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How to Diagnose and Fix Tension Issues and Get Perfect Stitches Every Time! Does your machine’s stitching look a bit off? That can be due to tension, and an easy adjustment will often fix the problem. However, before you jump into adjusting the tension make sure the machine and bobbin are threaded properly, change the …
Five hand stitches that should be in every sewist’s repertoire, by Tasha Miller Griffith.
If you have purchased a custom quilt jacket, pullover, etc, upcycle the leftover quilt scraps for a matching bow! These giant quilt bows are perfect as a hair accessory or even clipped onto clothing.
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Requirements: Foolproof Crazy-Quilt Projects 1 piece of felted wool 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" 1 piece of lining fabric 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" 1 piece of non-woven stabilizer 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" 2" piece of 7mm ribbon Assorted 4mm and 7mm silk ribbons Assorted Perle #8 and # 12 threads Assorted stranded cottons Chenille #22 needle Milliner’s #9 needle Small button Construction; Note: Pattern includes ¼" seam allowance. 1. Fuse the stabilizer to the wrong side of the wool felt. 2. Fold the felt into the shape of an envelope and press well. Folded envelope 3. These pressed lines form the perimeter for the embroidery. It is important to remember the ¼" seam allowance. Perimeter lines 4. Follow the stitch maps from Foolproof Crazy-Quilt Projects to complete the embroidery. Stitch map 4.1 Top Left-Hand Corner - Seam Treatment X - page 38 4.2 Top Right-Hand Corner - Seam Treatment J - page 34 4.3 Bottom Left-Hand Corner - Lid Piece 5 - page 69 4.4 Bottom Right-Hand Corner - Seam Treatment B - page 14 4.5 Center - Seam Treatment A - page 68 5. Baste the 2" ribbon to the top corner of the embroidered square to form the button loop. Button loop 6. Put the outer panel on the lining piece with right sides together. 7. Pin and sew the panels together, leaving a small opening for turning. 8. Turn the panels right side out. Gently push out the seams and press. 9. Fold the completed panels into an envelope shape and press well. 10. Slip stitch the two front seams closed. 11. Feather stitch along the stitched seams and the top edge. 12. Attach the button to the front in line with the button loop. Attached button Completed Project; Enjoy! Follow my blog with Bloglovin
How to do a ladder stitch (also know as an invisible stitch or hidden stitch) step by step video tutorial. This tutorial is perfect for beginners!
Se antes o bordado era considerado uma técnica artesanal conservadora, hoje ela está sendo usada por jovens feministas, como a artista e costureira Sally Hewett, para quebrar paradigmas. Interessada nas histórias sociais e políticas dos meios de comunicação e da arte, ela também sempre se interessou em corpos reais e criou uma série de bordados que retratam peitos e bundas como realmente são.
Stitching in the ditch is a quilting technique, but it’s a good one to know for other sewing projects as well. I don’t use it a ton, but occasionally when I’m making …
This kantha needle book tutorial can inspire your creativity, improve improv quilting skills, and give you a chance to experiment with hand stitching.
"Stitch a sweet needle book from the scraps you can't part with. The pattern includes templates and full instruction for a palm size needle book with 4 pages including the cover and heart at the center. The little book will certainly hold your pins and needles and tools or it could tell a story, mark an occasion, like a birth or anniversary, or be a sort of travel journal, the pages filled with little things found along the way and saved."
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Sunday morning I played around with new stones thinking they were going to be grey but perhaps because it is the bleak mid-winter ...
Hello and welcome to week 6 of our Stitch Magic Stitch-Along! This is our final installment, smocking. I saved this technique for last because it’s always seemed so mysterious to me. I’m happy to say that I now have a novice understanding of how this whole thing works.
There’s a mysterious promise in a bare trellis. What life has grown there before? What…
Have you ever wondered how perfectly topstitch your bags? Dianna shares some awesome tips with us so you too can achieve amazing results.
Learn how to sew the blanket stitch including all of those important steps like, how to use the blanket stitch around corners and how to neatly change thread during the blanket stitch!
Stars 'n Stripes 'n Scraps Quilt (queen size--just finished Sun 3/13/16) Answering the question--what to do with all those lovely fabric scraps? I'm still pecking away at my fabric scrap piles, building as many scrappy queen size quilts as I can by May, then I'll switch to building purses, baby quilts, table runners, and pot holders. I am full speed in my commitment to reduce 3 big bins of scraps, mostly 2.5" strips. I have a fourth bin full of 1.5" strips - and here's what those 1.5" strips made in the past: a decorative pocket for a soft luggage, this travel bag is 22 x 22. and I make other soft luggage out of upholstery material--oh yeah, got a big bin full of upholstery material scraps. Here are a couple pics of the soft luggage the small cotton fabric scraps I build these . . . little padded pouches with metal swivel clasp to carry cell phone or eye glasses. and rope baskets that are cool seriously, it takes a full day to make one of these. I wrap fabric strips around 1/4" cotton clothesline rope to create a disc (bottom of the basket), then I start nudging the disc upwards with my left hand to build the wall while I stitch. A zig zag stitch holds firmly. Ok, ok back to photos of current quilt Stars 'n Stripes 'n Scraps . . . my signature free hand edge to edge quilting "Feather Bouquet" I confess, even after doing the last three quilts--I made only a dent in the scrap piles. Ah, oh well. I'll keep sewing 'n sewing. I'm sure I mentioned one more scrap pile of 1" wide or less strips and short lengths?? I give them to my friend Jerry who uses all the colorful bits in beautiful rag rugs he looms. They are gorgeous! Here's the half way point of long arm quilting process. Lots of color loading quilt (floating quilt) After removing the quilt from the frame, I cut away excess batting and backing, square the quilt, sew 400+ inches of fabric binding, install the binding, then sit for 5-6 hours turning the binding and hand stitch. It's not complicated work. Its time consuming, but relaxing. I'll drop in more photos later. Right now, I'm going to take a nap. Talk to you later.
