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Tutorial: Basic needle-felting overview - FIBER ARTS Lets start needling --- Make a needle felt ball - to store your needles or to use as a bead. Step 3 ------ Organize your tools and fibers Step 4 ------ Start needling A good first project for both getting the feel of the needle, the fiber and developing your needle style is making a ball. One with a final size of a ping pong or golf ball, or at least a big shooter marble. I know, I know it isn’t flat - but still it is the place to begin, you will spring on to flat and to 3D easily after making a ball. Different Shades of Green: Eye Pillow Tutorial Remember when I said I had a 'not so last minute, aka I'm a giant procrastinator, DIY Homemade Christmas Gift'? Well, here it is, even later than I expected! ;) I wanted to make eye pillows for my yoga students, that they could use in the final resting pose, or that they could keep at home and freeze for headaches, puffy eyes, allergy relief, etc. What I didn't realize was how many regular students I have accumulated!
Seven Essential Sewing Skills Tasia from Sewaholic and Sewaholic Patterns wows us with her incredible style and sewing skills. Her blog is one of our favorite daily reads! Have you seen all of the gorgeous versions of her Lonsdale Dress out there on Flickr, Pinterest and your favorite blogs, all sewn up this past summer? Tasia inspires, and teaches along the way too; she is a fabulous resource for sewing techniques and more on her blog. We asked for some of her favorite tips for essential sewing skills and she shares them here today. Enjoy!
Free Clothes Patterns Posted on | October 9, 2008 | 7 Comments I originally became interested in patternless sewing, many years ago, because I had a hard time finding patterns in my size. Nowadays, patterns in large sizes abound. Nonetheless, I still love my pattern free sewing. These patterns generally of three types. Best Sewing Blogs - Madalynne - A Sewing Blog In 2014, I hosted the first Sewing Blogs Awards as a way to highlight the incredible sewists who put so much time and effort into sharing what they make, and to provide a resource/list of current sewing blogs, bloggers and companies according to skill, personality and category all in one place. Even though we are all winners, these sewists get extra recognition. I’m really thrilled that I was able to do this for the 3rd year in a row, and that this year had the most responses to date.
Tutorial » Handmade Felt Toys I really, really, really wanted very small felt beads for a couple of my felted projects and I finally had the time to practice my wet felting skills. About 30 or 40 attempts later and I’ve got a working method. As a result, today’s tutorial is wet felted beads! The washing machine works great for larger wet felted balls but tiny beads under 1/2 in. don’t really work well using that method. Needle felting doesn’t work well either, unless you want bandaids all over your fingers! So, wet soapy, possibly dishpan hands are necessary to complete this task!
Star-Burst Pintuck Pillow Cover - Tutorial I think the most intimidating thing about pintucks is that they are all usually uniform. Whether on a pillow or shirt or wherever, you see them in nice, neat, even little rows....but they don't have to be neat or even or intimidating. Here's a fun little project for you to get started with pintucks. We're going to be creating a fun pillow cover that looks clean and neat and we are not going to measure our pintucks at all...HOW CRAZY IS THAT?...it's not crazy..it's fun and creative and full of whimsy.
Panty Tutorial: How to make your own drawers Well folks I think I have been talkin' about this tutorial for about a year, so I finally pulled it out. There are millions( ok maybe not millions, but a whole heck of a lot) of variations and add ons but I was trying to do the simplest one first. Materialsthreadsewing machine1 yd stretch elastic or fold over elasticpaper for pattern(paper bag or newspaper)scissorsold t shirt or any knit materialpair of underwear to cut and make pattern from Make your knickers !! 1. SEW Hip! Slouchy Slippers...completed! SEW Hip! Slouchy Slippers (issue 20) have been made... The SEW Hip! pattern is advertised as a beginner's pattern, and I wholeheartedly agree. The Slouchy Slippers are
Tunic with Gathered Shoulders Loose, light, and breezy, we designed our linen Tunic with Gathered Shoulders for the dog days of summer. And with just four easy-to-cut rectangles and a handful of straight seams, you’ll be done sewing in time to enjoy these days! We used Purl Soho’s new whisper-weight Handkerchief Linen, a 100% pure linen weave that comes in a palette of summery hues, including this lovely Pale Pink. We topstitched our Tunic in luminescent neon orange for a combination of light and bright that radiates a warm glow, just like summer itself! -Corinne
Roundup: Seam Finishing Techniques Seam finishing is a very important part of sewing. The inside of your garment should be as lovely as the outside. Why? Because finished seams not only look professional, they keep the edges of your fabric from fraying.