Before you start this video, make sure your machine is working like new. If you haven’t had it tuned up, I recommend getting it tuned by a professional to start your sewing workshops with ease. Also, you will need the manual for your machine with the threading guide for reference. If you don’t have your manual, find it online and print out the pages that teach you to thread your machine.

In this short video, I will introduce you to all of the parts of your sewing machine that make it sew.

In this workshop you will get the insider tricks on how to run your sewing machine without jamming up your thread … and what to do if you do!

Print the sewing guide at least once … maybe a hundred times if you love practice. Let’s learn how to sew a straight line, pivot a corner and sew a curve. These are pretty much all of the shapes you need to make or fix anything.

Pretty much everything you are going to make will start with a pattern.

The best patterns nowadays are available online and delivered to you in a pdf format. Join me in this workshop to put together your tea towel pattern. You will be ready to move on to capsule 1 and SEW! You will also be ready to build any of the gorgeous patterns coming to you from amazing designers all over the world. Let’s sew!

In this video + text workshop, you will perfect the art of the hem.

A perfect hem distinguishes a person who can sew from a tailor.

In this short video, I will walk you step by step through making hem after hem on tea towels. You will be very good at it!

Join me in this short video + pdf workshop to make a basic pillow cover. You will draft your own pattern to fit a pillow form of your choice. And this will be the beginning of your design freedom. When you make the pattern, you make the change.

We will work on pattern markings, pivoting corners, hand stitching and many other basic skills. And your life will be full of really nice, hand made pillows.

Let’s sew!

In this short video + pdf workshop, I will teach you my essential techniques to get the effortless, chic, perfect and quick hem on any garment. Trust me, I have hemmed 10,000 times 10,000 garments. You can hem your clothes with me.

Join me for this quick workshop where I will show you how to hem your finer items with a hand finished blind hem.

A blind hem is a sewing technique used to finish the bottom edge of skirts, pants & dresses or home decor like curtains so that stitches are invisible from the right side of the fabric.

Have you ever wondered how they do it when they shorten a jean but keep the weathered hem? This is a technique I use on shoots daily.

A Hollywood hem removes the original hem, cuts away the excess length and puts the original hem back on while replacing the topstitch thread and hiding the seam allowance so you can still roll your jeans.

In this short workshop, I will teach you the basic technique I have developed to do a flawless rolled hem without a special machine or foot. More importantly, I will teach you how to measure and mark that hem so your dress or skirt will fall gracefully and evenly.

A rolled hem is a narrow, elegant finish for fabric edges. It is most commonly used to hem dresses and skirts. It can also finish a scarf or a pocket square.

Join me for this quick video + pdf workshop where you will learn how to confidently insert a zipper. And you can make hundreds and hundreds of these awesome little zipper pouches. I personally have them everywhere.

In this short video + pdf workshop, you will use your zipper inserting skills to make a Dopp kit. It looks complicated, it will be simple with me walking you through it step by step.

Let’s sew!

In this quick video + pdf workshop, I will teach you my foolproof technique for a perfectly inserted new zipper.

I remember the night before her fashion week show in Diane Von Furstenburg’s shop/showroom/apartment in the meatpacking district, I had to replace zippers all night on gowns that needed side seam alterations. With my preparation techniques, those zippers walked the runway flawlessly.

Let’s sew!

Zippers fail in garments that are old and new; they fail in garments that are cheap and couture.

In this short workshop I will teach you my technique to take a zipper out and put a new one back in any coat or jacket.

A stuck zipper is not necessarily a broken zipper. In this quick workshop, I will teach you how to safely remove tangled fabric from the teeth of your zipper, hopefully without any unfortunate tears.

Learn the photo-shoot-set technique I use.

In this video + pdf workshop, you will make a simple classic chef’s apron.

This project will teach you how to build and apply pockets, as well as how to work with strapping.

Let’s sew!

In this quick video + pdf workshop we will learn to work with pockets. Download your free pocket pattern pack so you will have patterns for all of the pockets you might want to add to your clothes.

Here, I will work with a work shirt pocket and show you how I would add a contrasting pocket to a button down shirt. This technique can be applied to any sort of garment that needs a little pocket love.

Let’s sew!

In this quick tutorial + pattern download I will teach you to how to make every dress (or short or skirt or skort) a dress with POCKETS!!

Everyone hates a pocket with a hole in it. Sometimes you can just zip a seam back in place. Sometimes you will need to replace some of the pocket bag with new fabric. I will teach you how I do both.

In this Capsule, we will:

• build a basic woven (non stretchy) shirt

• tailor side seams

• add darts

• change a neck line

In this Capsule, we will:

• build a gigi knit tee

• hem a t-shirt

• take in side seams on a t-shirt

• change the neckline of a t-shirt

In this capsule we will:

• make a pair of pj bottoms

• replace old or too-small elastic

• add a casing & elastic to a hem to give a garment shape

• add elastic to a seam to create shape