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Overcome Your Fear of Online Fabric Shopping!
Take the risk factor out of buying fabric online with my tips and shopping sources!
Tips for Choosing Fabrics for Quilts
Learn to choose fabrics for your quilts with confidence!
How to Actually Finish Your Sewing Projects
If you have too many WIPs lying around, there’s hope! Read on for my tips on becoming a finisher.
Free Motion Quilting || A Beginner's Guide
Conquer your fear of free motion quilting with the tips and tricks in this video tutorial.
Ways to Make Money Sewing
There is more than one way to make money sewing! Think outside the craft fair box and learn my favorite ways to earn an income with your sewing skills.
How to Make Quilting More Affordable
Is quilting an expensive hobby? It doesn’t have to be!
Tips for Buying and Using Vintage Sewing Patterns
Last year I scored three boxes full of vintage sewing patterns on Facebook Marketplace for some crazy price, like $10 for the whole lot. I had the best time going through them and picking out what to keep, what was too mouse eaten to touch (ha!) and what to pass along to the next lucky seeker of vintage patterns at a thrift store somewhere.
6 Surefire Ways to Get Your Sewjo Back!
Have you ever wandered listlessly into your sewing room and wondered what happened to your sewjo? Or maybe you’ve wanted to sew, but just couldn’t seem to get started, couldn’t even see your cutting surface, or just didn’t have the materials you needed? If that’s ever described you, I have some tips for how to get your sewjo back!
Flower Power Pillow Tutorial
My teen daughter spotted a pink velvet flower shaped throw pillow in a photo somewhere recently and asked if I could make one for her room. Um, of course I could! I made her a velvet flower pillow AND THEN I went on to design a patchwork version using the fat quarters I’d just received from my Annie’s subscription. I loved how it turned it so much that I went ahead and perfected the pattern piece, filmed a tutorial for YouTube, and added the printable PDF pattern for these cute flower pillows to my shop, so you can learn how to sew a flower pillow too!
Tips for Sewing with Burlap (Plus Project Ideas!)
Recently I designed a doll clothes pattern that includes a sun hat and market tote, which I really wanted to try making out burlap. Burlap is a fabric I had never sewn before! So there was some trial and error involved, but by the time I was finished with the pattern, I had written down several tips and tricks for sewing with burlap, so I’m going to share those with you today. I’ll include things like what needle to use, how to finish those raw edges so they don’t unravel, plus the thing I did very WRONG when I first started, ha!
AND, since doll hats and bags hardly take any fabric and I have quite a chunk of nice burlap left over, I set out to find more projects I can make with burlap, so I’ll post those burlap sewing project ideas here too.
Is Sewing Expensive? My Tips for Sewing on a Budget
Sewing doesn’t have to be an expensive hobby. Although you can definitely save money on certain types of sewing like home decor, you might find you can’t make your clothes for as cheap as you thought you could. Today I’m going to share some tips for making sewing cost less, so you can feed your sewing hobby, even if you’re on a tight budget!