Sewing Tips

Seam Allowance Guide by Hollie

Have you seen this? No longer do you have to measure and trace around each individual pattern piece. Hollie has invented a great solution, the Seam Allowance Guide, which will do it for you while you cut out your fabric!!!…

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Rudolf’s Saturday sewing class

Rudolf kindly sent me images from todays ‘Traditional Tailoring Techniques I ‘ sewing class. It looks like they are compiling a great folder with samples of all the essential basic techniques for sewing eg. applying a zipper, seam and edge…

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Weekend workshop sewing classes.

Rudolf has had a few enquiries from out-of-towners from Queensland and Victoria wanting to do his sewing course. So, he has now scheduled an intensive course for the end of May. The whole five weeks’ worth of study in two…

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Garment Fusing Service in Surry Hills

When interfacing jackets or coats that require lots of pattern pieces to be bonded with fusing – this task can be very time consuming , not to mention the frustration of having the interfacing start to bubble if it has…

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Tips for cutting out delicate fabrics.

Meet my brother Tony. He is a professional cutter and here he is cutting out Silk/Rayon velvet. It’s more luxurious and alot drapier than the cotton velvet variety. The best way to cut light and delicate dress fabrics like this…

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Think TWICE cut once

YES! you guessed right….I cut out the fronts and back going in different directions to the nap of the velvet. The funny thing is that I have evidence of it ( with the photo below) and it didn’t occur to…

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What NOT to do when cutting velvet

Today I wanted to do a post about how to cut and fuse a jacket. In this case, I was using a velveteen cotton that I have been saving for this winter. In my haste to cut the fabric and…

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