Sewing Lessons which includes instruction in using your serger, embroidery software and embroidery machine.  Alterations, quick fixes are also available to residents and visitors to  Sarasota - Bradenton, Florida area. Located just north of the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport, between US 41 and 301.   Call now for an appointment!  941-355-8005.
Available by appointment to do alterations, sewing lessons, quick fixes. 
Did hubby purchase one of those wonderful embroidery machines or sergers and now you wonder how to use it?  Help is  available here.

Threading a serger and setting all those tensions is tough, but with a little instruction it erases all those fears and frustrations.  Do you know what kind of backings do you need for which fabric when you embroidery?  How do you get those wonderful designs from the internet to your embroidery machine.  Just call, I'm here to help!

Pictured below are some of the items or ideas that you can learn from my private lessons, which are $20 per hour.  Or you just need help with those pants needing to be hemmed, quick repairs that's okay too.  Just call, the phone number is 941-355-8005, let's  talk and get you the help you need.



Here's a baby gift that's made from a large pima (soft) bath towel.  Pictured from start to finish.

Baby bathrobe - fits birth to 1 year

This is for infants, but using a little bigger bath towel this same concept could be made for a toddler. For older children use two bath towels, which has enough fabric for sleeves and a hood.  Adult can be fitted using bathsheets or beach towels.  They can also be made as a pull-over or a zipper up the front.  Some of the nicest things about using bath towels are the many colors to choose from along with the different quality of the towels themselves. Toweling is stronger than most "fabric" toweling that you can purchase.  The design possibilities are infinite.
Small Toddler's Bathrobe front one bath towel.Robe for adult from 2 towels.
Robe from 1 towel made for small child.     Robe from 2 towels for an adult.


The urge to be creative!  Check out this work in progress by a current sewing student.
This is a tote bag in progress that one of my students has been working on.  It's a great beginner project and will make a great gift (one-on-a-kind) for a member of her family. An easy sew, yet very time consuming and very creative and special.
Scrap Bag Quilts
Scrap bag quilts are great beginner sewing projects for creating one of a kind quilts. As a custom sewer there is always quite a bit of wonderful fabric left over.  Also doing a lot of embroidery and stitching out samples creates lots of embroidery designs that can be incorporated into these "scrap bag quilts". Many quilt shops sell their ends and pieces to sewers, and "fat quarters" are always a wonderful way to increase your stash of beautiful fabrics. These quilts are always wonderfully beautiful, colorful, and interesting, and always unique, never to be duplicated.

A sample of these quilts.

Flannel Rag Quilts
Here's another quick easy project.  This quilt is 47" x 37", great baby gift, lots of fun to make.  This quilt is built from the center out.  Starting with 4" strips or 5" strips and cut them whatever length you'd like.  I tried to make them so the seams didn't match up.  Sometimes it worked out that way and sometimes it didn't.  But the quilt is very colorful, and interesting to make.  It also is soft and cozy, just brings out all that warm fuzzy feeling in all of us.  You don't have to be a baby to enjoy these!