Sewing tips & sewing guides

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 […]

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

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

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

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

We’re digging into basics today with how to sew an invisible zipper. Invisible zippers are one of the most useful types of zippers, but they take a little practice to master. That being said, if you follow the tips I’m going to share with you here, you’ll be an invisible zipper ninja in no time.