If you are hosting a party for New Years Eve, fabric party hats add to the festive atmosphere. Grab your colorful fabric scraps and whip up some beginner Read More Free Patterns String Quilts String quilts can b
35 projects to turn your favorite fabric scraps into well-loved treasuresSewing with scraps is an economical way to make the most of your designer fabrics-as well as a fun way to use up a stash of your favorite leftovers for smaller projects. Michael Miller fabric designer Sandi Henderson ...
Depending on your flower preference, there are patterns for every shape and style. Fabric flowers are also a great way to use up leftover materials in your home. Some people use old clothes or scraps of fabric. All that’s required to make a textile bouquet is a sewing machine, a glue...
For National Sewing Month 2015, I’m going to be talking all about fabric scraps and the many ways you can use them in your sewing. Sewing with scraps is like a way to connect with our sewing ancestors, who would reuse old garments to turn them into new things in an effort to waste...
Or, if you like closely fitted styles : different skin-tight patterns are designed for fabric with different amounts of stretch, and should tell you how much stretch you need to use. While if you prefer a different length to the one the pattern is made for, that is a change it is oft...
Whichever stitch you choose, test it out on some scraps of your fabric and adjust the tension as necessary until your stitching lays flat. It gets fancier from here, with stretch blind hem stitches and what not, but we’ll stick to these basics for now. Ok, on to the sewing of knits...
Spend any amount of time sewing and you know how quickly loose bits of thread and fluffs of fabric scraps start piling up. One efficient way to keep things tidy is to keep handy a scrap catcher that is used to collect all the waste while you’re working and then gets emptied after each...
I tried some mock-ups with nine fabrics, but I didn’t like any of them, so I eventually narrowed it down to just three. The fabric math was a little complex since I switched up the fabric numbers from what the pattern called for, and I’ll admit it stressed me out a bit as I ...
I can’t wait to see what you come up with! *About those bonus HSTs. I added that option because I hate to waste fabric, and they’re an easy way to make those cut-offs more useful. You should end up with (20) of them.
This DIY sunhat is made of scraps of fabric that I cut into strips, twisted, and sewed into a coiled hat with a moldable brim. Check out my tutorial if you’d like to make your own sunhat! Share this: How to Evenly Space Flower Petals (or Other Items) in a Circle ...