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  • Hello and welcome! We’re so glad you’re joining us for the sew-along.

    This is the schedule for the B6358 sew-along. Please note that I’ve changed it a bit from the original schedule:

    May 23 Day 1: Cut out your fabric and practice your sewing. Find the right stitches and techniques for your suit.
    May 25 Day 2: View A: Assemble the tie fro…[Read more]

  • Hello and welcome! We’re so glad you’re joining us for the sew-along.

    This is the schedule for the B6358 sew-along. Please note that I’ve changed it a bit from the original schedule:

    May 23 Day 1: Cut out your fabric and practice your sewing. Find the right stitches and techniques for your suit.
    May 25 Day 2: View A: Assemble the tie fro…[Read more]

  • Hello and welcome! We’re so glad you’re joining us for the sew-along.

    This is the schedule for the B6358 sew-along. Please note that I’ve changed it a bit from the original schedule:

    May 23 Day 1: Cut out your fabric and practice your sewing. Find the right stitches and techniques for your suit.
    May 25 Day 2: View A: Assemble the tie fro…[Read more]

  • Hello and welcome! We’re so glad you’re joining us for the sew-along.

    This is the schedule for the B6358 sew-along. Please note that I’ve changed it a bit from the original schedule:

    May 23 Day 1: Cut out your fabric and practice your sewing. Find the right stitches and techniques for your suit.
    May 25 Day 2: View A: Assemble the tie fro…[Read more]

  • Hello and welcome! We’re so glad you’re joining us for the sew-along.

    This is the schedule for the B6358 sew-along. Please note that I’ve changed it a bit from the original schedule:

    May 23 Day 1: Cut out your fabric and practice your sewing. Find the right stitches and techniques for your suit.
    May 25 Day 2: View A: Assemble the tie fro…[Read more]

  • Hello and welcome! We’re so glad you’re joining us for the sew-along.

    This is the schedule for the B6358 sew-along. Please note that I’ve changed it a bit from the original schedule:

    May 23 Day 1: Cut out your fabric and practice your sewing. Find the right stitches and techniques for your suit.
    May 25 Day 2: View A: Assemble the tie fro…[Read more]

  • Hello and welcome! We’re so glad you’re joining us for the sew-along.

    This is the schedule for the B6358 sew-along. Please note that I’ve changed it a bit from the original schedule:

    May 23 Day 1: Cut out your fabric and practice your sewing. Find the right stitches and techniques for your suit.
    May 25 Day 2: View A: Assemble the tie fro…[Read more]

  • Hello and welcome! We’re so glad you’re joining us for the sew-along.

    This is the schedule for the B6358 sew-along. Please note that I’ve changed it a bit from the original schedule:

    May 23 Day 1: Cut out your fabric and practice your sewing. Find the right stitches and techniques for your suit.
    May 25 Day 2: View A: Assemble the tie fro…[Read more]

  • Hello and welcome! We’re so glad you’re joining us for the sew-along.

    This is the schedule for the B6358 sew-along. Please note that I’ve changed it a bit from the original schedule:

    May 23 Day 1: Cut out your fabric and practice your sewing. Find the right stitches and techniques for your suit.
    May 25 Day 2: View A: Assemble the tie fro…[Read more]

  • Hello and welcome! We’re so glad you’re joining us for the sew-along.

    This is the schedule for the B6358 sew-along:

    May 23 Day 1: Cut out your fabric and practice your sewing. Find the right stitches and techniques for your suit.
    May 25 Day 2: View A: Assemble the tie front and front facing. Finish the upper edge.
    May 27 Day 3: Finish Vie…[Read more]

  • Hello and welcome! We’re so glad you’re joining us for the sew-along.

    This is the schedule for the B6358 sew-along:

     

    May 23 Day 1: Cut out your fabric and practice your sewing. Find the right stitches and techniques for your suit.
    May 25 Day 2: View A: Assemble the tie front and front facing. Finish the upper edge.
    May 27 Day 3: Fin…[Read more]

  • Tamara replied to the topic What are you sewing now? in the forum off topic 9 years ago

    I didn’t get very far with the Archers over the weekend. Between a poorly baby and power outages it was a no win. Instead I taped together a few pdf’s in preparation for the next things I want to make. I also traced and cut out a few more things, not too many mind. I measured the boy who seems to have slimmed out slightly (which is always good)…[Read more]

  • Replying to my own question… I’ve made these pants quite a few times now and I remove the basting stitches. The slight “openness” makes it look more like a functional fly.
    I’m in the “remove them” camp.

  • @eboyd83 Emily a serger and an overlocker are the same thing, just US vs Aus/English terminology.
    A coverstitch is the separate function which looks like straight stitching on top and serging/overlocking underneath. A coverstitch can be a stand alone machine or a combo serger/coverstitch.

  • Not to blow my own horn, but have you looked in the tutorials section of the Oliver + S blog? With just a bit of tinkering and practice, you can get a great, professional looking, and nearly unbustable hem using a twin needle.
    A simple zig zag stitch will work well too, and if your thread colour matches well is not that bad to look at.

  • Nicole replied to the topic What are you sewing now? in the forum off topic 9 years ago

    I finished 3 Deer and Doe tees and one drafted from a favourite body shirt (very fitted for wearing under shirts).

    I am not sure what Modal actually is, @needlewoman (off to Google) but it is very stretchy with great recovery but tricky to handle.

    I may have likened it to sewing snot 😉

  • Hi @eboyd83.

    The main thing, with hemming knits, is keeping enough ease and stretch so that the hem doesn’t ‘pop’ when being worn or put on and off.

    I have a cover-stitch machine (which is great when it works). Before that, I used to neaten the raw edge with a zig zag, turn press and then stitch with a large stitch (3.5) stretching in the fabric…[Read more]

  • Tamara replied to the topic What are you sewing now? in the forum off topic 9 years ago

    Who would want to wash their face with a rag??? I am picturing old underwear and torn shirts covered in grease and oil – ergh! You’d never get that off your face!

    No I think you are doing the right thing by making lovely linen tea towels😉 That will dry your dishes in no time and then dry themselves just as fast.

    Today, it is supposed to be…[Read more]

  • Hi Shannon, I’m in BC. Surrey Digital Printing. Their website is great. You’re in Oshawa according to your profile. Try 4k Prints. Or google large format printing and the city you live in.

  • Hi Shannon, I’m in BC. Surrey Digital Printing. Their website is great. But, it’s a big country. What province are you in?

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