by Katy Cameron | 18.07.2016 | Bag Making Basics, Tutorials
Continuing with the series on bag making hardware (part 1 on straps and handles is available here), this week we’re looking at the range of items available which can hold your bag closed. In the photo above we have the following: A. Pronged Magnetic Snaps...
by Katy Cameron | 11.07.2016 | Bag Making Basics, Tutorials
One of the most confusing things when you start bag-making is the myriad of different types of tools and hardware that can be involved, so this series is aimed at identifying them and explaining their purpose. When I made my first bag back when I was a student in the...
by Katy Cameron | 18.04.2016 | Bag Making Basics, Tutorials
When you buy a sewing pattern, whether for bags, quilts, clothes or anything else you can imagine sewing, you get a list of things that you will need to make the item, including fabric. Here’s an example from one of my patterns: The challenge is then to work...
by Katy Cameron | 29.02.2016 | Bag Making Basics, Tutorials
Last week I reviewed the Stitch Guide Foot that I’d just got for my Brother, and I promised you another fabulous foot this week, so let me introduce the Teflon Rolling Foot: I saw my friend Bree (@mycraftycrap) on Instagram using one of these a few weeks ago...
by Katy Cameron | 22.02.2016 | Bag Making Basics, Tutorials
Last week I did a little shopping for a couple of new feet for my sewing machine. One of them, which I’ll tell you about next week, I was looking for following a recommendation from a friend, and the other, well it fell into my basket along with the first one...
by Katy Cameron | 15.12.2015 | Bag Making Basics, Tutorials
I started to write this on Sunday night, but then there was a bang outside at the electricity substation and the electric went off immediately after. It may have been a sign that this shouldn’t be shown to the world, but suck it up, you’re getting it...
