What Is Gabardine? The Fabric Behind The Trench Coat There is a fabric in nearly every wardrobe that most of us have handled a hundred times without ever learning its name. It is in the good trousers, the work blazer, the raincoat by the back door. So what is gabardine, exactly? It is a tightly woven twill with a … Continue reading → https://so-sew-easy.com/what-is-gabardine/ #gabardine #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Free Scalloped Christmas Tree Skirt Pattern: PDF, Sew It In An Afternoon This free scalloped Christmas tree skirt pattern is one petal shape, cut eight times and sewn into a ring, so the scallops fall around the base of your tree and the lining peeks out between them. The PDF prints at home on US Letter or A4, and the skirt comes … Continue reading → https://so-sew-easy.com/scalloped-christmas-tree-skirt-pattern/ #scallopedchristmas #christmastree #treeskirt #skirtpattern #freescalloped #pdf #letter #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Tool Tips: Budget Or Quality? Pattern Rulers And French Curves Back to the question that keeps this series going: does spending more on a sewing tool make you sew better, or just make the sewing room look smarter? Today it is pattern rulers and french curves, the flat plastic shapes that come out whenever you draft from scratch, alter a … Continue reading → https://so-sew-easy.com/tool-tips-budget-or-quality-pattern-rulers-and-french-curves/ #frenchcurves #patternrulers #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Traditional Indian Clothing: The Sari And Its Many Drapes Ask most people to picture traditional Indian clothing and they will show you a sari, draped one particular way. India is not one tradition but dozens of regional ones layered over thousands of years, and a length of cloth folded in Kolkata is nothing like the same cloth folded in … Continue reading → https://so-sew-easy.com/traditional-indian-clothing-sari-and-its-drapes/ #indianclothing #traditionalindian #kolkata #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Free Sweatpants Pattern: PDF With Phone Pockets, Sew A Pair In 3 Hours These sweatpants are the second pattern on our Workout Wardrobe storyboard collection and they are not just for sweating as I will demonstrate in the months to come. The fit of the pattern is not the trend of these days which is for thick leggings with pockets. These sweatpants are more … Continue reading → https://so-sew-easy.com/sweatpants-pattern-not-just-sweating/ #pdf #pockets #pattern #workoutwardrobe #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

What Is Canvas? A Sewing Guide To Canvas And Duck Cloth Every few weeks somebody emails me the same question, always slightly embarrassed, as though it were a silly thing to ask. It is not. The question is this: what is canvas, and is duck cloth the same thing or something different? If you have stood at a cutting counter with … Continue reading → https://so-sew-easy.com/what-is-canvas-and-duck-cloth/ #duckcloth #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Tool Tips: Budget Or Quality? Thread Snips Welcome back to the question behind this series: does spending more on a tool make you sew better, faster, or just happier? Today it is thread snips, the little cutters that live beside the machine and get picked up forty times an hour. They are the cheapest tool I have … Continue reading → https://so-sew-easy.com/tool-tips-budget-or-quality-thread-snips/ #threadsnips #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Traditional Japanese Clothing: A Short History Traditional Japanese clothing looks simple from the outside and turns out to be anything but. Most of us picture a kimono and stop there, but the kimono is only the most recent chapter of a very long story. Let us take it in order, from the first woven cloth made … Continue reading → https://so-sew-easy.com/traditional-japanese-clothing/ #traditionaljapanese #japaneseclothing #let #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Christmas Tissue Box Cover: Free DIY Sewing Pattern And Tutorial A tissue box sits out on a side table all December, so it may as well look like it belongs there. This cover slips over a standard upright tissue box and takes an evening to make: applique trees on red cotton, white ric rac for snow, and a ric rac … Continue reading → https://so-sew-easy.com/christmas-tissue-box-cover-pattern/ #tissuebox #diy #cover #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

What Is Jacquard Fabric: The Pattern Is Woven In, Not Printed On If you have ever stood in a fabric shop holding a bolt of something glossy, with a raised floral motif that shifts as you tilt it, and wondered what on earth you were looking at, there is a very good chance it was jacquard fabric. There is an equally good … Continue reading → https://so-sew-easy.com/what-is-jacquard-fabric/ #jacquardfabric #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit