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Sewing techniques

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How to use your sewing machine

Get to grips with your sewing machine with our handy guides

Dressmaking Techniques

Discover all the essential techniques to take your dressmaking to professional level

Learn embroidery

Want to learn the art of decorative embroidery? We have everything you need to know to create pieces you'll be proud of.

Threading your sewing machine

Need some help setting up your machine? Follow our guide and you'll be stitching up a storm in no time!

8 Essential Stitches

Here you'll find a range of stitches to give your work a neat or decorative finish, all in easy step-by-step.

How-to Sew

Shape Up Your Sleeves

Give extra shape to frocks and tops with this handy sleeve enhancement. You can easily add interest to the head of the sleeve, and how it travels over the top…

Improve Your Rolled Hems

Guarantee flowing hemlines that hang like a dream. Keen dressmaker Sarah Greeff has colourful memories of her first attempts at making a rolled hem. “I was first asked to make rolled…

Know Your Overlocking

Get to grips with the best overlocking finishes for everyday stitching. The overlocker has a different feel to a regular sewing machine. The trick is to let the feed dog…

Master French Seams

Get to grips with a clever seam favourite for a continental finish! French seams are common in clothes for children, where the skin is extra sensitive, as the inside is…

Fix a Frayed Pocket

A quick fashion fix with Amanda Bowden's classic miracle mend. The dread of torn stitching can be traumatic. Pockets are a common site of injury for catching on things, to…

Create Perfect Darts

Doyenne of DIY dressmaking, Sarah Greeff, on the perfect dart. I recently visited Bath and spent the morning at the Fashion Museum, my nose pressed against the glass, as I…

Shape Up Your Waistbands

Sewing guru Sarah Greeff on perfect waist shapers. The first clothes I ever made for myself (back in the 1980s!) were full, gathered skirts, which are back in fashion at…

Stitch with Rouleau Loops

Tilly Walnes reveals a quick and pretty neck fastening. A button loop is a lovely detail for homemade clothes, whether you sew one down a blouse or on a cuff,…

Make a Bias Ruffle

Upcycle legend Suzannah Stanley on how to add a cute trim to a top. We have noticed a lot of tops being made with a bias-trim ruffle at the neck…

Anatomy of a sewing machine

Understand the different parts of your machine with this guide

Needlework Top Tips

Sarah Watson, Author Of Pen to Thread, Shares Her Top Tips

Fix Frayed Denim

Elisalex De Castro Peake, Co-founder Of By Hand London, Reveals Her Stitchy Solution For Frayed Denim. With the quality of high street denim these days (or lack of), it seems…

Stitch 101

Learn your basic embroidery stitches

Keep Jersey Secure

Amanda Bowden explains how to stabilise your jersey sewing. One of the best things about sewing with jersey is its stretch and return quality. However, there are some areas of…

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