Directory of Sewing Guides and Tutorials
Listed here are essential sewing guides and tutorials to help you with your next sewing project!
Many of the Guides and Tutorials below are external links, which link to fellow sewing professionals, who are experts in their own right.
This is a complete sewing directory, not only for beginners just starting out on their creative journey wanting to learn more about sewing but also for more seasoned seamstresses or designers who want quick links to tutorials which will freshen up sewing skills.
So, whoever you are and wherever you are on your sewing path, this sewing directory will surely be your best referred-to post on the web!
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Sewing Glossary of Common Sewing Terms
Basic Sewing Skills
First time sewing: The absolute beginner’s guide
Readers Digest NEW complete guide to sewing: Step by step techniques for making clothes and home accessories – I have this guide book in my sewing studio and I love it! I recommend this to anyone, beginners and advanced sewists
Basic Sewing Machine Skills
How to use an edge stitch foot
Clean and oil your sewing machine
Bias Binding
Guide to bias binding and facings
Bias binding – the French method
How to cut a continuous strip of bias tape
Sewing a bias hem and side seams
Button holes / Buttons
How to sew a bound button hole
Collars
Corset
Cutting Fabric
How to use a rotary cutter and mat
Drafting
Body measurement printable chart – free download
How to design your own dress patterns – A primer in pattern making for women who like to sew
Dressmaking
Hundreds of free dress patterns, templates & tutorials
Elastic
How to insert a stretch waistband
Easiest way to sew elastic to a waistband
Types of and how to sew with elastic
Fitting
Gathers / Ruffles / Pleats
Hand Stitches
Ladder stitch / invisible stitch
Hems
Sew the perfect hem every time
Hemming pants with original hem
Knit Fabrics
The secret trick to hemming knits
Understanding knit fabric types
Loops
Piping
Pockets
Seams
Sewing different types of seams
Best seam finishes without a serger
Serger / Overlocker
Sewing Patterns
Hundreds of free dress patterns, templates & tutorials
Ladies free top sewing patterns for download
How to tape, cut & store pdf patterns
How to use digital & traditional patterns
Stitches
Trims
Tulle / Netting
Zippers
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