Product Details

• Actors: Shirley Smith
• Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: April 25, 1990
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• ASIN: 0962112313
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #615,609 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Ann Price SEW NEWS JULY 1989

For most fashion-sewers, few garment details evoke greater sewing anxiety than bound buttonholes or welt pockets. How many of us cheered a decade or more ago when even top designer-label ready-to-wear began to display machine-worked buttonholes. And many of us have mastered patch pockets because we've always perceived them to be easier (rounded corners and all!) than the welt variety. Yet well-executed bound buttonholes and welt pockets are two details that can signify the difference between average and high quality clothing. Shirley Smith, author of "The Art Of Sewing Basics & Beyond", know this from her years of teaching custom sewing in Denver, CO. In "The Art Of Sew Welt Pocket & Bound Buttonholes, her second venture into video, Smith emphasizes that sewing these details requires accurate measuring and stitching at every step-and practice...

Product Description

2-hour instructional video, color-coded index: easy to follow segments Fashion show: When to use Welt Pocket & Bound Buttonholes Green: Five Styles of Welt Pockets Purple: Necessary Pattern Changes Orange: Interfacing, Sequence and Beginning Instructions for Welt Pockets & Bound Buttonholes. Welt Pocket Construction Dark Blue: Single Welt Pocket Pink: Single Welt with A Flap Teal: Welts & Flaps Light Blue: Single Welt in Lining Magenta: Double Welt Pocket Grey: Double Welt with a Flap Red: Bound Button Hole Construction

Three Rules for Perfect For Perfect Welt Pockets & Bound Buttonholes
Always do a sample bound buttonhole or welt pocket
Begin with an interfaced perfect opening
Hand baste the welts, flaps & buttonhole edges for accuracy--then machine stitch for strength.
Special fabrics by Douglas Ram Samuj
Modeled garments loaned by Sewing Arts Studio students.

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