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It’s Roller Skate week in the Oliver + S Facebook group. Stop by to see what others have been sewing.

Join Flat S as she makes the first stop on the Flat S Tour–Idaho.

Join Liesl for a Crafternoon event at the New York Public Library on April 6, 2013.

Here’s an idea. Make your own interfacing using two layers of fabric and Mistyfuse.

Lately, I’ve become obsessed with smocking. Not the old school style, but newer approaches.

Liesl’s newest Creativebug workshop has gone live. This one focuses on dart manipulation.

I love chambray. I wear it, I dress my kid and my husband in it, and I never seem to get tired of it. Did you know that chambray, like denim, was originally used only for workwear and wasn’t generally …

Flounces are enormously popular in fashion right now. Balenciaga, Gucci, Givenchy, Giambattista Valli, and Chloe all showed big, exuberant ruffles for spring. I’ve been collecting magazine tear sheets featuring flounces because I think it’s amazing how popular they are right …

This is one of my favorite uses for carbon paper and a tracing wheel, and I don’t think I’ve ever shown it to you.     Cut a small piece of carbon paper from your big sheet. A piece of …

A few weeks ago Karen, one of our testers who has also become a friend, contacted me to see if we would be willing to host a Flat Stanley-based version of her daughter, Bethany, for a school project. Everyone in …

Here’s another easy idea for a hair ornament, and you can use your leftover bias strips to make them! I took some plain headbands and covered them with tubes sewn from bias strips. It took a couple of tries to …

Here’s a fun and free tutorial that will allow you to make cute felt bows.