Understanding Sewing Patterns

If you're serious about learning how to sew, and then maybe trying to sew your own clothes is one of your goals.

When I started out learning how to sew, I just looked for free patterns online and just trace it on my fabric without fully understanding what those markings and information on the pattern mean. It is very important to understand the basics of sewing pattern and to help you on that, here's a video tutorial on understanding sewing patterns from FashionSewingBlogTV.

Tutorial: Choosing Fabrics

One of the very first things to do when you decide to pursue a hobby in sewing is buying some fabrics to work on. Deciding which type of fabric to buy is very difficult especially for beginners. To help you on that, here's a video tutorial on choosing fabrics for beginners from FashionSewingBlogTV:

Shopping for a Sewing Machine

I was a bit disappointed lately because I can't resume doing my sewing projects. My pink sewing machine, I think, gave up on me :-(

I looked online where to buy inexpensive but heavy duty sewing machines, and I came across a blog about where to buy sewing machines in Manila. Surplus sewing machines are sold at the New Port Shopping Center in Manila.

How to Get There

Pattern Weight

Cutting fabrics based on a sewing pattern is very challenging for me. To add to that, the process of putting sewing pins, I think, really wastes my time. I was looking for pattern weight ideas and I came across  the tutorial and free pattern from Sachiko. 

Pattern for the pattern weight.The instruction is simply to sew A to B, 

B to C, and C to D.