Patterns, Techniques, Articles, Blogs, and other resources to learn how to sew
Jars filled with handmade recipe mixes make great Christmas presents for the neighbors, coworkers, teachers, and friends on your gift giving list. Linda from Craftaholics Anonymous guest blogs at Skip To My Lou with a tutorial showing how to make… Read more ... 
Jill from Made It On Monday guest blogs in the Handmade Dress Up series at The Train To Crazy with a tutorial showing how to make a yoda costume for a baby. May the force be with your cute little… Read more ... 
Katy from No Big Dill shows how to make her Fisherboy Shorts – long shorts that are gathered on to cuffs at the hem. Her tutorial shows how to alter a basic shorts pattern, and then how to sew it… Read more ... 
Contrasting piping is a good way to add a pop of color to a sewing project, though the selection of prepackaged piping at the fabric store tends to be less than inspiring. Jess from Bits for Babyand Craftiness is… Read more ... 
Sachiko from Tea Rose Home guest blogs at Tater Tots and Jello with a tutorial showing how to make her She Wears Flowers embellished cardigan. She started with a plain cardigan and added a bouquet of colorful dimensional fabric flowers. … Read more ... 
Disney from Ruffles and Stuff shows how to make a simple rosette embellished tee. The rosettes are easily made from stacks of circles cut from fabric sprinkled around the neckline of a plain tee. Lovely! Get the tutorial.
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RosMadeMe shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to make a woven ribbon throw pillow cover. The mix of colors and textures and sizes of the different ribbons creates a lovely pillow front. On the back, a simple tie… Read more ... 
Ashley from Make It and Love It shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to make a football-inspired shirt for a little boy. The appliqued numbers and mock shoulder pads look just like a grown-up jersey, but they’re sewn… Read more ... 
Anshu from Blooms and Bugs shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to make her little girl’s Military and Lace dress. She used a lightweight khaki sweater knit for the body of her dress, with accents in gathered sheer… Read more ... 
Lauren shows how to make a Jack-o-lantern bag over at her blog, Adventures of Lauren. It’d be just the thing for the kids to use for all of their trick or treating candy. Get the tutorial.
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Kat from Just Crafty Enough shows how to make a stylish zippered tote – without actually having to insert a zipper. Instead, she uses a zippered throw pillow cover for the body of the purse. The zipper is already installed,… Read more ... 
Allison from Toile Good Things and It’s Toile Good kept losing the lenscap to her fancy DSLR camera, so when she was making a new cover for her strap she came up with a way to attach the lenscap to… Read more ... 
Head over to the Fabric.com blog for a tutorial showing how to make a simple pencil pouch. Made from squares of fabric and using only straight seams and a button closure, this is a good project for a beginning sewer. … Read more ... 
RosMadeMe shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to make turn a make a button jar to give as a gift. She shows how to add a puffy fabric topper to a glass jar to turn it into a… Read more ... 
Fall is here, and with it football season. Bonnie Ferguson from Fishsticks Designs shares a tutorial at Sew, Mama, Sew! showing how to make a stadium blanket with a carrying bag that also happens to be a seat cushion. Brilliant! … Read more ... 
