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Sewing Tips: Installing a Basic Zipper

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Sewing Tips: Attaching Buttons with a Sewing Machine

  Don’t you love realizing there’s a faster way to do something?   [If only there was a faster way to potty train a snarky little 3 year old boy who tells me it’s not time to poop (or pee for that matter) in the potty yet.  While I was changing his messy diaper yesterday, […]

Sewing Tips: Basic Stitches (plus the Double Needle)

  . Sometimes all it takes is a visual picture to understand what some of these sewing terms and words are. Basting, stitch length, zig-zag, double needle…….do those words sound like crazy talk? Yes?  Well, let me explain.  And then you won’t get nervous when seeing those words in the future. . First of all, […]

Sewing Tips: Attaching Snaps

. Sometimes I forget that not everyone knows how to do something or is familiar with a technique. Like attaching snaps, for example. Snaps are easy, easy, easy.  And can be used instead of buttons/buttonholes (if you hate sewing those), hand-stitching something into place (which takes time), or because a pattern calls for them. I […]

Sewing Tips: What is Selvage, Bias and Grain?

. Sometimes fancy words are used in an online sewing tutorial or in store bought patterns. And unless you’ve heard them used before……they probably sound like a big ‘ol mess.  And may really frustrate you.  Uggh. So, just to get a few very common sewing terms out of the way, here’s another little ‘sewing tips’ […]

Sewing Tips: Pre-Washing

. The holidays seem to have treated many of you very well. I have heard many of you say that you received new sewing machines, silhouette’s, sergers, and/or sewing tools of some sort for Christmas.  Or for Hannakuh or Three Kings Day, etc.  Whatever the occasion………..Hooray!  And with that has come many questions in my […]

Sewing Tips – Clipping Corners and Curves

. Looking for the Wordy Bird giveaway?  Scroll down or click here.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sometimes the simplest little technique can really polish off your project. By taking an extra moment or two to finish something off right, you will start to see […]

Sewing Tips: Gathering and Sewing With Knits

I know, it’s been a while since my last sewing tips. (Click here for other basic sewing tips.) But many of you asked about the stitch that I used with this shirt. Remember how I explained at the bottom of the post that I asked my mom about sewing with knits and she mentioned that […]

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