Sewing Inspo

I was working on a pair of heavy denim jeans that kept laughing in the face of my regular straight stitch. No matter how tight I set the tension, the seams would eventually give way. Then, an older tailor friend leaned over my shoulder and whispered, “Try the triple chain sewing machine.” I got up…

If you’ve been sewing long enough, you already understand that a whipstitch is more than a “quick fix” seam. On a sewing machine, you need a tweak the settings a little to do a whip stitch. Whipstitch The machine actually can’t do a whipstitch. It simply mimics the whip stitch with a controlled zigzag variation…

Whenever there is talk about serger stitches there is a mention of flatlock stitch and cover stitch.  I used to confuse the two all the time. They both look neat, have stretch, and are great for knits. But they serve very different purposes once you get into the details. But there are differences between flatlock…

Pintuck stitching is a stitch that creates small, raised ridges, or “tucks,” on fabric by stitching parallel lines, typically using a twin needle. I remember the first time I tried it, honestly, I was just playing around with a twin needle and didn’t expect much. But once those delicate, raised lines began to form. Seeing…

Ever finished a quilt top and wondered, “Now how do I make all the details pop?” That’s where outline quilting by machine comes in. Now, how does it differ from regular quilting? Well,  Quilting refers to stitching through the quilt top, batting, and backing to hold them together. Outline quilting is a specific quilting technique…