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How to Make a Book Cover for National Book Lovers Day

Nicholas Myers·August 09, 2021

How to Make a Book Cover for National Book Lovers Day

In this tutorial we are going to go over on how to make a book cover. You can either watch the video above or follow cut up blog version below! First thing that we’ll do is to iron on the stabilizer to the fabrics. Once that is done you’ll add a soft back which is fusible, and we are going to fuse that together. Next part, you have to cut white strips, different widths and not different lengths. All 6 inches and then you've got different colors. The instructions say red, but we did a variety because it’s more fun....

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How to Make a Baby Bathing Suit

Nicholas Myers·July 28, 2021

How to Make a Baby Bathing Suit

In this blog post we are going to teach you how to make a baby bathing suit. If you’re not a garment sewer that is ok as the instructions and pattern are super easy! We’ve already gone ahead and printed out our front and back portions of this little bathing suit. We served a 4 thread overlock on the top of the casing. You can see here the top and the arms sides. Now we are going to our straight stitch we’re going to be folding under these arm holes and we’re going to be top stitching them down. So...

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Embroider Your Own Emoji - National Emoji Day

Nicholas Myers·July 17, 2021

Embroider Your Own Emoji - National Emoji Day

Have you ever wanted to embroider those cute emojis we use on the daily? I'm sure most of you have used a smartphone to send one over text... In celebration of National Emoji Day, we wanted to bring you a tutorial on how you can embroidery one yourself using an embroidery machine! So, let's first figure out if your machine is emoji-ready or if you'll need to download a design.   Which Machines Already Have Pre-Installed Emoji Designs? After speaking with some of the experts over at Baby Lock, I was able to create a list of machines that the emoji...

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Intro to the Baby Lock Vibrant

Nicholas Myers·April 01, 2021

Intro to the Baby Lock Vibrant

  The Baby Lock Vibrant is our introductory serger and a part of our genuine collection and we are going to show you how to set up for a four thread overlock. To get started you'll see this is a manual threading serger, which means we will show you exactly how to thread your upper looper, lower looper, left needle and right needle.  Bring our thread from the back of the machine we will loop it through the scope, and slide it underneath this metal pretension. Once it has slid in bring down the rest of the thread to your thigh,...

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Getting To Know Your Sewing Machine

Nicholas Myers·March 04, 2021

Getting To Know Your Sewing Machine

In this blog post we are going to go over the basics of your sewing machine and get you more familiar with it.  The first thing we are going to do is take our thread and thread the machine. You can place the thread spool on the spool pin and you'll take the thread through the number 1 guideDown through the number 2 guide that looks like a plastic hook.  Then take the thread up and around to the top again to the take up lever which is point number 3. The thread slides right into the little metal contraption. Then...

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How to make Free Standing Lace Stained Glass Embroidery

Nicholas Myers·February 11, 2021

How to make Free Standing Lace Stained Glass Embroidery

For this project we are pulling from Anita Good Design and it is from her Express Line. This is a great project for someone just beginning because you have no thread changes. The most difficult part about this project is cutting your material. In our example we used tule in the instructions it recommends organza which is finer, a closer weave, and silkier.  The hoop we are using is the DIME Magnetic Hoop which is loved by Shirlene and it makes it easy for her to hoop! The new product we have in the store is the Kimberbell Wash Away...

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