Olga Balasa (Ageberry)

Cutting out slippery chiffon fabric can be almost a nightmare. You can’t use pins to stabilize the fabric for cutting because they will leave holes in this delicate fabric. You can’t cut it on fold because the fabric will move and shift and you will lose the grain line easily. And you can’t easily mark the fabric with chalk or a disappearing ink pen because the fabric will shift as you can see in this video below. I think what any sewist dislikes the most about sewing garments from silk chiffon is cutting out patterns. But the cutting-out-pattern stage can be almost painless if you practice these tips.

In the last decade, more and more people eat organic food which can be easily found in most supermarkets. Natural cosmetic and “green” cleaners have also become incredibly popular. But did you ever think about chemicals in your clothes? Did you hear that some clothes can affect your health long-term? We attend dieticians, adjust our diet, undergo tests and examinations, arrange various cleansing procedures, become fitness club members, start to eat vegetarian food and take vitamins. But rarely anyone thinks that it’s worth paying attention to the fabrics that are so closely in contact with our body during the day.

With new Juki serger MO 2000 QVP you can master basic serger stitches (like finishing raw edges and at the same time trimming and stitching the seams) and learn advanced techniques to embellish clothes or home decorating projects. It has 15 different types of stitches. All seams made with the serger are stretchable, so you can sew knits, jersey, spandex, lace quickly and durably. It has an amazing threading feature – so called Air Threading as well as many other features that make this serger really outstanding.

I think I am not mistaken when I say that at some point all sewists face the problem of hemming around a corner when two exterior raw edges are coming together at an angle. Especially at an acute angle. And I didn’t find many tutorials how to do it easily. But we need to do it when we sew for example slits on skirts, or curtain panels, or some triangular pieces of cloth like neckerchiefs, etc.
So in this tutorial I want to demonstrate the easiest technique I use for professional corner finish. I want to show you how to fold and sew the fabric at the corner of a hem so there is a diagonal seam from the point of the corner to inside the edge of the hem.

Usually it is quite easy to insert an invisible zipper. But if we have to align checkers, stripes and other lines of separate pattern pieces (like a contoured band or yoke) it can be a problem. In this tutorial I want to show you how to do it easily.

Do you want to sew knits and stretchy woven fabric with a straight stitch of your regular sewing machine? You can do it with Eloflex – innovative stretchable thread from Coats. Just wind the bobbin with Eloflex thread and use the thread both in the needle and the bobbin to sew stretchy fabric. Eloflex thread is quite strong and it expands with the fabric so seams don’t pop out when stretched.