Threads 1999 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
A color workshop.(includes related articles on mixing colors and combining different fabric colors) | Fashion and beauty | Barnes, Christine |
A design workshop for free-motion embroidery. | Fashion and beauty | Verstraeten, Gabriella |
A diaphanous summer t-shirt. | Fashion and beauty | Diaz, Moises, Blum, Debra |
Altering design details.(answer to a letter to Threads Fitting by Mrs. J. Collington of Saint Catharines, Ontario, Canada) | Fashion and beauty | Howland, Karen |
An elegant shawl with sleeves. | Fashion and beauty | Diaz, Moises, Blum, Debra |
Armani jackets: the inside story.(sewing jackets) | Fashion and beauty | Tilton, Marcy |
Basics: cutting out. | Fashion and beauty | Bones, Jan |
Best bets for spring and summer.(fashion forecasts) | Fashion and beauty | Tilton, Marcy |
Bras for mastectomy. | Fashion and beauty | Elam, Cindy |
Bulging lap on pants. | Fashion and beauty | Howland, Karen |
Celebration.(story of a woman who worked at a garment factory during World War II) | Fashion and beauty | Bley, Harriett |
Collaged quilt drama: use templates and machine applique for clear, sharp edges and maximum design flexibility. | Fashion and beauty | Sassaman, Jane A. |
Confessions of a duct-tape dummy.(Closures) | Fashion and beauty | McFall, patricia |
Curved back or dowager's hump?(sewing tips) | Fashion and beauty | Rasband, Judith |
Darted, dimensional patch pockets.(Cover Story) | Fashion and beauty | Conover, Todd |
Deciphering care labels.(clothing care) | Fashion and beauty | Carswell, Diana L. |
Design challenge III: starting with the same fabrics and premise, three designers arrive at very different garments. | Fashion and beauty | Khalje, Susan, Botsford, Shirley, Tilton, Marcy |
Designer details for straight-skirt makeovers: adapt a basic straight-skirt pattern to create four different skirts with distinctive details. | Fashion and beauty | Bloebaum, Fred |
Diamonds on your sleeve. | Fashion and beauty | Maas, Deon |
Draft your own sarong pants: combine the drape of a sarong skirt with the utility of pants.(sewing tips)(Cover Story) | Fashion and beauty | Veblen, Sarah |
Easy braided belts. | Fashion and beauty | Nehring, Nancy |
Fabric lovers always carry a flame.(burn test technique for determining any fabric's content) | Fashion and beauty | Elliott, ary, Zarse, Elaine |
Featherweight felt that drapes. | Fashion and beauty | Stirling, Polly |
Fitting: high hip vs. sway back. | Fashion and beauty | Rasband, Juditth |
Fitting the figure after 55.(includes tips regarding alterations for women of advanced years and articles on clothing styles by four elderly women designers, Judith Rasband, Shirley Smith, Lois Ericson and Dort Johnson) | Fashion and beauty | Bennett, Susan |
From buttons to bracelets. | Fashion and beauty | O'Tousa, Marlene |
Gorgeous beaded buttons: make just one or a set. | Fashion and beauty | Conton, Jane |
How to use a French curve.(designer's curve) | Fashion and beauty | Sagers, Peggy |
It's about time.(discovering sewing as a creative activity) | Fashion and beauty | Allred, K.J. |
Let it rain.(high-tech outerwear fabrics) | Fashion and beauty | Harper, Rochelle |
Love your sewing machine. | Fashion and beauty | Hickerson, Sally |
Low-tech, high-impact button closures. | Fashion and beauty | Lopez, Carla |
Machine-stitch Sashiko the easy way.(includes tips on making Sashiko patterns, making good Sashiko stitches and color coding a particular design)(Cover Story) | Fashion and beauty | Parker, Mary |
Make waves with instant leather garments. | Fashion and beauty | Scrivano, Sandy |
Necklines that float.(sewing technique) | Fashion and beauty | Bennett, Susan |
One-seam linings for straight skirts. | Fashion and beauty | Cowan, Frances |
Pattern layouts.(sewing technique) | Fashion and beauty | Bones, Jan |
Perfect pleats for every body.(sewing technique) | Fashion and beauty | Hazen, Gale Grigg |
Pleats. | Fashion and beauty | Percy, Celeste |
Press cloths take center stage. | Fashion and beauty | Shaeffer, Claire |
Quilt as-you-go: for dazzling, contemporary results, piece and quilt at the same time with a variety of fabrics. | Fashion and beauty | Brauer, Ann |
Ripping out stitches.(sewing tips) | Fashion and beauty | Emodi, Barbara |
Scissors savvy.(expert advice on selecting a new pair of scissors)(Evaluation) | Fashion and beauty | Ray, Mary |
Send someone a thank-you scarf. | Fashion and beauty | Fraley, Carine |
Sewing business resources.(includes references to books and conferences to aid the new sewing business entrepreneur) | Fashion and beauty | Sheets, Celeste |
Shattered quilts.(technique for repeat patterns in quilts) | Fashion and beauty | Adams, Ellen |
Sheers see the light of day.(transparent fabrics) | Fashion and beauty | Veblen, Sarah |
Silk-ribbon bobbin work.(bobbin stitches technique) | Fashion and beauty | Jennings, Laura |
Sleeve-cap design for hard-to-ease fabrics. | Fashion and beauty | Mayer, Jeffrey, Conover, Todd |
Start with a square.(includes hat designs by various designers) | Fashion and beauty | White, Laura |
The Armani effect.(Giorgio Armani) | Fashion and beauty | Tilton, Marcy |
The Armani jacket: finishing details.(fashion designer Giorgio Armani)(part 3) | Fashion and beauty | Tilton, Marcy |
The deluxe hatpin: quickly sew a beaded pin for your lapel or chapeau. | Fashion and beauty | Fraley, Ingrid |
The great elastic waistband: sewing professionals and designers share their secrets for comfortable, fashionable waistbands. | Fashion and beauty | Lee, Linda |
The hidden ruler in your machine.(sewing tips) | Fashion and beauty | Giodano, John |
The scalloped hem: make hemlines the center of attention with this delightful couture finish. | Fashion and beauty | Khalje, Susan |
The seam method of pattern alteration. | Fashion and beauty | Rasband, Judith |
The T-shirt gets dressed.(making dresses from basic T-shirt pattern) | Fashion and beauty | Percy, Celeste |
Understitching.(sewing technique) | Fashion and beauty | Molesky, Joanne |
"Unmuddling" mudcloth: learn to work with this traditional African fabric for great-looking contemporary garments. | Fashion and beauty | Luke-Boone, Ronke |
Variations on a shrug.(Quick to Make) | Fashion and beauty | White, Laura |
Whole-cloth quilting for garments: for maximum softness and wearability, it's best to quilt by hand. | Fashion and beauty | Stori, Mary |
Wool gauze: featherweight and fabulous. | Fashion and beauty | Veblen, Sarah |
Your sloper as a fitting tool: how to use a basic fitting pattern to alter complex designs.(part 2) | Fashion and beauty | Howland, Karen |
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