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Sewing Clothes

Shopping Guide: How to Pick the Right Dress Form

This quick guide will help you decide which kind of dress form is best for your needs and answers some of the basic questions such as What are the differences? and What should I look for? Guest post by Cara Pierce from The Shop Company. […]

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Sewing Clothes

How To Sew A Dress Shirt Collar

Sewing a dress shirt collar can be a little confusing, especially if you’ve never made one before. It’s not helpful when a pattern named for its simplistic approach to sewing leaves you with more questions about how to properly construct the pattern in the first place! So, we’ll show you how to attach a dress shirt collar using Simplicity 4760 as a guide, though this technique can be used on any similarly styled collar. […]

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Sewing Basics

How to Lengthen or Shorten a Sewing Pattern

Adjusting pattern length is easy to do on purchased patterns from one of the more popular pattern companies such as Mccalls, Butterick, Vogue, and Simplicity, but these tips can help you to lengthen or shorten ANY sewing pattern. […]

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Beginner Sewing Projects

How to Transfer Sewing Pattern Markings

If you are going to sew anything, the chances are likely that you’ll have dots, squares or lines that need to be traced onto your fabric. But these markings are there to help you sew your project! Knowing how to transfer them properly can make all the difference. […]

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Sewing Tips and Tricks

The Dangers of Sewing – Part 2 of 2

Those of you who have more than a week’s worth of sewing experience will probably read this article and nod in agreement. Beginners would be wise to consider that there are potential dangers, as there are with many things in life, that are possibly inevitable, but also avoidable. […]

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Sewing Tips and Tricks

The Dangers of Sewing – Part 1 of 2

Those of you who have more than a week’s worth of sewing experience will probably read this article and nod in agreement. Beginners would be wise to consider that there are potential dangers, as there are with many things in life, that are possibly inevitable, but also avoidable. […]

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Sewing Basics

What belongs in Your Sewing Kit?

The following items should be present in any sewing kit. These are the absolute essentials. Over time, you will be able to decide what you need more of (if anything) and what can go away but overall, these are the most important items. […]