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PFAFF PFLASHBACK: Sewing With Nancy - The Best Of Tailoring (VHS, 1993)

Sewing with Nancy (The PFAFF Years) - The Best Of Tailoring




Nancy Zieman, hostess of TV’s Sewing With Nancy, brings her 3-part series on The Best Of Tailoring to you in this 60 minute video.


Highlights:
• Updated techniques for jacket construction
• Determining which areas of a jacket require interfacing; selecting fusible interfacing
• Making interfacing patterns
• Full fuse, partial fuse, and double fuse techniques
• Easing and setting in sleeves
• Adding sleeve heads; inserting shoulder pads
• Applying the under collar
• Assembling the lining unit; joining facings, sleeves; and upper collar :
• Joining and hemming jacket and lining units
• Finishing touches which produce a professional looking jacket


Reference Material:
To accompany this video, Nancy has written a book titled The Best of Sewing With Nancy.


In this video, Nancy used a PFAFF Creative 1475 sewing machine.



If you have older VHS tapes or DVDs that you would like to donate to be digitally transferred and added to the PFAFF Talk YouTube channel, please send an email. I am currently looking for older Sewing With Nancy episodes and video releases (up to 2005); as well as official PFAFF instructional, starter guide, and promotional videos (up to 2005).

PFAFF PFILES: Spotlight: Features of the PFAFF Creative 7570, Narrated By Nancy Zieman (VHS, 1998)

Spotlight: Features of the PFAFF Creative 7570



What makes the Pfaff creative 7570 the best sewing machine you can own? Let TV sewing personality Nancy Zieman show you!

Get a close up look at some of the important, must-have features of this incredible machine and see for yourself how advanced electronics and options can make you sew more creative!

You'll see how built-in dual feed makes quilting a breeze... how pushbutton pattern mirroring can spice up your heirloom projects... how the 7570’s 19 needie positions give you precise topstitching and embroidery positioning...and much more!

Don’t forget to ask your Pfaff dealer to show you the wonderful stitch design and embroidery possibilities open to you with the Pfaff creative 7570's optional accessories, including the Pfaff creative designer, PC-DESIGNER Software, Creative Fantasy embroidery cards, Design Collections and more!

PFAFF PFLASHBACK: Sewing With Nancy - Stitching Strategies with Philip Pepper (VHS, 1999)

Sewing With Nancy - Stitching Strategies with Philip Pepper (The PFAFF Years)




Nancy Zieman, hostess of TV’s Sewing With Nancy, and Philip Pepper, Pfaff creative sewing specialist, bring the 3-part series on Stitching Strategies to you in this 60 minute video.

Highlights:
• Using sewing machine built-in decorative stitches
• Setting up your sewing machine for machine embroidery
• Choosing and using appropriate stabilizers
• Making an embellished Christmas stocking
• Combining machine bridging and decorative stitching
    - Stitching perfect embroidered circles
    - Hemstitching with a wing needle
    - Adjusting a sewing machine for using embroidery cards
• Making a comfort pillow featuring machine embroidery
• Adding dimensional embroidery to projects
• Designing with built-in stitches and embroidery cards
• Sewing a multipurpose embroidered tote
• Designing with flowing stitch patterns and stitch stacking

Reference Material:
To accompany this video, Nancy has written a fully illustrated booklet entitled Stitching Strategies.



In this video, Nancy and Philip used PFAFF Creative 7570 sewing machines.


If you have older VHS tapes or DVDs that you would like to donate to be digitally transferred and added to the PFAFF Talk YouTube channel, please send an email. I am currently looking for older Sewing With Nancy episodes and video releases (up to 2005); as well as official PFAFF instructional, starter guide, and promotional videos (up to 2005).

PFAFF PFLASHBACK: Sewing With Nancy - Sew Again -- A Refresher Course (VHS, 1991)


Sewing with Nancy (The PFAFF Years) - Sew Again -- A Refresher Course




Nancy Zieman, hostess of tv's SEWING WITH NANCY. brings her 3-part series on Sew Again- A Refresher Course to you in this 60 minute video.

Highlights:
• Eliminating bulky neckline and armhole facings
• Fine tuning neckline facings with slit openings
• Providing for easy waistline and hemline adjustments
• Worry-free gathering techniques
• Stitching a 30 minute patternless skirt
• Inserting lapped zippers with only two lines of machine stitching
• Adding professional looking waistbands
• Stitching perfect buttonholes
• Mastering knit sewing techniques

Reference Material:
To accompany this video, Nancy has written a fully illustrated booklet titled Sew Again—A Refresher Course.

In this video, Nancy used a PFAFF Creative 1475 sewing machine.



If you have older VHS tapes or DVDs that you would like to donate to be digitally transferred and added to the PFAFF Talk YouTube channel, please send an email. I am currently looking for older Sewing With Nancy episodes and video releases (up to 2005); as well as official PFAFF instructional, starter guide, and promotional videos (up to 2005).