to the right side youll be able to see that heres that little stitch. Its been sewn down. The seam allowances have been stitched to that facing. Even though it hasnt been given a final press it just folds very nicely around that edge. So, whenever youre working with collars, cuffs, or facings this is how you do understitching. V is for vinyl. Its not usually thought of as a fabric. But its easy to incorporate it in accessory and fashion projects. When working on vinyl whether making a handbag a tote, perhaps a belt you may want to incorporate some of these techniques when sewing. This fabric is really fun. It would make a fun raincoat. Im going to make a tote out of this fabric. But yet, when sewing this you may want to consider some of these techniques. Instead of pins, first of all, use paperclips or other types of clips to hold the fabric together. When sewing on the wrong side, it sews readily because the fabric has canvas attached to it so it feeds through the machine with ease. But to press it is another story. Because of the vinyl portion of it, you would melt the fabric. So rather than pressing as normal were going to use a wooden pressing tool. On the table i simply flatten it out with a little handheld flattening area. It still doesnt keep it flat. So what were going to need to do is topstitch the area. Use a topstitching needle, because the fabric is thicker. Then incorporate a roller foot. The roller on the foot portion will aid in topstitching over this area. Most laminated fabrics can easily be topstitched with just the addition of a roller foot. Im topstitching, obviously, a straight stitch. Ive lengthened the stitch to about 3. 0 or 3. 5. Do a little testing before doing the stitching. That will allow you to have the fabric really flat. This is the one i just stitched. This has the stitching on both sides. At times on sewing with nancy, we have used the clear vinyl to work with handbags or cosmetic totes even sewing totes adding it as pockets or adding it to the fabric. I have the striped fabric underneath. Im going to borrow some of my paperclips just to hold it in place right on the fabric. This vinyl is a little more difficult to stitch. Sometimes it doesnt want to feed through the machine. With tissue paper on each side of the presser foot just put a strip so that the foot instead of guiding on the fabric is guiding on the tissue paper. This will make the feeding of the fabric like a breeze. So, whether youre working with laminated fabric or very thick vinyl these are some techniques that will help you in your sewing savviness. W is for wrapped corners. This technique is definitely a staple in my sewing repertoire. If youve watched sewing with nancy over the past years perhaps youve seen this technique. Its one of my favorites because it works out so well. When having corners generally, well pivot. Well sew a straight edge pivot at the corner of this collar, for example sew the other edge and then pivot again at the opposite end. Well, when sewing this collar were going to sew four times without doing any pivoting. It will be assured that youll get very sharp points. You can do trimming and understitching along the way. The first step is always to add interfacing. Interfacing on both the upper collar and the undercollar. After fusing the interfacing meet the cut edges together along the outer edge and sew from cut edge to cut edge. On this next sample, which has been stitched it has also been graded grading the undercollar the narrowest. Youll see that the stitch starts at the very cut edge and ends at the very cut edge. You press your seam allowances toward the undercollar and do that understitching which we just did for the letter u. Heres the understitched collar. Its nice and flat and already trimmed at that collar point. Now, wrap the fabric so that those two edges are meeting and the seam allowance has been wrapped to the underside. Notice right on the fold is the seam line. You can either pin it, or in this case its just such a short seam that i can just start to sew. Ill backtrack a little bit and sew that seam. Then, after stitching this well do some grading and trimming. Here we have the seam stitched. Ill simply cut off the corner and grade the seam allowance. Again, grading the seams so that one is a little bit longer than the other. The most common pressing tool i use is that finger press. You can just finger press that open. Then turn this right side out. As i turn this, ill simply encourage it with a turner. But you will see that i have a very sharp point even without pressing, due to wrapped corners. Y is for yoyos. Whats old often becomes new again. In the 30s and 40s, yoyos were used for making coverlets. Now, yoyos are used for accents. They can be made of silk cotton, or a variety of fabrics. Our greatgrandmothers or grandmothers used lids and jars and traced on fabric. Whatever the size of the lid or circle that was traced the yoyo will become half the size. After tracing, as i did on this small sample then trim the fabric approximately 1 4 away. It doesnt have to be exact. Thread a needle. You might want to use that beeswax or thread conditioner. Get matching color thread not contrasting, as i have here. Then youre just going to roll or turn the fabric around just kind of quarter by quarter following the edge that was traced. You