Seven Essential Sewing Skills Tasia from Sewaholic and Sewaholic Patterns wows us with her incredible style and sewing skills. Her blog is one of our favorite daily reads! Have you seen all of the gorgeous versions of her Lonsdale Dress out there on Flickr, Pinterest and your favorite blogs, all sewn up this past summer? Tasia inspires, and teaches along the way too; she is a fabulous resource for sewing techniques and more on her blog. Hello, everyone! 1. Helpful Links: 2. 3. Some great posts on pressing: 4. Here’s a great list of seam finishes to get you started! 5. There are plenty of zipper tutorials out there, but here are some great ones: 6. 7. « Hooded Tunic Tutorial Announcing: October Holiday Sew-Alongs + Giveaways »
Circle skirt calculator – for the drafting of full, half and 3/4 skirts. With bonus grading worksheet! | The Snug Bug Special Sunday greetings you naked molerats! Since you’re so naked, I thought you might want to make yourselves some nice little circle skirts. And perhaps, like me, you find yourself with little mole rat patterns just a touch on the small side. But the grading of a circle skirt isn’t so easy, is it you naked rodents? OK. Recently I’ve been plotting about two separate circle-skirt related issues in my head. For molerats who are unfamiliar with circle skirts, here’s the difference between the three styles. For a much more interesting comparison, here’s a full circle skirt. {image Whirling Turban} Here’s the oh, so lovely three-quarter circle skirt. And a slightly pixelated half circle skirt… {image Get Go Retro} The other circle-skirt related problem I’ve been mulling over has to do with grading up circle skirts. OK, I admit I usually grade up my circle skirts the ‘wrong’ way. My problem is (hopefully) solved! Okee dokee. Let’s move on to the grading stuff, shall we?? Whew! OK!
T-Shirt Mod: Boxy to Foxy Make: Projects T-Shirt Mod: Boxy to Foxy Tailor your frumpy tees. Share this: Email I have a bunch of great logo tee-shirts but they’re cut for men and I don’t like the way they fit, so today I’m going to show you how to mod your t-shirts into a flattering shape that you’ll actually wear. Parts Tools Print Project Steps Step #1: PrevNext First, iron your shirts and turn them inside-out.Line up the template at the shoulders and trace around it with tailor's chalk. Step #2: Pin along the new side seams, and cut off the sleeves at the new armhole.Run the new side seams through the serger. Step #3: Lay out the old sleeve under the template t-shirt and mark the new underarm and armhole. Step #4: Serge the underarm, then cut the shoulder curve. Step #5: Flip the sleeve right side out and set it inside the armhole of the shirt.Pin both sleeves into their armholes. Step #6: Serge the sleeve seams and you\'re all done! Becky Stern Becky Stern is head of wearable electronics at Adafruit Industries. In the Maker Shed
How to Make a Skirt out of a Pile of Scraps: No Pattern Needed! April 18th, 2009 Email 35 users recommend I inserted some tiny trim under the seam allowances, then I topstitched them down using silver metallic thread and a zigzag stitch. Jen Stern Here is my ribbon skirt—four gores cut on the bias created lots of scraps to work with. Here's my heap of scraps—too good to go to waste! Photo: Jen Stern <prev1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 View all To encourage the lining to stay on the inside of the skirt while you're wearing it, understitch the lining.
DiY crafts, free sewing patterns & sewing tutorials – WhatTheCraft.com Installing an Invisible Zipper Zippers can be daunting even for experienced sewers. The reason? Zippers are often installed the wrong way. With this tutorial we cover how to install an invisible zipper. Items Needed: invisible zipperthreadscissorspinsinvisible zipper footzipper footgarment Before we start, take a look at the back of your invisible zipper. 1. zipper tape is usually smaller than 5/8″ 2. place the pins parallel to the zipper 3. 4. sewing slowly helps prevent the fabric from puckering 5. 6. double check your zipper before sewing 7. remember to back stitch at the end of the zipper 8. 9. make sure the seam allowances line up 10. keep your seam line even to avoid puckering 11. 12. And there you have it!
Have slippers... will craft!! Happy Day After Mother's Day Everyone!I had a MomChops filled weekend plus crafts which equals the best kind of weekend there is!! Saturday we had breakfast at her house, shopped for skirt fabric in two different places, stopped for a quick lunch and did a whole lotta gabbing (craft gossip and planning at it's finest)! Sunday was another breakfast get together followed by hours of crafts. In the afternoon Chef RonChops came into the craft room and informed us that he would be serving us a 3 course lunch. The courses were: macaroni, cheese, and rotel (rotel is diced tomatoes with jalapenos for those of you who have never heard of it). Little MomChops StoryWhen MomChops comes over she always has a bag with her... inside her bag is usually a finished craft project or two and other random craft supplies. However... also inside the bag is the most important crafting accessory of them all. Slippers! So what are you rambling on about Lolly... let's get going with some crafts already (sheesh)!
Shirred Front Top- A Lex Refashion Tutorial June 8, 2010 4:12 pm I love tops like these from Anthropologie with all the heavy texture on them. I’ve also checked out “The Art of Manipulating Fabric” by Colette Wolff from the library and it’s really inspired me to try some new texturing techniques. So I thought I’d start with this style top with shirring with a gathering foot. Honestly, I’ve never used my gathering foot. Get a shirt that’s larger than your size. Next, with chalk or an erasable marker, draw where you want to shirr it. Next, attach your gathering foot. Your end result will look something like this: My face is not worthy of a photo today. I. love. texture.
Sewing with elastic thread | DIY maternity A technique that I really love for sewing maternity wear is shirring with elastic thread. You’ve probably noticed it in little girls clothing a lot, and perhaps in the back of women’s dresses. It’s a wonderful technique as it not only looks cute, but allows a lot of “give” and shape in your clothing. Want to learn how to do it? Here’s what you do: 1) Start with some elastic thread and an empty bobbin 2) Take the elastic thread and wind the bobbin by hand. 3) Once you are done winding, put the bobbin in the machine as you ordinarily would. 4) Mark on your fabric where you would like your lines of shirring to be. 5) Now the first row. 6) Continue sewing the next rows of shirring, and make sure that you flatten out the fabric as you sew the consecutive rows. 7) There are two ways you can begin and end off your stitches. To tie off the stitches, simply thread your loose end through a needle, and push it through to the other side. It should look like this from the outside now: ps.