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Tips and Tricks

12 Tips for Sewing Napped Fabrics

Napped fabrics tend to be bulky, creating some sewing challenges. Here are 12 tips for success when sewing napped fabrics:

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Tips and Tricks

Easy Swimwear Fabric Sewing Tips

If you’re frustrated with swimsuit shopping, then it’s time to make your own! I love sewing and teaching swimwear and I have easy tips to help you successfully dive into sewing your own suit. Best of all, Coats and Clark has a marvelous new thread, Eloflex, to make your swimsuit...

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Pattern Tutorials

T-Shirt Pattern Hack

Welcome Lori Harder! Lori is a designer who creates projects for Coats & Clark, FreeSpirit and other companies in …

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Pattern Tutorials

Mug & Snack Mats

Make these fun, mug & snack mats to warm up a cold winter afternoon! A mug of hot chocolate and a warm cookie, an …

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Beyond Basics

Use Hand Stitching to Add Unique Style

Sometimes a garment needs just a little something and easy, simple Hand Stitching adds unique style! What you may know as …

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Beyond Basics

Grand Openings: In-Seam Buttonhole

If you avoid garments that require buttonholes because you think they’re scary, fear no more. Making an in-seam buttonhole …

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Tips and Tricks

Edge-to-Edge Seaming

When is a seam really not a traditional seam? When it sewn edge to edge. This is called an abutted seam. The edges are abutted and the adjacent pieces are sewn together.

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Tips and Tricks

9 Tips for Sewing on Leather

Sewing on leather, whether real or faux, can present some challenges, but with these tips, you can achieve professional looking results.

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Tips and Tricks

Master the Perfect Quarter Inch Seam

“Stitch with a quarter inch seam.” Sounds simple doesn’t it? So, why are we often sobbing at the sewing machine while piecing our blocks? Beginners, if you’ve found yourself throwing your mis-shapen blocks across the room, this may fix your problems!

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Tips and Tricks

Selvage Surprises

Selvages are those colorful finished edges you find on woven fabrics—a curiosity to some, and a source of inspiration to others. As sewers, we often hate to waste any little bit of fabric, and saved selvages can become the beginning of some fun projects.

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Pattern Tutorials

Team Spirit Zippered Poncho

Cheer on your favorite team and keep warm at fall football games in this cozy Zippered Fleece Poncho. A Coats …

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Pattern Tutorials

Stitch Up a Fabric Cuff

What’s more fun than ordinary jewelry? Fabric cuffs that ut …