could even use a lead pencil if it wouldnt show through on the other side. You can take several running stitches, if youd like which ill do right now. Just run it around. Pull the thread taut and youll have a yoyo. This will be a relatively small yoyo when i get it completed. I think you can see, as its starting to turn the size this will be. This will just be like a Little Flower yoyo shape. There are more contemporary ways of making these using a twosection plate and disk. There are little knobs that youll find at the end of the plate and markings that are on the disk. You can kind of see those. You dont even have to cut a square just cut the fabric a little bit larger and align those two markings together. You have to kind of fold back the fabric which ill do right now. Get everything aligned and snap it into place. Then just roll the fabric on one side. On the underside they have little areas small little horseshoe areas very small that you sew from, in and out just making certain that you sew in this area up and down, up and down to go around the disk. Then after sewing all the way around as you can see that ive done, then you do some trimming. Trim off the excess fabric. Snap out the sections, and pull the thread. Whether youre making hundreds or just a few which generally i just make a few for an accent you can then tie the threads securely in the middle and you will have a yoyo that you can use for an accent. The perfect representation for the letter y. Z is for zippers. Lap zippers are my favorite style. See how to use tape for ease of pinning and topstitching. This lap zipper showcases the simple technique the lap, the underlay. The first change i make is when cutting out the pattern. Within the zipper area i allow a oneinch seam allowance. At the very top of the fabric i mark the oneinch area and i leave the zipper area open. Ive stopped sewing with the traditional 5 8 at the bottom of the zipper. After this initial stitching then do some pressing. Youre looking at the right side of the fabric. The overlap side has been pressed under the entire one inch. The underlay side, a scant one inch in other words about 7 8 so theres a little extra 1 8 in this area. The zipper is placed underneath the underlay area. Just butt the fold of the underlay area next to the coil. Notice that i have the extra length of the zipper at the top of the fabric. Then, with a zipper foot on my machine im just going to topstitch along this area. I have it pinned in place. Then just simply topstitch. You dont have to baste the seam, just sew. Thats one of the two stitches. I mention that i like to use instead of pins for the next step, i like to use tape. This really works out well. The tape is used to not only hold the fabric edges together but also to give you a guideline. Ive used 1 2wide sewing tape. You could also just use office tape. Either way works. First i put down the tape to hold the fabrics together. Then the stitching line. This is where im going to stitch right next to this tape. Start at the bottom or the top it really doesnt matter whatever you would prefer. I think this time im just going to start sewing at the top. Im going to sew right along the tape. I have the zipper foot on. Im going to backstitch a little bit within the seam allowance. Notice that sometimes the pins might give you a little bit of a bubble or a dimple in the fabric. Because the tape is there you certainly dont have to worry about it. Ill stop with the needle in the fabric, pivot and then sew the bottom. With a little thread, time and removal of the tape, you have your zipper in place. You can see, as im pulling it away with just two rows of stitching thats how you create a lap zipper. Well, that was a different technique, wasnt it . Using tape to mark stitching lines for a zipper. Thats kind of the way i do it making it easy. Sewing doesnt have to be difficult, because it isnt. Well take the easy way out if we can to get accurate results. You can take the easy way out to show your support to Public Television by just simply calling that number on the screen. Thats what were asking you to do during this threepart sewing a to z pledge special that we have for you today. This is the last time that you can show your support to sewing with nancy. All the techniques that i have shown you are in sewing a to z, a hardcover spiralbound book. Of course, there are many others. There are techniques that make it easy for you, just to reference, there are little tabs on the side that show you where to find things. If you need to find the ps or lets see, these are the ss, so you know exactly where to find it. So, if youre a beginner, or if youve been sewing or quilting for a while, i think we have something for you. Its been my pleasure to teach via Public Television. Thats my classroom now, thats where i do the teaching. I thank you for being in attendance. I dont get to see you. You know, i see a camera rather than you. But now, i get to hear your calls, so thats really encouraging. I thank you for doing so. Kerman . Well, thank you, nancy. Nancy raised a really good point. She doesnt get to see you in person. But every time that you call every time you join your local pbs station, and again, that starts by calling the number on your screen, you are saying yes, sewing with nancy is a show that im glad is on