My older daughter demonstrates today's principle while making a tablecloth. Step 1: Press before sewing. Step 2: Sew. Step 3: Press after sewing. Easy! If you really want to learn how to use a sewing...

Two things are vital for my ongoing love affair with sewing--technical instruction and visual inspiration. Now both of these are available with one click of my mouse. The new Craft Daily site is up and...

Last Saturday morning I ran through my errands efficiently because I had a fun sewing project that I was excited to start--a wrap coat in a bright Trenna Travis print (Michael Miller Fabrics). I'd...

Walk into any sewing shop and you will see walls of sewing notions and accessories. And every year, more and more gadgets hit the market. Expand this simple metallic gauge to get perfectly spaced buttonholes...

Recently, one of my daughter's friends used her Facebook page to put out a request for sewing information. "I'm new to sewing. I'm making a dress for myself, and the pattern says to interface...

I've had a lifelong love affair with fabric, and I really think that my love of fabric is what got me started sewing. As a beginning sewist, I would l wander the fabric store aisles with lust in my...

Not long after I started at Stitch , I received a note from a frantic reader. She was in the dead heat of making a baby swaddle for a newly arrived relative and she could not figure out the pattern instructions...

In a recent project from Stitch Summer 2013, Easy Leather Tote, I talk about using a pronged circle die to stamp the lacing and decorative holes in the leather. I want to go a little more into that technique...