This past week was a busy one with alterations. Prom season can be crazy and hectic for everyone involved, but do not forget your smaller neighborhood seamstresses and tailors when you’re out shopping for the perfect outfit for the evening.
Hiring a Seamstress – FAQ
I have been asked multiple times by people inquiring about hiring a seamstress. These include using small shop seamstress services or having small run manufacturing done using an outside seamstress. Hiring a seamstress can be tricky. I want to take
Iron Recommendations
With the plethora of features available on the wide variety of irons, how do you know what is right for you? These iron recommendations are from individuals with a varying levels of sewing skills. They are people just like you.
Select your cutting board
There are a lot of ways to cut your items out and there is no right or wrong method. Some methods are more efficient than others, but not everyone will find the method the most efficient for them. Due to
Sewing Scissors Recommendations
So you are going to sew If you are going to sew, the chances are you will need to purchase a good quality pair of sewing scissors before you get started. I suppose that you could pay someone to cut
Go purchase a sewing machine
This post is to focus on specific sewing machine information – which one to buy. This is ENTIRELY UP TO YOU! You have to make a decision on what features mentioned in the post about sewing machine types and features:
Sewing Machine Features
If you want to learn to sew, it is ideal to own a sewing machine. I emphasized that when learning to sew, it could be a very simple machine. Let me reiterate again, you do not need a fancy machine
I want to learn to sew, where do I start?
I have been asked a lot lately, “I want to learn to sew, where do I start?” First, I would like to say that getting started is not that hard nor does it need to be expensive. I personally feel
Another day at Kathy’s Needle and Thread
This is not exactly a mood board post, but due to the nature of my ability to get to the long-arm studio, I am working away at getting projects finished. It is unfortunate that we are not going to get
Another quilt on the long-arm
Today we are visiting the long-arm quilting studio at Kathy’s Needle and Thread. I arrived in the Houston area Sunday evening. We will be here for at least today. We are trying to finish quilting 4 quilts. Unfortunately, yesterday we