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Sewing projects, tips and inspiration for the modern seamstress and the sewing blog of Sewaholic Patterns
I’m starting a plaid version of the Granville shirt soon. It’ll be perfect for fall, for layering under warm cabled sweaters and wearing under jackets. What’s cool about plaid fabric is the lines. Cutting pieces on the bias turns these into diagonal lines, which adds visual interest and can draw attention to different parts of the garment. […]
Today’s post is all about how to insert elastic into casings, with tips for making it quicker and easier! One of the first projects you might make as you learn to sew is elastic waist shorts or an elastic waist skirt, like our Rae Skirt. Several of our patterns, including the new Nicola and Harwood dresses, […]
Here’s a Granville Shirt in a striped fabric. This is vintage cotton shirting, bought on Etsy a couple years back. You can tell it’s an older piece of fabric because it’s narrow, only 35″ wide. You’ll never see the inner cuff contrast but it’s there! All of the seams are sewn with white thread, so it blends into […]
Here’s a quick post on sewing the pockets, including making pocket templates, for the Granville Shirt! This is the fabric I chose: It’s a beachy, summery printed cotton voile. It’s from Spool of Thread, bought last summer, with the intention to make a shirt for the summer. At least I’m ready for this summer instead! I made this […]
Today, I have a tutorial that’s been requested several times: how to sew the V neck on the Renfrew Top. This is the most requested tutorial we haven’t done yet, so here it is! In the pattern instructions, this is Sewing Step 4 and 5. I’m going to break it down in detail and show you how to sew […]
Today I’ll show how to hem a dress evenly, using the hemming attachment on a dress form. This might be common knowledge, but just in case, I thought I’d post about it while I was doing it. Whenever we talk about dress forms, I often forget that I like this feature on a dress form. It’s super […]
The construction of the Davie Dress is pretty simple. The only part that may seem unusual is the neckline binding! Today I’ll show you how the Davie Dress neckline is sewn. I chose a fabric for the Davie tutorial that has a distinct right and wrong side, to make it easy to follow. (And also because it’ll make […]
Another placket demonstration! Today, it’s the placket on the Oakridge Blouse. This type of placket is called a continuous bound placket, since it’s made from one piece of fabric and it’s bound around the opening. I sewed up new demo samples just for this post, so it would be easy to see. We’re sewing a […]