Learn-to-Sew: Sewing Ergonomics to Avoid Strain and Injury
Sewing Ergonomics Perhaps not the most exciting of topics but it is, none-the-less, very important for avoiding strain,…
Learn-to-Sew: Top 5 Tips for Happy Sewing
I’ve talked about how to deal with frustration in Finding your Sewing Zen. Today I give you my top…
Learn-to-Sew: Taking Accurate Body Measurements
Measuring your body is important Garment sizing is confusing. There doesn’t seem to be a reliable standard –…
Learn-to-Sew: Cutting Out From Paper Patterns
So you’ve chosen a pattern you’d like to tackle. How do you go about cutting out from it?…
Learn-to-Sew: Sewing Curves
I hope you’ve mastered sewing straight seams now. How are you going on the curves? If you have been making…
Learn-to-Sew: Sewing Terms Explained
Are you confused by sewing terms? Pick up any sewing pattern and there will be terms used that…
Learn-to-sew: Five Principles for Neat Sewing
This next post in the Learn-to-Sew series gives you five principles for ‘neat’ sewing. The quality of your…
Learn-to-Sew: All About Fabric
Today we are talking all about fabric. I don’t need to tell you that fabric comes in a…
Learn-to-Sew: Ten Things to Sew with Only Straight Seams
In a previous post I linked to a few easy beginner sewing projects. Today I have rounded ten tutorials…
Learn-to-Sew: Finding your Sewing Zen (or how to deal with frustration)
Frustration – the flip-side of “flow”? In writing about the importance of sustaining creativity, I talked about the concept…