09 Feb It’s Sew Easy, Workshops and More!
Greetings Dear Readers!
It’s always a little strange to see myself on video…… it looks like me…but is that really my voice? Yesterday I received the final of three videos produced for the PBS television series, It’s Sew Easy. It was the first one I filmed but the last one to be aired.
In this video I demonstrate the principles of The Tunic Bible. Because I was filming for PBS, I could not mention the name of the book. Although I was there as at the invitation of Coats & Clark, I could not mention the company name. Strange rules indeed but that’s the way it is.
I filmed three segments in one day. I had no teleprompter and was strongly encouraged to avoid retakes. I was also wearing an earphone which connected me to the producer. She communicated with me throughout the filming about various issues such as timing etc…
I don’t know how I did it, but I illustrate 8 plackets in 10 minutes! (click on full screen to watch without interference from sidebar images)
Julie and I are delighted to continue hosting Tunic Bible workshops and recently added additional workshops to our calendar.
Please join us in Boston at the American Sewing Guild National Conference, August 2, 3 and 4, 2018.
August 2 – Tunic Bible Workshop
August 3 – Trunk Show and Presentation
August 4 – Ribbon Skirt Workshop
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In Instagram news…………
We raise a glass to everyone participating in the #So50visiblechallenge hosted by @sewover50. Here’s the clever twist ~ entrants of any age must post a garment sewn from a pattern featuring an over-50 model. Previously sewn garments are eligible, too. Enter by March 15 and add the So50visible hashtag for prize giveaways (visit @sewover50 for details.)
We are honored to see our pattern featured in this challenge 😊
Happy Saturday to all!
Carmen Salome
Posted at 07:07h, 09 FebruaryPlease come to southwest Florida.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 07:44h, 09 FebruaryWe’d love to, Carmen! Julie and I will be in Tampa and Largo in April if that is doable for you.
Janine
Posted at 07:21h, 09 FebruaryI’m looking forward to seeing you again in Boston! Maybe I need to have a little personal challenge to wear a me-made Tunic Bible tunic to the presentation!.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 07:45h, 09 FebruaryThank you, Janine – can’t wait! I’d love to see one of your me-made tunics 😊
Becky Thompson
Posted at 08:13h, 09 FebruarySarah, you’re such a natural behind the camera! You want to see your book sales skyrocket? Video yourself in your sewing room making your different tunics and put those videos on YouTube while featuring your book! lol. I have “The Tunic Bible” and have read it from cover to cover. However, I haven’t sewn any because I have to make an FBA in the bodice and I was afraid to ruin the patterns in the book. So instead, I been cutting up commercial patterns to make my tunics as practice. I’m certain yours are just as simple so I’m ready now to use TBB to make my next one. I’m getting ready to do several vlogs on YouTube featuring your book and patterns so get ready! I’m Power Tools With Thread on YouTube and in the middle of a sewing room makeover right now, but I want to wear a pink linen tunic on Tuesday, 12 Feb so I’m going to do a video featuring one of yours this weekend. Can’t wait! I’ll be showing your book and telling all my sewing friends all about you. I’ve only been doing videos since December 2018, but I’m up to over 1,300 subscribers. If you are unsure of how to do home videos, check out Joy Bernhardt on YT. In her most recent, she talked about the camera she got to do her videos. She has hundreds of sewing videos out there and is “of an age” where we more seasoned seamstresses feel like we’re chatting with an old friend. 🙂 Hope to see you in the video blog-o-sphere!
Make it Any Wear
Posted at 12:30h, 09 FebruaryDon’t cut up the pattern in the book. Trace it. It is such a good pattern you should have started with it.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 16:05h, 09 FebruaryNice to hear from you Becky and thanks so much for the advice! I agree with the reply below….. just trace the pattern. It will work nicely with all of the plackets. Good luck with your YouTube videos 😊
JS
Posted at 00:35h, 10 FebruaryTrace the pattern to Swedish Tracing Paper.
Catty Andry
Posted at 08:55h, 09 FebruaryGreat video! I want to make another tunic for the #So50Visible challenge! Plus spring is coming and a tunic is such a perfect garment for early spring! Also, waiting patiently for your new book!
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 16:07h, 09 FebruaryCatty ~ You’ve made so many good looking tunics! I do hope you’ll make one for the #so50Visible challenge. 😊 Many thanks for the comment, and we too are waiting very patiently……..
Eileen
Posted at 08:58h, 09 FebruaryWonderful job!!!
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 16:07h, 09 FebruaryThank you, Eileen!
