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Tailoring Answers from Kenneth D. King: Fabric Options for Tailoring

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Texturizing Fabrics: Pin Tucks with a Twin Needle
Texturizing Fabrics: Fabric Appliqué with Free-Motion Stitching

Watch to learn how to turn scraps and other small pieces of fabric into a larger fabric piece to create one-of-a-kind garments or bags.
Essential Tools: Pins

If you've ever shopped for pins, you'll have noticed that there are a plethora of options at your disposal. To help you make a more informed decision, sewing expert Judith…
Essential Tools: Machine Needles

Judith Neukam walks you through sewing machine needle anatomy and how to read the needle packaging. She also highlights various machine needles types and their uses.
Expert Tips for Faced Edges

Threads contributing editor Judith Neukam shares some dos and don'ts for achieving professional-looking faced edges.
How to Line a Pullover to the Edge

Lining a garment to the edge is a useful finish on soft unstructured pieces where you don't need the support of a facing around the neckline, armhole, or hem.
Essential Tools: Measuring Tapes

In this video, Threads Contributing Editor Judith Neukam helps you navigate through the world of measuring tapes. She also offers clever tips to measuring inseams and crotch length.
Fitting: Key Pattern Adjustments

Threads contributing editor Judith Neukam walks you through two important pattern alterations that can simplify the fitting process.
How to Line a Pullover to the Edge

Lining a garment to the edge is a useful finish on soft unstructured pieces where you don't need the support of a facing around the neckline, armhole, or hem.
How to Fit Yourself with Sarah Veblen, Part 1

Achieving well fitting garments is attainable with the assistance of a sewing buddy. However, not every sewist has that luxury. Fitting expert Sarah Velben shows how to fit yourself without…
How to Fit Yourself with Sarah Veblen, Part 2

Fitting your back without the help of a sewing buddy can prove to be a challenge. To help you get your desired fit, Threads author Sarah Veblen skillfully demonstrates just…
How to Fit Yourself with Sarah Veblen, Part 3

In the third and final installment of Threads Insider All Access’ fitting tutorial with Sarah Veblen, she demonstrates how a camera, or a smart phone, can be an indispensable fitting…
Tailoring Answers from Kenneth D. King: Supplies and Resources

Kenneth shares a few of his go-to resources for tailoring tools and supplies.
Tailoring Answers from Kenneth D. King: Fabric Options for Tailoring

Kenneth explores textile choices that are used to create tailored jackets.
Tailoring Answers from Kenneth D. King: A Note on Sizing Pockets

Tailoring expert Kenneth D. King offers insights on jacket pocket size and length.
Tailoring Answers from Kenneth D. King: Bagging a Lining

Listen to Kenneth's insights on bagging a lininng.
Tailoring Answers from Kenneth D. King: Basic Skills You Need to Tailor Jackets

Kenneth discusses the skills needed befor tackling a tailored jacket.
Tailoring Answers from Kenneth D. King: A Note on Sleeve Cuff Length

Get expert insight on the optimal sleeve cuff lenght on tailored jackets.
One-on-one Chat with Claire Shaeffer, Part 1

Threads Executive Editor Judith Neukam sits down with couture expert and author Claire Shaeffer in a fascinating and in-depth, Insider-only interview.
One-on-one Chat with Claire Shaeffer, Part 2

Watch the second installment of this exclusive, Insider-only interview with couture expert Claire Shaffer.
One-on-one Chat with Claire Shaeffer, Part 3

Get to know Threads author and video personality Claire Shaeffer.
One-on-one Chat with Claire Shaeffer, Part 4

Watch the fourth installment of our exclusive interview with Claire Shaeffer.
One-on-one Chat with Claire Shaeffer, Part 5

Watch the final installment of our exclusive, five-part interview with couture expert Claire Shaeffer.
One-on-one Chat with Sarah Veblen, Part 1

Threads sits down with fitting expert and Threads video personality, Sarah Veblen for an exclusive, Insider-only interview.
One-on-one Chat with Sarah Veblen, Part 2

Watch the second installment of this exclusive, Insider-only interview with fitting expert Sarah Veblen.
One-on-one Chat with Sarah Veblen, Part 3

Watch the third installment of our exclusive interview with fitting expert and Threads video personality, Sarah Veblen.
One-on-one Chat with Sarah Veblen, Part 4

Watch the fourth and final installment of this exclusive interview with fitting expert Sarah Veblen.
Kenneth D. King’s Essential Sewing Tool Kit, Part 2 | Video

Watch as expert Kenneth D. King reveals the essential tools inside his personal sewing tool kit.
Kenneth D. King’s Essential Sewing Tool Kit, Part 3

Learn more about Kenneth D. King's favorite sewing tools and notions.
Kenneth D. King’s Essential Sewing Tool Kit, Part 4

Kenneth D. King shares more insight and clever ways of organizing your tools in the final episdoe of this exclusive video series.
One-on-one Chat with Angela Wolf, Part 1

Get to know Threads video personality, patternmaker and fashion designer Angela Wolf.
One-on-one Chat with Angela Wolf, Part 2

Find out how Angela Wolf’s pattern collection came about and more in the second installment of this exclusive three-part interview.
One-on-one Chat with Angela Wolf, Part 3

Angela Wolf discusses her workshops, fabric dyeing, and fishing in the final installment of this exclusive interview.
One on One with Kenneth D. King, Part 1

Get to know Threads contributing editor and couture fashion designer, Kenneth D. King.
One on One with Kenneth D. King, Part 2

Get to know Threads contributing editor and couture fashion designer, Kenneth D. King.
One on One with Kenneth D. King, Part 3

Get to know Threads contributing editor and couture fashion designer, Kenneth D. King.
One on One with Kenneth D. King, Part 4

Get to know Threads contributing editor and couture fashion designer, Kenneth D. King.
One on One with Kenneth D. King, Part 5

Get to know Threads contributing editor and couture fashion designer, Kenneth D. King.
One on One with Kenneth D. King, Part 6

Get to know Threads contributing editor and couture fashion designer, Kenneth D. King in the final installment of this exclusive interview.
Fundamentals of Hand Sewing

Contributing Editor Kenneth D. King explains the basics of selecting and maintaining hand-sewing needles and how to handle thread for smooth, tangle-free stitching.
Learn Four Basic Hand Stitches

Sewing expert Kenneth D. King shows how to work two of the most commonly used hand stitches, as well as two useful variations.
Sew a Slipstitch and Blind-Hem Stitch by Hand

Follow along with Threads Contributing Editor Kenneth D. King as he shows how to apply slipstitches to anchor fabric layers together, and how to sew a blind-hem stitch that secures…

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