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Elevate Your Sewing: An exclusive Monthly Sewing Club

My online membership club “Elevate Your Sewing”

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Since you're here on my blog, I'm guessing you're interested in improving your sewing? Well you might also be interested in my Exclusive New...

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Pattern hacking 101-Part 2: Understanding Dart rotation

Pattern hacking 101-Part 2: Understanding Dart rotation

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Dart rotation or maunipulation as it's also known, is another key technique used by pattern makers to transform pattern pieces into a new...

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New facebook Live Techniques series. PT 1- Pattern hacking, what is slash and spread?

New facebook Live Techniques series. PT 1- Pattern hacking, what is slash and spread?

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Pattern hacking 101- understanding slash and spread is a new facebook live series exploring the basic skills you'll need to transform your sewing...

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Elevate Your Sewing: An exclusive Monthly Sewing Club

Elevate Your Sewing: An exclusive Monthly Sewing Club

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Would you like to get monthly sewing support tailored to your needs? Are you, like many of my regular students and followers turning more...

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Adding bicep width to sleeves

Adding bicep width to sleeves

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Struggle with too tight upper arms when using dressmaking patterns? Then watch this short video to learn how to add extra width at...

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Unpickers-A stitcher’s best friend.

Unpickers-A stitcher’s best friend.

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The humble unpicker- a stitcher’s best friend. These little tools can rescue the greatest of sewing errors BUT did you know they aren't...

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The art and craft of mindful mending.

The art and craft of mindful mending.

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As they say “sewing soothes the soul”, and hand sewing can be therapeutic, since you can only make your fingers so fast! It’s...

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guide to using tiled pdf patterns

How to use a tiled pdf pattern

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If you're a conventional paper pattern consumer then this new world of downloadable tiled patterns may seem mind boggling! Fear not, it's all pretty...

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sewing and self esteem

Could sewing for yourself be the holy grail for self esteem and body acceptance?

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do you feel empowered by sewing clothes you love, regardless of what shape you are now, or does it make you feel worse?...

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Ultimate Beginners sewing course

The Ultimate Beginners online Sewing Course

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This course is for you if you're a brand new stitcher OR if you're returning to sewing and need a refresher. There's a...

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Learn to sew with me Claire-Louise Hardie, Former Sewing Producer for The Great British Sewing Bee, 2 times best selling author, and an online Sewing Educator.

I love helping beginners get started and make well fitting clothes they love. For almost 3 decades I've been a professional Freelance Costumer for stage and screen.

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