Sarah J. Doyle | March 21, 2009
Here’s a project that every child would love to have. Make the clown bean bag from scraps that you have in your sewing room, using a combination of stripes, prints or solids. The collar can be made out of dotted swiss or organdy fabric, with yarn pompoms added for feet hands and one tied around [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | March 20, 2009
Kim Ellis-Durity quit a successful career and quit smoking a decade ago to make a change in her life so she became a fitness instructor. On her way to getting fit, at 200 pounds and five feet nine inches tall, Ellis-Durity had trouble finding fashionable, comfortable workout clothes that fit her.She felt ignored and frustrated [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | March 19, 2009
Neal Way was a truck driver for ten years when the ever increasing price of diesel fuel caused him to look for a different line of work. Way says he learned all about sewing and design from his mother, that she drafted her own patterns and made it look so easy that even “a dummy like [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | March 18, 2009
Buttonholes for a bodice or shirt can be placed in a horizontal or vertical direction ( typically horizontal buttonholes are used for blouses, and vertical buttonholes for shirts).For blouses, the first buttonhole is usually strategically placed at the bust level and the other buttons are spaced up and down from this point; the spacing is [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | March 17, 2009
Just a week ago most of the United States did the annual “Spring Forward” with our clocks for daylight savings time, so the question of today is “are you ready to Spring Into The Festival Season?” There are thousands of folks who have been preparing for the festival season to start because they make the [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | March 16, 2009
WOW! What a strange title for a post! However, I believe all of us in the sewing / crafting fields have done that very thing — just didn’t call it by those words. Sometimes we “make do” by putting things together that weren’t called for on the pattern because we forgot to get all the [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | March 15, 2009
I love pin cushions, and there are so many tutorials on making various styles and types that it was hard to pick just a few to pass along to you.This “pin cushion caddy” takes first place in my book! You can easily place sewing items inside the caddy and have all your pins / needles [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | March 14, 2009
With windy weather and warmer days coming right up, I thought I’d devote this post to making head bands and hair clips. Whether you have long or shorter hair, the wind whips it around and you end up with a face full of hair. Here are a couple of projects you can make to use [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | March 13, 2009
What a strange title for a post you might be saying. As I’ve learned from previous experiences (my own and those we deal with on a day to day basis) – it is very EASY to talk about what we’ve done in the past that has helped bring our businesses to the point they are [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | March 12, 2009
With the economy as it is, many people are now wanting to learn how to sew in order to cut expenses, as well as wanting to learn how to do alterations so they can “keep” their current wardrobe as long as possible.As an experienced seamstress, there can be a lot of profit for YOU because [...]
