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...
Clothes like that ‘say’ quite a bit about me. some Personality words : practical, value quality, private, a little quirky. some Style words : Casual Chic with a touch of Ingenue. I don’t look child-like or dainty, but ‘Ingenue’ is a style word near to some of what I do like...
Have a helper chalk along that line. 6: Reuse the Extra. Take off the bodice. 1/2″ below the chalked line, cut off the rest of the fabric. Press the excess smooth. Cut the extra into 45-degree bias strips, about 1.25″ wide, and piece them together until you have a long bias ...
and get tossed every time I stand up to refill my water or take a personal comfort break. When I press along the way and there’s nothing piled on the board that has to be moved in order to do it. When my cut fabric is folded up neatly and not getting mangled ...
This tunic was an experiment that started out as a dress in my mind. Until I ran out of fabric. Actually, I think if the pattern sizing was anywhere near the mark it probably would’ve made a dress, no problem. I thought I’d try making a raglan T-shirt into a dress by ...
The entire purpose of making this bag is to sell it. Unfortunately, I kind of want to keep it. SIGH. This is a problem that I have often. The inside: See! I even made a little pocket inside with a fabric label on it!!! I love the little wood bead zipper pulls. How can I pos...
They're expert craftsmen who care about what they do. Dorian spent a lot of time helping me find the right sewing machine for my wife. He could've easily steered me toward the… 2. Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores Household Sewing MachinesFabric ShopsArts & Crafts Supplies (1) Website (...
and most of those places are obvious. Note though that there are rods running left to right which at first glance seem not to move much if at all when the handwheel’s turned. They actually just twist a bit backwards and forwards all the time, and the way you oil those is to try an...
However, what is more likely is are harsher supply chain disruptions, particularly products coming from India and China, whom supply a great portion of the West's textile products. Given that places like the US and Western Europe have long since moved their textile factories to the East, domes...
The fabric was still a bit coarse (someone at Knit Night said it looked like chain mail, which almost put me off the whole thing!) but the pattern said to felt it slightly when you were done. I really should have done a swatch and felted that, if only to reassure myself, but whils...