Skip the screenshots Get the proper PDF download from our shop. Set your own price (including $0). Get the Hoodie Pattern → This is the easiest hoodie pattern and tutorial I could come up with. I have tried my best to simplify the method, but still, I believe it is … Continue reading
Traditional Korean clothing has one of the longest continuous design stories anywhere in the world. The hanbok you see at a Seoul palace today, a short wrapped jacket over a high, full skirt, is recognisably the same idea painters brushed onto tomb walls more than fifteen hundred years ago. Korean … Continue reading
The first tweed I ever sewed was a heathery brown remnant I bought because it felt like something my grandmother would have owned. I made a straight skirt from it, not very well, and I still have it. If you have been asking what is tweed, and whether it is … Continue reading
If you have bought a soft, drapey tee shirt in the last ten years, you have almost certainly worn modal fabric without knowing it. It turns up in pyjamas, underwear, loungewear and the kind of top that feels wonderful the moment you put it on. And yet ask most sewists … Continue reading
This free baby burp cloth pattern makes the contoured, extra thick burp cloths new moms ask for again and again. The PDF downloads instantly in A4 and US Letter, three cloths fit on a single fat quarter, and each one sews up in about 10 minutes. It is one of … Continue reading
Of all the folk dress in this series, traditional Ukrainian clothing rewards a sewist most. The Spanish, French and German posts were largely about silhouette. Ukraine is different. The garment is the simplest shape in Europe, four rectangles and two gussets, and every ounce of the work went into the … Continue reading
Lace has been called the fabric made of air, and once you have looked closely at a fine piece you understand why. It is mostly holes, held together by thread so fine it seems impossible that human hands made it. For hundreds of years lace was worth more than gold … Continue reading
It is the question we are asked more than any other, on almost every pattern we publish. The pattern runs to a size 18 and you need a 22. Or it starts at a size 8 and you are a 4. Somebody always asks, and the honest answer has always … Continue reading
This is one of the most popular patterns we have ever published on So Sew Easy. This cute wrap dress pattern is fun and easy to make, and it looks great on. The front has a cross-over bodice with pleats, there’s a straight skirt and an optional elastic waist, with … Continue reading
Say traditional Mexican clothing and most people picture a white blouse with red roses round the neckline. That blouse is real, but it is a small corner of a very large room. Mexico has dozens of Indigenous peoples, and many still weave and wear what their communities wore long before … Continue reading
Here we are again with the question that keeps this series going: when you spend more on a sewing tool, do you sew better and faster, or do you just enjoy the shopping? Today it is the sewing iron. I pressed for years with whatever lived in the laundry cupboard, … Continue reading
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