Sewing Tips & Tricks Satin stitch is a great stitch to use for decorative sewing or for finishing off the edges of appliques. If you find that your satin stitch doesn’t give full coverage of the underlying fabric,to remedy this, simply sew another row of satin stitch over the first row. Make sure you have
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Sewing Tips & Tricks Sewing on your machine with blended threads allows you to easily sew creative stitches and special blending effects. And best of all, you don’t need a fancy needle. Simply thread two different colored threads through the eye of your needle. Make sure you use a needle with a large enough eye
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One of my favorite ways to use my digital photo art is to print it onto fabric and make wall art by wrapping it onto a stretched canvas. Wrapping a canvas is really easy to do, and you can use cheap wrapped canvases found in the craft store, so it’s also quite inexpensive. This was
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Sewing Tips & Tricks If you’ve ever experienced puckering or distortion when sewing decorative machine stitches, it usually occurs because the fabric is not stabilized properly. In order for the stitches to be sewn correctly, the fabric needs to be taut, so slide a piece of tear-away stabilizer or iron-on stabilizer underneath the area to
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Printing your own designs onto fabric has never been easier. You can easily print small pieces of fabric using your own home inkjet printer, and for larger pieces of fabric including yardage, there are many different types of print-on-demand services that you can use. Spoonflower is one of the most popular print-on-demand services that you
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Sewing Tips & Tricks Making beautiful and unique pieces of fabric is easy using lengths of ribbon. Simply place the ribbon edge to edge, on top of a piece of fusible stabilizer. Iron the ribbon to the stabilizer, then sew the ribbon pieces together using a decorative machine stitch. This type of ribbon fabric is
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