Browsing the archives for the Sew-along category
This months free tutorial is partly inspired by the Skirts special in Cucito Spring 2013, my kids, and the Great British Sewing Bee! Yup! you heard me right. I heard so much about it but had given up hope of watching it since it is not showing on TV here. But luck would have it, [...]
Finally, the tutorial is up! It’s terribly late by my own standards because I was planning to release this on Monday but it’s already Wednesday. I tried to do something different this time and got too ambitious, but I think the results are worth it! First of all, the tutorial is really more of a [...]
I said this would be up on Monday, and now it’s Tuesday, almost Wednesday. What happened, was that I had to do a little housekeeping on my mac as I was running out of space on my startup disk, and to my horror, all my previous backups disappeared because of some spotlight indexing issue. I [...]
The final post fo Back to School sewing month, as promised, will be a free sewing tutorial + patterns + video. The project I have chosen is a cross back apron!
Finally as promised, the fleece jacket with free patterns, step by step photos and a sewing video! Unlike the previous few sew-alongs, I didn’t announce this before hand, because I just wanted to post it here for anyone and everyone to read and sew whenever they feel like it. It really doesn’t matter when you [...]
Final day! Are you looking forward to finishing it up? Just two more steps. STEP 7 Now we need to gather the outer/surface fabric skirt.
Today we will attach the pockets to the outer/surface fabric dress and sew the necklines+armholes.
Good morning! Today we will start making the balloon dress. Before we begin, I’ll just make a quick explanation about the terms. The balloon dress is basically made up of two dresses. One wide dress on the outside (referred to in the instructions as dress in surface fabric/surface fabric), and one inner dress (referred to [...]
Today we will finish the bag! Yay! 1. Iron on the interfacing to the long strips (handle strips) by aligning the pieces down the middle. Set aside for later. 2. Taking one of the shorter strips, pin it to the top opening of the bag, as shown below. 3. Sew 1cm from the top edge. [...]
Japanese sewing books+fabrics addict. Sharing whatever I know (and still learning) about Japanese sewing books+patterns.
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