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The Perfect Blouse: Hem the Shirt

Follow Sandra Miller's straightforward method to hem a shirt and learn several tips for making sure the narrow hem has a smooth, clean finish.

The Perfect Blouse: Attach the Cuffs

Sewing instructor Sandra Miller demonstrate specific pressing and trimming techniques to help you attach the cuffs on a shirt accurately and smoothly.

The Perfect Blouse: Install the Sleeves

To install sleeves on a traditional shirt, you must join two garment sections with opposing curves. Sandra Miller shows you how.

The Perfect Blouse: Install the Sleeve Plackets

Sandra Miller shares key pressing and stitching tips you can follow when installing sleeve plackets on a traditional-style shirt.

The Perfect Blouse: Attach the Collar Band and Collar

Preparing and sewing the collar band sections and the collar to a men's-style shirt requires you to pin, stitch, and press accurately.

Riffs on a Trusted Pattern: The Tanked Top

Becky Fulgoni nicknamed her seemingly quick-to-make riff on the Fit for Art Patterns Tabula Rasa Jacket "the tanked top" when she ran into some unexpected challenges.

The Perfect Blouse: Construct the Collar

Learn expert pressing and stitching techniques to construct the collar on a men's style shirt, in this episode.

The Perfect Blouse: Construct the Back and Sew the Shoulder Seams

Learn the burrito roll and other techniques for sewing a professional-looking blouse back with yoke and for sewing shoulder seams.

Vintage Coat Refresh: Functional Welt Pockets and a New Lining

Learn to create functional welt pockets. Alterations pro and Threads Digital Ambassador Pamela Howard walks through how she did just that on a vintage coat that featured a pair of…

The Perfect Blouse: Make the Pocket

Learn how to make and use a pressing template and then how to achieve precise edgestitching to create a professional-looking breast patch pocket on a classic shirt.

The Perfect Blouse: Prepare the Right and Left Fronts

Make the buttonhole placket accurately using Sandra Miller's steps for the garment fronts. Edgestitching plays a key role in getting it right.

The Perfect Blouse: Prepare the Pattern

Learn a few practical steps to follow in the beginning when you prepare the pattern, pin it to the fabric, cut out the garment sections, and mark the cut pieces…