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We all love little cheats and hacks! Our popular Cheat Cards cover important, need-to-know sewing tips and/or techniques in a handy business card size: 2โ€ wide x 3ยฝโ€ high. Get the six card set for just $1.99 in our Etsy Shop.

Pleats have been with us for centuries as a functional and/or decorative way to reduce the size of a piece of fabric. They are firmly ensconced in fashion sewing, but are also perfect in numerous home dรฉcor applications, like bed skirts, window treatments, and table linens. Weโ€™ve even incorporated them as unique embellishments on a
This is not one of those square-peg-in-a-round-hole situations. But, if the idea of sewing a two-dimensional item (a flat circle) into a three-dimensional item (a tube) sounds like something from another dimension altogether, read on. We've broken it down into a simple step-by-step process and even show you two different methods.ย  Let's chat first about
We like webbingโ€ฆ not necessarily like the monster from the black lagoonโ€™s hands, but the cool cotton kind for bags and such. However, it can be hard to find in other than the most basic colors of white, natural, navy, and black. Bust out your decorative stitches and some colorful thread! This fast and easy
In between the simplicity of gathering and the intricacy of hand-smocking, lives one of our favorite texturing techniques: elastic shirring. You've probably owned a garment or two with shirring on the bodice or sleeve edge. It was the style on those iconic 1970s peasant dresses, and it remains popular in new fashion trends. Shirring is
We get a lot of questions about zippers. They seem to live at the top of many people's lists of Sewing Phobias (ziphobia!). In an effort to calm these fears, we already have three step-by-step tutorials for inserting standard zippers, tackling invisible zippers, and putting in an inset zipper. We're adding to the zipper toolbox
If youโ€™re a Sew4Home regular, you know we donโ€™t traditionally present a lot of projects in the wearables category. Of course, there are all our super popular aprons and a few other easy items, but in terms of fitted garments, we tend to leave those to other experts. However, that doesnโ€™t mean we donโ€™t love
There are lots of embellishment ideas out there, but for our money, it just doesnโ€™t get much more fun and versatile than pom poms and tassels. If youโ€™re a regular Sew4Home follower, you know weโ€™re fans of both, and have already done our own step-by-step tutorials on making each. But weโ€™re always up for learning
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