Home Textile

Transform your living space with handmade home textiles through clear, step-by-step sewing tutorials. This category covers creating items like cushions, curtains, table linens, quilts, and decorative accents, including guidance on fabric selection, pattern drafting, and construction techniques. Perfect for sewists who want to add a personal, stylish, and professional touch to their home décor.

Natural fabric washing and preshrinking before sewing to prevent shrinkage

How to Pre-Wash and Prepare Natural Fabrics Before Sewing

After following my previous post on natural fibres, you went out and bought some wonderful cotton, wool and rayon fabrics and are itching to get started because the fabrics are so beautiful. But wait! Before you go near the colourful stash with the shears, you need to prepare and prewash the natural fabrics before sewing to […]

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Heart shaped fabric coaster sewn from muted pink and patterned fabric scraps

How to Sew a Heart Shaped Fabric Coaster from Scraps – Easy Valentine’s Day DIY

In this tutorial I will show how to sew a heart shaped fabric coaster from fabric scraps as a practical DIY Valentine’s Day gift. Valentine’s Day gifts are the ones I struggle the most. I like to gift practical presents that will not age on the next day or be forgotten or never used. Considering

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