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. 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! If she forgets her slippers it usually means she pilfers a pair of RonChops socks (don't tell him cause he might freak out a little bit... hehehe). Firstly... you'll want to start with some beads.They can be any color really...
Tutorial ~ invisible zip At our sewing weekend, Gayle asked if anyone knew an easy way to put in an invisible zip. This is the method that my DS showed me many years ago which I have used ever since with 100% satisfaction and you will see that you have the chance to fix any issues before those small stitches are sewn. First up I machine baste the seam allowance on both pieces of the garment. I am working on a skirt for this tutorial. Then I place a pin 2cm down from both top edges of the garment pieces on the basted line. Tuck under the seam allowance (basted line) and line up the zipper teeth with the baseted line and the zipper stop with the pin. Then fold the seam allowance back out and then pin the zip in place on both sides. I then baste the zip in place using the normal zipper foot, sewing from the top down on both sides, it doesn’t have to be right up against the zipper teeth, this is your safety net to make sure that the zip is where you want it to be. Here is the zipper sewn in. Completed back seam
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. 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.
Inserting an invisible zip This is my method for inserting invisible zips - it's a bit different to the way dressmaking patterns describe, and I've included a few little tips and tricks that (hopefully) make things easier! Make life easy on yourself and insert your zip as early as possible in your garment assembly. It really is much easier to sew a CB zip into just your two back panels, than to try and sew it into a nearly completed skirt! Here is my skirt ready for zip insertion - as you can see I have already sewn my side seam beneath the zip: If your fabric is delicate the base of the zip around your backtack should be fusetaped for reinforcement. Open your zip and place it on your zip seam so right sides are together - ie, your fabric is face up and your zip is face down. Notice how I use an ordinary zip foot? When you near the bottom lay your seam allowances open and flat, and fold back the other side so you can locate the position of your backtack clearly. Now you're halfway there!
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.
Installing an invisible zip Invisible zips are a fabulous invention! I always buy zips a good 5 or 10cm longer than the pattern calls for – the reason for which will be shown below, along with the techniques I use to get a RTW finish: 1. The little plastic nubs at the top of the zip? 2. When sewing invisible zips, you are almost applying a side-ways force on your zip in order to get the stitching line as close to the zip teeth as possible – having it basted means the zip is wholly secured, whereas the pins allow the unpinned parts to move and pucker, giving you a wobbly looking zip! Some people like to iron their zipper teeth away flat and from the zipper fabric: I find this isn’t for me – the first time I tried I did too good a job and ended up sewing my seam over the teeth and being unable to do up the zip! I have noticed that in many of the online invisible zip tutorials, those that are recommending ironing their zips are the ones using the white plastic ‘generic’ invisible zipper foot. 4. 5. 6. 7.
DiY crafts, free sewing patterns & sewing tutorials – WhatTheCraft.com Sewing Invisible Zipper From December 3-06 till today July 25-09 ( 2 1/2 year) this post is viewed 50,000 times. 55,000 times viewed on October 28 2009 , 60,000 times viewed on February 17 2010 70.000 times viewed on August 8 2010, 80.000 times viewed on March 22 2011 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. I prefer to sew the zipper after the seam underneath the zipper opening is closed. I find it easy to have a mark on my fabric where the zipper needs to be stitched ,that’s why I start sewing the zipper opening with a large stitch and a loose tension. sew the seam beneath the zipper opening as usual. Press the seam open and remove the stitches of the zipper opening seam. I need to press the zipper coil flat so I can sew with my usual zipper foot.My pressing iron has a Teflon foot so the coil won’t melt. Here you can see the difference of the flat pressed coil at the right with the not yet pressed coil at the left. outside view 14 Comments:
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10 Easy Steps for Sewing Professional Invisible Zippers I’ve seen plenty of examples in garments where someone has painstakingly sewn their lining to their zipper tape by hand. It usually makes my fingertips ache. Why spend that time sewing on a lining by hand, when it could be done much more quickly and look more professional when sewn by machine? Don’t you want to use your extra time perusing Pinterest for photos of cute puppies and shoes you can’t afford? I learned this method several years ago by a zipper-inserting wiz, named Rosa. It may be a technique that you’ve seen before, but I thought I’d share this method with you since I put this tutorial together for a class I taught recently. Step 1: Attach the lining and dress outer fabric together at the armholes, leaving the two separate for at least 2-3” from the edge of the side seam (or seam where the zipper will be placed). Step 2: *Read thru this step completely* Sew the fashion fabric from the zipper end point (usually marked as a dot) down to the hem. Taa-daah!
How to Make a Wrap Skirt to Fit Any Size Edit Article Community Q&A With these simple instructions you can make wrap skirts to fit your own measurements. You will need to make some calculations, but if you can draw a few straight lines on a piece of newspaper you'll have a go-to pattern to use again and again. Steps <img alt="Image titled Make a Wrap Skirt to Fit Any Size Step 8 preview" src=" width="728" height="410" class="whcdn"> a Wrap Skirt to Fit Any Size Step 8.360p.mp48Then wrap, button, tie, and you're done! Community Q&A Ask a Question Tips