Sewing

With a fabric covered button kit, you can create buttons in any color or pattern.  They look like they’d be difficult to make, but they’re actually fairly easy to put together.  Awaiting Ada shares a tutorial on her blog showing… Read more ...

Tension problems are hard enough to diagnose on a regular sewing machine, but on a serger it’s  further complicated by the multiple thread paths through the machine.  Palak from Make It Handmade continues her series all about learning to love… Read more ...

Holocaust Museum Houston wants to collect 1.5 million handmade butterflies, one for each child who perished in the Holocaust.  Technique and medium are wide open – fabric, paper, clay, stitched, glued, whatever you choose – but 2-dimensional butterflies are preferred… Read more ...

Christine from Daughter Fish shares a tutorial over at Prudent Baby showing how to sew a built-in bra into the next top that you make.  It has cups, so it provides more support and more shaping than a simple shelf… Read more ...

Blue Eyed Freckle  shares a tutorial on her blog that takes a boy’s button down shirt  from average to rock star cool.  She does it by adding bias tape trim to the button placket and collar, and replacing the pocket… Read more ...