Sewing Tips: How to Sew a Shank Button
Sewing a button is one of those basic sewing skills that most makers have, but it’s not unusual for stitchers to be absolute pros at attaching flat buttons but totally clueless when it comes to other styles.
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Sewing Tips: Sew a Baste Stitch
If you’re looking for a super-fast way to sew up side seams to check the fit of a muslin or a way to hold fabric pieces together for machine sewing that’s much flatter than pins, you’ll definitely want to get cozy with this helpful baste stitch tutorial!
How-To: Bound Buttonholes
Sewing for winter? Finish your new cozy coats and clothes with beautiful bound buttonholes using this helpful tutorial!
Sewing Tips: Matching Plaids and Stripes
Expertly matched plaids and stripes add an extra boost of professionalism to handmade garments, and can also help you avoid any weird stripe-induced optical illusions, ensuring that your clothing ends up looking like it’s supposed to. So, if you need a little bit of help in that area, you’ll definitely want to check out this helpful guide to matching plaids and stripes!
Sewing Tips: Basic Darning and Mending
In today’s culture of disposable fashion, the simple art of basic darning and mending has been all but forgotten.
Sewing Tips: Baby Hems
Sewing with lightweight, delicate, or sheer fabrics? Check out this fantastic baby hem tutorial!
Waistband Gap Fix: Taking in Jeans at the Side Seams
I’m cursed/blessed with a backside that’s proportionally bigger than the rest of my body. This means, among other things, that I always need to buy pants in a size that fits my butt, not my waist, which often results in the dreaded crack-showing waistband gap. Feel my pain? Here’s the fix!
