Welcome to part five of my bias binding series! This one is all about making up your bias fabric strips into actual binding using the...

Welcome to part four of my bias binding series! How to join fabric strips for bias binding. If you are following along with my bias...

Welcome to part two of my bias binding series! Here you will learn how wide to cut bias strips for different widths of binding. The easy...

Welcome to the final part of my button series: How to make a fabric covered button Take your piece of fabric and identify which area you...

Welcome to part 8 of my button series. Here I'm showing you how I use my Janome Atelier 7 sewing machine to sew on a button. Select the...

Welcome to part seven of my button series. This part is all about accurately marking your button and buttonhole placement using an...

Welcome to part three of my mini button series! I had a button come off one of my cardigans so I filmed a little tutorial about how to...

Welcome to my January mini series on all things buttons! This one is all about how to sew on a button with four holes. Hope it's...

In previous blogs I have written about how to set yourself up for sewing – how to thread your needle , how to wind your bobbin , how to...

Its that time of year again when thoughts turn to spooky goings on, thinking about whether I have enough sweets in the house to give to...

One of the first dressmaking pattern alterations that you might want to do as a beginner dressmaker is to lengthen a skirt pattern. This...

Anyone who sews, especially dressmakers, will know that its very rarely possible to use 100% of the piece of fabric that you have bought...

Now that we have wound our bobbin and threaded our needle, we are ready to sew a seam! This is actually more straightforward than you...

I’ve previously written about how to wind your bobbin and the next step in setting up your sewing machine is threading.  So in this post...

One of the first things you need to do in order to start sewing is to wind your bobbin.  This means transferring some of the thread from...

Once you have been sewing a while, you will probably start to accumulate lots of ‘things’! Fabric, patterns, sewing tools, bits and...

I mentioned in my last post that I would write a tutorial on how to add beading to a plain top…..so here it is! This is a great way to...

Everyone has one piece of clothing in their wardrobe that fits them like a glove and they never want to get rid of! My version of that...