I'd love to be a Threads "Insider" and have access to all the extra features.
The patterns, videos, and discounts are the best features for me. They would be a great supplement to the magazine that I've read since its early days in the 80s! Such a great resource for learning and refining my skills.

It is nice to get a closer look at how the best work is done.
Wish I could take the class to learn more, but I'm extremely allergic to cats!
Oh well.

I love reading and watching mysteries. The best part of the Mystery Game is seeing how everyone acts out their parts. You get to be someone else for a while and have a lot of fun, even if you find out your character was the guilty one!

I would love to create a line of artistic, stylish clothes for mature, professional women. So much of commercial design is cut and directed towards thin, young figures. There is definitely an underserved market for garments that look contemporary while making mature and less-than-perfect figures look comfortable and polished. This book would be a great help in getting started.

This is a terrific idea!
I usually cut out the loosely woven fabric (not just silks) pieces and then zig-zag the edges, but this trick seems like it will keep the curves more stable, while avoiding edge loss from slight fraying during handling. It's great to see a technique that uses simple options anyone can use.

For those who want to serge everything, when I (having no other option at the time) used a serger on a loose weave, woven with heavy threads, often the serger just wrapped one or two threads and pulled off and distorted the edges, rather than stabilizing them. It also is more likely to stretch and curl the curves.

The tailor's tack-like basting and zig-zag stitching really are gentler on the fabric and don't require additional chemicals or stabilizers. Thanks, Kenneth, for pointing all this out.

I love making fine, fancy lingerie from fine silks, cottons, and lace—all those things no one seems to manufacture and sell anymore. Since I am a difficult size to fit, creating custom garments and lingerie is the best way to go. Vintage patterns are often more interesting than the "make it quick and easy" ones they sell today. I've used them for theatrical costuming in the past. Love using updated vintage looks and details in fashion design. This book sounds like it will be an excellent addition to my library. I'd love to win a copy!

After surgery, my body changed and swelled up so much I needed a new wardrobe. So many of my recent sewing projects have been complicated to sew and fitting challenges. I would much rather be more spontaneous, mixing and matching with my fabric stash! I would love to have a book of inspiring, simple, fast projects that included patterns, so I could complete some comfortable, interesting, stylish, and artistic outfits to match my somewhat eccentric personality!

I thought Uli's collection was the most polished and complete, appeared to be well-constructed, as well as very wearable. It showed a consistency of vision and varied development of that vision, with one amazing piece after another. If it was like something she showed earlier, this was because her vision is more consistently realized. I would think that would be an indicator of a more successful professional and future star. The makeup was a bit disturbing, but consistent with her wintery vision. Her magical collection should have been the winner, for isn't runway fashion all about dreams and imagination? Her finale dress was stunning.

Anthony Ryan's collection was boring, unattractive, inconsistently constructed, and as for seeing it before, this was ripped straight from the 1960s. His finale dress was awful in construction and the top was from a different design aesthetic than the skirt. I don't know many women who want to wear that many horizontal, graphic lines across their bust, waist, and hips. The lines may be "clean" but the execution was not stimulating. The boots, heavy and unattractive, emphasized the proportion problems, although, apparently, that is the new "in" thing for shoes. The most successful dress was the black and yellow with peplum that broke out of the repetitive mold. Compared to some of his outstanding, imaginative design work during the series, this collection was disappointing.

Emilio deserves credit for trying to interpret his political idea into a clothing line and his designs looked generally comfortable and wearable. His political idea was not really showing in the designs (other than the headscarves), but the practicality of the separates was evident. It was an uneven collection and very little was a "wow" moment, so it is understandable this collection didn't win, even though it seems quite sellable.

I have enjoyed the addition of Claire's columns to Threads magazine. I'd love to learn more about creating inner support and shaping in garments and custom fitting to camouflage figure flaws. I worked in bridal and formalwear years ago and have kept sewing for myself, so i can have well-fitted, personalized garments.