This post gives you different easy ways to applique letters. These DIY applique letters can be used to embellish your clothes, accessories and other fabrics for home decor projects. You can sew the applique letters with zig zag stitches along the border as it is, or make a standalone letter with fusible webbing as lining, … Read more
Pulled thread Embroidery work is a counted thread whitework embroidery technique mostly worked on loosely woven fabric. In Pulled thread work, holes are made on the fabric surface, by pulling the thread stitched onto the fabric in different filling embroidery stitches. This work produces a fabric which looks like lace. In this work, no thread … Read more
Because I love roses and I write DIY tutorials, it is inevitable that I will go on creating these rose flower related tutorials – like how to embroider roses, How to make roses with ribbons, How to stitch roses and other flowers with ribbon embroidery stitches and then this one, on many ways to make … Read more
Hand Applique refers to stitching appliques (fabric pieces cut in the shape of designs) on the surface of other fabric, entirely by hand, without using a sewing machine at all. For some sewists, this is the ONLY way they do applique. A hand-sewn applique can look as if the design is a part of the … Read more
“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck”. I didn’t say that. Emma Goldman did. It is arguable whether I or any reader would fully agree with this sentiment – but it is a worthy one. Rose ARE beautiful. You cannot argue with that. It is perfect in every way. As … Read more
What is Ruching? Ruche in French refers to a strip of folded or gathered cloth. Ruching involves gathering, pleating or repeatedly folding a fabric as an embellishment. The ruching (or rouching as it is sometimes colloquially called) is then incorporated into a pattern, when making clothes, on sleeves, bodices, waistline seams, on accents like collars, belts, … Read more