A professional seamstress. Isabel has her own video blog where she shares her experience about all the aspects of sewing – from choosing suitable materials to step-by-step instructions on how to sew a summer skirt.
The understitch is a straightforward sewing skill that will help make the garments you create look more professional and put together. It is a skill that is especially needed if you plan to sew dresses or shirts that need a solid and special neckline.
An understitch can be done with a sewing machine easily, but it ...
Both fleece and wool look the same at first glance—or at the very least, awfully similar. If you’re getting into making your own clothes, printing on clothes, or are simply curious about what the differences and similarities between the two fabrics are, read on! Spoiler alert, there’s more to them than meets the eye.
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Cotton remains one of the most popular fabrics in the world. Its use can be dated back nearly 7000 years ago, when ancient Egyptians used the material in many of their ornate fabrics. Still today, cotton continues to be a preferred textile for many ...
Sewing can be, well…sew exhausting. Whether by hand or by machine, it's time-consuming, and sometimes what (or who!) we sew for can be tiring. Whether we're making the next greatest piece ever known to the fashion world, or we're making a Christmas gift, we're spending all of our energy on hoping the ...
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There are sergers out there with a community as robust as the Janome 634D. That’s because of its popularity with both professional and beginner seamstresses who love the simplicity and robustness of this serger.
All these features are meant to make the Janome 634D serger very beginner-friendly. It ...
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The name Janome is these days synonymous with sewing machine excellence. Aside from traditional sewing machines, the brand produces sergers, embroidery machines as well as hybrids that incorporate both sewing and embroidery capabilities. Their Coverpro series, on the other hand, are ...
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The Juki-Mo-1000 is an incredibly lightweight serging machine, coming in at 23 pounds. It has the standard serger machine size and there’s nothing really fancy about its design. The first glance at it is enough to tell you that the machine only means business, which pretty much all you need in a ...
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Even though the Singer Futura XL-400 is a very capable sewing machine, most people buy it for its extensive embroidery functions. It is the most affordable sewing and embroidery machine that comes with multi-hoop support, over 250 embroidery designs (and room for custom ones), twin needle ...
Overall Serger Performance
Surely at first glance, the Janome 7933 seems like a basic serger. However, even on this basic model, Janome has stuck to what makes it one of the top manufacturers on the market. This simple machine continues the manufacturers' culture of creating top-notch machines.
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Brother SPE800 Embroidery Machine Review
The Brother PE 800 is an embroidery machine with some of the great features you see on the top-of-the-line machines. But you're not going to pay a top-of-the-line price for this machine. You can modify your patterns by rotating them, creating a mirror image, ...
