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Gone are the days when everyone in the wedding party had to look absolutely identical. Today, the trend is towards individuality. The ensembles are still color coordinated, but many brides are opting...
Its time to sparkle! We kick off a new series today that is different than anything weve done before here on Sew4Home. Over the past several months, weve worked with sponsor, Janome America to learn ...
Weve savored every day of our Kitchen Confections series for Moda Fabrics, featuring the beautiful new Vintage Modern collection by Bonnie & Camille. Today, we hear our spoon clinking on the bott...
One appliance that gets almost daily use in most kitchens is the trusty toaster. With all that hard work, it usually ends up looking a bit worse-for-wear. Maybe its banged up around the edges, for su...
If its a kitchen series, there had better be some mitts or hot pads! Would we ever disappoint you?! For all our oven-lovin S4H fans, these slip-on oven mitts are vintage in shape and style, modern in...
In todays world of instant Internet gratification, does anyone actually hand-write anything any more? Here at S4H, wed like to think so. And, wed like to think the handwritten recipe and the personal...
Its Week Two of our Kitchen Confections Series for Moda Fabrics! If youre a regular Sew4Home visitor, you know we love aprons. So of course there was no question wed whip up a fab apron in Bonnie &am...
There is something universally likable about the aqua and red color combination... or as Bonnie & Camille call it in their new Vintage Modern collection: Sky and Candy Apple. Mix in Cream, Pebble...
A knife pleat sounds dangerous, but is actually one of the easiest and, we think, prettiest members of the pleat family. In a knife pleat, the folds are pressed to one side in the same direction, whi...
Paper napkins are... well... paper ! Cloth napkins are more beautiful, more absorbent, and more green. Today is the second project in our Kitchen Confections series for Moda Fabrics, featuring the ne...
Pleats are the origami of the sewing world. And although you dont usually need to fold one into the shape of a swan, there are a wide variety of pretty pleats that add distinct visual and textural em...
Today we start a brand new series of beautiful kitchen tutorials in Bonnie & Camilles Vintage Modern collection for Moda Fabrics, which is hitting the fabric shelves right now, both in store and ...
Its a Shopping Day at Sew4Home. Our friends, Dennis and Tonia of Fashionable Fabrics have provided us with TWO $50 gift certificates. And, because Fashionable Fabrics is already set-up to ship both w...
Wedding bells peal throughout the year, but spring and summer are the true busy seasons. If invitations to showers and weddings are already covering your refrigerator, we have five ideas that are sur...
Are your friends and family getting ready to head off to the four corners of the globe? Or maybe its a "stay-cation" summer season with your sights set on local attractions. Either way, say &...
The big graduation milestones are high school and college, but these days, there also seem to be momentous occasions springing up around graduating from middle school, grad school, trade school or ju...
As we roll through Spring and rush pell-mell towards Summer, we enter the high-octane gift giving season. For me, this time of year is actually more hectic than the holiday season. At least then, you...
Earlier this year, we received a very inspiring email from Judy Fennemore of South Africa, regarding our Quick Trip Diaper Bag. Judy was writing on behalf of the Kwa-Zulu Natal Quilters guild and the...
You may have noticed we have a bit of a crush on laminates. This starry-eyed happiness encouraged us to scan back through some projects, looking for candidates to Re-imagine and Renovate in this fun ...
You may be familiar with darts as those pointy things you throw at a dartboard on the wall of your favorite pub. Although they dont fly, darts in sewing are still vital components of the overall sewn...
As part of the Fabric.com Everything Old is New Again series, we are delving in to one of the oldest styles of specialty sewing: heirloom. This precise and delicate type of stitching is said to have ...
For many of you out there, childhood memories of "shiny-like" fabrics around the home probably revolve around upholstered chairs (that made you sweat if you sat too long), tablecloths (often ...
In between the simplicity of gathering and the intricacy of hand-smocking, lives one of our favorite texturing techniques: elastic shirring. Youve probably owned a garment or two with shirring on the...
Most of the time, sewing is all about soft things, from beautiful fabrics to cushy pillow inserts. However, every so often, something hard comes along. Its not there to torment you, its a way to inje...
If you are new to sewing, some of the terminology can be confusing. Doesnt "bolt" mean to run away? Cutting something on the "bias" just sounds mean. And, "feed dogs" seems mo...
One of the very first people we profiled in our Creative People We Love series was Ms. Heather Jones. Ours is a long lasting love! When we originally met Heather, we knew her as the beauty and brains...
We use binding on many projects here at Sew4Home, and we always get lots of compliments about how nice it looks. We also get lots of questions about how we managed to pull that off! So, we decided to...
One of the common areas of sewing frustration, especially if youre new, is the corner. Those pesky four corners create any square or rectangular item, like the home décor standard: the pillow! In rea...
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