Sewing Tips

Check back every Thursday in 2011 for a new Tip, Trick or Technique!

Tailoring Thursdays™, Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Sewers

• Appliquè
• Batting 
• Bias
• Blind Stitch by Machine
• Change Your Needle
• Clipping Seams
• Cording, Make Your Own
• Cording, Sewn into Seams
• Curved Needles
• Curved Seams
• Cutting Circles
• Duckbill Scissors
• Easy Even Hems
• Faster Piecing:

• Half Square Triangles from Charm Squares
• Multiple Half Square Triangles from Two Fat Quarters
• Multiple Strip pieces from Two Fat Quarters
• Square x Squares from Fat Quarters
• Insulated Batting
• Invisible Zipper
• Fabric Safe Marking Tools
• Faster Piecing: Chain Piecing
• Finish Those Edges
• Fusible Interfacing
• Hand Stitching:
• Slip Stitch
• Quilting Piecing by Hand
• Machine Needles
• Overcasting
• Patchwork
• Pattern Grading
• Pattern Matching
• Quilt Binding:

• Continuous Bias Binding
• Cross Grain or Straight Grain Binding
• Hand Stitching Binding
• Machine Stitching Binding
• Mitered Corners
• Satin Blanket Binding
• Wrap Around Binding

• Quilt Hanging Sleeve
• Pinning
• Pressing
• Ruffles
• Seams:
• Bound Edge Seams
• Enclosed Garment Seams
• Flat Felled Seams
• Sewing Straight Seams
• Seam Ripping: With a Mustache Trimmer
• Sewing Hook & Loop Fastener
• Spring Back Scissors
• Thread
• Wonder Web
• Yo-Yo's
• Zippers