Our Featured Teacher: Angela Wolf
WonderFil Specialty Threads
Angela Wolf
Angela Wolf, fashion and pattern designer, is the anchor of the PBS series It’s Sew Easy and Host of Behind the Scenes and Sewing News LIVE weekly facebook shows. Author of How to Start a Home-based Fashion Design Business, founder of Angela Wolf Pattern CollectionTM , blogger, vlogger, and brand ambassador for Brother. She teaches online classes on Angela Wolf Academy, Bluprint (formerly Craftsy), and Patternreview, with over 150,000 students from all over the world.
Angela started sewing at a young age and continued to design women’s apparel all through college. With an entrepreneurial spirit and passion for fashion and sewing, she launched and ran a successful custom apparel and alteration business for over 18 years. She is the winner of 2008 Passion for Fashion, 2012 American Sewing Expo’s teacher of year, and spends her time speaking and teaching all over the country. When she is not sewing, you will find her fishing on Lake Michigan or in the Florida Keys with her husband Winn, on the Win-n-Angel!
A Touch of Lace
By Angela Wolf
Embellishing using lace and thread to add to your garments
It's Sew Easy Studio
Q&A INTERVIEW
Q: As I understand, couture means designing very unique and specific pieces. Where do you draw inspiration for your designs?
A: I like to add a Touch of Couture to my garments. My jackets typically include hand dyed silk charmeuse linings, hand crocheted trims, and custom embellishments. If can’t find the fabric, I design my own by embellishing with embroidery, thread painting, quilting, needle felting, and couching - I love designing fabrics! It’s the fabric that starts my creativity, followed by draping – then the design comes to life. For the 18 years I designed custom apparel, I would design a garment to compliment that one individual choosing style, color, and fit that would flatter them. Now, I design patterns for the home sewer, offering a stylish option for them to start with and add their own creativity. I am blown away by the beautiful garments shown off by sewers all over the world in my Angela Wolf Patterns group.
link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AngelaWolfPatterns/
Q: What do you love about using Softloc™?
A: Last spring, Andrew gave me a sample of Softloc to test out. I used Softloc in the serger and coverstitch machine on knits, which passed with flying colors. The true test was on fabrics other than knits: rayon, silk charmeuse, silk chiffon, tweed, cashmere, stretch velvet, and denim. I experimented with 3 and 4-thread overlock, rolled hem, narrow overlock, coverstitch and double coverstitch and they all turned out beautiful! Not only that, the softness of the seam finishes inside the garment are so soft against the skin. I must laugh; I have always promoted using Wooly Nylon on baby clothes offering a soft finish on the seams. Now with Softloc, we can all have fabulously soft seam finishes at any age! Just another touch of luxury in our custom garments.
Q: What can we expect from you in the upcoming year?
A:I have quite a few new products coming out, including virtual classes, a new line of athleisure styles for the Angela Wolf Pattern Collection which will include boxed kits, expanding the Fashion Sewing Club and Angela Wolf Academy Online Classes, and getting ready to tape season 19 of It’s Sew Easy tv. It’s hard to believe we taped the first episode of It’s Sew Easy 10 years ago!
The Softloc thread is a perfect fit for my new athleisure pattern kits. Each kit will include a pattern, fabric, and supplies needed for sewing the project. Sewing garments has to be fun and wearable, these new patterns are stylish and easy to sew. Just another tool for sewing success!
With a travel schedule full of events, I am very excited for the launch of the virtual classes. These classes offer a live class, without the usual hug 😊. Different from my online classes, these classes are streamed live allowing me to teach, take questions, and connect sewer’s from all over the world on a user friendly platform. Sewer’s can join the class from the comfort of your home or join a group at a local fabric store, sewing machine dealer, or sewing group that hosts the class. These virtual classes will also offer a great opportunity for fabric and sewing shops to host group events.