Guest Maria King demonstrates the ins and outs of creating practical projects with a curved stitch. Simple straight stitching is easy to practice, but we can bend those straight lines and expand our ...

Thread the needle and tie a knot at the end. Prep the rip by doing a back stitch on one side of the open seam, going all the way from one end of the damage to the other. This will prevent the seam ...

OK, we apologize. Last month trimmer Jerry Glasgow at McFarland Custom Upholstery showed us the way around a commercial sewing machine. Lured by the prospect of one day doing your own upholstery, ...