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How to Work with Lace Fabric
With these skills you will find that lace is versatile, forgiving, and surprisingly easy to sew.
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How to Sew with Velvet
After you get a few skills under your belt, velvet is no longer intimidating to sew.
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How to Fit a Muslin
This technique will make sure your seams and curves are positioned correctly.
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Learn How Thread is Made
Find out just what goes into making this essential notion (and our namesake).
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Make Yourself a Fitting Companion
You can make a very serviceable dress form from inexpensive and easy-to-find materials.
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Padding a Dress Form
2 commentsUse fusible interfacing and cotton batting reshape a form to match your figure.
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Create Fashionable Quilted Garments
Create soft, supple, lightweight, and shapely garments in which the quilting lines serve as embellishment and detail.
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Sewing Without Pins
1 commentThere are many advantages to sewing without pins in the way.
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Press Cloths Take Center Stage
Your press cloth collection is as useful as the most exotic iron or ironing board.
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Choose the Right Batting for Quilted Garments
Here are some tips for choosing matching your batting to your project.
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Working with Twin-Needles
Twin needles can be used to finish sporty or tailored garments or to create wild and wacky effects on almost any fabric.
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How to Sew with Sequin-Covered Fabric
Learn techniques for keeping you sane when working with sequin-covered fabric.
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Getting the Best of Gabardine
Wool gabardine is the perfect fabric to create couture garments that don't take couture time to sew.
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