So interesting how you are doing this. Love the article. As always you are an inspiration.

So interesting how you are doing this. Love the article. As always you are an inspiration.

Awesome. Would love to have been there and watched this done firsthand.

As always your tips are phenomenal. I love this one and will be using it regularly. I am sure there are other fabrics that could use the same technique to stop the fraying. Thank you again for helping me be a better sewer.

Once again I am thrilled with your article and am waiting impatiently for the next installment. I, too, want to know more about the sleeve shaper. I have the iron and love it. Thanks for being such a great inspiration. I am honored to have taken some classes with you.

Am just finishing a jacket on which I wish to cover some snaps. It is so nice to be able to return to your helpful hints and teaching articles in Threads by going online and searching, and by being able to find them, also, in my Threads Archives. Thank you so much.

How could anyone who loves fashion and sewing not be totally thrilled to get and be able to read this book over and over again? What an inspiration it would be to all of us. I know I would spend hours pondering over the words and illustrations, and then I would give it to my granddaughter who is in her senior year at Eastern Kentucky University and will graduate with a degree in Fashion Design. next December.

How could anyone who loves fashion and sewing not be totally thrilled to get and be able to read this book over and over again? What an inspiration it would be to all of us. I know I would spend hours pondering over the words and illustrations, and then I would give it to my granddaughter who is in her senior year at Eastern Kentucky University and will graduate with a degree in Fashion Design. next December.

Great jacket. Would love to see it in person.

Awesome. Being a court reporter, I have cases of steno paper left over from the days we used paper in our machines, now that we are computerized. So luckily I kept the paper, and that is what I use as backing on buttonholes or making a thread scallop on the edge of a garment. What a great idea to use it like you just did. Thanks. Jenny

Bring back Heidi and Tim, please. This group just didn't do the show justice.

Loved the jacket and love the bag. Makes me want to go to work on one of my own.

Great trick. Thanks, Kenneth.

Great idea Thanks. I will use it lots.

I, for one, would love to wear it, and personally wonder who wouldn't!! TO each their own, I guess. What incredible workmanship and design. Way to go, Kenneth.

I love the show and the inspirations I get from it. Would like to see more of how they are actually putting their designs together.

The stilts was ridiculous in my book.

When I was dating my husband (of 35 years now), I wanted to "impresss" him with my sewing ability, so for his birthday I decided to make him a pair of trousers. I took two days off work to do it, and when he found out I wasn't working, he decided to pop in and surprise me periodically during the day. Each time I would hear his car in the driveway I would frantically hide my sewing project, only to get it out and start sewing again as soon as he would leave. Needless to say, I made several mistakes which I would rip out and fix; however, when I had the pants completed and went to do the final pressing, I had all the pockets sewn on the outside of the pants!!! I just gave them to him that way, explaining the interruptions that distracted me, and never made him another pair

Great suggestions and I will use them all. Thanks

Well, I found these postings most interesting. I am a compulsive finisher. It comes, I believe, from my mother who, when I was quite young and wanting to try everything and anything, would say to me, "You never finish anything, why start it?" And I decided then and there she would never have reason to say that to me again. I finish books I don't like and I finish garments I no longer like or want, and I give them away. My problem has been one that many also have and that is buying fabric with a specific project in mind, never getting around to that project and eventually no longer even liking the fabric. So in recent years, with a downsizing of our home and having a smaller sewing room, I go through the stash about once every 2 or 3 years and give the fabric to Good Will or the high school home ec class.

I was so very lucky to be in one of Susan's classes in Baltimore when her daughter got this suit and got to see and touch it first hand. Quite a lovely bit of couture workmanship, of course!!

I somehow got blocked from getting the newsletter and have had to work with Taunton's tech support twice to get it started again, and how nice to have the first one be an article by you. Love the jacket, but enjoyed the details described even more. Looking forward to working with you in April.

The dress looks terrific, and I think the pictures are also terrific and just fine for a magazine like this. Actually, they are fine for any magazine, in my humble opinion.