Shopping Guide: How to Pick the Right Dress Form

This quick guide will help you decide which kind of dress form is best for your needs and answers some of the basic questions such as:

• What are the differences?
• Can I pin onto a dress form? 
• Are they adjustable? 
• Where can I buy one? ...     Read more to learn all about it!

How To Sew By Hand Playlist

Added a new playlist to the YouTube channel - How To Sew By Hand, and embedded below. I know it's a little thin, but plan to add more to it this year. Special requests are welcome. Enjoy!

Star Trek Inspired Christmas Stockings

Ok, I admit it. I'm a Star Trek nerd. I've seen various Star Trek themed Christmas stockings out there and have been itching to make my own for a few years now. I used a pattern I'd already designed for CyberSeams back in '07, but added two cuff designs and seam allowances (so the pattern is newly revised!)

Here's the directions for the stocking, and the stocking pattern is available for download on our patterns page.

You can, of course, use this pattern for a non Star Trek stocking as well! And if you are looking for other stocking inspiration, check out our Crazy Quilt stockings!

 

 

DIY Quicky Halloween Wreath

Need some last minute Halloween decor on your door? Check out this tutorial - made in under $10, and it glows in the dark! Read more...

We've just uploaded two new versions of the How To Knit videos, both for right and left handed knitters! These videos have been reshot in HD. To view them, visit the links below or check out the videos right here:

How to Knit - The Basics (link to article) 

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How to Knit Left Handed - The Basics (link to article) 

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