How to Lengthen or Shorten a One Piece Swimsuit Pattern
One of the most common problems people have with one piece swimsuits, whether buying or making a swimsuit, is the length of the body! If you have a long torso, [...]
How to Add Angled Mesh Inserts to a Leggings Sewing Pattern
Do you love leggings? How about leggings with ADORABLE mesh inserts?? Ok, I have been seriously wanting a pair of leggings with mesh leg inserts for ages, but I finally [...]
How to Use a Double Needle on Your Regular Sewing Machine
I looooove sewing knits. They are definitely my go-to for wearing and for sewing. Most ready to wear knit tops, dresses, swimsuits, skirts (and more!) are hemmed with a coverstitch [...]
How to Make a Sewing Pattern out of a Shirt
Last week I showed you how to make a sewing pattern out of a worn out shirt by cutting it up, which is a bit easier than this method. You [...]
How to Copy Your Favorite Shirt (Destructive Method)
So I've had this shirt since probably middle school... and I'm pretty sure I got it as a hand-me-down at that point too... so if I do the math, it's [...]
What you need to sew beautiful swimwear
Swimwear is one of my favorite things to sew! I know it may be scary to jump into the world of sewing swimwear. But it can seriously be so much [...]
How to Sew a Bias Bound Seam
Today is the final installment in my seam finishes miniseries! Last week we talked about Hong Kong seams (check out that post HERE) and this week we're moving on to [...]
How to Sew a Hong Kong Seam
Today we're moving on to the next part of our seam finishes miniseries. Last week we talked about flat felled seams (check that out HERE). This week we're going into [...]
How to Sew a Flat Felled Seam
Today I've got another installment of our miniseries on seam finishes. Last week we talked about french seams (check out that tutorial HERE). And this week we are moving on [...]
How to Sew French Seams
Today's post is the first installment of a mini-series I'm doing on seam finishes. And first up we have french seams! This is one of my absolute favorite seam finishes. [...]