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Vani's blog 1. The Quilt Show. Children's fashion workshop - sewing the styles - sewing a yoke dress. There's a moment in the process of everything that I sew, where I'm sitting with this ball of frayed edges and sticking-out strings in my lap, and I'm fed up with it and I just want to throw the whole thing in a corner and give up.

children's fashion workshop - sewing the styles - sewing a yoke dress

But every time, I sew just a couple more seams, clip, turn, press, shake it out, and oh! The thing becomes a dress. Or the pants I was envisioning. Or a shirt... 12+ Sites For Free Patterns & Tutorials! « Everything Your Mama Made & More. Today is the day!

12+ Sites For Free Patterns & Tutorials! « Everything Your Mama Made & More

The last day of my 14 days of tutorials. I hope that you have found these useful & leave you with all these sites that are great resources for free patterns & tutorials for a variety of projects. On some of them everything is free… others you need to look for the ‘free patterns’ button. Burda Style Open Source Sewing Print Sew On this site the only free patterns are the ones that you see when you click the ‘Free Patterns’ button at the top. The OTTOBRE design® Blog. Welcome to oliver + s > bound seams. Note: today we continue the series of seam finishing tutorials by April Henry that we started last summer.

Welcome to oliver + s > bound seams

Bias Binding is a strip of material cut on the bias for extra stretch and often doubled. It is used for binding hems, interfacings, or for edge decoration and is very useful for many sewing projects. Sew an Expandable Headband to Match any Outfit for Cotton Fabric. This headband can be worn in many ways.

Sew an Expandable Headband to Match any Outfit for Cotton Fabric

It's sometimes called a hair-wrap and can be worn as a wide head scarf or a skinny headband. This simple to sew headband features one area that has encased elastic, while the other area can stay pleated or bunched to wear as a skinny headband or it can be pulled out flat to cover most if not all of the head, like a head scarf. Free Directions to Sew a Long Fabric Scarf. Rostitchery: convertible/infinity dress. (this post was originally published on 29 june, 2006, with the title "one seam convertible dress".) have a question?

rostitchery: convertible/infinity dress

Please visit the convertible dress FAQ's. have you made a convertible dress? Do you want to see other convertible dresses, share ideas on how to make them, and find ways to make your convertible dress even better?

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