These two “tips” should be a “best practice”, in my humble opinion, that is, they are useful tasks for every sewing project. Genius way to use a hairstyling tool in the sewing room. 1. Do you iron your threads before hand sewing? You should, to prevent tangling and knots. Sewing expert Kenneth King suggests using… Read More Sewing Tips #4 and #5: Small Thread Tasks that Matter Bigly.
If you like to sew fine clothing, you must know that pressing as you go is a Best Practice. Here, I must emphasize that the use of a press cloth should be ingrained in your sewing process. It is now a habit with me, even for cottons. You may press sturdy cottons directly, but I… Read More Best (Sewing) Practices #4: Use a Press Cloth on Almost Every Fabric
As I was writing and photographing content for this post, a YouTube video by Sew Daily Network popped up in my feed with buttonholes as the topic! More about that later in the post. Unrelated to today’s topic: read to the end of the post and tell me what you think of the newest Christian… Read More Basic Sewing Concept: Buttonhole Paraphernalia
If your sewing machine brand offers a variety of specialty presser feet, try and find a button sewing foot. Fair warning: it’s not a necessary accessory to have but it is fun to use and yes, for the hand-sewing haters it’s useful. Fair, fair warning: someone has come up with a trick (hack?) to sew… Read More Sew On a Button By Machine: Bernina Foot #18
Hi readers, my friend Judy took on her caped crusader persona and wrote this piece exclusively for the Sew Everything Blog for awesome filler content during my March hiatus . I am forever beholden to her. Infinite thanks, Judy! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hello, Samina’s fans. This is Judy. I have my cape and am here to save… Read More Judy to the Rescue With Scissor Sheath Instructions
Hi all! Well, almost like Gucci’s. Here’s my ode to a high fashion look that I occasionally become obsessed with. This time it’s a weirdly attractive set of short jammies that is photographed on the model as if she’s ready to step out in public. Well, below is my version. Heh. The entire look is… Read More PJ Bottoms Like Gucci’s
Oh, hey! Look! I’m finally giving the Eyelet Embroidery Set a try for refreshing the sewing muse. Do you have this tool or something similar, and have you used it yet? Or, have you successfully used other means of creating eyelets (different from the small metal grommets) by rigging your machine in some way? It… Read More Eyelet Embroidery Set Sees Light of Day
…or your stretched out arm, or your foot, or some other body part. Some of us know the old outstretched-arm-from-fingertip-to-nose=one-yard trick. Right? But this is about smaller measurements. Read on… Hand mapping should be a thing. I grew up watching my adults use their hands to measure things; clothing, fabric or anything they wanted to… Read More The Hand as Measuring Device
Excuse my rant, friends. I should be allowed to do that in the age of Covid-19 and stay home orders. What I will not do is name these businesses because they, too, are dealing with the Covid effect; I do want them to be successful even though as a customer and consumer of the products… Read More Unsatisfactory Sewing Products
Micro post #2. 300 words. I’ve sewn many traditional shirt-sleeve plackets, neck plackets that neatly (or messily) end in a pointed end or a square end with diagonal stitching lines sewn in an X. A placket is still my least favorite thing to sew. This one (below) was not a miss, but not a hit… Read More Sewing Plackets Can be so Hit or Miss
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