This is a guest post from Sewingland.org, a website that provides reviews of sewing machines and accessories. Monogramming is the ideal way to make an item of clothing unique. In this way, you’ll be able to sew your initials into the fabric. By getting a monogram machine, you’ll…
This post contains affiliate links. Sewing woven fabrics, like cotton and polycotton, is without question easier to sewing with knits. A big part of this is because they don’t stretch and they hold their shape. There’s no need to faff with the settings on your sewing machine, and…
Fabric baskets are always useful. In fact, any kind of basket is useful! This DIY fabric basket is quick and easy to make, and is a perfect way to use up fat quarters bought on impulse that have never been used. And being something that you make yourself,…
This post contains affiliate links. A mild annoyance in my life is my ironing board. I’m not one for ironing. I belong to the “give a good shake and it will be fine” school of laundry! Hubby wears casual clothes for work so does’t need nicely ironed shirts,…
This is a guest post brought to you by Top Sewing Machines UK. There is no better time than right now to practice a new hobby. Why not try sewing? Sewing is relaxing and meditative, and at the end of a project, you could end up with a…
So last time I showed how to draft a skirt pattern from your own measurements, in preparation to make a Spanish style skirt from the dress Nicole made on The Great British Sewing Bee. The post is here if you missed it. If you don’t want to make…