my pbs station. Its something that i want to support. We get that message. We get it from our viewers like you, that step forward and join us. Of course, when you do join us here at Public Television, we also have some thankyou gifts that well be sending you. Ill run through those for you briefly. If you call and become a member today at the 60 level, we have the hardcover book that nancy was talking about, sewing a to z. Again, ive said this before but i absolutely believe that this is a musthave reference book for your library, whether youre a quilter or somebody that sews, whether youre experienced or just beginning, this is a great resource for you to have. Its hardcover, spiral bound. All of those tips. Theres 100 tips that nancy has collected over the years that are here in this book. Again, with those great illustrations, easy format to use, its definitely something that youll want to have at your home. Then, at the 100 level, we will send you a copy of the sewing a to z book and a copy of the show that youve just been watching. I like this combination a lot because you can go back, you can see nancy demonstrating the techniques that are in the dvd in the show, and then use the book as a reference. We also have a 200 level, where well send you the book, the dvd and a phenomenal fiveinone tool. There are many ways to thank you for joining your local pbs station. Go to those phones now and make that call of support. Linda . Thank you. You know sewing with nancy really is the a to z of how Public Television enriches your life. Youve got all of the, you know, what you can learn how you can be educated, how you can be inspired, how you can be creative. But most importantly, all the joy you get from watching a program, from sharing it from creating memories with your children. Make this a family enterprise. When you sew, its an entire family project. Somebody gets the gi of it but you all get to join in from it, whether its using the book that you can from the 60 level, or the 100 level where you get the dvd, or the 200 level where you put it together with this really unique fiveinone sliding gauge, which i absolutely think is adorable. The key is, its educating you. Its inspiring you. Youre the one who gets to be creative. So now is your opportunity to call and pledge your support. P for pledge. Pledge your support to sewing with nancy by calling the number right on your screen. Kerman . Actually, its nancy nancy but thats okay, linda. We were just at our final pledge break, where you can show your support to sewing with nancy, to your local Public Television station, and to the type of programming, quality educational programming. I hope thats what i bring to you. I appreciate that. Sewing a to z is really kind of basic, but yet, the techniques are updated, not the traditional ways of putting in a zipper or putting in snaps, or doing yoyos. I show you updated contemporary things. Thats my whole goal of teaching via television and that is to show you ways of making it more simplified. If youre a beginner, or if you would like to work with a beginner, help a beginner along, we give you ways of making those techniques, really very easy to handle. Sewing is becoming again, kind of popular. It wasnt popular for all along, but its becoming popular again with the younger generations. You may want to take someone under youre wing and teach them. This would perhaps be a great resource for them. At this time, id just like to say once again, if you didnt hear me earlier, and that is to thank you for watching all these years on television. It is a great opportunity, and i appreciate you being in my classroom. Youre always welcome to let me know techniques or ideas that youd like. Id like this to be a communication thing, so just keep that in mind. Again, we appreciate that. Kerman . Well, it is absolutely phenomenal to hear the response that weve been having so far from our sewing with nancy breaks. Thank you if youve already stepped forward and called the number on your screen and joined your local Public Television station. If you havent, theres no time like the present. It will only take you a minute or two. But when you go back to watching the program, youll know that youve done your part to help keep your public broadcasting station up and running and bringing great shows like sewing with nancy. And of course, when you do call, we have some thankyou gifts. Ill run through those briefly for you. If you call and become a member at the 60 level, we will send you this brand new book that nancys just put together sewing a to z. Its a great hardcover book. Its spiral bound. It lays flat out on the table. As weve talked about, its alphabetized. It has great illustrations. Theres over 100 tips in this book. Whether youre an experienced sewer or quilter, or youre just getting started, this is definitely a reference book that you would like to have in your library. If you call and become a member at the 100 level, we will send you both the hardcover book that i was just talking about and a copy of the show sewing a to z, so its a great way to see nancy actually demonstrating some of those techniques, plus you have the book for reference or for other more in depth information. Then we also have the 200 level, where we send you the book, the dvd, and this great fiveinone tool. We have