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 tips or trick are:
1. Increase both bodice waistline and skirt seams when gathering many inches of gathers. Final stitching line is corrected. (No way can I gather 30” of skirt fabric with a 1/4” seam allowance).
2. When sewing a bodice onto a waistband that is then sewed onto a gathered shirt, cut a piece of light-weight iron-on interfacing the exact size of the finished waist band. This with give you a perfect sewing line.
3. For perfect turned corners reduce stitch length when near corner, one stitch before corner pivot 45 degrees to make a tiny gap, pivot again to correct direction of corner. This tiny gap will ease the bunching of fabric to help make a perfect corner.
One of my favorite tricks is to gather fabric using my serger. I set the stitch length to the longest it will go and set the differential feed to the “highest” setting. (I’m sure all sergers are a little different, but hopefully this conveys the technique.) Then I simply serge along the edge to be gathered. What I love about this is that using a 4 thread serger, you can pull the gathering tighter by loosening and pulling on the two needle threads from the top side of your work. Sometimes the serger gathers just the right amount but often I want the piece a little fuller. The two needle threads give you two rows of gathering stitches to pull on with just one pass of the serger. The gathering slides along these two threads just as if I had stitched two rows of long stitches with my regular sewing machine.
My favorite sewing tip or trick is if you’re not getting the results you want from what you’re making, put it down, work on something else then go back to it. Sometimes a bit of rest time brings the project into perspective
My favorite tip is to always remember to use the correct type needle and be sure it is a nice sharp one.
“My favorite sewing tip or trick is coffee filters.