Grand Revival Designs: Pleated Wrap Skirt Tutorial
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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. We asked for some of her favorite tips for essential sewing skills and she shares them here today. 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 »
Creative Guest: Sarah at Welcome to the Good Life
WOO HOO! Call me a big nerd but my heart's pounding because i'm so excited and honored to be here!!! my name is Sarah and i keep a blog over at Welcome to the gOOd life. it's a diary written by me (and sometimes by my hilarious husband) of the good and the ugly as a wife, a stay at home mom, raising two kids under three-just a year apart, and also my weekly DIY sewing projects. so should we get on to my DIY project? picture from an anthropologie review blog. i think i literally gasped when i saw this top online. i instantly fell in love and knew i had to have it! i bought 2 white shirts, one in xs which is my size and one in large. i got the large shirt in round neck for more fabric while i got the xs in a scoopneck. you'll need: 2 shirts scissors matching thread pins estimated time: 1-2 hrs. project cost: very reasonable(mine was $8 for both shirts) skill level: advanced beginner to intermediate 1. take the large shirt and cut it into two pieces, a front and the back piece. 4. and you're finished!
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I hope you find this needlework dictionary useful and with it able to improve your hand embroidery skills. To assist those who are new to the craft of hand embroidery I have categorised each stitch as to its degree of difficulty. An icon of a single pair of scissors indicates that the stitch is easy to work and you should not hesitate to try it. If you are new to learning needlework. If you normally have problems following embroidery illustrations the computer can help you. Contents: top Eyelet Stitch Half Chevron stitch Half cross stitch see cross stitch Heavy Braid chain see Heavy chain Heavy chain Herringbone: Herringbone double version 1see Double Herringbone 1 Herringbone double version 2 see Double Herringbone 2 Kensington outline stitch see split stitch Kloster stitch see couching Knot stitch see Bullion knot Knotted stitch see Coral stitch Knotted stitch see French Knot Knotted Cretan: Knotted loop stitch see Basque Knot stitch Knotted Pearl stitch see Reversed Palestrina stitch
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
Make a Custom Pair of Tap Pants @Craftzine.com blog - StumbleUpon
By Haley Pierson-Cox For me, summer in NYC means two things: 1) I will eventually wear a light skirt into the subway when my hands are full, and 2) on that day, when I step onto the stairs of the station, a gust of wind will come barreling up from below, lifting my skirt and showing my backside to anyone who cares to look. This year, on the very first nice day, my skirt flew up not once, but twice. In the same commute. Grumbling and scrambling to pull it down, it hit me: I definitely needed a pair of tap pants. In case you’re not familiar, tap pants work like a slip, but they’re actually shorts, making them the perfect solution to my summer skirt woes. I’m pretty sure that every gal with a skirt and the chance of a breeze needs a pair! Materials: Directions Step 1: Create the front pattern To get started, use a measuring tape to take the following measurements. Step 3: Cut out your pattern pieces and arrange them on fabric that has been folded in half with right sides facing. Related
I Really Wish I Could Sew | Pioneer Woman Home & Garden
A sweet friend of mine sent the girls and me a box of adorably adorable owl pillows this week. She doesn’t sell them, doesn’t have an Etsy shop…she just makes them. I think they might be the sweetest things I’ve ever seen, and I think they’ll be precious in the girls’ new room. I don’t know what it is about owl pillows. Or owls in general. It must have something to do with the eyes. I love this vinyl detailing. Vinyl? Which brings me to my current fixation: I really wish I could sew. But when I see things like this, all I can think about is that I really wish I could sew. I’d love to be able to grab a pile of fabric scraps and turn them into…an owl. I love this one. Boo! It would take me approximately eighty years to make one of these pillows. That’s because I’d keep taking breaks to go cook. And eat. So maybe it’s best that I don’t know how to sew. If I did, I might be tempted to make things like this. And then nothing would ever get cooked in this house. Maybe even twenty pounds! Yep. Ahem.
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.
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