Finally getting a chance to really get a look. I'm impressed. Would I like to be the winner? You Bet!

I like both techniques very much. I am especially intrigued by the mitered corner since I find more time to quilt since my "little girl (handicapped and 28) won't wear her own dresswear and prefers to quilt, putting me either in the mending (hemming) box or encouraging aquilt project these days.

I was taught as you were except to do the little parts of a garment FIRST (collar, cuffs, yoke, lapels ....) and then do the large parts of a garment (bodice, shirt front, back, skirt, etc. ...) because fussing with the little stuff AFTER ironing the large sections of a garment inevitably creates wrinkles in the work you've already done. I also use starch on some items, not all (ie. shirts and blouses but not pants generally.)

I could stand to learn some new and fun "embellishing" ideas. I feel stale. Thanks!

I learn so much practical things from your SEW STYLISH mags. I'd really appreciate not having to drive 12 miles to get this issue! Thanks!

At first, I thought "What a waste of time and effort!" but as I watched the video of the piano and the detail unfold, I thought differently.
It's not something I could master especially the masterful replication of the instruments, say nothing of the other objects
It was a pleasant eyeful and I will be sending his website address to the quilters' guild and to the choir director.
Thanks, I enjoyed the break from the usual.

I would use this to fire up my daughter again since she was in 4-H and made dresses, etc. This, I would use to stimulate her creative sewing interests again. BTW, she, though high functioning has Down Syndrome (if you wonder why I need to help her understand the longest words of what she reads).
She can do it, with your help (and mine).

If I were to get my "Dream Christmas Wish", this year, it would to get a helper to organize my sewing room which has become the "Sewing / Pile-It" Room over the last 5 years since I took my niece in and had to hide things in the sewing room. Ayear of hiding personal papers and business from her and several "company visits" and welloa, I feel overwhelmed. So, my dream gift would be time and a helper.

I have this ever so valuable volume of THREADS magazines on CD's. My intention in submitting my request to be considered as a winner is for my sister, Nancy. She sews, but her garments are less than fashionable and hardly correctly put together. She needs to LEARN from the experts! I can think of no better way for her to learn than for her to peruse a technological device. If something rubs off, then it will be to the benefit of all who are embarassed but feel compelled to wear her "creations". (She knows a lot about sewing, but is sloppy with zippers, unknowledgeable about plackets,etc., things that are obvious.....)

Wonderful! I can't wait to try this! Love it!

Please consider my simple request to win as I would give this away to my sister and thereby introduce her to THREADS!
Thank you. I love THREADS so muc, I wish I had the finances to share it. I live in the "flood torn" part of the USA.

My mother started me driving a sewing machine at about age 9 which would have been way back in about 1962.

I am always having to use the fold-up method for my daughter's short arms. i'm going to try the 'button placket '!

I could use this book for my sewing library. Thank you

Let your choice be me... I'd love to be able to say that MY undergarments and specialties were MADE IN AMERICA!

I am impressed by Danielle Everine. I really like her styles and her presentation. She'd get my vote to continue on the Project Runway Challenge.

I have two projects in mind - a dress for myself and re-designing a purse pattern I love. Could use some tips.....

Here's my dilemna: Stress caused me to lose too much weight and then gain just enough back. Thus my shape is not what it used to be just 3 yrs ago.
Secondly, I have a handicapped daughter who knows all the right things to do to lose weight but has steadily gained since the end of 2006. She finds food to provide comfort esp. since employers aren't hiring the handicapped, even minimally handicapped as she is. So, at 4'8", she is now up to 146 and each "fitting" for a garment, whether handmade or off the rack alteration has to be carefully made.
I could use the assistance of learning how to properly do "Draping" so that each project would make sense to properly fit. Those that she and I have made at home have been the best fitting with ALTERATIONS, NOT DRAPING TO DETERMINE THE FIXES BEFOREHAND
I ask your consideration for my submission as the winner.
(I have done some alterations outside "these four walls" but am not a professional by any means.)
Thank you

I had finished 5th grade. My parents decided to transfer both my brother and myself out of parochial school so that Andy could take trumpet lessons in public school. Only one problem with this scenario; that being that I had no dresses to wear to a regular, public school having worn uniforms for 5 years.
So, that summer, my mother came up with a rather simple yoked dress pattern (early 1960's) and some "material" as it used to be called and set me down to start sewing my first dress. After accomplishing the first one, I moved on with only slight bits of help for the second one. As I recall, they were both dress weight cottons, not like the quilt weight cottons of today and this is how I started.
Maybe I should say that I am the oldest in the family and my mom was a very busy mother of at least 4 of us by the time I was in the 5th grade, and eventually 7.