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DIY Wedding Sparkle with Artistic Crystals: Bejeweled Buttons

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5 h ago

DIY Wedding Sparkle with Artistic Crystals: Flower Girl Overskirt with Rhinestone Border

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...

1 day ago

DIY Wedding Sparkle with Artistic Crystals: The Business of Bling

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 ...

2 days ago

Kitchen Confections in Modas Vintage Modern: Great Giveaway

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...

5 days ago

Kitchen Confections in Modas Vintage Modern: Toaster Cozy

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...

6 days ago

Kitchen Confections in Modas Vintage Modern: Patchwork Oven Mitts

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...

23 may 12

Kitchen Confections in Modas Vintage Modern: Matching Recipe Cards & Gift Tags

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...

22 may 12

Kitchen Confections in Modas Vintage Modern: Pleated Apron

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...

21 may 12

Kitchen Confections in Modas Vintage Modern: Patchwork Table Runner

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...

18 may 12

How To Make Knife Pleats

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...

17 may 12

Kitchen Confections in Modas Vintage Modern: Patchwork Napkins

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...

16 may 12

How To Make A Box Pleat Or Inverted Box Pleat

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...

15 may 12

How To Make A Box Pleat Or Inverted Box Pleat

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...

15 may 12

Kitchen Confections in Modas Vintage Modern: Patchwork Placemats

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 ...

14 may 12

Great Gifts To RECEIVE: Enter To Win One Of TWO $50 Gift Certificates From Fashionable Fabrics

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...

11 may 12

Great Gifts To Give: Top 5 Bridal Shower Winners

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...

10 may 12

Great Gifts To Give: Top 5 Summer Travel Send-Offs

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 &...

09 may 12

Great Gifts To Give: Top 5 Graduation Day Greetings

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...

08 may 12

Great Gifts To Give: Top 5 Baby Shower Bundles

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...

07 may 12

S4H Quick Trip Diaper Bag Debuts in South Africa

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...

04 may 12

Re-imagine & Renovate: Laminated Toiletry Travel Bag

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 ...

03 may 12

How To Make A Dart

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...

01 may 12

Everything Old Is New Again with Fabric.com: Basic Heirloom Stitching by Machine

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 ...

11 apr 12

Successful Sewing With Laminated Cottons (And Other Sticky Stuff)

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 ...

05 apr 12

Everything Old Is New Again with Fabric.com: How To Do Shirring

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...

03 apr 12

Adding Metal Trims To Sewing Projects

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...

27 mar 12

Understanding Understitching

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...

20 mar 12 1 person likes this

Guest Tutorial With Heather Jones: Straight Line Quilting

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...

13 mar 12 1 person likes this

A Complete Step-by-Step For Binding Quilts & Throws

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...

05 mar 12 1 person likes this

Are You Stitching & Clipping Corners Correctly?

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...

01 mar 12

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