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Minoru Sew-Along #18: Hemming, and Then We’re Done!

By on March 14, 2012 in Sew-Alongs

Thirty-five blog posts and several hundred comments later, we’re finishing up the Minoru Sew-Along! Today’s the last post of sewing instructions. We’ll follow with a series of posts showing off your finished jackets, and I’ll post some photos of my finished jacket too! Today we’ll hem the jacket to finish it off. After the sewing [...]

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Minoru Sew-Along #17: The Waistline

By on March 13, 2012 in Sew-Alongs

Today we’ll give our loose, baggy jackets a sleek, flattering silhouette! We’ll sew a casing for the elastic waistline, insert the elastic, and pull it tight until we’re happy with the fit. The jacket is nearly complete at this point, so it’s easy to fit the elastic and know how it will feel in the [...]

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Minoru Sew-Along #16: Stitching in the Ditch

By on March 9, 2012 in Sew-Alongs

Today we’ll do a quick sewing step: stitch in the ditch of our collar and neckline seam. I remember mentioning stitch-in-the-ditch a while back and it was a new term to many of you! Have you heard the term ‘stitch in the ditch’ before? It’s not that common in sewing patterns, which tend to favor [...]

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Minoru Sew-Along #15: An Alternative to Slipstitching Cuffs

By on March 6, 2012 in Sew-Alongs, Tips

Yesterday, we sewed the lining into our jackets. Today we’ll finish it up by sewing the lining to the cuffs. The pattern instructions call for slipstitching, but we can even do that part by machine with a little trick. I’ll show you how to sew the lining into our jacket cuffs completely by machine! If [...]

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Minoru Sew-Along #14: Putting it All Together!

By on March 5, 2012 in Sew-Alongs

Hello, sew-alongers! Thanks for your patience while waiting for these final sew-along posts. Hopefully many of you had a chance to catch up to this point! Today, we’ll start sewing our lining into the jackets, putting the whole thing together. There’s a lot to cover in this step, so stay with me as we go [...]

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Minoru Sew-Along #13: Sewing The Lining

By on February 17, 2012 in Sew-Alongs

Let’s sew the lining for our jackets today! This is going to seem very familiar, as we’ll construct the lining just like we did the jacket, minus the topstitching and hood zipper. So it’s going to be pretty easy to sew it all up! After this step is done, we’ll be very close to finishing [...]

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