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Sewing Tutorial: 5 ways to finish your seams

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Tutorial: 5 ways to finish your seams

Tutorial: 5 ways to finish your seams

A seam finish helps keep the edges of your seam allowance from fraying with use.  Lucy and Angela from Sew Essential show 5 ways you can finish your seams. Included are a straight seam finished with a serger or overlock stitch, a French seam, a flat felled seam, bias bound seams, and princess seams.

Click the link below to go to their tutorial:

How To Finish Seams: 5 Techniques Every Sewer Should Know, by Sew Essential

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Have you read?

Easy Cosmetics Bag Sewing Pattern

The bag is simple, uses very little fabric (about 2/3rds of a fat quarter), has no fussy inside pockets (although you can add your own if you like), and takes me well less than 30 minutes to print the pattern, cut out and sew. But quick and simple doesn’t mean it’s not awesome!

It’s the sort of bag that is versatile enough to be used for lots of applications, not just cosmetics and toiletries. Keep all your pens and pencils in order, use it for a small first aid kit for the car, keep it in your desk at work for a few headache pills and other personal supplies.

Make some for yourself, for gifts or to sell.