El Cheapo Photography Setup
Ok, Internet, we need to talk something through… Remember back in the old days? Remember when it was all carefree fun and games? Oh, those wild younger days, when any old picture was a good picture?...
View ArticleWhy layering trim is awesome
So you spent a jillion dollars a yard on some fancy-dancy ribbon for your costume? Bad news – it will only ever look like ribbon… Unless you layer it. Here’s some great ribbon. Actually, here’s the...
View ArticleAdding a Side Seam Gusset
Sometimes, bad things happen to good costumers. Like, your sister is throwing an 80’s party the next evening and you bomb out finding anything that can be mangled into some reasonable approximation of...
View ArticleControlling Tulle
So here’s the trouble with tutus… They are made of many, many layers of tulle*. And tulle, these days, is made of hate. I don’t want to sound all judgey-pants, but it’s true. Your average fabric store...
View ArticleQuick Tip for Binding Tabs…
…without anyone looking at the finished tab and asking if you were drunk and wearing mittens when you sewed it. I mean, everybody “knows” that if you want to bind rounded tabs you just have to use bias...
View ArticleA Tulle To Make Lamé Less Horrid
I recently had to make a pseudo-cavalier tabard-y-thing, using tissue lamé (hmmm…. reads like “lame”) for the appliques and trimmings. It wasn’t anyone’s fault, really, it just had to work with the...
View ArticleDo You Really Need a Serger?
Since it’s that time of year when people here in the U.S. start thinking about what to do with their tax returns, I thought I’d point out that you don’t actually need a serger. You may want one, and...
View ArticleAs Ye Sew, So Shall Ye Rip…
It happens. We all loose our way some times. And we all reach for the seam ripper. I remember the way I was taught to use a seam ripper, and it was all slow and tedious and you had to take the whole...
View ArticleEmbroidery Hack
So I’ve been doing a little embroidery lately (which is an odd statement from She Who Doth Not Embroider, but it’s true). And then…. loopies. Grrrrr! This. I hate the this. That is the loop that’s...
View ArticleHow to Not Get Tangled Threads on the Back of Your Embroidery
Most fun thing to ever happen to embroidery: that rat’s nest of tangly-tangly threads on the back of your work that manage to ensnare your stitching. And it’s totally not cool, because it’s not like...
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