Zipper tabs are functional, plus add detail. Learn zipper anatomy and how to reduce a zipper by adding fabric tabs. Details you need to know when sewing.
In this tutorial, we show you how to add ric rac to your favorite fabrics to create beautiful reversible cloth napkins perfect for any table.
It’s getting harder and harder each year to come up with something to make for my sisters-in-law. It’s tradition for me to gift them something handmade,and after 16 years in the family…
One of my samples based on Ruth's book One of my greatest pleasures in life, alongside art, is reading. Books have always played an important role in my life and I doubt there has been a day in almost 40 years when I haven’t had at least one book on the go. Actually these days I’m finding it harder and harder to finish books, so I think I currently have about ten on the go... Part of the joy of having children has been re-reading my old favourites with them and discovering new ones written more recently. As a child, my dream job was to be a second-hand bookshop owner or a librarian, but somewhere that got lost along the route and I became an accountant and finally a very happy artist. I wouldn’t swap my job now! Given I read so many books on art and textiles and occasionally, technique, I thought I would share some with you on this blog now and again. I hope you like my choices and if you have any others you think I should be reading, do let me know – I always love hearing about good books! Fabric Manipulation, 150 creative sewing techniques by Ruth Singer This book is only just out, published by David and Charles. It is amazingly comprehensive, dividing techniques into ‘Pleat & Fold’, ‘Stitch & Gather’ and ‘Apply & Layer’, along with a basic introduction to fabric, threads, tools and stitch techniques. Ruth encourages readers to experiment and make the techniques their own. Although there are some small projects in the book, its aim is definitely to impart some of Ruth’s huge technical ability to start readers on their fabric manipulation journey. That implies it is a book for beginners, it is, but there is also lots for more experienced stitchers as there cannot be many people with all these techniques in their repertoire. Many of the techniques come with ideas for further experimentation. In her samples, some have drawn illustrations to show how to make them as well as photographs and Ruth also gives advice of the fabrics she has used and what she thinks works well for that particular technique. Another of my samples using folding techniques from the book I had fun making some samples based on the book and it is also good for reminding you of things you have tried in the past but have forgotten. It is certainly a book I will return to many times, which, in my view, makes it a very good book indeed. Ruth runs workshops in Leicester and around the country and exhibits her work across the world. I think it is only fair to say that I have known Ruth for a number of years and it has been a great joy to watch her work develop and take off. She is a very hard working and talented stitch artist and teacher. But even if I didn’t know her, this book would be high on my wish list as it is so comprehensive.
How to do a ladder stitch (also know as an invisible stitch or hidden stitch) step by step video tutorial. This tutorial is perfect for beginners!
I had several people e-mail me and ask about pin stitching after reading my last journal entry , so I decided to create a tutorial and show...
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Shop Shirring Foot Here Ever wonder what you can do with this little attachment? Using this foot has made a drastic difference in the ease of shirring, so I thought I would tell you about this obscure Singer Attachment. It's called a Shirring Foot or sometimes referred to as the gathering attachment. By loosely hand-winding your bobbin with an elastic thread you can instantly create a shirred fabric with which to use for dress bodices, elasticized cuffs and more. Buy Shirring Gathering Foot, Vintage Singer I suggest that when you pull your bobbin elastic thread up through the stitch plate that you also allow the upper needle thread to be pulled down through the attachment. Then, as you start out your rows be sure to hold both threads taut to secure the stitching row. This particular attachment will fit all low, vertical shank machines including the Singer 15, 66, 99, 127, 128, 185, 192, 201, 206, 221 & 222 Featherweight, 306, 319, 328, etc.. as well as all non-Singer machines with a low, vertical shank - new and old alike. After you shirr the fabric, steam the stitched rows with the iron on heavy-steam. I just barely hold the iron over the fabric and the shirring shrinks up quickly creating elasticity. I love it! Or forgo the elastic thread, use regular sewing thread in the bobbin and make a tactile quilt square for baby.Shop All Featherweight Attachments Here!
Over the last week I’ve been getting the same questions in comments here and in emails from blog readers. Here’s the most asked questions of the last week and their answers: How do I ge…
