Sewing

Hand sewing is important, even in the age of sewing machines. Mend your clothing seamlessly using this easy to learn and execute technique.Contributor: Caitlin SeidaPublished: Mar 17, 2010  

Open house attracts crowd to quilt showParkersburg NewsThe displays include quilting, weaving and knitting as well as a collection of antique sewing machines and toy sewing machines. Brenda Wentzel loaned her ...and more »  

Casey of Casey's Elegant Musings shares her tips for how to handle and use vintage sewing patterns. If you like to sew with vintage patterns, you know they can be quite fragile in their original state. Or maybe the...  

Considering that sewing is supposedly a relaxing pastime, isn’t it odd that the very first step in the process – threading the sewing needle – can be so difficult? That’s exactly what Minnesota inventor, Pam Turner thought and that’s why she designed the Spiral Eye needle. It’s a sewing needle that allows the user to simply slide a looped thread towards the needle eye where it is caught and then pulled into the eye. Easy, stress-free and so...  

Vedanta Aluminium Limited, Lanjigarh with an objective to enhance the livelihood of tribal families, provided 40 Sewing Machines to 20 Tribal Women groups for leaf plate making. The sewing machines were distributed by Dr. Mukesh Kumar, Chief Operating Officer of VAL in a function, attended by about 300 Dongria Kondh Women on April 18, 2009 at Khemdipadar village (Trilochanpur GP).1 Vote(s)  

Nifty little tutorial to spruce up your home. Link to tutorial. Similar Posts: how-to: save sewing patterns with fusible interfacing | tutorial: scrap covered clipboard | how-to: photo blocks with wrap | how-to: make a dresden plate block using a wedge ruler | tutorial: reusable snack sack | Share and Enjoy:  

Sewing together music: designer and techno-textile artist Lara Grant constructs music with a modded sewing machine and Max. Lara is one of the artists playing Handmade Music in New York next week; stay tuned here for more behind the scenes of what those folks are doing. Photo (CC-BY-SA) See-ming Lee. Before evolutionary adaptation comes mutation. Some [...]  

SEDALIA — Barbara Clark and MaryAnn Jensen spend about 10 hours piecing together each quilt at their sewing machines. They rarely meet the children who receive the blankets, but they hear some of the stories from Judy Hyman, Sedalia Elementary School counselor. She gives them to struggling students. read more  

Brother model CS-6000i computerized sewing machine features LCD screen for stitch selection. Many other desirable features including a wide variety of built-in utility, decorative and heirloom stitches each with multiple stitch functions. The CS6000i offers maximum flexibility to express your creativity for garment construction, quilting, decorative, and heirloom sewing. Also features 7 styles of 1-step auto-size buttonholes, super-wide 7mm...  

On a cloudy day in late February, light trickles in from the dirty and broken windows of the former textile mill. It spreads across the structure, illuminating the hundreds of square feet of space that stretch across the building, floors that once anchored hundreds of sewing machines tended by children and teens who likely spent hours hunched over them, sewing buttonholes and stitching sleeves.  

Bring a smile and a sewing machine to the Conant Free Public Library, 4 Meetinghouse Hill Road, Sterling at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 23. Learn to make a retro tie bag with zipper. Registration is required; drop in or call for a supply list, 978-422-6643.  

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Shakopee High School eighth-grader Ramon Sanchez III finishes another pillowcase for ConKerr Cancer Feb. 26 in the junior high family and consumer science classroom. Sanchez volunteered to help make the pillowcases for classmate Bennett Olupo’s English Honors 8 independent study service project. Read more about Olupo's project, as well as other service efforts.  

Baby Lock 1500 Sewing Machine bobbin problem? The bobbin thread on my machine looks like a zig zag stitch when I am straight stitching. The top thread looks great. It has been in for the same repair 2 years in a row and each time the technician declares the problem is solved and it [...]  

Tutorial: Buttoned tab-top curtains · Leave a Comment · Sew4Home gives step-by-step instructions for making a set of tab-top curtain panels. Button embellishments give the appearance of tabs that are buttoned around the curtain rod. ...