Sewing Tips & Tricks If you have carpet in your sewing room then you’ll understand how difficult it is to use a vacuum cleaner to pick up the stray threads and fabric scraps because the vacuum cleaner just doesn’t do a very good job at all. A simple and inexpensive toilet bowl brush is the […]
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Looking for some last minute gift ideas to sew? These ten free and creative sewing projects are sure to inspire. 1. Scrappy Organizer Got fabric scraps? This is your sewing project! Make it large to use as a day planner, or make it small to hold a notebook and pen. 2. Reversible Fabric Box Fabric
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Sewing Tips & Tricks Make a decorative stitch sampler Most modern sewing machines have dozens of decorative and utility stitches that you can use to embellish and add decorative surface design to your sewing projects, however it’s usually quite difficult to know exactly what these stitches will look like when they are sewn out. Making
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In a previous tutorial I showed you how easy it is to make simple straight repeat pattern in Photoshop Elements. However half drop repeat patterns are also just as easy to make, and are also a little more visually interesting. A half drop repeat pattern is a pattern where the images are not aligned in
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It’s been quite a while since I made an art quilt, however I’m participating in an upcoming art exhibit to be displayed in the Deland City Hall (see more details at bottom of this post), so I took the opportunity to make this digital art quilt titled Wildfowers in the Mist. This quilt was made
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Repeat pattern designs are the most common way to create designs, and straight repeat patterns are one of the easiest to make. Although you can make these types of designs using complicated programs such as Photoshop CC, you can also easily make repeat pattern designs using Photoshop Elements.1. Download the imageUse this sample image to
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