Anna H
Posted at 09:10h, 09 FebruaryI really enjoyed seeing all the different ways of embellishing the basic tunic. I was very nervous for you, I don’t think I could have done the video, you did a great job!
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 16:08h, 09 FebruaryLOL – I get being nervous for other people! When I worked for the symphony I was always nervous for a performer, conductor etc….. Many thanks for your comment, Anna 😊
BARBARA WILLIAMS
Posted at 10:14h, 09 FebruaryThis is so exciting! Sarah, you are a natural on camera. Great job and you may have needed to do the filming quickly due to time restraints, but your instruction was clear and concise. Congratulations!
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 16:10h, 09 FebruaryThank you so much, Barbara! I’m glad you were able to comfortably follow along 😅
Karen Derbes
Posted at 10:15h, 09 FebruarySo you would sew the big fancy appliqué onto the placket before attaching it to the tunic?
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 16:11h, 09 FebruaryBoth the gold and jeweled appliqué were sewn on by hand after the placket was attached to the tunic.
Sharon Scott
Posted at 11:34h, 09 FebruaryI bought your book last fall but haven’t sewn from it yet. Wishing you would do a workshop in Washington state!! Your video was very concise and informative.
Do you have a workshop on video??
Also love the pin wall grouping. Did you buy that as one piece or put it together yourself? Where did you find the pins??
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 16:39h, 09 FebruarySharon,
Many thanks for buying the book and we’d love to do a workshop in Washington state one day.
I do not have a workshop on video, but what a good idea!
I filmed this video at the It’s Sew Easy studio in Cleveland Ohio so I’m not sure how the pins were grouped 😉
Mollie Weis
Posted at 12:24h, 09 FebruarySarah, I just watched your “tunic” video. Beautifully done, and so inspiring.. I just relocated to the Charleston area (Seabrook Island) from Chicago and have been following your blogs for a number of years. Are you planning a tunic workshop at 5 Eighths Seam in the near future? If so, I would love to attend.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 16:42h, 09 FebruaryMollie ~
Welcome to South Carolina! I know you were glad to escape the frigid weather Chicago just experienced 😊
We have held workshops at 5 Eighths before and will certainly consider another, but we don’t have one planned for this Spring.
Many thanks for your comment!
Margaret Hord
Posted at 12:42h, 09 FebruaryVery nice video. I wish you would come to the Houston Quilt show and teach a tunic bible class.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 16:44h, 09 FebruaryMargaret ~ What a great idea! Maybe we can do something in conjunction with the show in 2019. Our publishers have a big presence at Quilt Market and invited us when The Tunic Bible was published.
Thanks so much for the comment and the idea 😉
Mary Anne Chambers
Posted at 12:58h, 09 FebruaryCongratulations on a superb video presentation Sarah! It was great to see you in action 👍👍💖
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 16:58h, 09 FebruaryThank you so much, Mary Anne!
Lucy van Doorn
Posted at 13:07h, 09 FebruaryWatching the video reminded me what a wonderful pattern you provided in The Tunic Bible. I need to revisit it soon. I enjoyed the video. You are a natural. Great job! Hope to see you in Julie in the San Francisco Bay Area at some point.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 17:00h, 09 FebruaryMany thanks, Lucy! First of all, your tunics make our pattern look good 😊 Thank you!
We’d love to come to the San Francsico area…… hopefully one day!
Jean Kerr
Posted at 13:32h, 09 FebruaryPlease come to WA state. Maybe check out the Sewing Expo held every year at the end of February or first of March in Puyallup (just south of Seattle). The Expo could use some new voices as we seem to be losing some of the more tenured to retirement.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 17:01h, 09 FebruaryJean,
We’d love to come to WA state sometime soon 😊
Jean
Posted at 13:47h, 09 FebruarySarah, Watched the video after I made the comment above. You are a natural. But what is really remarkable is your design sense.
Your combinations and styling between the fabric choices and or trims make for the prettiest tunics ever. I am even more inspired since I watched the video.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 17:03h, 09 FebruaryThank you so much for your comment, Jean! The tunics were both mine and Julie Starr’s. We felt that between the two of us we covered a lot of territory 😉
Alice Elliot
Posted at 14:23h, 09 FebruaryI’ll have to look for your videos. Don’t see daytime tv often. Hope they’re shown here in SF Bay area.
