Tapestry and jacquard offer a beautiful and unique fabric option that can be used in home decorating, garments, and crafts. But with it's status as a heavy-weight fabric, it can also give issues when trying to sew with it. Check out this video for some helpful tips.
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Sewing with Stretch Velvet
Stretch velvet combines the luxury of velvet with the comfort of knit, which sounds great but can also cause some sewing headaches. This video will offer tips and tricks for working with this fabric so you can create some lovely garments.
Sewing with Tissue Lame
Before tearing your hair out over sewing with tissue lame, watch this video for some handy tips and tricks. This popular costume fabric doesn't have to be a complete nightmare and can give you some great results.
Sewing with Faux Fur
Afraid faux fur will be too much of a challenge for you to sew with? It's not as difficult as you think and the results can turn out beautiful. Make sure your next jacket, teddy bear, or home decor look amazing by watching some of our tips and tricks to working with faux fur.
Beeswax Fabric
You can use beeswax to seal your textiles to create fabric that's food safe and easy to clean. Beeswax is inexpensive, natural, and easy to apply to fabric. Use your new fabric for future projects like snack and lunch bags.
Sewing with Stripes
Seeing stripes? We provide some helpful tips in sewing with this type of fabric so you can match your design with ease. Even beginners can master working with striped fabric.
Sewing With Crepe
Working with beautiful crepe fabric requires extra attention and patience. This demonstration will offer tips and tricks so that sewing with crepe will be even easier.
Laminated Cotton
Take your favorite cotton fabric and turn it into laminated cotton to be used on all your projects that you need to be waterproof.
Sewing with Neoprene
Ready to work with a fashion forward fabric like neoprene? Check out this tutorial to get the downlow on sewing with this unique fabric.
Precare Fabric
As much as we'd like to just jump into a project, it's usually a good idea to first do some prep work. One of these is pretreating your fabric to prevent problems later on.