Welcome to DAY 11 of our 12 Days if Christmas celebration!
For our 11th Day Of Christmas giveaway, we are doing a GIVEAWAY of one $100 Fashion Fabrics Club eGift Card to one lucky winner. The gift card can be used towards any item available on the Fashion Fabrics Club website! Woot, Woot!
More about Fashion Fabrics Club: Since 1956 Fashion Fabrics Club has been connecting with Fabric Enthusiasts through our common love of fabric. Shop a great variety of fabric bolts and fabric by the yard at wholesale prices from our online fabric store. Our fabric selection includes cotton, silk, linen, wool, blends, synthetics, prints, knits, wovens, bridal & special occasion fabric, home decorating fabrics, and so much more! Always a money back guarantee!
How To Enter The Gift Card Giveaway:
It's amazing when you discover a tip or trick that helps to solve your sewing challenges, isn't it? We try to share the things we've discovered with you through free tutorials, pattern hacks, and in the Sewing With Cinnamon & Friends community! Maybe you've learned some from us, but maybe you have something that you'd love to share too!
Simply comment on this blog post finishing the following question...
“My favorite sewing tip or trick is (insert your amazing tip here) … “
Comments must be left (on this blog post) by midnight (pacific) on Monday, 1/4/2021.
One entry per person.
No purchase necessary, void where prohibited. Must be 18 or older to enter. While we wish we could run this contest everywhere, for legal reasons it is only open to eligible residents of the U.S. and Canada, not including Rhode Island. This contest is exclusively endorsed by Liberty Jane Clothing and Pixie Faire.
This is part of the 12 Days of Christams annual promotion, each day from December 25th through January 5th we are going to reveal a special One Day Giveaway for One Lucky Winner! These will be short-term prizes, designed for just 1 day each. So, be sure to set your alarm, bookmark our blog, and remember to check back each day. The giveaway will begin and end at midnight pacific time each day. Don’t miss out!
The winner will be chosen randomly from the comments received and contacted through the email provided in the comment. We will post a list of all the winners in the wrap up blog post on January 6th.
Additionally, by commenting, you agree to allow us to use your comments for future promotional activities. In other words – we might quote you when we are putting together new testimonial pages. If you’re not okay with that – don’t leave a comment 
Okay, good luck, and if we’ve forgotten anything we will modify and/or update this post as needed.
We hope you enjoy our 12 Days Of Christmas Celebration. We are incredibly grateful for your ongoing support and wish you a happy holiday season, and a terrific new year!
Happy New Year!
Cinnamon & Pixie Faire Team
893 Comments
My favorite sewing tip or trick is sew with contrasting thread. Using a darker or lighter contrasting thread can look just as nice as color matched with the added benefit of being easier to see.
When learning to sew we are taught to color match our thread to the fabric. Red fabric gets red thread… This makes sewing smaller items like doll clothes more difficult for many, near impossible for some. Using a contrasting thread makes stitching easier to see.Try contrasting threads with those learning to sew. It is easier to see their work. It also works well for experienced sewers whose near vision is not what it was when they learned to sew.
My favorite sewing tip is use your iron and not just to iron the flat fabric. Use it throughout the sewing process…iron open seams (where patterns instruct), iron the collars after turning, iron the gathered waist, etc. And iron them in the directions stated in the pattern. It’s frustrating to me when I sew with a fabric that ironing doesn’t help…such as velvet, tulle, fleece. I love the look of a crisply pressed item.
My favorite sewing tip or trick
is using strips of coffee filters to start seams. when using the narrow hem, start sewing in reverse about 1/2 inch from beginning of fabric, lift presser foot, then grab threads to place fabric in the little groove.“My favorite sewing tip or trick is when I cut out tissue pattern pieces I leave a margin of tissue along the pattern pieces that are to be put on the fold. I then fold the tissue back along the edge as an added reminder that a pattern piece has to be put on the fold.…
My favorite tip is to use your iron but press – do not iron. Your projects will thank you!