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The snaps
across the tops of these kitchen towels helps them stay in place. You can make them with a tutorial over at the Make Something blog by Dritz. They’re easy to sew because you start with a purchased towel and just add the pretty fabric top and the snaps. Makes a great wedding or housewarming gift!
Click below for her tutorial:
Sewing Tutorial: Kitchen Towels with Dritz Snaps, by Make Something
[photo from Make Something]
I’m always tempted by the pretty velvets at the fabric store. So much texture! And the way the fibers catch the light! But sewing on velvet is trickier than you’d think. That nap that lends beautiful texture also likes to slip and crawl. That nap can also spell disaster if you cut a piece the wrong direction. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t use buy that velvet and sew it into something gorgeous, you just need to go into your velvet sewing project prepared. And Melissa at Melly Sews has a post that takes you step by step through sewing on velvet.
Velvet is such a luscious fabric, especially for winter sewing projects. Of course there are velvet Christmas sewing projects – stockings, tree skirts, santa hats – but velvet is beautiful for all winter. Think of all the gorgeous velvet dresses, evening bags, hair accessories, even pillows and other home décor that you see all winter long.
Melly Sews’ post gives you the tips and tricks you need to know in order for your velvet sewing project to end up a success. There are types of projects better suited for velvets, and kinds of projects to avoid. She describes the different types of velvet available. And she also tells the best way to lay out and cut your pattern pieces from velvet fabric. Her tutorial also covers marking, pressing, and of course sewing that beautiful fabric. There’s also a video included in case that’s your preferred method for learning.
Head over to Melly Sews to learn how to sew on velvet fabric.
And if you want to learn more about that lovely blue velvet dress shown, she has a post that tells more about it including 2 ways to style it depending on if you want to be more dressy or more casual.
[photo credit: Melly Sews]
Very frustrated with your website. I see no place to set up an account only the offer to log in. I have signed up to receive your weekly newsletter but again no where to set up an account. I want to download directions for a project and can’t with out a user name and password.
Hi Meredith, We do not have a membership program for you to log into, so the issue is not with our site. The article location has changed and that website is now a login site. I have however updated the link in this article to point to the archive pages, not all the content will be there, but hopefully enough so you can sew the pattern.