It can be daunting to work out which adjustments to make on patterns to best suit your body shape, especially …
#AllButtsWelcome: I Dearly Love Your Butt (Yes, Yours!)
For many years I have been (like most readers here) a Selfish Sewist – I sew for my own closet, …
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#AllButtsWelcome: Let the Theme Month Begin!
This is our final theme month on Sewcialists before we go on hiatus in June… and what could be a …
#AllButtsWelcome: Fitting Resources For Every Bum, Butt & Badonkadonk
When we think of fitting our bottoms for sewing, maybe we always think pants are the challenge. Having fit my …
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#AllButtsWelcome: Non-Pants Projects
When we think about clothing for butts, we tend to think about trousers, as they are the trickiest garment to …
#AllButtsWelcome: Beginner Pants Pattern Round Up
We’re so excited to get started with our theme month “All Butts Welcome!” We’re dedicating a whole month to dressing …
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Who We Are: Sewing for Surgery
I have always been at the top end of RTW sizes in shops, and that was one of the reasons …
What’s the deal with TikTok for sewists?
Have you noticed more and more short videos on Instagram that are reposted from TikTok? I started seeing sewists participating …
Textiles of the World: Tekhelet
Hi Sewcialists! My name is Meira, and today we’ll learn about tekhelet (pronounced, teh-KHEH-let, with a “kh” like the sounds …
32. Dear Gabby: The Great Shoulder Digest Part 3: Raglans, Shoulder Girth, Et Cetera
And so, we enter the twilight of the Great Shoulder Digest: here are Parts One and Two. In Part Three, …
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