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Sashiko and Double Gauze Quilting
Hello friends! Oh my goodness I’m so excited to share this latest project with you today!
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Yo-Yo Pillow Tutorial – Sewing Project
One of my favorite crafty/quilty projects is the ever classic yo-yo. I love how all it takes is a scrap of fabric and a few minutes to stitch it up into the cutest little thing, and then add that cute little thing to a project and you have something extra special.
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SWEET `N SHARP Macarons
Sweet ‘n Sharp Macarons with instructor Steve Butler Class 129 What is it? When we think of sewing, two things come to mind first. Needles and threads. They are just basic to everything we do in sewing. Historically speaking, the demands of both existing and emerging sewing technique have resulted in the development of an amazing array of modern, technologically advanced hand sewing needle styles. This basic sewing tool has evolved over the years to compliment virtually every genre of sewing specialty including general sewing, appliqué, embroidery, ribbon embroidery, quilting, upholstery, tapestry, basting, beading,…
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Tailor’s AWL
Tailor’s Awls with instructor Steve Butler Class 128 What is it? Open any catalog of sewing notions and you’ll immediately be overwhelmed. There are so many specialty tools with each designed to assist us in an incredibly wide variety of specific sewing tasks. It’s often hard to keep track of them all. There are, however, some sewing tools found within those pages that are common, even necessary, to almost everything we do in sewing. And as expected, many of those tasks involve detail work. Quilting, fashion, home décor or crafts, all are made…
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Tool School: Pressing Station
Pressing Station essentials represent the perfect, most purposeful tools for fabric manipulation at both the pressing station and the sewing table. There are lots of craft applications too.
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Shears & Cutters
What is it? Everything we do in sewing starts with cutting larger pieces of fabric into smaller pieces of fabric, before we can reassemble them again into larger pieces of fabric fitting our creative design. Fashion, quilting, heirloom, home décor and crafts, it all starts with the cut. And the more precise the cut, the more precise our finished project will be and by extension, the happier we are with what we’ve accomplished. So what do we use to make these all important cuts? Scissors and rotary cutters of course. Two entirely…
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Pick Me Up Cards! – Sewing Project
Everyone needs a little pick me up from time to time and these fabric cards are the perfect way to lift anyone’s spirits.
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Sewing Studio Essentials
What is it? – Chances are if you’re into sewing, you’ve narrowed your focus and you’re into primarily one specific genre of sewing. Maybe couture fashion and accessories or perhaps heirloom sewing. Could be you love quilting or maybe home décor is your thing. Regardless, the sewing studio associated with each will be found to be replete with all of those sewing notions that answer to specific needs of that genre. Almost. While some sewing tools will be found to be unique to your specialty, some tools will be found to be generic to all…
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Half Moon Makeup Pouch – Sewing Project
Designed by Debbie von Grabler-Crozier Sewing is fun and it allows us to add our own personal twist to something that can be easily bought in-store. Pouches are always handy and can be used to store any array of items.
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For the Love of Scissors!
I have loved scissors my whole life. One of my earliest memories in watching my Momma sew was standing next to her machine and holding her scissors until she needed them. They were “special” scissors and I clearly remember it being an honor to hold them in my tiny little hands!