Spring Sewing Project Round Up
Start sewing this spring with fresh easy projects! This curated collection of ideas are the perfect way to try a new technique or make a useful item. You’ll find all skill levels represented here. Embroider a Handbag Originally designed for the Baby Lock Sewlebrity Sewing Challenge, this handbag features custom machine embroidery along the … Continue Reading
Quick Stitch to Wear Again: Zipper Repair
Replacing a broken zipper, mending jeans, sewing on buttons—these clothing repair tasks sometimes get a 2-thumbs down rating in the topic of sewing entertainment! Clothing repairs are important, but they don’t have to be difficult. In this 2-part Sewing With Nancy series, Nancy takes a lighter approach to fixing what’s broken, while breaking most sewing rules. … Continue Reading
101 Renegade Sewing & Quilting Tips
Team Nancy Zieman is always on the lookout for new tips such as treating a bee sting or prompting a cactus to bloom. When it comes to sewing & quilting tips, the interest level rises to new heights. Over the years we’ve gathered and discovered unconventional tips to use in the sewing room. Some hints … Continue Reading
I Sew For Fun: Super-Simple Aprons
Enjoy creative moments with the youth in your life while sewing super-simple aprons. They will be so proud to say, “I made this”. Make coordinating aprons from fabric squares. The instructions are detailed in Nancy’s new book, I Sew For Fun—which includes twenty projects designed by Nancy—for you to sew with your little partner. Supplies … Continue Reading
Quick Stitch to Wear Again: Hems
Mending! That’s a sewing topic that some try to avoid. Have you ever thought, Oh goodie, today I get to replace a zipper! Can you relate? Mending doesn’t need to be a trial. You can cheat! No demerits, rather legitimate—although unconventional—sewing repairs with minimal effort. You’ll find four common mending repairs in the first episode of … Continue Reading
Quilt as You Go With Precut Strips
Convenience. It is a word important to many of us as we search out ways to streamline our lives. In the sewing and quilting arenas, fabric manufacturers took our needs to heart, producing precut fabric bundles. Ahh, convenient! On today’s episode of Sewing With Nancy, Maria DeGroot, a teacher of the convenient, works with the many sizes of … Continue Reading
Machine Embroidery for Coordinated Baby Gifts
Fabric coordinates make it easy to design and sew a quilt with a variety of print sizes and color combos in one collection. The same principle applies to the way Team Nancy Zieman creates embroidery designs—a single motif, a grouping of that same motif—large and small, or an embroidery ideal for a border. Yes, coordinates … Continue Reading
Challenge Traditional Designs With Victoria Findlay Wolfe
Sewing With Nancy guest Victoria Findlay Wolfe has one foot in the midwest, in Minnesota, and the other in the hustle-and-bustle New York City. She ties her two lives together through her amazing quilts. The second episode of Double Wedding Ring Quilts is this week’s Sewing With Nancy online video feature. Watch the 30-minute TV show online. … Continue Reading
Sew with Precut Fabric Bundles
Buying a bundle of precut fabrics is like buying a bag of colorful candy—you never know what’s all included until you open the package. But there’s one guarantee, the fabric will always be a tasteful combination of color and design. Then there’s the question: What to do with that bundle of eye candy? On today’s … Continue Reading
NEW! Farmhouse Florals Pattern: Nested 9-Patch
Introducing the NEW! Nested 9-Patch Quilt Pattern. This six foot square design features at total of only 13 quilt blocks. Settting the blocks on-point maximizes the size and your sewing time! The pattern will walk you through Nancy’s fast technique of creating fabric strata and subcutting fabric strips to create two alternating block styles. We … Continue Reading
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