Articles related to: sewing
1: Quilting - Considering Some Of The Best Books
Whether you are a beginning quilter, or an advanced practitioner of the craft, you will find many books on quilting that will help advance your knowledge. Quilting books fall roughly into several cate..
2: Starting A Home Sewing Business
Truth is bitter but it seems that a lot of folks agree that the time is right for them to start a home business. In fact, about half of the 2.5 million businesses that was launched over the last two y..
3: Selling at Craft Fairs: How to Price and Profit
Pricing, pricing, pricing! "Where should I price my product?" is the never-ending question. Every small business owner has asked it when getting ready for a craft fair. Is the price too high? Too low?..
4: Selling at Craft Fairs: Are They For You?
You love what you create and you love sharing with others. Has anyone ever approached you and said, "You know, you should really consider making and selling these things!" While the compliment is very..
5: Selling at Craft Fairs: What to Bring and How to Impress
Your items are all made. You have done your research on how to price these treasures you have been working on for so long. Now it is time to get packed up and go! There are some essential and not-so-e..
6: The Uses Of Sewing Machine
Sewing machines were invented long back during the first Industrial Revolution. The intention behind the invention of such machines was to decrease the time required in sewing, as before this all the ..
7: Sewing Machine - What A Buyer Needs Know
A `stitch` in time saves nine - such goes the saying. But, with the important of stitching growing exponentially over the last decade in the international market, stitching and sewing of fabric has ga..
8: My Favorite Knitting Patterns for Beginners
Knitters were first believed to have begun their craft in the first few centuries AD. Egyptian artifacts and art have led many historians to credit the creation of knitting as a way to design clothing..
9: What You Need to Start Knitting
Of all the different types of needlework, knitting is one of the most popular. Knitting is a specific type of needlework that is identified by the process of looped stitches pulled through one another..
10: Home Business Opportunity Ideas
The idea of running your own home business is more popular than ever before. There are hundreds of books and thousands of websites offering advice and ideas. It can be over whelming to choose which ve..
11: What You Need to Start Quilting
Quilting is done by hand, sewing machine, or Longarm quilting system, and refers to the process of attaching various fabric materials and layers to make a large flat quilt. Each technique makes use of..
12: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Quilting
Originally developed to create clothing and blankets that offered warmth and protection, quilting has evolved over the generations as a much-respected art form with beautiful end results. Quilts often..
13: Jean Clothing Fashion For Teens
Being a long-legged moderately skinny myself, I also have some problems finding jeans. The brand I really like right now, that is a little pricey, are Levi Capital E. They have a great variety and lot..
14: The Influence of Cross Stitch on Bookmark Designs
In the early days of the fifteenth century, respect for all books was second only to respect for the Bible alone. Books were few in number and considered valuable due to the fact not many were printed..
15: How to Avoid Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) when Cross Stitching
Repetitive strain injury (RSI) is thought to be caused by work tasks which are performed repeatedly, thereby causing muscular strain and eventually injury. RSI can be defined as inflammation of the te..
16: How To Clean Your Cross Stitch Pictures
After you spend many hours creating a beautiful cross stitch picture, the last thing you want to do is damage it during cleaning. Many experts suggest you always clean your projects when you finish to..
17: Who Else Wants to Cross Stitch on Plastic Canvas?
If you haven't tried cross stitching on plastic canvas, you should. With plastic canvas, you can create unique cross stitch projects that you can't create with fabric. For instance, because the plasti..
18: Why the Colors of Yarn and Threads Are Such A Calming Therapy
The idea of basket weaving as a form of therapy, traditionally used for patients with mental illness is often laughed at. But in a way, there is wisdom in the use of crafts for having a calming effect..
19: Why Buy Recycled Clothes?
Why buy new when you can get a designer outfit for 50 pounds or even dollars? Karen Powell explains second hand doesn't have to be second best. I meet friends for dinner wearing a classic linen shirt,..
20: How To Start Creating Your Own Cross Stitch Designs (Part I)
Have you ever searched for ages and not found that particular pattern you've been dreaming about doing? Instead of getting frustrated and giving up, why not try creating your own cross stitch designs?..
21: My Worst Cross Stitch Nightmare: A Cautionary Tale!
I can read. I can count. I can thread a needle... so why did everything suddenly go wrong with a counted cross stitch project I started last year? I began enthusiastically enough. I had planned to sti..
22: Sun, Sea, Sand, and ... Stitching!
Going away on holiday can be a great opportunity to indulge yourself in your favourite pastime... cross stitching, of course! There's the prospect of lots of time to spend on what you want to do, with..
23: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part V
For more than a year British ships had blockaded Boston and British troops had occupied the hungry city. Americans had fought and died at Lexington, at Concord, on Breed's Hill and at Charleston. The ..
24: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part IV
Only one form of American needlework is wholly American, without root or kin in the Old World; that is our pieced patchwork. Oh, patches are nothing new.Ancient Egyptians sewed fabric to fabric, and i..
25: American History Through The Eye Of A Needle ~ Part III
In typical Old World needlework, each detail is a particle of the whole; no part of the design can stand alone, whole and complete in itself. The background is solid, the pattern is formal, and a bord..
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