many ways to say thank you. But we need you to go to those phones now and give us a call. Your call shows your support, your actual commitment to quality programming. Programs such as sewing with nancy are here to provide you you, the viewer, with lifelong education. Its expanding your boundaries. You know, theyre here to not only entertain you and educate you, but to inspire you. Im encouraging you now to make that phone call, to become our partner to show your commitment to quality programming. You can get these wonderful thankyou gifts. As i said, i love this fiveinone sliding gauge. Its amazing. Whether you want to call now to renew your membership, or have a new membership, the most important thing is you make that call, because its a call for quality programming. Im encouraging you to do it right now. Just call the number on your screen, right on your tv. Well, i just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you that have already joined us during this wonderful sewing with nancy break. Weve had many, many callers contact us this morning and show their support for their local Public Television station. We have many people on the phones right now. Theres still plenty of time before we go on to our next show for you to step forward and say, yes, sewing with nancy is something that i want to support, and im willing to make a financial commitment by doing so. All you have to do is call the number on your screen. And of course when you do, we have our thankyou gifts for you. Ill run through those one more time briefly for you. At the 60 level, we have the sewing a to z book. This is a wonderful, hardcover book, spiral bound filled with illustrations and tips and techniques. These are things that nancys collected over many years. Shes put them together is this great volume. This is a wonderful reference book for you to have in your library at home. If you call and become a member at the 100 level, we will send you the sewing a to z hardcover book and the dvd of the show that youve just watched. I love this level, because its a great combination. You have the dvd where you can see the examples. You can see nancy actually demonstrating 25 different tips and techniques. Then you have the reference book so you can go more in depth, or if there are other things that you want to look up its a great onetwo punch to have and to add to your sewing repertoire. Then, if you call and join us at the 200 level, we have the package that includes the sewing a to z book we have the sewing a to z dvd, plus we have this phenomenal fiveinone sewing tool that nancy helped design. This is, you know, many people have used the fiveinone tools before, but this one is special. When you move this to measure, and it stays in place. You can do circles. Theres so much that you can do with this tool. Nancy designed it specifically to address some of the issues that you have when youre sewing. We have many ways to thank you when you join your local Public Television station. Go to those phones and give us a call right now. Linda . Thats right, because the reason youre thanking us is we are thanking you. We are p, partners. Were partners in this. Its with your pledge of support that we continue programs such as sewing with nancy. Its with your pledge of support that you get, at the 200 level, the dvd, the related book, of course, and this amazing, i love it, the fiveinone sliding gauge that can do everything. What you should do is pledge at that level, and then give this to your favorite high schooler whos in geometry. This is perfect for geometry i mean, i had students who wouldve killed for this. But its an opportunity for you now. That p is also the projects that youre going to do, the projects youre going to do, because youre now inspired. Youre ready to go out and create. Where did you get the inspiration from . Whether its the sewing, whether its the quilting, its the sewing with nancy sewing a to z. Take all those letters, put them together and call the number on your screen to pledge your support right now. Nancy . Thanks, linda. Its time to really wrap up this threepart series on sewing a to z, where you learn from anchor cloth to zipper. Youll have 25 techniques on the dvd. Ive shown you 22 during this last hour and a half. We dont have an x technique. Sewing with nancy is not xrated, so we have just a clean bill of health here anyway, that was a poor analogy i thank you for calling and for showing your support. Well be here longer if youd like to still call after the program is over. My goal on sewing with nancy is to give you education quality education that you can apply to your hobby and to your skill of sewing and quilting. I thank you for being loyal viewers and supporters all these years. My goal is i promise to try to do my best to stay on television and to show you more updated skills. So, as i end every program i say, thanks for joining me. Bye for now. Visit nancys website at nancyzieman. Com to see additional episodes nancys blog, and more. Sewing with nancy tvs longest airing sewing and quilting program with nancy zieman has been brought to you by baby lock, madeira threads koala studios, clover amazing designs, and klasse needles. Closed captioning funding provided by rowenta. Sewing with nancy is a coproduction of Nancy Zieman Productions and wisconsin Public Television