Patterns, Techniques, Articles, Blogs, and other resources to learn how to sew
Amy from Positively Splendid shares a free pattern and tutorial for making a classic cuffed Christmas stocking. You can get a variety of looks – whimiscal, traditional, luxe, modern – depending on the fabric you choose. Get the pattern and … Read more ... 
Sew Much Ado made a ruched Christmas tree skirt, and she shares a tutorial showing how she did it. The ruching creates pretty puddles of fabric around the base of your tree. The ruching is actually pretty easy to do… Read more ... 
Sew4Home shows how you can make an insulated casserole carrier. Make one for yourself so you can carry your favorite recipe to a potluck, or make one to give as a gift. Get the tute. [photo from Sew4Home]
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Maureen Cracknell Handmade is hosting a giveaway for The Intrepid Thread, with their Sun on Sea fat quarter bundle to give away to one of her readers. It’s a custom bundle of 17 fat quarters by various designer prints… Read more ... 
Lisa from A Spoonful of Sugar shows how you can sew up a pretty pillowcase. It has a white front, a contrast cuff and back, and a flap on the inside to cover the pillow. This would make a great… Read more ... 
Jessica from Scrumdillydilly shows show to make a dreidel garland out of old neckties. It turns out that the pointed end of the necktie makes a perfect dreidel point. She uses the skinner part of the necktie to make the… Read more ... 
Jennifer Brasher from Two Butterflies shares a tutorial showing how to make a fabric lunch sack out of a jeans leg. It’s lined and has boxed corners so the bottom is flat. A simple button and elastic loop make the… Read more ... 
Do you have a tea lover on your holiday shopping list? Connie from ReFabulous shows how you can make a pretty patchwork teapot trivet, with matching teacup-shaped coasters. She made them with pretty patchwork designs, but they’d also be nice… Read more ... 
Liz from Simple Simon & Co. shows how to make her Any Occasion Skirt for little girls. It’s a simple gathered skirt, but with a ribbon threaded through buttonholes stitched around the hem and tied into a pretty bow. You… Read more ... 
Sheri from Awesomesauce, and author of Confessions of a Refashionista
(check out my review here), shows how you can create a cool new bag for yourself using a pants leg and a vintage necktie. Go to her blog … Read more ... 
Gretchen Hirsch from Gertie’s New Blog for Better Sewing shares a tutorial over at Coats & Clark’s Sewing Secrets blog showing how you can use tailor tacks to transfer pattern markings on to your cut fabric. You can use them… Read more ... 
The Petite Sewist shows how to make this pretty pleated skirt for your Christmas tree. She made hers out of a muslin with a bright red trim. The simple lines show off the pleated trim around the hem. Go to … Read more ... 
Confessions of a Refashionista
: Life on the Zig Zag
is a collection of 50 DIY fashion projects. It’s brainchild and self-published book by Sheri Pavlovic from Mensch T’s and the blog Awesomesauce. She’s pulled some of her most… Read more ... 
Susi from Lilla Luise guest blogs at Wild Olive with a free pattern and tutorial for making a pair of Christmas elf hand puppets. Love!! Get her pattern and the how-to. [photo from Wild Olive]… Read more ... 
Simple Simon & Co. shows how to insert an invisible zipper into a lined bodice. The zipper tape ends up in between the lining and the bodice fabric, making a nice clean finish on the inside and outside of the… Read more ... 
