Technique Tuesday: 7 Sewing Tips and Tricks to Transform Your Creations

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Welcome to Technique Tuesday! Today, we're diving into a treasure trove of sewing tips and tricks that will take your projects to the next level. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned seamstress, these tips can help you improve your skills, efficiency, and overall sewing experience.

Video Tutorial

Key Tips to Expect:

  1. Accurate Elastic Stitching (Joining Elastic Ends): Demonstrates a neat trick for joining elastic ends seamlessly.
  2. Perfect Mitered Corners: Mitered corners can be tricky, but this method looks surprisingly straightforward.
  3. Combining & Finishing Elastic Ends With Fabric: This hack shows how to neatly encase elastic ends within a fabric casing, creating a clean and professional finish.
  4. Perfect Jeans Hem: Uses two pieces of cardboard to level the foot and make it easier to go over thick fabric - for instance to create an even hem on jeans, making it easier to sew through the thick layers of denim.

    The video demonstrates using a piece of 4x7 mm cardboard with needles inserted at regular intervals as a guide for sewing perfectly straight lines.
  5. Sewing Straight lines:  This is a clever way to ensure consistent stitching, especially for long seams.
  6. Perfectly Attaching Elastic to Fabric: A cinch when you need to add elastic and stitch a straight line to the edge
  7. Perfectly Attaching lace trim between two fabric pieces: Using a guide like this makes it so much easier to attach trims and elastic without any wobbling or unevenness.
I particularly like the cardboard and pins. Anything that helps keeps me sewing a straight line is helpful.

Tip: Invest in a good quality sewing machine! A reliable machine makes a huge difference in the quality of your sewing.

Share Your Thoughts!

What are your favorite sewing tips and tricks? Have you tried any of the ones mentioned in the video? Please leave your comments below on what you plan on making. 

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