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Welcome to day 28 of our 31 Days sewing series! Lets learn how to install a zipper. New here? I'm glad you are visiting! You may want to follow this blog so you don't miss miss a post! In the last few days of this series, I want to share a few important tutorials with you. Today you are going to learn how to install a zipper! I'm showing you how to install a zipper between two pieces of fabric. For this, you will need a zipper foot for your machine. Mine looks like this {next to the regular foot}: My zipper foot can be used to the right or the left, but I always use it so the zipper runs to the left of the foot. I've heard of people that are able to install a zipper with a regular foot, but I don't know how they do it! I need my zipper foot! To start, lay your zippers wrong side on your inner fabric's right side. The zipper needs to be open. Then lay your top fabric's right side on top. So the zipper right side and fabric right side are together. {If you a...

Welcome to day 27 of our 31 Days sewing series! Today I have a free inspirational download for you. New here? I'm glad you are visiting! You may want to follow this blog so you don't miss miss a post! There is always something sad about last things, and today is the last day for a free download - at least for this series. =) Each Sunday this month I've shared an inspirational download and quote that can be printed off, used as a desktop, or made into art. It has been so fun to put these together! Today I'm sharing one of my favourite quotes. It is from Crystal Paine's eBook, 21 Days to a More Disciplined Life . {affiliate link} I've loved this quote from the moment I first read it. In fact, I love the whole book, and I think you will too! You can download this picture from Google drive by clicking here. This is big enough to be an 8x10" picture, or size it differently and use it however you want! It is free for you to use! I'd love to hear how you use ...

Welcome to day 26 of our 31 Days sewing series! I'm sharing some helpful links from gals that inspire. New here? I'm glad you are visiting! You may want to follow this blog so you don't miss miss a post! Each Saturday during this series, I've been sharing some helpful links. Today I want to share some of the most inspiring links - from those that have taken their sewing to the next level and now own a handmade shop filled with their sewn items. This might not be for everyone, I realize.  But I personally would love for every woman to consider the possibilities! One of my dreams for my shop is to be able to employ and train others to be able to create and work from their own home. Working from home can be such a help to a household, I'd love to see more and more handmade shops popping up! So here are a few of the ones I love...and even if you aren't looking to open your own handmade shop, you might want to do some Christmas shopping in this post. {wink!} Kelleen...

Welcome to day 25 of our 31 Days sewing series! Today I'm telling you about the time I cut $100 jeans. New here? I'm glad you are visiting! You may want to follow this blog so you don't miss miss a post! It is ok, I totally meant to do it! =) Sometimes jeans need to be shortened to fit the person wearing them, but if they have a decorative hem you don't want to lose that either! The hem you need is called a Euro hem, which allows you to use the original hem. Today I'm teaching you how to do it! {And yes, the first time I did this it was on $100 jeans...yikes! You might want to start on a cheaper pair - although mine turned out fine. Phew!} Start by measuring exactly how much you need taken of the bottom - where you want the new hem to be. For these, I needed to take off 4 1/2 inches.  Measure and mark that on the jeans. You are going to cut right at that four-and-a-half mark. That seems wrong, I know, but trust me! Remember you need to keep the actual hem intact,...