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Our Most Popular Interfacing Styles are NOW ON SALE...through 2/15 at FASHION SEWING SUPPLY ! (psst...you know we only have a few Interfacing sales each year... so don't miss this one ;) CLICK HERE to Shop the SALE at www.FashionSewingSupply.com INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS, please continue to use OUR ORIGINAL PAGE (click here) to place your orders, thank-you. Read Full Story
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Make your own Fusible Stay Tape...without tedious cutting or trimming! You can make any width of fusible stay tape that you may need if you have ProWeft Supreme Lightweight Fusible Interfacing on hand. It's So Easy....because ProWeft Supreme Lightweight will tear perfectly straight along the cross-grain, every single time! All you need to do to make your own fusible stay tape is to make a little snip at the selvedge edge, then tear the ProWeft Supreme Light across the width of the yardage... Read Full Story
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In this tutorial I am going to demonstrate how to refine the shape of a typical "straight-line" Yoke and Back of a commercial Shirt pattern. The differences between shirts made from most commercial sewing patterns and my custom-made shirts are often quite subtle, but deliver a big impact on how the shirts look when worn. The shirts I draft by hand have yokes that lay smoothly along the upper back and shoulders with no bunching or ripples. The seam that joins the yoke to the back is... Read Full Story
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OH BOY! I have a brand new really Large and Wonderful Tailor's Pressing Ham! Isn't she beautiful? As you can see...this new Ham of mine is so much larger than the ones found at fabric and notions stores. It is professionally hand-made by Sonia at The Stitch Nerd Shop ...and very reasonably priced for it's size. Oh yes, you need one of these...you really do. If you have never had a large pressing ham like this one . ..well...you don't know what you've been missing. The long length of... Read Full Story
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There are many weeks of cold weather ahead...please spread the word about this free pattern. I am going to make one for the man who "lives" under the porch of the American Legion in my town. PATTERN and INSTRUCTIONS available at Carol Kimball's Site, HERE PATTERN and INSTRUCTIONS available at Carol Kimball's Site, HERE This information came to me by way of Kathleen at Fashion-Incubator In Kathleen's words: Carol Kimball and Carol Phillips (they refer to themselves as the Carols so I will... Read Full Story
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While I am taking some time off from Blogging to take care of some personal business, Here is a repeat of one of my most popular Tutorials..... Block Fusing is a method that many modern tailors and home-sewists use to apply interfacing to fashion fabric yardage before the pattern pieces are cut out. Have you ever struggled keeping the interfacing layer from slipping off-grain as you attempt to fuse it to your fabric yardage? Next time, try this fast, easy, and accurate method that I learned... Read Full Story
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Happy Holidays to my blog readers and all of our wonderful customers at Fashion Sewing Supply ! Roger and I are thankful for so many things...including that among all the choices in your busy lives, you *choose* to shop with us. Thank-you, we truly value your patronage...so much that we decided to roll Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday into one Big SALE! From now through Monday, 11/28...Our most popular styles of "wide-width" Professional Grade... Read Full Story
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A funny thing happened on the way to making my newest "hide the neck scars" Cowl tunic....I scooped the neckline way too low! Uh-oh! I had to think of a way to "fill it up" with the collar, because I didn't have enough fabric to cut another front. In fact, by the time I discovered that the neckline was too low, almost the entire garment was sewn...sigh :( Luckily, I remembered a cowl variation that I used to teach years ago, when my family owned a fabric store...The "Knotted" Cowl... Read Full Story
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As promised, here is a tutorial for making a cowl collar that has been "Spiraled" so that it drapes in lovely gentle folds that hide the neckline seam, rather than just "flopping down" in the front. On a recent garment, I showed you the Spiral Cowl Collar on a drapey Rayon knit fabric...this blue one is made from heavy cotton/lycra knit Velour. There may be other ways to make a Spiral Cowl...this is how I do it... (Click on any Photo to enlarge) Start with any basic knit top garment that has... Read Full Story
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Yes, I sewed for myself again! Yes, it's yet another Cowl-neck tunic! But before you think I am being redundant please remember: It's autumn, and I live near Buffalo....brrrr I have more than one ugly neck scar to hide. This version features a applied cowl collar that has been "spiraled" before being sewn to the neckline. I love how a Spiral Cowl always drapes in nice even folds and covers the neck seam...rather than just "flopping down". Do we all know how to "spiral" a cowl ? If you... Read Full Story
