Sarah J. Doyle | February 18, 2009
If your sewing business has been mostly “simple” things because you’re afraid to do tailoring, read the following tips and practice them, and before you know it, you’ll be able to add additional sewing to your business.** Make all marks for notches, darts, grain lines with darning cotton — it has a tendency to stick [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | February 17, 2009
The decision on what type of content to place on a website is usually always made by people within the company. While it is important for a company’s stakeholders to determine how much and what type of information to put out there for visitors to their website, it is even more important that they give [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | February 16, 2009
If you’re like us, there really needs to be at least 48 hours a day in order to get some stuff done!However, since we only have 24 hours, part of which we really do need to sleep a little, do housework, cook, take care of kids’ activities, our own activities and errands, etc, we decided [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | February 15, 2009
There are many uses for old jeans, and I found a cute jeans organizer that might just help keep the kids’ room a little bit cleaner. It’s one of those “wonder why I didn’t think about that” kind of projects. Sometimes things are just “too easy” and we either overlook them, or try to over-complicate the [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | February 14, 2009
We’ve talked before about the many uses for buttonhole elastic, one of which is for making those pants fit for your small skinny toddlers. Deanna at DeannasStuff blog has a short, to the point, tutorial about how to use the buttonhole elastic in a pair of children’s pants. How about that for a finished buttonhole elastic [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | February 13, 2009
America’s favorite plastic sweetheart turns fifty this year and she has never looked better! According to the new book, Barbie and Ruth by Robin Gerber, there was much resistance to developing such a grown up doll. Ruth Handler, a co-founder of Mattel along with her husband Elliot, wanted to create a sophisticated doll to replace [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | February 12, 2009
A national movement encouraging people to buy handmade goods whenever possible, instead of shopping for mostly imported goods at big box stores, is allowing many people to earn income from their hobbies. This is a tremendous boon to people who need to work while staying at home with their children, and for those who simply [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | February 11, 2009
Pleats are merely folds in the fabric that provide controlled fullness. Pleating may be a single pleat, made as a cluster, or around an entire garment section. Basically each pleat is folded along a specified line, generally called the foldline, and the fold is aligned with another line, called the placement line (see the diagrams [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | February 10, 2009
Alison Lewis’ first book, “Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sew”, daringly combines technology with fashion and home decor. The book is brimming with battery operated clothing and accessory projects like an illuminated skirt (see cover), a pillow with a headset for a cell phone, a bag that blares music and a wriggling cat [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | February 9, 2009
I’m sure most everyone has something special that they make, or do, that gets compliments from all who see them. You might make the prettiest, one-of-a-kind baby quilts, or because of the shortcuts you use while sewing, you can make clothing garments faster than anybody else!I can see the smiles already — you’re thinking about [...]
