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Not Your Traditional Patch Pocket

The key to sewing a very flat patch pocket is where you place the interfacing and how the fabric is folded and sewn.

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How to Cover Snaps for that Touch of Couture

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When large snaps are called for, covering them with fabric takes your project to another level.

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Hemming a Pleated Skirt

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Here's a tip or two for hemming a pleated skirt. While most of the hem is straightforward, the back edges of the pleats need to be treated differently.

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Five Blogs We Love

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The Internet is full of great sewing resources. Here are some sites that we find especially helpful and informative.

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Sewing with the bobbin thread

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When making tucks or darts in transparent fabrics, this trick will enable you to end the stitching line perfectly!

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What provides your greatest sewing inspiration?

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What makes you want to sew? Fabulous fabric? An incredible embellishment technique? A too-pricey ready-to-wear garment? An event that requires the perfect garment? Or simply a creative design evolving in your mind?

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Winner of the Summer Sewing Challenge

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Find out who expressed themselves in linen and took home the big prize in our Summer Sewing Challenge.

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How to Form Slotted Seams

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Make a wonderful finish for a center front, center back, or just about any straight or curved seam you want to call attention to.

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What's Your Favorite Non-standard Sewing Machine Foot?

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Some feet are must-haves, some are fun and frivolous, and some are just not worth the time and effort. Share which feet you can't live without.

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Piping adds a special touch to your sewing

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Piping 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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Enter the Summer Sewing Challenge Today!

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Check out some of the amazing entries in our Express Yourself in Linen Challenge. Think you can do better? Go ahead and enter!

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More on A Moveable Waist from Threads Issue #144

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Author David Page Coffin expands on creating an adjustable waistband

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Tips on Sewing with Linen

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This article by Susan Khalje will give you an edge on creating a linen garment for our summer sewing challenge: Express Yourself in Linen, and get you that much closer to winning a new serger from Janome.

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Check out the new issue of Threads

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The latest issue of Threads (August/September 2009) hits the newsstands today!

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Join the Threads Summer Sewing Challenge and WIN!

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Express yourself in linen by August 17th and enter to win the new 1100D serger from Janome.

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Create Perfectly Mitered Corners

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If you love precise, crisp edges – this technique is for you.

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How to do a Fell Stitch

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The fell stitch is used to appliqué one layer of fabric to another.

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Where Do the Threads Editors Buy Their Fabric?

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Threads does its fabric shopping in some fabulous shops, where do you shop?

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The Classic White Shirt Designer Challenge Continues...

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The Cloth Merchants host their own Classic White Shirt Designer Challenge. Check out their amazing white shirt designs.

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On Fitting Sleeves

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Your favorite off-the-rack fashions hold the secret to perfectly shaped sleeve caps and armholes.

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