This page offers tutorials that can help you learn the basic techniques of sewing with a sewing machine. These lessons are essential for acquiring basic skills in sewing, such as fabric gathering, seam edge finishing, sewing on buttons, installing a zipper, making piping and more. These techniques will enable you to create various sewing items with ease.
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Learn how to sew a blind hem stitch with a sewing machine. You can use this stitch to hem pants, skirts, curtain, etc.
Making a hem using this stitch is fast, easy and almost invisible.
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Learn how to finish seams with this tutorial on sewing a turn and stitch seam. The end product is a clean finished seam.
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Here is a tutorial on how to sew the double stitched seam, a great seam finishing technique to prevent fraying as well as rolling with knit fabrics.
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A video on how to edgestitch which is sometimes referred to as topstitch. . Edge stitching is a finishing stitch which is sewn on the right side of the fabric very close to the edge. It is a decorative stitch.
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How to sew a flat felled seam. A flat felled seam is commonly seen on sportswear and menswear. It is a strong flat seam that will not fray. This tutorial will show how to make a flat felled seam, commonly seen on jeans and denim jackets, that has two rows of stitches on the right side of the fabric.
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A video on how to sew a French seam that gives a project a neat, professional-looking finish, with no raw edges.
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Learn how to gather using the basting stitch method with this basic sewing tutorial video.
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Gathering fabric is a useful technique commonly used when sewing home décor projects and garments. Learn the quick and easy way to gather fabric using dental floss.
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The typical instructions for gathering is to sew two lines of basting stitches and then gently pull the fabric to gather. Did you ever have the basting stitches break? This tutorial will show you a simple method of gathering using a zigzag stitch over thread.
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How to sew a basic zipper where the teeth and part of the tape is exposed. This super simple method for installing a zipper is used in sportswear, home décor projects, pouches, purses and many other projects.
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This video and photo tutorial will demonstrate how to sew on a button a sewing machine and the zigzag stitch. If your sewing machine doesn't have a built-in button stitch, you can use the zigzag stitch to sew on buttons. Learn how with this video.
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Learn how to sew on buttons using the button stitch on your sewing machine. This can be used to sew on 2- or 4-hole buttons, snaps, hooks, eyes, flat bows and even small curtain rings.
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A lapped seam is formed when one fabric layer is lapped over the other and topstitched in place. There are two ways to construct a lapped seam. This video will show you how to use the lapped seam when stitching a seam is difficult such as when sewing a blouse yoke or curved pieces
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How to sew a lapped seam. A lapped seam is when one piece of fabric is lapped over the other and topstitched in place. This is the type of seam to use when sewing leather, fleece, felt and suede.
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This video and photo tutorial will show you how to do the lettuce edge hem. This hemming technique forms a ruffled edge on knit fabric. Lettuce edge finish is cute and girly.
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Learn to use a serger to sew a lettuce hem to the edge of garments with knit fabrics. The lettuce hem is a wavy hem used on girls' clothes.
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Learn how to sew a mock french seam with this video tutorial. The mock French seam is a seam finishing technique that gives the project a neat, professional-looking finish.
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Watch this tutorial to learn how to finish seams using pinking shears. This simple finishing technique is quick and easy.
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A video tutorial on how to make piping using a pintuck foot. You can also use a piping foot.
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How to make piping (cording) using a zipper foot.
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Sewing a rolled hem with a serger is fast and easy! Learn how to setup a serger to sew a rolled hem with this video and photo tutorial.
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This tutorial shows how to shorten a zipper using a sewing machine. Simply make a new stop on a longer zipper!
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This tutorial will show you straight-up topstitching where a straight stitch is sewn parallel to the seamline though the top fabric and the seam allowance underneath.
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Understitching is simply stitching a line close to the edge of a facing to keep it from rolling toward the outside. This technique is used in necklines, armhole facings and waistband seams.
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