A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Own Clothes
WEB1. Claire Shaeffer’s Fabric Sewing Guide is a great encyclopaedic guide to the selection, wear, care and sewing of all fabric types. 2. Sewing 101 – Workshop in a Book starts at the beginning from choosing tools to learning techniques and comes with a DVD. 3. The Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction by Christine Hayes is an essential …
The Sewing Directory
WEBA directory of online sewing shops and classes, searchable by product. Plus a local directory of sewing shops, schools and groups searchable by county. Find both directories here. We also have a great online resource with free sewing projects, technique guides and sewing features as well as details of the latest sewing shows and fabric sales.
Dealing with common thread tension issues - The Sewing Directory
WEBDealing with common thread tension issues. This extract is from Sewing for Fashion Designers by Annette Fischer, published by Laurence King. This book is a brilliant reference guide not just for fashion designers but also for home stitchers covering sewing tools, materials, construction techniques, hems and seams.
Stone Fabrics - The Sewing Directory
WEBStone Fabrics. Based in Totnes, Stone Fabrics is the place to go for a wealth of dressmaking fabrics, haberdashery including bagmaking hardware, trimmings and braids, and linings. The shop is open 10am to 3.30pm on weekdays and at …
Beginner's Guide to Wadding - The Sewing Directory
WEBTo find out more about Sew Simple Super-Soft waddings please visit the website www.eqsuk.com or call on 0116 271 0033. In this beginner's guide to wadding you will learn how to choose and use the right wadding for your quilt.
Free sewing projects and patterns - The Sewing Directory
WEBLoad More. Browse hundreds of free sewing projects and patterns on the Sewing Directory. Includes bag making, dressmaking, fat quarter projects, sewing for the home, projects for children, patchwork & quilting and much more.
Walking Foot Guide - The Sewing Directory
WEBThe Walking foot, (also referred to as Even feed, or Dual feed foot) is a presser foot that helps prevent multiple layers of fabric slipping when they are sewn together. It is commonly used for quilting, but is also useful for bag making and when sewing slippery fabrics. The walking foot works by having it’s own set of feed dogs.
Folded Star Tutorial - The Sewing Directory
WEBHow to make a folded star. Cut a square base from fabric; base should be slightly larger than desired finished size. Pencil a horizontal and vertical line and 2 diagonals on base to indicate centre of square and placement of folded triangles. Cut fabric rectangles 6.4 x 3.8cm (2½ x 1½in).
Sewing Machine Needles Guide - The Sewing Directory
WEBSewing machine needles are sized in metric and imperial. The smaller the numbers the finer the needle. The size of a needle is calculated by its diameter, thus a 90 needle is 0.9mm in diameter. Within the different sewing needle sizes are different types of specialist sewing machine needles used for sewing particular fabrics.
Ultimate guide to bias Binding - The Sewing Directory
WEBGlue the pleat into place. Wait for it to dry. Clip or pin the bias all the way round the raw edges. Make sure that the centre fold of the bias binding is exactly on the raw edge. That way the two sides of the bias will be equally balanced on both sides of the edge. You might like to swap to a zip foot.