I love piped seams. It’s the costumer in me. The trouble is that piping can get expensive, but making your own is super-cheap and easy…
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Let’s be honest – most of us aren’t buying jeans at a price point where we’re going to see a real flat-felled seam. It’s a…
Leave a CommentThis is the classic seam associated with denim, particularly when it comes to jeans. It’s really deceptively easy to do. (It does help if you…
2 CommentsIt happens. We all loose our way some times. And we all reach for the seam ripper. I remember the way I was taught to…
2 CommentsSince it’s that time of year when people here in the U.S. start thinking about what to do with their tax returns, I thought I’d…
Leave a CommentTake a look at the seam in this skirt from an Indian wedding that my boss turned up…
2 Comments…without anyone looking at the finished tab and asking if you were drunk and wearing mittens when you sewed it. I mean, everybody “knows” that if you want to bind rounded tabs you just have to use bias tape. Like, duh. But be honest with me – how well does that action really work when you try it? Between you, me, and the interwebs, when I try to machine bias onto a rounded tab in one swell foop, it usually looks poo. But a miracle happened last week, and my brain kicked in. There’s a little bitty-bit of magic from millinery that makes the difference between the top corset (the drunken-mittens approach) and the bottom corset (so much nicer…). And it’s fast, people. It’s faster than fighting the normal Battle of the Bias…
8 CommentsThank my crazy-fabulous students over at the college for this one – they’ve got a knack for asking those incredibly important, basic questions that you stop thinking about after a while. Things like, “What’s the best way to cut so I don’t get these weird edges?” or “How close to the edge of this should I sew?” I remember asking my mom forever ago: How close should I be to the edge of my bias tape?
Leave a CommentPeople have a lot of complaints about hand sewing. The more common ones include “it’s slow” and “it makes the hurty in my wrists”. There’s actually a really easy thing you can do to help speed up your hand sewing, and take some of the strain off your wrists….
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