Mie from Sewing Like Mad guest blogs in the Skirt Week series at Crafterhours with a tutorial showing how to draft a pattern for a flared skirt. The circle skirt drapes beautifully and has a waistband and optional lining. Check … Read More...
Tutorial: Felt and fabric berry basket
Mollie from Wild Olive made this little berry basket out of circles of felt and fabric. She shares a tutorial showing how. You can use it to corral a small handsewing project, or to catch your keys by the back … Read More...
Tutorial: 10-minute ironing board cover
Palak from Make It Handmade shows how you can make a new cover for your ironing board – in just 10 minutes. Her method skips the step of turning over the ironing board and tracing a pattern. Go to her … Read More...
Tutorial: How to gather fabric
Melanie from The Crafty Cupboard shows beginning sewers how to gather fabric. Go to her blog for the how-to.
[photo from The Crafty Cupboard]
Sewing Tutorial: Side knotted swimsuit refashion
Aimee from Clones n Clowns shows an easy swimsuit refashion. She slashes it at the sides and creates faux knots with the cut strips. Go to her blog for the tute.
[photo from Clones n Clowns]
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Free pattern: Little girl’s Math Facts dress with pointed waist
Handmade Charlotte shares a free pattern for making their Math Facts dress. It’s a little girl’s dress with a lovely pointed waist detail. The short sleeves are ruffled, and the circle skirt stenciled with numbers. The pattern comes in two … Read More...
Tutorial: Layered petal sleeves
An from StraightGrain blogs in the Knock It Off series hosted by Elegance & Elephants with a tutorial showing how to make layered petal sleeves. She shows it on a little girl’s dress, but they would be pretty for older … Read More...
Lookie what she made: Child’s vintage-inspired circus suit
Celina from Petit á Petit shows the vintage-inspired circus suit that she made for her young child. It’s sparkly and shiny and pure fabulousness! She bought the supplies to make it over a year ago, but first one thing and … Read More...
Sewing Tutorial: Add crotch snaps to a baby’s swimsuit
Stacie from Yellow Spool shares a tutorial that’s a little slice of sewing brilliance. She adds snap tape
to the crotch of her young daughter’s bathing suits. Anyone who has ever had to wrangle a wet bathing suit off and … Read More...
Tutorial: Easy diaper burp cloths
Lauren from The Thinking Closet shows how to make a quick and easy burp cloth that you can give as a shower gift. It’s a pre-folded diaper with a fabric panel stitched down the middle. The sewing is simple enough … Read More...
Lookie what they made: Drawn thread embroidery on a little girl’s dress
FrancesSuzanne guest posts in the Lost Arts of Sewing series at A Jennuine Life with a chronicle of their adventure using a drawn thread embroidery technique for the first time. The embroidery technique removes some of the threads from the … Read More...
Advice from The Sewing Rabbit on taking self portraits
When I sew clothes for my daughter, I make sure to get good photos of her wearing her new duds. But when I make clothes for myself, not so much. I’ve tried having my husband snap the photos, but he … Read More...
A quick tip for those teaching a child to sew
One difficulty for children learning to sew on a sewing machine is they often have a hard time controlling how far they push in the foot pedal. Heather fromThe Sewing Loft shows her solution. Go to her blog to … Read More...
Tutorial: Grommet waistband
I’ve seen jumbo grommets on curtains and on handbags, but Janica from JaniJo brings them to a skirt waistband. Wide ribbon is threaded through the oversized plastic grommets. She shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to make a … Read More...
Tutorial: Easy striped maxi skirt
Elizabeth fromSimple Simon & Co. shows how to make a striped maxi skirt. It’s a super easy project, requiring just two rectangles of fabric and no elastic. Go to her tute.
[photo from Simple Simon & Co.]
Tutorial: Mend a hole in a sweater
A hole in a sweater doesn’t necessarily mean it’s time to toss it in the trash or the donate pile. Pam from Threading My Way shows how she mended a hole in a favorite cardigan. Go to her blog for … Read More...
Sewing machine pincushion cuteness
Last night while I was looking for storage solutions for my threads, I happened upon this sewing machine pincushion at Jo-Ann Fabric. How stinkin’ cute is this! At first I was confused by the half circle hand crank, but … Read More...
Tutorial: The Lesa Bag
Jill from Creating My Way To Success shares a downloadable PDF tutorial for making her Lesa Bag. The squared bag has a zippered top and a zippered pocket across the front. There’s also a pair of smaller gusseted pockets on … Read More...
Free pattern: Child’s sleeveless flutter tee
Jen from Eat. Sleep. Make shares a free pattern for a child’s flutter tee. It’s a simple sleeveless top with a drapey hem. She used printable transfer paper to add the arrows to the front. The pattern is for a … Read More...
Tutorial: Refashion a cardigan into a pullover
Agy from Green Issues shows how she refashioned a cardgian into this pullover sweater. The ruffle down the front covers the seam where the buttons were. Brilliant! Go to her blog to see how to do it.
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