Until today, I KNEW about the benefits of sewing machine maintenance, such as: But I had never actually EXPERIENCED a maintained sewing machine. I’ve been sewing for 9-10 years on the same machine, majority of my sewing being in the…
Author: gillylin
Soooooo I found a swimsuit at Walmart and l really wanted to buy it, but when I showed a picture to my husband, his response was, “so are you gonna make it?” I had never made a swimsuit before and…
Have you ever needed to rebind your own book? I had an old but much loved Bible that had lost its cover a long time ago. I had thought of getting it rebound, but I never got around to figuring…
In the free motion stitching class that I took in the fall, we made fabric leaves and a candle holder for autumn décor. I loved this, as I didn’t have any decorations for fall, and felt my home was lacking….
Gathering the photo to stitch Apparently you can print digital images onto plain, thin fabric using your home printer. You just tape or glue a piece of printer paper underneath so it feeds properly, and you make sure your piece…
Dabbling with watercolor crayons I took a class on how to do free motion stitching and our fourth assignment resulted in a beautiful journal cover. In order to get inspiration for this piece, each of the students in the free-motion…
Creating Unique Fabric for Craft Projects One free motion stitching project is to create your own fabric. To do this, lay down a piece of mesh. Then find pretty fabrics and trims and threads in a color scheme that you…
It’s been a goal of mine to learn how to do free motion stitching. Mostly, I’d like to use it on a project I have in mind for a Christmas tree skirt. But I’d also like to do some free…
I did it! I figured out how to create matching patch pockets so that they mirror each other nicely. You can do it too! I used a couple pieces of tear-away stabilizer. I drew the first image (a hand-written “G”)…