Gifts for Stitchers

Find the best presents for you sewing friends and family members with our new guide.

Triangle pouch project

These triangle pouches make great gifts and are ideal for storing little things like sewing clips in.

New Year, New Dressmaking Plans

This is a guest post from Jayne at Loopy Mabel’s Closet. Jayne is an avid stitcher who is creating her own handmade wardrobe one garment at a time. Follow her journey on her website The Dressmaker’s Closet  or on Instagram, Facebook or You Tube. I don’t know what it is about the start of the year, but I always feel it’s time to plan my dressmaking projects for the months ahead.  It must be because it’s a new year, it always feels like a fresh start or a chance to re-evaluate the year before.  Either way it really makes me…

Project Pouch Tutorial

Project Bag Tutorial This large project pouch will easily hold the fabric and pattern for your next project, or your works in progress. Why not make several because let’s face it we never just work on one project at a time! I’ve designed the pouch to showcase some of your favourite scraps, but if you wanted to you could just use a single fabric front and back and show off a large-scale print instead. Materials 1/2m of fabric for the exterior. I used a grey linen. 1/2m of lining fabric. I used a grey blender. A selection of scraps…

Using washi tape when sewing

  We have decided to start selling a range of pretty washi tapes as washi comes in so useful in so many ways when you are sewing. We’ve round up our favourite uses for it below, if you have any others please do comment and let us know.   To hold pattern pieces onto fabric when cutting out If you have issues with you pattern pieces shifting whilst you are cutting out, or don’t have pins or pattern weights to hand simple use washi tape to hold them into place whilst you cut out. To label fabric pieces Help…

Pattern Storage Envelopes

I cannot tell you how long I’ve been looking for a simple, stylish way to store my sewing patterns! So I am stoked to bring you our newest product.. The Pattern Archive Envelope. Study, stylish and with room for you to get creative. No more struggling to get your sewing patterns back into the original envelope.  Best of all is the opportunity to add the pattern artwork to the envelope! A chance for a little creativity! [responsive][/responsive] I’ve always found storing my sewing patterns a bit of a challenge. I tried a few solutions before we developed our storage…

Project Planning Tips

Spending a bit of time planning your projects out can help to save you time and stress in the long run. Sometimes it can be hard to decide what to make next, so many ideas and so little time! Our tips below will help you focus and prepare for future craft projects.

10 Top tips for beginning a new sewing project

Pre-wash the fabric, yes I know, you wish you’d done it yesterday I know, but it must be done. Trace your pattern pieces, mark the tracings up with the size and all the little notches you need. Your original pattern sheet can be folded and put back pristinely ready for you to trace another size at a later date. Cut out all of your fabric pieces, if you’ve got some sticky labels or masking tape make a little name label for each piece, that way you know what it is and there’s the added bonus of remembering which is…