As for rrcirding, I’m always fascinated at how different my recorded voice sounds from how I hear myself.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 17:06h, 09 FebruaryEvery PBS station has its own schedule, otherwise I’d let you know when to watch This morning after publishing this post, y daughter let me know one of my segments was airing. I had no idea 😉
Angela
Posted at 18:01h, 09 FebruaryAh, I can dream of someday when you come out west – Las Vegas baby! LOL!! I would love to see you in person some day. The post mentions 3 videos were filmed – are all three on You Tube or just the one? I thought you did a wonderful job and have the sweetest little accent!
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 11:34h, 10 FebruaryWe’d be huge in Vegas, Angela 😂😊 Two are on this link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8kLH0iaXKiS_0zCBQ4BHhg?view_as=subscriber
and the third is on the It’s Sew Easy YouTube page. Thanks so much for your comment!
Liselotte Johansson
Posted at 04:50h, 10 FebruaryI bought your book the tunic bible a long time ago but I havn’t made any tunic yet. I hope I will do it soon. The tunics are so beautiful. It’s hard to choice.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 11:28h, 10 FebruaryMany thanks for buying the book Liselotte! Start with something easy and soon you’ll find your groove 😉
Daisy Dianne Bromlow
Posted at 06:36h, 10 FebruaryLove your blog and your PBS debut. You make it look effortless and in such a short amount of time.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 11:27h, 10 FebruaryDaisy ~ Tunic sewing actually is easy and I enjoyed condensing the placket information into a compact presentation…….. still, a teleprompter would have been helpful! 😉 Many thanks for your comment..
Linda LaMona
Posted at 10:45h, 10 FebruaryCongratulations on filming for Sew Easy. Enjoyed this video!
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 11:25h, 10 FebruaryThank you so much, Linda!
Marianne Johansson
Posted at 16:06h, 10 FebruaryCool 😄👍
Kimberly
Posted at 21:07h, 10 FebruaryI purchased your book last year in the spring from Amazon….it is brilliant! I just viewed the pbs special on this site and was wondering if you could do it on your own channel website in slow motion as a on going tutorial? So we can make the tunics along with you…..say Yes! The options seem endless, I think your viewers would love the concept of more interaction of making a tunic with the creators of the book.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 07:17h, 11 FebruaryKimberly,
Many thanks for the idea! I wouldn’t know where to begin but will definitely keep it in mind.😊
Kimberly
Posted at 22:35h, 11 FebruaryNot to worry, I have many ideas, if your interested, just reach out to me, . I would love to speak with you both about a series of endless tutorials.
#I support women in business.
Mary Lynn Cheely
Posted at 21:26h, 10 FebruaryFor some reason, i no longer get your new posts. I’ve signed up again twice and still no luck. I just ordered your new book from Amazon and am looking forward to it. Haven’t sewed at all lately, but miss it very much. Congratulations to you and Julie for doing so well!
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 07:20h, 11 FebruaryHmmm………… Mary Lynn, I have just resubscribed you. Fingers crossed! Thanks for letting me know 😊
Mindy Gordon
Posted at 15:36h, 13 FebruaryGreat video. You presented the information so clearly. Thank you! Please tell me the name of the fabric in the dress you are wearing in the video and where i might be able to purchase it. It’s beautiful Thanks.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 07:13h, 15 FebruaryThank you so much, Mindy! The fabric is an Oscar de la Renta silk from Mood Fabrics. It sold out a long time ago, but Mood stocks gorgeous ODLR fabrics on a fairly regular basis. 😉
Sharon
Posted at 11:58h, 14 FebruaryCongratulations for the Sew Over 50 challenge. Many, many, many years ago McCalls was hosting a a sewing challenge using their patterns. Most participants used younger models but I chose to use my mother-in-law. She was quite full busted, narrow waist and curvy hips that would not quit. I put her in a black cocktail dress which accentuated every part of her, but in a tasteful and classy way. Her hair was silver at the time and cut in a short, chic style. We posed her against a black, shiny cadillac and she looked stunning! So glad to see that women are not afraid of their age any more, not afraid of their shape any more and can really enjoy living.
goodbyevalentino
Posted at 07:14h, 15 FebruaryGreat story, Sharon! Julie and I were flattered that our pattern was selected😊
Laura S Davidson
Posted at 17:38h, 28 JulyI just caught the tunic show on It’s Sew Easy which brought me to your blog. I, too, love tunics and had just completed one. I really loved the one you were wearing and wonder where you get all your gorgeous fabrics. I have ordered online with mixed success., but for really nice fabric for garment sewing it’s almost my only choice. Do you have hints for ordering the right fabric online?