Say goodbye to wavy zippers. Learn how to sew a zipper into knit fabric and end up with a professional looking, flat zipper with the help of a stabilizer.
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Tapestry or Jacquard Fabric
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.
Fabric Overview
If you're just getting started in sewing and are confused when walking into a fabric store, watch this video to get a breakdown of fabric types and what they're used for. Pick out your next fabric with ease.
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.
Working with Brocade
Nothing makes a garment look more high end and elegant than brocade. Learn some tips to make sewing with brocade a lot easier.
Right Side of Fabric
Confused about the right side and wrong side of fabric? Learn some tricks on how to tell the difference.
Working With Plaid
Does the process of sewing with plaid or stripes, scare you away from fabric you love? Our demonstration gives you some tips on working with tricky design fabrics.
Marking Fabric
Marking your fabric pieces correctly is just as important as cutting out your fabric pieces accurately. More times than not, patterns have important circles, triangles or other markings and each convey a different type of information.
Pattern Layout
Learn the correct way for laying out your pattern pieces, using your guide inside the pattern envelope.
Pattern Envelope Overview
If you’re new to commercial patterns, you’ll want to watch our tutorial on how to read and understand the information you can find on a pattern envelope.