Authors

The rotary cutter is a fabulous invention. It makes cutting fabrics quick and easy. Unlike traditional fabric shears or scissors, the rotary cutter saves wear and tear on your and wrist. Many sewing enthusiasts have discovered the ease and efficiency o...

How Do You Choose The Right Stitch And Properly Adjust It? How To Adjust Sewing Machine Stitches? If you include all the hand stitches, sewing machine utility stitches, sewing machine decorative stitches, serger stitches, and industrial manufacturi...

All stitches begin as a straight stitch. The straight stitch may be adjusted for stitch length to create fine, medium, and long straight stitches. The longest straight stitch is called a basting stitch. For over a hundred years, the straight st...

The air is filled with excitement. Thrills and fun are just waiting for you. Sewing offers you limitless opportunities for expressing yourself, giving you pride, and achieving untold creative possibilities. You may sew for practical purposes, and know y...

How do you sew a rolled hem? Raw edges of fabric are prone to fraying and they look unfinished. The other day, we were setting up a big party for family and friends to celebrate the soon to be birth of our seventh grandchild and our second gran...

How To Sew For thousands of years, sewing was a crucial survival skill. Men and women depended on sewing skills to keep warm and provide shelter. We often think of sewing as a woman's domain, however, in primitive times sewing was essential skill fo...

Let me tell you a story of how I learned about the most important part on my sewing machine. I had just finished teaching a beginning sewing class to a group of eight year olds. The words were still ringing in my own ears. "Never, never put your le...

What is a "yoke"? "A scant quarter"? or a "serged edge"? Maybe you can remember sitting in a group of people and wondering what language they were talking. It sure did not seam like English, but it did not sound much like any other language either...