If you haven’t been following So Sew Easy for a long while, then you might have missed this project from some time back. So I thought you’d like to see this project brought back. I’ve been busily sewing away these teeny tiny zipper pouches for stocking stuffers and for handy … Continue reading
Ask a room full of sewists which fabric frightens them and jersey wins every time. It slithers off the cutting table, curls along every raw edge, and ignores every rule you learned on quilting cotton. But one fact changes everything: jersey is not woven. It is knitted. Once that lands, … Continue reading
Every few months in this series I take one tool off my sewing table and ask the same blunt question: does spending more actually make you sew better, sew faster, or does it just make the hours at the machine more pleasant? Today it is the turn of tailors chalk, … Continue reading
Traditional Irish clothing is a subject where the story we all repeat and the story the museums tell are not the same thing. I went looking for the documented version and found a practical history of linen and wool, two centuries of law about what people could not wear, and … Continue reading
This is a free pencil skirt pattern, but not a printable one. You draft it yourself from four of your own measurements, which is exactly why it fits when a bought pattern does not. It takes an afternoon, it needs no special skill, and what you end up with is … Continue reading
The first time I sewed with chenille fabric I got it wrong. I laid the pieces out whichever way they fitted, and finished two cushion covers that looked like different colours depending which one you sat nearest. The fabric was not faulty. I had misunderstood what I bought. Chenille is … Continue reading
Every few months in this series I set the cheap version of a tool beside the expensive one and ask the same blunt question. Does spending more actually make you sew better, faster, or just have more fun? Today it is the fabric shaver, the little gadget that buzzes the … Continue reading
Traditional Scottish clothing is a subject where most of what everybody knows turns out to be wrong. Tartan is genuinely ancient, but the tidy system handing one sett to each surname is barely older than the sewing machine. The real story is better than the myth, and it tells a … Continue reading
Get the printable PDF Skip the on-screen scrolling and get the proper printable pattern from our shop. Pay What You Want, and yes, you can choose $0. Get the Makeup Bag Pattern → This free makeup bag pattern makes a flat bottomed zippered pouch that takes about half an hour, … Continue reading
If you have ever turned a sweatshirt inside out and found rows of tiny soft loops looking back at you, then you have already met french terry fabric. It is the workhorse of the knit world, smooth and flat on the outside, gently looped on the inside, and a good … Continue reading
Chambray fabric is one of those quiet workhorses that lives in almost every wardrobe, even if you have never stopped to name it. If you love the look of denim but find it too heavy for a soft summer shirt, chambray fabric is the answer you have been reaching for. … Continue reading
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