Sewing with Nancy

{{Short description|Public television show about sewing}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

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Sewing with Nancy is an American television show about sewing, hosted by Nancy Zieman.{{cite web|title=Sewing With Nancy|url=http://www.createtv.com/CreateProgram.nsf/vProgramsbyNOLA/SEWN|publisher=Create TV|accessdate=May 5, 2013}} It made its debut on the now-defunct Satellite Program Network (SPN, later Tempo Television) in September 1982.{{cite news|last=Burns|first=Jane|title=Nancy to discuss her Bell's palsy on sewing show|url=http://host.madison.com/business/nancy-to-discuss-her-bell-s-palsy-on-sewing-show/article_1671750a-2fd8-11e0-a4d1-001cc4c002e0.html|accessdate=May 4, 2013|newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal|date=February 3, 2011}} On September 1, 1982, PBS began airing the series, which was distributed by National Educational Telecommunications Association. As of 2011, the show aired on 89% of Public Television stations in the United States. It was the longest-running sewing series in the history of North American television.

Sewing with Nancy was co-produced by Wisconsin Public Television at Vilas Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison. Zieman had Bell's palsy, a one-sided facial nerve paralysis, and talked about the condition on an episode in 2011. On September 5, 2017, Zieman announced her retirement due to cancer;{{cite news|last1=Sefton|first1=Dru|title=Health issues end 'Sewing With Nancy' host's career|url=https://current.org/2017/09/health-issues-end-sewing-with-nancy-hosts-career/|accessdate=October 13, 2017|work=Current|date=September 5, 2017}} she died just over two months later, the day after the final episode was broadcast.{{cite news|title="Sewing with Nancy" host dies after battle with cancer|url=http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Sewing-with-Nancy-host-dies-after-battle-with-cancer-457495043.html|accessdate=November 14, 2017|publisher=WBAY|date=November 14, 2017}} Older episodes continue to be broadcast on PBS under the name The Best of Sewing with Nancy.