Welcome to DAY 9 of our 12 Days of Christmas celebration!
For our 9th Day Of Christmas giveaway, we are doing a GIVEAWAY of one $100 JOANN Gift Card to one lucky winner. The gift card can be used towards any item available on their website or retail location. Woot, Woot!
Maybe you'll use your gift card to buy a few supplies to use on your next pattern hack! Need some ideas? Well, we have a full collection of Pattern Hack tutorials available in Sewing With Cinnamon! You'll find them sprinkled through many of the courses and a few on the SWC Youtube channel too!
Here's a peek at one of my favorite pattern hacks! The Starlight Gala Blossom Mash-up! Love the look of this dress? The Tiffany blue silk dupioni is so amazing! We used the Opening Night Luxe Kit to make this dress!
There are so many pattern hack video tutorials available in Sewing With Cinnamon and the new platform make it so easy to watch at any time from anywhere!
- Hoodie Denim Jacket
- Fur Lined Denim Jacket
- Fold Over Waistband Mini Skirt
- Pleated Hight Waisted Jeans
- Silk Road Dress - LJ Hack and the Snowman Appliqué Hack
- Staw Tote Pattern Hack
- Simple Sleeves Pattern hacks
- Banded Beret
- Classic Peacoat (no pleats in back)
- Koala Hoodie (Crafty Lil Turkey)
- Holiday Dress - Creating A Ruched Bodice
- Blossom-Starlight Gala Mash-up
- So-Cal Beach Vibes
- and so many more...
ENTER TO WIN A $100 JOANN Gift Card!
To enter this week's contest, simply click the link below and then enter through the giveaway widget at the bottom of the blog post, there are many things you can do to earn multiple entry points!
Contest Details: You enter through the entry form that is embedded on this page and appears just below this paragraph, if you don't see it, be sure to visit the page from your desktop or an alternate browser such as Google Chrome. It may not appear on all mobile devices. The complete rules and entry details appear on the entry form. This is not a comment contest - in other words, leaving a comment on the bottom of this page is not an official entry method. The only required entry method is to leave a comment under this post and then confirm that you did it in the contest widget. One person will receive the gift card. You can enter once, or gain multiple entries by completing the other entry methods and increase your chances of winning. Please review all Terms and Conditions on the giveaway page before entering. 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 Pixie Faire and Sewing With Cinnamon.
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Commenting below and confirming your entry in the widget above gives you one entry method, the other methods are listed in the widget above, be sure to enter in as many ways as you can to receive the maximum amount of entries to win the prize!
Entry method #1, comment on this blog post finishing the following sentence…
“My best sewing tip is ________.” Tell us why :)
Comments must be left (on this blog post) by midnight (pacific) on Monday, 1/2/2023.
The widget will be updated the following day with the first name of the winner. The winner will be contacted at the email provided when entering.
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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
610 Comments
My best sewing tip is to break down any project into bite-sized pieces if you work and have little time for sewing. If you look at the whole project, you may not ever tackle it, but break it down into a bunch of little projects and you’ll see you can get it done.
Two tips I do always is to prewash & dry my fabric before I cut anything out. If the fabric is going to shrink, I want it to do it before cutting out my pattern pieces. The other tip is to iron as I go the seams, etc to make the garment look good when it is completed.
IT is important to clean your bobbin case often, in order to keep perfect stitching. I use a cheap dollar store fluffy makeup brush to dust off lint on my sewing machine, and I use one of those sticky rollers to pick up threads and lint. Just tear off the roller sheet and a new sticky sheet is ready to go. Press after each step for professional results!
My favorite sewing tip is to use a steam iron and press, press, press. It really makes a difference with your finished product.
My best sewing tip is using small bits of fabric to start sewing a seam, it helps to keep the machine from swallowing the fabric. I keep scraps of fabric, about 3/4" wide and a few inches long, folded over and pressed by the sewing machine. When I’m sewing a seam, I sew over them first (starting in the center then, when I’m at the edge, I stop and slip the fabric pattern piece under the presser foot to continue sewing. I try to have multiple seams ready to sew at once so I can go right from one to another without cutting the thread. I just cut them apart after the last one before pressing.