The right finish makes your custom crafted garments look more professional. 

In this segment you'll see my blouse decked out with perfect pintucks and a topstitch technique I call channel stitching. this is a great way to perk up a blouse and add decoration to other wise plain yokes, collars, and cuffs.

I chose Simplicity 8297, view D and made the blouse from rayon challis purchased from Fabric.com.

In this segment I started by demonstrating corded pintucks with the seven groove pintuck foot.

Combine this foot with a cording guide, and a 2mm twin needle for delicate tucks on soft fabrics. You'll learn some twin needle threading techniques and see my trick for guiding cord straight into the underside of the tucks.

The next technique used for blouse embellishment is channel stitching, accomplished by stitching multiple rows of straight stitches close together.

I featured a foot called the Vertical Stitch Alignment foot. This handy foot has prominent guidelines that come in handy for spacing one or multiple rows of stitching. Take a close look at the finished cuff stitched with thread that is a couple shades darker than the blouse fabric:

The cheerful color of this blouse makes me smile and I enjoyed adding accents that compliment both the pattern style and the fabric. I hope you'll try one or both of these techniques on a future garment yourself. CLICK HERE for complete instructions for each of the techniques from this show.

Once again, Emily shows how take a simple style and not only streamline the sewing process but add a few extra, easy to sew details.

Her idea for pattern hacking to make the V easy is cute and clever! It looks a little messy mid-way but watch it come together into a nice finish at the end.

Emily's V-neck top technique can be applied to commercial patterns or one of her free pattern downloads from her site. CLICK HERE for a link to the instructions.

Visit www.itsseweasytv.com to watch show 2002. It currently airs for Free until Noon EST on December 25th.

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Watch Reen cut cork and stitch it into an In-the-Hoop note pad. You’ll even see her craft a pen that matches the fabric for the note pad. So clever!!!

Many of you may already be fans of Reen’s designs from her Embroidery Garden site. However, if you have never done any embroidery -in-the hoop, this show gives you a clear idea of how and why this style of embroidery stitching gets its name. Quite literally, you layer everything in the hoop piece by piece and in most cases end up with a perfectly executed piece of art. Things like zippers, stipple quilting, and perfect shapes and corners are a no fail proposition when stitched in the hoop. In some cases, a few finishing touches are added after removal from the hoop, but those stiches are minimal. Note that unlike traditional embroidery design, when you see the design displayed on the machine of the screen, they look rather plain. The magic is in the layering of fabrics that form beautiful finished pieces.

You’ll find Reen and her myriad of design collections at www.embroiderygarden.com.

It's time for the last wrap dress in this exciting series! Who knew there were so many different wrap styles? Each one in Angela's collection has been beautiful and special! This final wrap, actually it's a faux wrap, may well be my favorite.

Her faux wrap knit dress has flattering gathering at the waistline, making this dress really wearable! This dress is Angela’s Shirley Pattern, ​a versatile collection that includes a tank top tunic length top and of course the dress. In this segment you’ll see how to finish the neck and create the side gathers.

For this segment I was asked to give a short and sweet story, telling It’s Sew Easy TV viewers how sewing became my “life’s work.” Perhaps you’ll relate to the tale I tell about starting to sew in junior-high, with my Mom being my biggest supporter and the one I credit with giving me the encouragement and the all-important “tool” I needed to sew to my heart’s content. CLICK HERE if you'd like read more about my sewing story.

Visit www.itsseweasytv.com to watch show 1913. It currently airs for Free until Noon EST on December 18th.

There are SEW many unique projects on this episode!

​The perfect way to get your feet wet with piecing and quilting is to create something small. Emily’s project is fun, fast, and easy. Watch her built a simple log cabin style block and turn it into a tablet cover. What a perfect idea for gift giving too!

I couldn't locate her super cute porcupine pincushion fabric but this Henry Glass collection on Fabric.com would make a great substitute.

Segment 2
Costume Creations for Shoes
with Cheryl Sleboda 

Have you ever thought of wearing winged feet?!? This segment may give you pause for thought. This is a fun costume idea and surely would be a "just for fun" way to be remembered if you wear these for a non-costume event.  See how to sew satin and specialty foam together, along with finishing steps for making "winged feet."

​We are all the way up to lesson eight in Angela’s wrap dress series. This segment covers ideas for covering up and keeping the wrap closed. Angela has some easy ways to keep the warp closed. She also features a couple different modestly panels to add a fashion accent and a functional cover-up on the wrap. 

​Check out the “Shirley” Wrap Dress here: Angela Wolf Shirley Wrap Dress.

By the way, I do love wrap dresses, featuring one in show 1905. CLICK HERE to watch the video, download instructions, and take advantage of three machine embroidery designs to trim your own wrap dress.

Visit www.itsseweasytv.com to watch show 1912. It currently airs for Free until Noon EST on December 11th.