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Things To Sew For Sports Moms

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The Fall sports season is off and running!  Are you a sports mom?  Do you spend hours each week sitting at sport practices and games?  Regardless of which sport your child plays, there are certain items that make being a sports mom much more enjoyable.  We’ll call them sport mom necessities.  Why spend hundreds of dollars trying to keep yourself warm, rain protected, seat cushioned or entertained when you can sew for yourself.  Take your personal comfort into your own hands with these DIY things to sew for sports moms.

Things To Sew For Sports Moms

Check out this list from Beatnik Kids: 15+ Sports Mom Necessities To Sew

How to Gather Large Amounts of Fabric

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I won't go back to gathering when I sew any other way. My new favorite way how to gather large amounts of fabric for any sewing project larger than sleeves.

When you first learn how to gather you usually learn to do basting stitches and pull them. And even if you do two rows, and are super careful, threads still break. So frustrating! This cheater gathering technique is genius and makes gathering yards of even the heaviest fabrics a cinch. It’s my go to method for gathering skirts for dresses, costumes and even home decor projects! Pretty much anything larger than a puffy sleeves get’s this gathering method in my book.

Learn how to gather with this easy trick!

DIY Projects for Back to School

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SSend the kids off to school in style with these easy to make DIY back to school projects. They include everything from backpacks to nap mats

Wow, I can hardly believe that summer is flying by so fast! Soon it will time to trade our towels for backpacks and sunscreen for notebooks. To make sure the kids are all smiles, The Sewing Loft has put together a mega list of DIY projects. They range from from simple bookmarks to cute backpacks.

Here are a few of my favorite projects-

Click Here for the full DIY Back to School Project list.

 

BEST Way to Easily Turn Fabric Straps

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This is the BEST way to quickly and easily turn straps of fabric for sewing and diy projects

A few months ago a friend was complaining about the hours she had just spent trying to turn a bunch of thin fabric straps she was using for a DIY project. If only she had known about my absolute favorite sewing tool ever. It’s a loop turner. And seriously it’s the magic wand of sewing. One of the main tricks it can help with is quickly and easily turning fabric straps BUT it does so much more as well.

See how to use a loop turner for turning fabric straps and tubes and check out all the other cool things you can use it for! If you don’t already use one in your regular sewing life you are missing out.

10+ Sewing Room Decorations

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Whether you have a spacious or small sewing space, or dream of having one some day, there’s nothing more exciting than making that space your own. Even a shared sewing space can be filled with DIY items that will provide an invitation to creativity.  And it doesn’t take a huge budget to create a space that call to you and makes you want to spend all of your extra time in that space.  These 10+ DIY Sewing Room Decorations will have you planning our a sewing room that’s stylish, colorful, and a join to work in.

DIY sewing room decorations

10+ DIY Sewing Room Decorations