Browsing the archives for the sew-along tag

Free patterns, how-to-make and my first video tutorial

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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 [...]

Sew Along 2 – The Balloon Dress – Day 3

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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.

Sew Along 2 – The Balloon Dress – Day 2

Today we will attach the pockets to the outer/surface fabric dress and sew the necklines+armholes.

Sew Along 2 – The Balloon Dress – Day 1

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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 [...]

Sew-Along Day 1 – The Granny Bag

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It’s the first day of our sew-along! Before we begin, I just wanted to go into some details on interfacing and fabric cutting. Those of you who have already made bags and are expert sewers, please bear with me or just skip this section and jump ahead to the pattern! Interfacing Interfacing is something like [...]

My First Sewalong!

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One of the great suggestions from the Mother’s Day Book Giveaway was to have a sew-along. Originally, I wanted to do a sew-along that will use pattern from a Japanese sewing book so that we can go through the entire process of deciphering the instructions together . However, it will be hard to decide which [...]

Winner of Mother’s Day Book Giveaway

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who participated in the giveaway. The winner of the first book giveaway is Sumi! Sumi, I will be contacting you via email soon For those of you who didn’t win, there will be more giveaways throughout the year so remember to check the site often. I will [...]