Sewing bags, coats, jackets, shoes, or hats for example, usually requires thicker materials such as leather, wool, canvas, rexine, etc. If you’ve already tried making these, you know how difficult it can be to pass a needle through them. Yet, ...

Every now then we all like to feel a little bit French, and by that, I mean stylish and well dressed. However, what the French are also good at when it comes to fashion is making small, simple things look ...

So you’ve bought jeans that are slightly bigger at the waist and the store won’t take them back, or you’ve lost a few pounds and now your favorite pair of jeans require a bit of adjusting. There are several ways ...

Maybe you’re a newbie on the sewing machine, or an experienced sewer looking for a better strategy to thread a needle on a sewing machine. Many sewing machines have mechanisms to do this automatically, but maybe you have a retro ...

Quilting helps you relax, have fun, and perhaps make something nice and useful. Most people practice quilting with a hoop for improved accuracy and a hands-free approach, that reduces the stress on your hands. However, if you plan on having ...

I can not stress enough how important it is to learn how to cut fabric straight especially if you plan on sewing it. There’s no fabric project I can think of that doesn’t involve at least one straight edge. Cutting ...

A hole in a leather couch is one of the most common issues in leather furniture households. There are many activities that can put your leather couch in danger of getting a hole: pets (especially while they’re still babies), smoking ...

Roses are considered one of nature’s most beautiful flowers, and they come as perfect decoration on many occasions thanks to their simple yet elegant looks. Fabric roses look amazing as a dining table decoration, on your bedsheets, and you can ...

Ripped jeans are a controversial piece of clothing. Some can carry it like it was only meant for them and on others, they look like, in T. S. Eliot’s words, “a silk hat on the head of a Bradford millionaire”. ...

During the first months of the pandemic, when we were self-isolating, we didn’t get a chance to wear our jeans. To be more precise, we didn’t even get the chance to take off our pajamas – we endlessly doom-scrolled in ...