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Sarah J. Doyle

Are You Afraid To Tailor?

February 18, 2009 by Sarah J. Doyle Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Denim Jeans Organizer

February 15, 2009 by Sarah J. Doyle Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Buttonhole Elastic Tutorial

February 14, 2009 by Sarah J. Doyle 1 Comment

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 […]

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How To Make Pleats

February 11, 2009 by Sarah J. Doyle Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Pin Cushion Tutorial

February 1, 2009 by Sarah J. Doyle Leave a Comment

I just LOVE pin cushions!  I’ve seen several “pin cushion swaps” — of course when I see them they’re just about completed.  I WILL get into one of those swaps just for the fun of it.And speaking of pin cushions, I found a great little tutorial on making a pin cushion — of course if […]

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Make Crafts From Your Fabric Stash!

January 25, 2009 by Sarah J. Doyle Leave a Comment

We’ve talked on previous posts about saving your scraps, and I’m hoping that you’re saving not just the BIG scrap pieces, but also the smaller ones.  The smaller pieces I usually put all together into a small plastic box since they don’t take up much room, and you just never know when you’ll get into […]

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