Learn To Sew: A Free Sewing Course For Beginners! Are you someone who longs to learn to sew, but has no idea where to start? Perhaps you’d like to sew things for the home, or learn to sew clothes for yourself? Learning sewing isn’t as hard as you might think, and this learn to sew…
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5 Easy Sewing Patterns for Beginners
Keep ReadingEasy Sewing Patterns for Beginners: An Overview If you’re just getting started in the world of fashion creation, I highly recommend experimenting with some easy sewing patterns for beginners. These more simple patterns will help you to better understand the process of creating garments. By selecting various easy sewing patterns for beginners you can almost guarantee…
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Mending Clothes: A Slow Fashion Book Guide!
Keep ReadingThis post isn’t a tutorial teaching you how to mend clothes. For that, you’ll want to pop to another blog. This post is about mending clothes in a sustainable and creative way. You see, for me, mending clothes is about slow fashion. Sustainable fashion. Fashion that isn’t exploiting the planet and it’s finite resources, nor…
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13 Essential Sewing Tools: Get Started With Sewing
Keep Reading13 Essential Sewing Tools: Get Started With Sewing So you want to learn to sew. You’re excited about the idea of making your own clothes. But you’re not sure where to start? You need a sewing tools list! Why? Because if you have the right tools, even just the basic essential sewing tools set, you’ll…
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How To Assemble PDF Patterns
Keep ReadingLets learn how to assemble PDF patterns. Because when it comes to digital sewing patterns, you need to be able to print them at home or at a printers, and you then need to know how to assemble PDF patterns. I am a stickler for assembling PDF patterns a certain way. When I deviate, I…
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How To Print PDF Patterns On Your Home Printer
Keep ReadingThis short, 5 minute video tutorial will show you how to print PDF patterns on your home printer, so that they print at the correct scale. Printing at the correct scale is super important, otherwise your PDF sewing patterns will be incorrect and the clothes that you make from them will not end up in…
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PDF Sewing Patterns: How Do They Work?
Keep ReadingSewing patterns are available now in two formats: paper or PDF sewing patterns. For many though, PDF sewing patterns are a new thing, and that can sometimes be a little overwhelming for people new to PDF sewing patterns. This step by step tutorial will demystify everything about PDF sewing patterns and you’ll feel super confident…
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Fanny Pack Sewing Pattern: Meet Clio!
Keep ReadingI have always loved fanny packs. Maybe it was growing up as a teen in the 90s, but there’s something about using a Fanny pack (aka Bumbag for non US peeps!) that makes me happy! So, it made sense that my first pattern release would be a fanny pack sewing pattern! Clio: The Fanny Pack…
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Burberry SS2017: Loose Fit Jacket
Keep ReadingFor this first in an ongoing category of posts ‘Pattern Suggestions’ we’ll start with a loose fit jacket from the Burberry SS2017 collection. Shown in October 2017, the Burberry SS2017 show was the last from designer Christopher Bailey, who was with Burberry for over 15 years. I have for the most part always been a…
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Refashioned Trousers: Banana Pants
Keep ReadingIn January, along with packing up my life in London, I worked on a refashioned trouser project for the Sewcialists blog. Their theme for February was stripes, and as I needed another pair of my Banana Pants to test out, I opted to make them as a pair of refashioned trousers. Now, this is the…
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How To Put Eyelets In Fabric: A Step by Step Tutorial
Keep ReadingHow To Put Eyelets In Fabric: A Step By Step Tutorial If you’re into sewing, you will probably at some point need to know how to put eyelets in fabric. Eyelets – and grommets too for that matter – are little metal circles, that can be inserted into fabric to create an enclosed hole.…
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2018 Make Nine – My Make Nine Choices
Keep Reading2018 Make Nine – My Make Nine Choices So, I have seen a few – read thousand – posts in Instagram with the hashtag #makenine2018 (apparently the official one is #2018makenine – see this post for more info!) and I decided to get in on the action. To me, Make Nine is about making nine…
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2 Simple Ways To Sew Stunning Sleeves
Keep ReadingSleeves. I know a lot of people who are terrified of sleeves. They get such a bad rep! I’m of the mind that sleeves can be quite stunning. Sleeves can change the overall silhouette of a garment. A basic fitted dress with a simple grown on cap sleeve will look drastically different next to the…
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Most Popular Sewing And Pattern Making posts in 2017!
Keep ReadingWell hello my friends! It is 2018! It felt like 2017 rushed by, at least a good portion did for me! How was your 2017? Did you set and succeed with your sewing and pattern making goals or are there a few lurking on sewing pile waiting to be finished? If that is you, do…
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170+ Pattern Making and Sewing Words: A Dedicated Dictionary
Keep ReadingThis is a dedicated dictionary for pattern making and sewing words. If you feel I have missed anything please feel free to drop it in the comments below so that I can add it in! I have tried to keep the pattern making and sewing words in alphabetical order for you to better find what you’re…
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