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Replace Your Ironing Board Cover – Free Sewing Tutorial

A step-by-step photographic sewing tutorial by Patchouli Moon demonstrating how to sew a replacement ironing board cover. Sewing your own ironing board cover allows you to choose the fabric and create a more durable ironing surface for your sewing. Replace Your Ironing Board Cover – Free Sewing Tutorial Sewing and pressing tips and tutorials! Ironing with Distilled Water – Benefits Video: Teach Yourself to Sew: How to Iron Video: How to Recover Your Ironing Board Topic: Sewi

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Sew a Memory Lane Pillow Top – Free PDF Pattern from One Thimble Patterns

Inspired by Amy Butler’s Belle fabrics, Karen Roark of One Thimble Patterns designed this unique pillow top and shares her free sewing project in PDF format with us. The Memory Lane Pillow Top can easily be sewn from strips of your favorite scrap fabrics or a with a jellyroll. A Memory Lane Tote Bag pattern is also available. See more about The Memory Lane Pillow Top – Free PDF Pattern See more from One Thimble Patterns Find more beauty and sewing inspiration at ialwayspick

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Sew a Celebration Bunting! – Free Project by Karen

One of my nieces asked me to sew some bunting for her sister’s birthday present, to decorate her backyard for the summer. As always for me it’s choosing the fabrics and how to arrange them that takes a lot of the time, but she wanted red and white so that simplified matters! My fabric stash provided plain red, white spots on red and red and white gingham. I like to make a matching storage bag with a hanging loop, in the hope the bunting will be folded up neatly and put back

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There’s a Better Way – Sewing Tips and Techniques from Threads

A free web-only video series by Threads Magazine “In this free web-only video series, Threads Executive Editor Judith Neukam shares quick sewing tips, tricks, and techniques to help you sew smarter, better and faster. Visit ThreadsMagazine.com for more expert sewing techniques, tips, and inspiration!” Episodes in this sewing series: Use a Bill-spike to Stabilize a Thread Spool Make Your Own Tailor’s Pressing Tool Quiet Serge Double Your Tape Measure Prevent Disappearing Ink f

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How to Sew an Easy-to-Sew Reversible Vest / Waistcoat

Alison Lockley shows us how she sews an easy vest together with this free video tutorial! “This is a reversible vest/waistcoat. The pattern is made by drawing around an old shirt. It took me about three and one-half hours to sew – including feeding toddler mid-way through. If you took your time and used lighter and more suitable fabric I think you would get a much better result.” – Alison Lockley Waistcoat by Karen Related sewing projects: Simple Circle Vest Pattern – Free P

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Comfort Bralettes – Sew Easy!

A playlist full of free sewing tutorials to show you how to sew a bralette in a variety of styles and sizes. Watch now: More like this: Nursing Sleep Bra: The Tutorial (with pattern) 3 new comfort bras in 45 minutes More at SWN: Easy Sewing: Underwear – Annika Victoria’s Free Tutorial The Jordy Bralette Sewing Project with Emerald Erin Watch Gertie Sew the Harlow Pajamas: + FREE Beginner Sewing Pattern! Learn How to Sew Shorts – a Free Video Tutorial from Teach Me Fashion Nin

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Three Easy Pant Styles to Sew – No Pattern Required!

Sew Chic Sweatpants! Sew chic sweatpants the easy way, check out this free DIY tutorial using an existing pair of sweats that fit as your pattern. You can subscribe to pinkchocolatebreak here! Advertisement How to Sew Wide Leg Pants – EASY BEGINNER SEWING TUTORIAL “Super easy beginners sewing tutorial for my wide leg palazzo-style pants.” – Nadira037 “One trend that has caught on recently is that of palazzo pants. A tad different from the very comfortable harem pants, palaz

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Free Sewing and Quilting PDF eGuides to Download!

Free eGuides to Download: These wonderful free sewing and quilting PDF eGuides are available exclusively on Craftsy, packed with tutorials, tips and tricks from sewing and quilting experts. Download instantly for free now (you can even print it easily if you’d like) and enjoy it forever in the comfort of your home or even on the go. A $4.99 value! Enjoy! Sara and Susan eGuide: Sew Stylish Pillows – Simplified! eGuide: Save Those Scraps! A Scrap Quilting Handbook eGuide: Geni

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Fitting Tips That Will Change the Way You Look At Garment Construction

A Whiteboard Sewing Tutorial by Chris White demonstrates three tips for garment fitting, sewing and pattern making. “Let me know what questions you have about Pattern Making and maybe I’ll make a video answering your questions! You can also get my free PDF, The Handy Patternmaker’s EBook with updated links, showing you exactly what tools you need to get started making patterns and where to get them.” – Chris White Advertisement: Plus-Size Pattern Fitting & Design related sewi

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Refashion a Bra + Sew an Easy Cascading Nightie

With her fun and concise teaching style GiannyL shows us how to create a beautiful cascading nightie using an underwire bra and some tulle. This is an easy sewing project you could complete in a few hours with sewing machine experience. Make sure you check out Nylon & Dress Tulle Fabric – The Differences + Tips, Tricks and Video Tutorials before you hit the fabric store. Sponsor related sewing projects at SWN: Nursing Sleep Bra: The Tutorial (with pattern) Rosy Bra Sewn Ou

