In It’s All About Embellishment!, Gail shares clear, step-by-step instructions and photographs, as well as invaluable tips gathered in her years of sewing. With precise yet easy-to-follow instructions, novice sewers and experts alike can create embellishments that will transform the most basic projects into unique artistic statements. Whether you’re a garment sewer, quilter or home décor specialist, this book will take your creativity to a whole new level.

You’ll learn how to: • create a “window” and suspend a charm in it • “pucker up” your fabric with shrink thread • do two different “Un-Beweavable” techniques, one for knits and one for woven fabrics • add texture and depth to plain fabrics with bartacked tucks • and other great ideas!

The artful zigzag diagonal seam on the Williamstown Skirt is an eye-catching detail loaded with possibilities.

Don’t forget to get Cut-through, Sew-through Elastic – designed to be sewn through without breaking!

What a cool way to go green and up-cycle wool sweaters or sweatshirts. It’s like making a quilt with butted seams. You select the wool sweaters,  felt them and create the “fabric”. If it’s too warm for wool, use sweatshirts–super easy! Use either Template Set to cut the individual collage pieces. Then make the Counterpoints Jacket using your collaged “fabric.” It will be a wearable work of art! (Can also be adapted to other jacket patterns without princess seams.)

Don’t foget to get your Sleeve Headers, perfect for adding shape to sleeve caps and Denifuse for interfacing.

What a cool way to go green and up-cycle wool sweaters or sweatshirts.  It’s like making a quilt with butted seams. You select the wool sweaters,  felt them and create the “fabric”. If it’s too warm for wool, use sweatshirts–super easy! Use either Template Set to cut the individual collage pieces. Then make the Counterpoints Jacket using your collaged “fabric.” It will be a wearable work of art! (Can also be adapted to other jacket patterns without princess seams.)

Don’t foget to get your Sleeve Headers, perfect for adding shape to sleeve caps and Denifuse for interfacing.

You’ll make this skirt over and over in fabrics from denim to silk and love them all. Flattering to every figure, the graceful lines are timeless and the elastic waistband technique makes the Stockbridge Skirt a pleasure to wear. And, the 8 gored panels make fitting a snap.

Don’t forget to get Cut-through, Sew-through Elastic – designed to be sewn through without breaking!

Wool/mohair (2 1/2″ x 11″) Perfect for adding shape to sleeve caps and can be used with or without shoulder pads. Provide soft structure without bulk. $2.00/pair.

Perfect with a pair of jeans, the Isleboro Jacket looks right at home with your favorite skirt too. The versatile, simple lines of this pattern make it a wonderful backdrop for all sorts of embellishment techniques.

Don’t foget to get your Sleeve Headers, perfect for adding shape to sleeve caps and Denifuse for interfacing.

The Edge Perfect Blade™ fits all 45mm rotary cutters. The teeth allow for perfectly cut slits approximately 3/8″ apart.  This clever notion makes quick work of creating distinctive edges and seams on outerwear fleece, sweatshirt fleece, stretch velvet, felt, knits and other mid to heavy weight non-ravel fabrics.  It’s a great embellishment tool!

A 100 % micro denier polyester weft insertion fusible interfacing that works beautifully with felted wool sweaters as well as woven fabrics like linen, silk, cotton, rayon and blends. It won’t change the hand of your fabric but will stabilize it while maintaining the softness and drape. DeniFuse is available in black, white or tan.
Pre-cut 3-yd. package: $16.00.

Tan: 45” wide

Black or White: 60″ wide

1-1/2″ wide, can be trimmed to any width as narrow as 1/4″ without shredding. Engineered to be sewn through without breaking. Perfect for waistbands or anywhere sturdy elastic is required! Available in black or white. $1.60 per yard

Named for the elongated front edge points, the Counterpoints Jacket has on-seam side pockets, bust darts and a slimming slightly curved side seam. View B features an inverted back pleat. Looks great in linen, wool, silk, stable knits, upholstery weight cotton and denim. Sizes 2XS – 3XL.

Don’t foget to get your Sleeve Headers, perfect for adding shape to sleeve caps and Denifuse for interfacing.

Perfect with a pair of jeans, the Berkshire Jacket looks right at home with your favorite skirt too. The versatile, simple lines of this pattern make it a wonderful backdrop for all sorts of embellishment techniques.

Don’t foget to get your Sleeve Headers, perfect for adding shape to sleeve caps and Denifuse for interfacing.

These snips make clipping single stitches or fibers in fabric “un-beweavably” easy. The hook at the tip grabs those hard to get under threads accurately without cutting more threads than intended. The lightweight, comfortable design is perfect for everyone!