Faux leather and vinyl fabrics are currently trending for garments, accessories and home decor. Here are a few tips for customizing your faux leather and vinyl fabrics with quilting. Sewing machine: DreamWeaver™ XE VM6200D Features: • Mu-Vit™ Digital Dual Feed Foot • Sew Straight™ Laser Vision Guide Supplies: • faux leather or vinyl fabric • … Read More
Sergers are useful for many reasons in addition to finishing the inside edges of your seams. In this video, I will demonstrate how to make a Lettuce Edge using the 5234PRW serger. The Lettuce Edge is a great finish for a fabric with little bit of stretch. For example, I use the Lettuce Edge for … Read More
Brother Machine: THE Dream Machine XV8500D I love designing my own fabric and stippling adds such a gorgeous touch. But I have to confess my stitches don’t always look so perfect, not to mention it take a lot of time. Not anymore! Using My Design Center on THE Dream Machine XV8500D I can now add … Read More
Are you ready to make a Zippered Bag utilizing your already Pintucked fabric from Part 1 of this series? We’ll prepare the fabric, learn to sew in a zipper, and stitch perfectly straight lines using the Sew Straight 2 Laser Vision Guide™. Lastly, we will add a touch of bling to zipper. This mini- zippered … Read More
Did you know your serger can do so much more than finish seams? Let me show you how to design your own customized fabric with pintucking, all on the serger! I will walk you through marking your fabric to create a design, changing the settings on the serger for pintucking, and tips for altering the … Read More
I do all of the binding for my quilts completely by machine, instead of finishing it by hand. Traditionally, binding is sewn by machine to the front of a quilt, turned around to the back and hand sewn. The technique that I’ve developed is a bit different than binding is traditionally done, because I sew … Read More
Straight line quilting is one of my favorite types of quilting of all time. It’s such a great allover pattern that gives a clean, modern feeling to a quilt design, and I especially love dense quilting with lots of lines. I’m excited to share some of my tips for straight line quilting in this tutorial … Read More
Throw pillows are such a great accent and a perfect way to add a touch of your own creativity! In this project, you will not only learn how to sew a pillow, but how to embellish the fabric with circles of yarn, ribbon, and decorative stitching. Have you ever tried sewing a perfectly round circle? Circles … Read More
If you look at most t-shirts and knit tops, they are hemmed with a cover stitch machine. At first glance, the cover hem looks very similar to a hem finished using a twin needle in the sewing machine; with two rows of stitching on the right side of the garment. The backside of the stitch … Read More
We see gathered fabric all over the place from bed skirts and little girl’s dresses to ruffled pillows and so much more. It can be a challenge to gather the fabric evenly, but not with gathering foot on your serger! Using the serger for gathering is simple and fun! As you will see in this … Read More
An easy way to restyle jeans is to add a touch of embroidery. Free motion embroidery, also referred to as thread painting is so easy and you don’t even need an embroidery machine for this technique. Instead we are going to use free motion quilting techniques. Materials: Jeans Medium Weight Tear-away Stabilizer Any type of thread … Read More