Merry Kitchen Accessories to Sew - Sewing
Sewing with holiday cotton print fabric can brighten up your holiday kitchen. There are so many holday fabrics to choose from. Just visit a local fabric store or look online to see a festive collection of fabrics. All lend a cheery feel to the ... [... more]
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Sew with Summer Tropical Flair - Sewing
Short of a trip to Hawaii, adding the accent of tropical prints to your outdoor patio furniture or even to your kitchen décor can evoke the sense of a vacation in your own home. Add the elements of a tropical style to your décor and the hot [... more]
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Piping - Sewing
Piping is really a covered cord enveloped in strips of usually bias cut fabric. Much more than a decorative outline, piping can add strength to a garment or pillow edges, ease the wear and tear of sofa and chair cushion edges and add shape and ... [... more]
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Sew a Gingerbread House - Sewing
Sew a three dimensional gingerbread house out of fabric, batting and bits of rick-rack trim, then lightly pad with batting and use as an ornament to decorate a tree or add to a gift basket. You can also attach an optional pocket and insert a gift ... [... more]
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Book Review - Vogue Sewing - Sewing
A classic guidebook since 1970, Vogue Sewing, now fully revised and updated for today's sewer, by Sixth & Spring; Books, 2006, is a wonderful resource book for the sewing enthusiast. Whether you are a novice sewer with a need-to-know how and now, ... [... more]
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Cheery Holiday Kitchen - Sewing
For those that observe Christmas holiday traditions and as the season of crisp December days once more come upon us - here's hoping the beauty and enchantment of these times bring joy and peace for you and yours now and throughout the year. The ... [... more]
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Coiled Fabric Baskets - Sewing
The oldest known baskets have been unearthed in Upper Egypt where radiocarbon dating have shown them to be between 10,000 and 12,000 years old. Our ancestors needed and made baskets as carrying vessels and containers. Basket making survives in ... [... more]
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The Serger - An Overlock Sewing Machine - Sewing
Sergers are a type of sewing machine that sew incredibly fast, have loopers instead of bobbins that overcast the seam edge, knives that cut the fabric cleanly, and one or two needles. They are compact and portable and do most of their sewing on ... [... more]
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Sewing Resolutions - Sewing
As we reach the end of the year, tradition allows us time for looking back to the past, to see what has happened, to reflect on the coming year, and what goals and aspirations we may choose to make for New Year Resolutions. How we resolve to make ... [... more]
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Fabric Wreaths to Sew or No-Sew - Sewing
Wreaths can be made of just about any kind of material however the savvy crafter knows themed fabric for the holiday occasion or precious scrap fabric can easily be fashioned into a charming fabric wreath. Purchased 12" straw ring (leave plastic ... [... more]
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Pincushions to Sew - Sewing
Long a staple of a woman's sewing box, pincushions have served as more than a handy place to coral leftover pins and needles. Dating back over 40,000 years, needles were first made of wood, bone and ivory, later out of brass and bronze in the ... [... more]
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Sewing Machine Thread Jams - Sewing
You have threaded your sewing machine needle and bobbin carefully in preparation for a new sewing project, you begin to sew, and for some as yet unexplained reason, the machine thread balls up and jams in a tangled unsightly mess on the underside ... [... more]
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