Today’s post is another in this year’s ‘Basic Sewing Skills’ series. This is how to make curtains shorter. Here is a long curtain (one of a pair) which has been moved to a new house and is too long for its present location. Many people believe that you should take curtains up at the hemContinueContinue reading “How to shorten curtains”
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How to machine-stitch a trouser hem
This month’s ‘basic sewing skills’ post is about putting up a hem on a pair of trousers, using the sewing machine. This is useful because you might need to, say, shorten a pair of trousers – or the previous hem might have just worn out, which is what has happened here. This pair of cottonContinueContinue reading “How to machine-stitch a trouser hem”
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