Sewing with woven fabric

Sewing your handwoven fabric can be scary! Use these tips and tricks for turning your weavings into something new and functional.

How to sew seams comprised of unlike fabrics. Sewing a stretch knit fabric to a non-stretch woven fabric; sewing a decorative fabric edge to a plain fabric edge; sewing a high-pile fabric to a plain fabric; and sewing loosely-woven fabrics to regular fabr

Learn how to use Gelatin to stabilize light weight woven fabrics - makes slippery fabrics easier to work with! Featuring the Ballad Blouse from Love Notions Sewing Patterns

iron-on woven The warp is indigo dyed cotton from a good company. The weft is hemp yarn and a cotton slub which have been wound together onto the shuttle and used as the weft throughout. The loom …

I've shared before that I am enjoying incorporating my handwoven fabrics into my sewing projects. I really like combining them with purchas...

I have just recently discovered fabric weaving. It is a fun way to create fabric for a variety of items. I have chosen to create a pillow cove

I’ve been thinking about my wardrobe recently; the clothes I own, the gaps I’d like to fill. Over the last couple of years, most of my textile work has been concentrated on knitting. I'm a knitwear designer, of course I love knitting, and I love knitwear, but there aren’t many situations where a head-to-toe hand-knitted outfit would be a look I’d go for. So I've been expanding my textile skills and finding new ways to use British wool to make clothing. Years ago I used to sew a lot. I worked…

You might remember that, last autumn, I was fiddling around a bit with some fun needle woven fillings that can be used to add color, texture, and pattern to large areas of embroidery. Needle weaving is pretty much just weaving embroidery thread on the surface of fabric. In concept, it’s not too complicated. But the ...

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Whether you sew or not, these delightful fabric crafts can be made with scraps, from your closet, or even linens from the thrift store.