Seven Core Sewing Skills

Cynthia Guffey | Runtime (58 min)

In Seven Core Sewing Skills, Cynthia Guffey- sewing expert- show you simple and reliable practices that comprise her core sewing skills. These skills are used regardless of what type of project, fabric, or machine you’re working on. Adopting them as second nature will improve the outcome of every project and will likely streamline your sewing process and banish time-consuming and disappointing results. You’ll be surprised at the difference they will make in your confidence, your satisfaction with your projects, and your final results.

You’ll love this quilting video if you:

• Want to learn more about sewing fundamentals
• Want to improve on your sewing skills

In Seven Core Sewing Skills, you’ll learn how to:

• Avoid ripples and puckers
• Prevent uneven seams and collars
• Avoid pieces that do not fit together, as well as excess fullness
• Steer clear of overly pressed garments and more

About the Expert:

Cynthia has owned a fabric and design studio bearing her name in Baton Rouge, Louisiana since 1983, and her designs have been worn everywhere from the opening of the Met to governors’ inaugurations to Acapulco. Her fitting and sewing expertise is derived from a mathematical background, and her constant search for the simple and the obvious. And although her precise sewing techniques are not shortcuts, she saves you time by helping you get it right the first time. She shares her effective, practical and simple fitting and construction techniques with students throughout the United States, offering seminars and workshops filled with information that results in beautifully fitted, custom-look clothing. Cynthia’s design philosophy involves creating lines that multiply opportunities to fit and enhance a figure type.