‘Tis the season for giving, receiving and eating! Everyone will be busy cooking and baking their favorite holiday receipes this month and should have a cute apron to do it in.
Enter to win The Perfect Apron: 35 Fun and Flirty Designs for You to Make, by Rob Merrett, Cico Books, and learn how to stitch a festive apron for the holidays or for year-around.
For your chance to win, simply answer the question: What’s a sewing technique that you’ve been dying to learn? Or is there a skill you’re trying to master, such as bound buttonholes or set-in sleeves?
One winner will be selected from the answers on Monday.
I want to learn how to make bound button holes!
Yeah. Would have to be the serger. i’ve had it for several years, and could never master it. I even took a class! It was the blind leading the blind.
I would love to do a better job sewing on bias tape. It never seems to be stitched evenly! Got some suggestions? Neat/tidy bias tape is such a great finish on so many projects.
I want to find just the perfect pattern (and the nerve) for the brick red Ultrasuede I’ve had for about 5 yrs.
I also want to someday take Palmer/Pletch’s fitting seminar at Fabric Depot in Portland.
I would like to learn to bind a quilt so that it looks finished
I would really love to figure out a simple way to sew on bias tape to a long, curved edge, like the ruffle on the apron on the cover of the book. I have tried pinning it on and then sewing, both steps turning into the most frustrating, patience-testing sessions that make me swear off the step, but I just love the look of a contrasting bias tape border!
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I have a ruffler that I have been trying to learn to use. I start out fine, then I always hit it and break a needle. I think I may have to take it to the machine shop and get them to help.
Apron. A cook can never have enough, especially when they are one of a kind made by us.
I’ve been wanting to try needle felting embelishment. Not afraid to try something new, just trying to find the time to take on one more project.
I would like to learn how to do heirloom sewing. I think it’s so beautiful.
Want to learn stippling!
I would like learn embroidery!
I always have difficulty making perfect collars. I noticed that ready-made garments use a different method of construction than those given in pattern instructions. Ready made construction is less bulky.
I would love to learn to sew collars and feel comfortable making a button-front blouse. Of course sewing a jacket is an unattainable fantasy at the moment!
Free standing lace would be fun (I think) cutwork lace embroidery is another puzzle I would like to conquer.
Hemstitching is the one thing I would like to learn. It is so beautiful on edges of tablecloths,napking,scarfs,etc. A short lesson would be greatly appreciated.
I wish there was a faster way to learn how to digitize embroirdery designs.Maybe another day to the week.
I would like to master ziper installation. I recently attended a demonstration that reccommended taking the extra moment to hand baste the zipper in place before final stitching and in theory it should work, but it appears to be a “practice makes perfect” theory.