Dressmaking

This blog post gives you 10 common sewing mistakes that make your garment look homemade, which is not a good thing. HANDmade doesn't have to look HOMEmade. Sew clothes you'll be proud to put your name on by eliminating these 10 mistakes.

A paper-tape dress form is the easiest and cheapest of all.

How to Make an Easy Dress (For Cheap!): Two facts about me: I'm cheap. I love dresses. I wear dresses probably 6 days out of the week. It's not that I one day just decided to wear dresses to feel cute and girly. Far from it. I spend a lot of time sitting at home, knitting, crocheting, …

It can get frustrtating when your favourite clothing gets too tight on your body - Here are some tips to alter them to make them looser.

remove darts and waistband of small skirt

Do you have a favorite T-shirt you wish you could re-create in a different color or another knit fabric? Here's an easy, step-by-step method to reproduce the style and fit you love.

Greetings my friends and a big Aussie hello to you all today. I hope that you learnt a new fitting technique from the previous post How to Lengthen Your Back Rise in relation to the new Harper Pants Pattern. For today’s post I am going to share with you the method on shortening your front [...]

The Hana Tank + Dress Pattern features the bias binding method of finishing the neckline and armholes. While this method is a great scrap buster, the first few times you try it might be frustrating. It takes practice and a little patience to make sure all those seams lay flat with no puckering.

Learn how to sew a narrow hem (easy even on chiffon) using a ban roll tape. You will like this video sewing tutorial on how to sew a rolled hem on chiffon without a special rolled hem foot.

This is a post on where to buy fabrics. As you might know by now I source my fabrics from all over the place. Here are a few of my favorite places. This post on where to buy fabrics online. Buy fabrics online eBay I have recently bought lots of fabulous fabrics online in which […]