I'm ditching this free wordpress.com thing and stepping into the freedom that is self-hosted wordpress. I was just being lazy / not sure how often I'd write / etc. when I started this sewing blog here. Turns out, I like it way more than I thought I would. So now Find me at deborahjsews.com.
Right now, it's resting in a pile somewhere around my ironing board sporting a bunch of popped stitches around the waist. What went wrong? I suspected from the beginning that a 1.5mm wide x 2.5mm long zigzag stitch was not going to give enough stretch, but that's what the book said to use, so that's... Continue Reading →
This has been my first encounter with skipped stitches since I started sewing 4 months ago. Maybe I've just been lucky, or my first machine was a lot more forgiving with settings and what-not. I'm not sure if it's a good thing that it pretty much sewed even if I was doing something wrong. My... Continue Reading →
This was an incredibly easy tutorial to follow on FleeceFun.com. I'm not a fan of the shape of this, and honestly question how often I'll actually use it, but the whole idea was to make something warm to wear under my ski helmet. Hubby asked for one too, so I ended up making two of... Continue Reading →
And with this glasses case tut, I've learned how to make my own bias tape, and how to use the bias binding foot on my machine to sew on bias tape as a binding. It went relatively easily. Minor snags I ran into included the case getting hung up on something around the curve near... Continue Reading →
Welcome, Janome. Please last a heck of a lot longer than 3 months. What happened to the Singer, Deb? The short story is Singer shot themselves in the foot. My machine started to go through these cycles of being really difficult to turn the handwheel and having to murder the foot pedal to get it... Continue Reading →
As it goes with most things mechanical, they tend to develop issues. I haven't decided if I just have awful luck, if I've been sewing way more than a normal person would, or if I'm that brutal to my machine. Whatever it is, it is currently not happy. Which makes me not happy. Especially because I'm... Continue Reading →
I often take the dogs with me when I walk to the mailbox. Controlling 2 little dogs and a pile of mail is precarious to say the least, and nevermind if I have to pick up after them on top of all that. What I need is a bag in which to lazily stuff the... Continue Reading →
Tracing patterns on fabric has been intimidating the mess out of me. It's been something of an enigma no matter how many different articles I read or mostly useless YouTube videos I watch. Actually, that's probably WHY it's been such an enigma. No one is freaking consistent. Tonight, I finally sucked it up and dove... Continue Reading →
Clearly I'm into the scarves. They are one of my favorite accessories, and lucky for me, they're really easy to sew. This one is brought to you courtesy of a toddler scarf I saw on Pinterest. Step aside, toddlers. I claim this ingenious little number for myself. I'll even one-up you, and add a button... Continue Reading →
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