Sewing Tips

Sewing Tips, Tricks and Trade Secrets for Today’s Crafters

Whether your thing is quilting, tailoring, crafting, or industrial sewing, expanding on your sewing skills is an ongoing process. By learning more tips and secret tricks, you only broaden your scope of utility when it comes to creating, constructing, or repairing “things.” For those who want the…
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Sewing Garments: 5 Ideas to Make the Most of It

What makes sewing garments special is the small and unique details. From a perfect stitched buttonhole to applied topstitching like an expert. In this article, you will find some great ideas to make the most of your garments-sewing.   1- Use your Sewing Machine to Stitch the Buttonholes Precisely. Step…
Striped sea bag

5 Best Items to Sew for Travel

It’s travel season again. And anyone who travels often knows how difficult it can be to keep all their belongings together and organized. Follow these sewing tutorials to make these travel items and solve that problem. You’ll learn to sew the 5 best items to keep your stuff organized and easily…
Sewing on Patches

Sewing on Patches: A great Idea for School Bags

Many children want their backpacks full of their favorite patches, but sometimes, it is quite difficult to add more. In the case of Junior Rangers, they receive a pin when they are sworn in, and there are some other children at various national parks with dozens of them on vests and jackets. Moreover,…
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Easy Ideas to Sew in Just 10 minutes

Sometimes, we find ourselves thinking about what to sew because the number of possibilities is a lot and we just want to do simple and nice things for us, to sell or maybe to give to a loved one. Here you are going to find great ideas to sew in just 10 minutes. If you want to sit down and sew something…

Why It’s Important to Baste Before You Stitch

What is basting? This kind doesn’t involve turkeys. Essentially, basting is kind of like pre-stitching in a way—basting stitches are large stitches sewn in loosely to hold pieces of material together and to give you a guideline for your permanent stitches. When you’re sewing an item—an article…