Ever wondered what a basting stitch is in sewing? That’s what you’re about to find out. If you’ve ever searched in your sewing machine manual, you probably won’t find a “basting stitch” as one of your machine’s available stitches. Yet, basting is something that we do often in sewing, so how do you baste fabric […]
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Today we’re talking about how to use fusible interfacing and the benefits of block fusing. For a long time I really really hated applying fusible interfacing. Interfacing is slippery, it can get your iron gunky. Worst of all, it seems that no matter how accurately you seem to cut it, you always need to trim
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Let’s be honest: there’s a whole lot of sewing terms out there! The first time you pick up a pattern, your brain might be spinning with all of the sewing words flying at you. My goal here is to give some sewing definitions for a lot of sewing terms you’ll come across. I’m grouping alphabetically
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Let’s chat about how to upholster a kitchen chair. Once upon a time my Great Grandma had a beautiful red ice formica table and chairs. I sat around those, learned to pull strudel standing at it and had many many home cooked meals with little burned bits with lots of love. One day I vowed
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Ah sewing machine tension. It’s one of those ultra frustrating subjects. If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say, “I don’t sew much because my machine’s tension was just off”, I’d have a lot of dollars. Shoot, I gave up sewing for YEARS because I never quite figured out the tension
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Today we’re talking how to upholster a storage bench. Why bother, you ask? Well, plain storage benches usually have lifeless neutral fabric with zero personality. When said boring fabric gets gross from life with kids, I start looking at it, knowing it could be better. I’ll show you how to break down a storage bench.
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Today we’re talking all about framing a scarf. Not too long ago a reader asked me how to frame a Hermes silk scarf. While I don’t own any Hermes silk scarves, in our conversation I realized that I’ve framed a lot of vintage scarves and I have opinions about how to do it! Vintage scarves
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Today we’re talking all about the essential tools you need to get started in DIY upholstery. We’ve all bought or inherited furniture with drab or worn out fabric. The cool thing about DIY upholstery is that with a few tools and some awesome fabric, you can fix that situation. I like to think of upholstery
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We’re making DIY ombre curtains today! This is the project for those times you want fresh room decor and can’t find any decent curtain fabric. As someone who has spent far far too many hours combing Ebay and Etsy for the *right* curtain fabric, I’ll tell you now you might not find it. Thankfully you
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We’re talking all about types of interfacing today. Why? Because interfacing is one of the key elements to making all of your sewing better. Also, if you go searching for types of interfacing, your head will soon be in a stew of numbers and manufacturers and confusion. I’m not about that. By the end of
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