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Felted Wool Hearts + Hand Blanket Stitch with Quilty

We love Quilty videos! They are fun, well produced and feature relevant projects for quilters of all skill levels. This video tutorial from Marianne Fons and her Mom demonstrate how to make a felted wool heart and includes the hand blanket stitch around the edges. Learn how to make these felted hearts from start to finish at SWN right here. related sewing projects: How to Create a Heart Quilt Block Reverse Applique Pleated Heart Pillow by V and Co. Sewing Tutorial: Heart C

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Sew a Mini Pin Tote – Free PDF Pattern from Poorhouse Quilt Designs

Stitch this pincushion resembling a tote bag with this free PDF from Poorhouse Quilt Designs. This little pincushion is a sweet gift for a sewing or quilting friend, and sew one for yourself. Click the link below and you can download the instructions for this cute pin cushion from there: Free Pin Tote Pincushion Instructions PDF Pattern from Sew Together For your sewing room: Tooly Tool Holder Easel Pattern from Sew Together “This tool holder is the result of needing someth

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You Can Sew a Textured Designer Pillow – Free Video from Cynthia Dickerson

Sewing Texture Class – Advertisement This is a fun decorative stitching technique demonstrated by Cynthia Dickerson using a ruffler foot attachment to make a luxurious designer-look pillow. Cynthia created a way to use a ruffler foot to make ruffles the whole width and length of your material. This pillow finishes with a very sophisticated style that you would expect to be complicated and tedious to make. Cynthia explains that we can use any sewing machine for this technique

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Create a Portable Sewing Kit – Free PDF Pattern from Handmade Harbour

This DIY sewing kit can sit on your knee in the tightest of spots such as bus or train seats, and can provide a little tiny desk for small sewing or needlework projects! Wendy Massey designed this sewing kit to fold easily and neatly back to an A5 size when your travel ends or you’ve finished your sewing. A free PDF sewing pattern to download and enjoy! Create a Portable Sewing Kit – Free PDF Pattern from Handmade Harbour Get the Portable Sewing Kit – Free PDF Pattern Relat

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Christmas Sewing and Quilting Projects, Patterns and Tutorials – Ongoing Holiday Round-up!

Stay tuned for updates! Submit your Christmas Sewing Project posted at SWN! SWN User Name(required) Email SWN Page URL (required) Image Title(required) Comment about your project: Submit Δ #ChristmasSewing #sewing #pattern #sewingtutorial #applique #epattern #holidayquilting #PDF #apron #ornament #stockings #tutorial #fabric #holiday #treeskirt #Christmasdecorprojects #mugrug #Christmas #celebrate

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Beginners Baby Changing Mat – Free PDF Sewing Pattern from So Sew Easy

A free PDF sewing pattern for a smart-looking baby diaper changing pad that includes storage pockets for a package of baby wipes, a few diapers, and carries as a clutch or handbag. A multi-style pattern in a satchel style with handle, or a clutch style diaper bag. Deby Coles who designed this baby changing pad rates this as a confident beginner sewing pattern and explains that the vinyl wipe-clean pad is easy to sew. Your vinyl should not stick to your sewing machine or

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The Little Red Hens Hooded Play Cape – Free DIY + PDF {+ Tips for Cutting Slippery Fabric}

Lynn Harris of The Little Red Hen shares her pattern and a description of how these versatile play capes for kids go together. These capes don’t have to be sewn with slippery fabrics. You can create them using winter fleece, athletic fleece, or any woven fabric that is warm enough for your little one and has some sort of soft drape. If you still want to use satin or anything slippery and you’re hesitant to cut, watch the videos below to possibly save yourself hours of frust

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How To Cut and Sew Fall Leggings with Jocelina of PinkChocolateBreak

If you don’t want to draft a pattern from an existing garment, So Sew Easy offers this pdf sewing pattern and tutorial for “real women’s” leggings. At last ! Leggings that are guaranteed to fit you perfectly – because they have been made to your own personal measurements. And with the unique tools from So Sew Easy, it’s easy to do! #PinkChocolateBreak #stretchfabric #cutting #knitfabric #sewing #pattern #sewingtutorial #seweasy #beginnersewing #PDF #tutorial #fabric #knit #e

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How to Cut, Press, and Sew Pleather – Design School with Nick Verreos

An excellent video with Nick Verreos demonstrating how he cuts, pins, presses, and sews, with pleather. There are some very good tips! Artificial leather is also called leatherette, faux leather, naugahyde, and pleather. It’s all synthetic fabric. #pressingpleather #synthetic #fauxleather #pinning #glue #sewing #sewingtechniques #cut #leatherette #faux #fabric #leather #seam #sew #NickVerreos #naugahyde #artificialleather #garment #pleather

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Upcycled Tunic from a Sweatshirt – Free Sewing Video Tutorial

“In this video, I’ll be showing you how to turn a sweatshirt into a long tunic. This is the first part in a two part series showing you how to turn a sweatsuit in to a maxi-length skirt suit with a long ruffled skirt and a matching tunic top.” Paganelli Tunic with Bravo Fabric Tunic Sewing Tutorials & Projects: Photo: Paganelli Tunic with Bravo Fabric Video: How To Make A Stylish Beach Tunic Video: Create A Short & Sexy Vintage Tunic Topic: T-Shirt Tunic – Reconstruction Vide

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