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Monthly Archives: May 2016

Sewing Advice for Beginners – 3 Tips

With The Sewing Bee back on our screens, many people may feel inspired to start sewing. I’ve put down a few bits of useful advice for beginners or those who’ve had a long break from sewing and might feel they need a bit of a refresher… Choosing a pattern Many of the patterns out there are classified as ‘easy’ or ‘very easy’, but to make sure they are truly suitable for complete beginners, I have a few extra words of advice. Look to see how many pieces there are to the garment: a T-shirt pattern with 3 or 4 patten pieces will be much quicker to make than a ‘very easy’ dress that has several pieces or a lining. I once had three friends come to learn to sew together, two of them had very simple shift dresses with bias faced edges, and their friend had chosen a pattern also described as... read more


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