Button Placement
17 commentsFind the perfect button placement to prevent a gap at the front of a garment.
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Add style and flair with pleats
38 commentsIn a recent 'snoop' shopping trip I was noticing a series of pleats at the waist areas in blouses, shirts, and lightweight jackets.
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A Call for Closures: Send Your Stories to Threads
We're looking for reader essays about sewing to end each issue on a personal note
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"Raster" Prints and Images to a Giant Scale
1 commentPlay with a program that enlarges images in a big way
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Piping adds a special touch to your sewing
3 commentsPiping is an embellishment you can add to just about every garment or home décor pattern to take it up a notch.
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Project Runway is Back with Company
2 commentsFashion, sewing, and lots of competition keeps us watching and wanting more.
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Do you know the way to Puyallup?
5 commentsThis Threads editor will be hitting the road later this week to attend the 2009 Sewing & Stitchery Expo in Puyallup, Washington. If you haven’t got this amazing event on your radar, then you should. This consumer sewing trade show is a sewer’s paradise, and they’re celebrating their 25th anniversary to boot.
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