Sewing Leather Workshop CD-ROM

Introducing the most comprehensive guide to sewing with leather for home sewers by Vogue Patterns and Threads Magazine contributing expert Kathryn Brenne: “Sewing Leather, a virtual workshop on CD-ROM”.

This CD is just like taking a one-on-one class at Kathryn’s exclusive and usually sold-out leather-sewing workshops at the Academy of Fine Sewing and Design. That's because it's built around over 1.5 hours of tightly edited, video demonstrations divided into 14 easy-to-navigate episodes covering every aspect of sewing with leather, including selecting skins and choosing appropriate patterns, all the basic and advanced construction techniques and tips, and on to polishing up your project. In fact, the CD's even better than a live workshop since you can pause and replay the videos whenever your want, and enjoy larger than life close-ups of everything Kathryn's doing with her hands and her machine. Kathryn demonstrates all of her tools and techniques on this CD, revealing how she fuses interfacing to garment leathers, hammers edges flat, glues and tapes to secure and stabilize leather seams and hems, shapes perfect points, applies hardware and creates a variety of seams and closures, using mostly typical home-sewing devices with just a few specialized and inexpensive leather-specific tools.

Within the 58-page pdf document that contains the videos, there's also an extensive annotated gallery of close-up photos exploring Kathryn's work along with instructive examples from RTW, plus detailed listings of suppliers and sources for all the tools and materials demonstrated, with one-click hot links to relevant web pages if you're connected to the internet while viewing the CD. There's a glossary of leather terminology, information on converting yardage to square feet, care and cleaning instructions for leather garments, a step-by-step guide to inserting fly-front zippers, and plenty of additional tips, all easily printable for use when you're away from your computer. Included on the disc are full-size printable patterns and complete directions for two delicious beginner's projects that require no fitting and very little leather-excellent preparation for more ambitious projects.

It’s easier than ever before for the home sewer to work with leather thanks to modern methods that create a wide range of soft, supple skins that make it easy going for domestic sewing machines.

This valuable leather sewing guide compiles Kathryn’s more than 25 years of leather experience and most importantly the adaptation of regular sewing techniques to ensure successful and professional results that will render friends and colleagues speechless when you say you made it yourself!