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Create fashion forward handbags by making easy changes to your bag pattern.
Learn easy functional handbag changes, add ribbon inspiration accents, create a recessed zipper closure or clutch handles, and more. Nancy’s favorite handbag techniques make personalized bags with designer appeal.
Learn Nancy’s secrets for making a designer handbag with panache. Add grommets and piping to a cinched tote, embroider monograms on faux leather, or create a continuous strap to hold a yoga mat or baby blanket. Nancy’s easy handbag techniques can be adapted for your favorite bag pattern
Nancy highlights a simple, yet unconventional, approach to clothing repairs.
Learn the Fool’em Jeans Hem, the No-Bump Jeans Hem, a Snug-Up the Waist Fix, and a Cover-up Zipper Fix. You’ll be surprised at these easy methods to do your own clothing repairs quickly!
Nancy takes an easy and lighter approach to clothing repairs.
Replace broken zippers, mend jeans, sew on buttons, and more with this unconventional approach to repairs. Nancy breaks all the traditional sewing rules with these easy clothing repair techniques. Zipper Remedy, Holes to Art, Lumberjack Patches, Too Much Cake Fix, and more.
Add a designer touch to an easy-to-make T-shirt—fast and fun! Designer Pamela Leggett joins Nancy to share fitting techniques that flatter “real” figures and to show simple knit sewing tips for T-shirts. Pamela’s easy T-shirt pattern has a flattering style that gives options for the necklines that are featured.
Sew a classic tee dress with easy fitting, sewing, and designing techniques.
Nancy and designer Pamela Leggett show how to apply sewing and fitting techniques from a T-shirt pattern to a wardrobe classic—a comfortable tee dress. Also learn tips for several neckline variations and hemming options ideal for dresses.
Learn landscape quilting using this simplistic approach & easy techniques. Nancy and her quilting mentor Natalie Sewell streamline the landscape quilting process using a beginner’s prospective. Learn to use inspirational photos, choose fabric, and master messy & fussy cutting techniques. Create trees easily with raw-edge appliqué techniques & give them dimension with fabric markers or oil pastels.
Learn to create a garden scene in fabric with this easy landscape quilting process. [26 minutes]
Spontaneous landscape quilting techniques are the secret to creating picturesque scenes. [26 minutes]
Join Nancy at the Quilt Expo in Madison, WI, for a modern gathering of all things quilting. [26 minutes]
Learn tried and true sewing and quilting tips from the experts. [26 minutes]
Sewing and quilting specialists discuss some of their favorite sewing and quilting techniques. [26 minutes]
Nancy and Mary Mulari inspire you to use repurposed meaningful fabric for your heartfelt creations. [26 minutes]
Gift ideas made from vintage hankies and doilies, ties, towels, and laminated bags are shared. [26 minutes]
Nancy teaches pattern fitting using her time-tested pivot and slide techniques. [26 minutes]
Gain sewing confidence when you learn Nancy's easy pattern fitting techniques. [26 minutes]
Modern quilt blocks are easily made from the traditional Log Cabin quilt blocks. [26 minutes]
Discover tricks of modern quilting inspired by the traditional Log Cabin block. You might think that Log Cabin quilt blocks are very predictable-red center block with dark fabric strips added to one side and light strips added to the other. Nancy and guest Natalia Bonner, a modern quilt designer help you discover that with an unconventional approach the expected turns imaginative! [26 minutes]
Use your embroidery sewing machine to create unique gift bundles for a baby, kids, or friends. Wondering if you're up to the task? Let Nancy and guest, Marie Zinno, show you how to hoop for success on a variety of standard gift items such as baby bibs, tote bags, and hooded towels. You'll soon find that learning the right way to attach fabrics to an embroidery hoop leads to embroidery success. [26 minutes]
Learn how to successfully use stabilizers and embroidery designs to stitch top-notch projects. Embroidery pro Marie Zinno joins Nancy to share her tips on how to successfully embroider by machine. As a professional, Marie knows the ins and outs of attaching a ready made T-shirt, baby onesie, tote, or slippers to an embroidery hoop, and she's willing to share all her trade secrets. [26 minutes]
Make the most of your fabric stash and make striking quilts from scraps to yardage. Nancy and guest Lynn Harris show numerous ways to refresh traditional quilt designs by giving them a scrappy look. Plus, you'll be inspired to create quilts with minimalist charm when small scraps are used on broad backgrounds. [26 minutes]
Create different quilt designs from a 4-patch block by changing dimensions and color. Nancy starts this mini-series with a basic quilt block, the time-honored 4-patch design, and details the piecing techniques. Then watch as she changes it up, adjusting the sizes of the 4-patch design and working with modern color options. The results are dramatic, yet the sewing techniques are the same. This is an ideal series for beginner quilters. [26 minutes]
Make a Square Within a Square quilt block; then vary the fabric sizes for creative options. Learn to make a Square Within a Square block the traditional way; then change the mix, varying the length of the fabric pieces to stitch a Rectangle Within a Rectangle and a modern Floating Square block. All blocks and quilt designs are made with Nancy's signature streamline quilting techniques. [26 minutes]
Make a 9-patch block; then change fabric sizes to show artistic options. Nancy shows you the basics of stitching the versatile 9-patch quilt block, and then she details how to take a fresh approach toward assembling the block to change it up! Modify the size of the fabric strips, use fabric scraps to make a vintage quilt, or change the color to provide artistic options. [26 minutes]
Learn how to update a plain top with embroidery that is fashionable but also flawless. Nancy and guest Eileen Roche show you how to update necklines with fashionable embroidery and other easy yet creative accents. Learn how to hoop a ready made top in your embroidery machine and then watch as the programmed stitching not only adds beautiful embellishments, but changes the neckline shape. [26 minutes]
Learn how to easily and creatively use your embroidery machine to give a plain top a new focus. Nancy Zieman and embroidery expert Eileen Roche give you the confidence and inspiration you need to update the neckline of a top with designer touches. Use embroidery to add thread motifs and programmed stitches to change the shape of a neckline. [26 minutes]
