Sewing Tips & Tricks If you love to embellish your art quilts and sewing projects with beads and other small embellishments, then you’ve probably had a bead or two fall off at some point. The best way to make sure your beads stay attached is to secure each bead with a small knot. This way, […]
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As I have previously mentioned, I got a new toy … a Silhouette Cameo digital cutting machine. One of the reasons I bought the machine was so I could cut fabric applique shapes which the machine is supposed to do quite easily. Silhouette offer a fabric cutting blade which is exactly the same as the
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Designing your own fabric is a fun and creative way to make unique fabric that you can use in your own sewing projects, or even sell. Although professional designers invest a lot of money in the software and equipment that they use to create their designs, to get started in fabric design you don’t really
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Sewing Tips & Tricks A Stitch-in-the-Ditch foot makes it easy to sew accurate lines of stitch in-between seams such as pieced quilting. But it’s also the perfect sewing machine foot for sewing straight lines of topstitching. Just butt the center guide up against the edge of the fabric, adjust the needle position left or right,
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There is no better way to learn anything these days than with an online class, and these online classes will teach you teach you bag-making skills for all sorts of different styles of bags and purses. Free online classes will teach you basic sewing and bag-making skills and are a perfect way for beginners to
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Sewing Tips & Tricks If you’ve ever had to hand sew curved pieces of fabric together such as curved bag gussets, then you know how awkward or even impossible it can be when using a straight sewing needle. Curved sewing needles are designed just for this type of application, and although they may take a
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