Essential Sewing Supplies for Beginners

Essential sewing supplies for beginners are available from many different sources. The best source for getting the best prices is to search on the internet for online sewing supply services. However, it’s important to remember that online stores come in all shapes and sizes, so remember to check out the prices and availability of the products on three [...]

Share

Essential Sewing Skills

Essential Sewing Skills

It is great to see the excitement about sewing as a hobby starting to come back. Sadly, this is being driven by the down economy because people are now starting to repair and make their own clothes to save money. To do this it takes some simple to learn essential sewing skills and there are [...]

Share

Essential Sewing Going Green And Recycling Old Clothing

Go Green And Recycle Old Clothing

Everybody can agree that recycling plastics and glass is a good idea, but how many people ever think of recycling or better still, reusing their old garments. In this post, which I called ”Essential Sewing Going Green And Recycling Old Clothing” I share the details of a great article I just read that was written by Dave Burwick in the [...]

Share

How to Learn Sewing – Part 3

How to Learn Sewing

Essential Sewing has decided to run a series of articles on how to learn sewing. This is Part 3 of this series. We are very excited about this and it is our intention to deliver informative articles about the subject of learning to sew.  Every article will run a feature about the concepts, principles and [...]

Share

How To Learn Sewing – Part 2

how to learn sewing

We are continuing our articles series “How to Learn Sewing – Part 2,” where we feature people that are known and respected by the sewing community and regarded as an expert in their own right. In today’s article about “How To Learn Sewing – Part 2″ we are going to feature Marian Lewis. How to [...]

Share

Learn the Art of Quilting

art of quilting

Quilting has been around for along time and most people do not realize what is involved to learn the art of quilting. The quilting process requires the use of a needle and thread to join multiple layers together to create a quilt. A typical quilting job uses three layers of materials.  A top layer of fabric is the quilt top, the [...]

Share

How To Learn Sewing – Part 1

Essential Sewing has decided to run a series of articles on how to learn sewing. This is Part 1 of this series. We are very excited about this and it is our intention to deliver informative articles about the subject of learning to sew.  Every article will run a feature about the concepts, principles and [...]

Share

Making Your Own Clothing

At Essential Sewing we spend lots of time and energy trying to give our readers practical advice. We try to deliver articles that demonstrate why making your own clothing can be a fun experience. It is not expensive to start and it does not require you to be an expert seamstress. You can start by [...]

Share

Sewing Your Own Clothes Is Fashionable

sewing your own clothes

It seems like sewing your own clothes is coming back into fashion. The economy is forcing people to find ways cut their expenses, so they are opting for learning how to sew to keep their wardrobe in fashion. Sewing your own clothes can be a very rewarding hobby to take up.  You can sew everything [...]

Share

Make Your Own Clothing!

Many people start thinking and planning their fancy dress costumes. It takes stamina and brain power to come up with an idea and then create the finished masterpiece. The problem is, most people don’t actually get past the idea stage because the thought of having to learn how to sew puts them off. Why is [...]

Share