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.
You’re going to love learning how to sew this easy DIY reading pillow you can make with my free book pillow pattern. In a house full of readers, I have stacks on stacks of books everywhere, and everyone likes to be cozy. And what’s more cozy than a comfy reading pillow to hold your latest […]
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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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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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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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Deep but important to know subject today: we’re talking about interfacing fabric. Interfacing can really make or break your projects but raise your hand if you’ve just bought the cheap stuff thinking it’s all the same (waves hand then smacks forehead immediately). The truth is that interfacing is a vital part of a lot of
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Today we’re talking about how to make fabric flower headbands. Now, you can’t tell by the 2 1/2 feet of snow in my backyard at the time, but spring is coming. In fact while through my daughter’s room yesterday and I found a treasure. It was a DIY flower headband I made for one of
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Let’s talk about how to shorten a zipper. Sewing zippers is one of those tasks in sewing where the devil is in the details. One of the problems you’ll run into is having a zipper that’s too long. In fact, many times it’s EASIER to sew with zippers that are too long. (Hello annoying zipper
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Let’s chat pattern fitting books, but before that, I’m going to say something you need to hear. There is no perfect pattern. People search for it, buy 18 jeans patterns hoping for “the one” and turn up disappointed. Maybe you’ve heavily invested in pattern company P, Y or Q because of the promise of a
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