After many hours of sewing, keyboard tapping and trying to balance daylight lamps whilst taking photographs, we've finally reached our last tutorial of this Sewalong. And what better topic to finish on than that of BUTTONS!
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Well sewers, this is it. We're talking penultimate post here. And I'm not talking about Royal Mail. I mean this is the second-to-last tutorial post for the Zinnia Sewalong! And our subject is the hem of your skirt. We'll follow it up soon after with another post on buttons and buttonholes, so don't wory if you haven't done those yet.
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Hello Sewers! And welcome to Part 11 of our Zinnia Skirt Sewalong. Yesterday we showed you how to prepare your waistband. Today we're going to show you how to insert it. Aaaannnd…excitement of all excitements, this blog marks a first for The Stitchery: our very first tutorial video!
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Welcome to Part 10 of our Zinnia Sewalong. This post and the next are all about the waistband for Versions 2 and 3. This first one is about preparing the waistband and the one we’ll post tomorrow will be on inserting it into the skirt.
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Today our post is all about inserting the zipper. If you're doing Versions 2 or 3, this is a step you'll want to undertake before trying to insert the waistband. We'll try to get a post up for the waistband of these versions over the next couple of days.
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This week, in Part 8 of our Zinnia Sewalong, we'l be showing you how to attach the waistband for Version 1, the gathered skirt. And at the start of next week, we'll do the same for Version 2. Nearly there folks!
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Welcome to the second part of our pockets tutorial for the Zinnia Skirt. Today we’ll be talking about in-seam pockets, which are the type of pocket used in Versions 2 of the Zinna pattern.
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This is Part 6, and today we’re looking at pockets: specifically patch pockets. Then in a couple of days we'll be sticking up another post on in-seam pockets.
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