Learning to sew can feel overwhelming. Learn to use a sewing machine with confidence with these beginning sewing ideas, beginning sewing projects, easy sewing projects. Maybe you’re teaching yourself to sew or looking for kids sewing projects to pass on sewing to the next generation. Whatever the case, you’ll find first sewing projects here that’ll build your confidence and help you gain sewing skills that’ll help you advance in your sewing knowledge.
For sewists, we can feel the pressure to want to make handmade gifts for the people in our life. We want to show off our mad sewing skills AND give something heartfelt to our loved ones. Who doesn’t want to watch your child or your husband rip into a package and treasure it all the […]
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There’s been so much feet dragging with my Make 9 this year, and the Sew Over It Lulu dress has been partly to blame. I saw the lack of darts and waist shaping and thought there was no chance it’d work on my pear shaped self. Guess what? I was totally wrong. Sew Over It
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Can you actually embroider on a regular sewing machine? I think it’s a giant myth in the sewing world that you need a big fancy embroidery machine to tackle basic embroidery. Embroidery is such a nice thing to add to any sewing project to add a little bit extra personality beyond whatever it is that
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One of my last projects of 2017 was this toddler quilted vest I made for my daughter. If it looks like a twin of sorts to my quilted coat, you’d be right! I had just enough of the leftover ombre fabric to make her this little quilted vest. elizabethmadethisElizabeth Farr is the writer behind the
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I’ve been talking about it for a long time now, and today is the day I get to show off my husband’s 10th Doctor Suit. For my first real ventures into cosplay, my Rose Tyler jacket and this suit have are really big undertakings. Little tiny nothing projects and organization tasks in my sewing room
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Ever since my husband and I started watching Doctor Who 3 years back, we’ve kicked around the idea of cosplay. Though we’ve enjoyed all the Doctors and companions, Rose and the 10th Doctor have easily been our favorites. Maybe it’s the fact that we both have similarish coloring to Billie Piper and David Tennant that
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Summer still lingers here so I’m catching up on writing up the last of my summer projects before I move on into my fall makes. Earlier in the summer, I picked up a few t-shirts at the thrift store for refashions. One of them, you already saw me re-make in my Split Flutter Sleeve hack
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Now that you’ve read about my Colors of Flags Challenge makes, check out Episode #2 of Pattern Hacker. You can see my full process for this DIY One Shoulder Ruffle Dress. I’m slowly working the kinks out of my videos and looking forward to more of these types of videos. I’ve really enjoyed producing all
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All of my t-shirts have been slowly wearing out, so at the moment, I have t-shirts on the brain. You know what that means, right? It’s time to dust off my Pinterest boards and get to hacking. This linen split flutter sleeve tee started as a search for something to do with linen knit, and
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Sewing for charity is a great way to use your sewing skills to help others. I’ve been making little items like zipper bags, and headbands for Operation Christmas Child for a few years now. I always love being able to add a little handmade something to the little shoebox gifts. Giving will bring you joy,
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