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How to Make a Sweater Pumpkin

Learn how to make a sweater pumpkin by upcycling sweater sleeves into pumpkins. This fall sewing project is cute and easy. I have a collection of fabric pumpkins that ...
For as long as I can remember, I've been sewing buttons back onto shirts for my dad and three brothers. It used to be easy when we lived in the same house. But as us kids have grown up and moved away, ...
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Upholstery Repair: How to Sew a Ripped Seam

Thread the needle and tie a knot at the end. Prep the rip by doing a back stitch on one side of the open seam, going all the way from one end of the damage to the other. This will prevent the seam ...
If you have hand sewing down, and know exactly how to fix up all of those little rips and lost buttons, then it may be time to graduate to sewing on a machine. A much faster and advanced method of ...
If you're anything like us, you have a pile of cardigans, coats and shirts with missing and loose buttons, that have waited to be mended for far too long now. Or, you have an item (perhaps a vintage ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — When you think of problem solving skills, you probably don’t think of embroidery or sewing. Well, a grant from a Champaign organization is making sure some schools have the ...
Yes, I used the words "hair extensions," "needle" and "thread" all in one sentence. Some of you master weavers out there may know exactly what I'm talking about, but for the rest of you that don't, ...