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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Cool Jewelry, Cloth Dolls & Fabric Wrapping

As National Sewing Month draws to a close, I hope you’ve used your skills to help teach someone to sew, perhaps helped a community group like Project Linus or the Girl Scouts, and that you’ve enriched your own repertoire of sewing expertise by reading some really good books. If you haven’t gotten around to the latter [...]

Repairing Sheers, Cleaning Irons

How do I repair a tear in a sheer fabric? Fixing rips in sheers can be tricky and it’s inevitable that it won’t be totally invisible, but you can get close. The easiest way is to use a  mending product like BoNash Bonding Agent, powdered fusible, to adhere the torn edges together. When the product [...]

National Sewing Month contest update

There’s only 10 days left to enter the National Sewing Month Reuse, Remake, Restyle contest. We are receiving entries daily and I continue to be awed and inspired by the project pics that are coming in.  The contest ends September 30 and we’ll be picking the 3 winning entries by October 20. We’ll also be [...]

Sweatshirt Surprises

Who doesn’t love the comfort of sweats–they’re soft, they always fit no matter what, and they’re warm? Sweats can be dressed up with the right accessories, or simply left as-is for at-home appeal. But authors Carmen Webber and Carmia Marshall have taken sweats several steps toward real fashion in their latest book Chic Sweats. Personally, I’m [...]

Sewing Machine Invention

Did you know that September 10th is “Sew Be It” day? On this day in 1846, the sewing machine was born. Look how far we’ve come since that great invention!

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