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A simple tote bag for beginners, with a basic pattern and can be prepared in 15 minutes. Any printed fabric goes well for this and a contrast colour fabric used for handle gives a fantastic look. A great way to make use of fat quarters to sew this tote and can be used to store mails, napkins, baby diapers.  Things you need: Fabric two colurs  Sewing needle and thread  Sewing machine. Scissors. Procedure: Take two piece of cloth with 11 cms length and 8 cms width.  Turn it back,  fold it on the top by 1/2 inch and stitch along the folding as shown below. Stitch the two cloths separately like this. Place both the pieces, one over the other keeping the wrong side upwards.  Now draw lines along the edge on remaining 3 sides. Stitch along the lines and turn it inside out.  To stitch the handles Take 12 cms length and 2 cms wide cloth. Keep it on wrong side. Draw a line in the middle. Fold it twice and ...

A bow can be prepared with small piece of cloth and is very attractive if attached to a hand bag , cap, girl's frock and can be used as hair accessories. A great way to get use of the scrap or fat quarters left after you finished any other project. This can be prepared in just 15 minutes and really looks beautiful. Here goes the procedure of sewing a bow. Things needed: Piece of cloth Sewing Thread and Needle Sewing machine or you can do a hand stitch. Take two piece of cloth one in a square shape 6 cm. another in rectangular shape as shown in below image Turn the square shape blue colour cloth back side. Fold it to half  and draw a line along the edge leaving a a small gap in the middle. Now stitch along the lines. From the gap where you left in the middle pull the cloth out so that cloth will be on the right side. Sew the gap. Below are the images in sequence.  Take the rectangular cloth turn it back, fold it on the both sides and ...

Door mat is a necessity in every household. We can buy door mats from the stores. But sewing a  door mat with the old bankets, pillow covers, sofa covers  will be great way of  recycling  and it will take just 10 minutes to prepare one mat. I took some old sofa cushion cover where the zippers are spoiled and stitched a set of door mats. I got a good collection of same colour mats for the house. Here is the process of  how I stitched them.  Take one cushion cover turn it inside out and on the side where it is open cut it straight and remove the zip. Now draw a straight line as shown in the image below. Stitch along the line and leave a small gap at the end. From that gap pull the cloth out so that it will be in the right side as shown below. Close that gap with a hand stitch or invisible stitch. Now lay it straight and draw lines as shown below or as you like. Stitch along the line. (you can use a contrast colour to stitch on the lines so tha...

 How to cut a saree blouse:- Iam not a professional in tailoring or did not learned anywhere. I tried it myself out of my personal interest. Initially I searched in the internet and tried different methods to cut a blouse but in vain every method seems to be difficult for me. Finally i found an easy way to cut the blouse.  Here goes the method to cut the blouse. First take any old blouse which fits you exactly. Remove all stitches carefully. Iron all the pieces of the unstitched blouse.  Now take a chart place each piece on the chart and trace each piece exactly. Cut the chart along with the outline. Now take a blouse piece you want to stitch iron the blouse piece. Place it on a flat surface and arrange the chart pieces on it as shown in the below image Trace it and cut along the outlines. You will get 1 back piece, 2 front pieces, 2 hands, 4 cross belts , hooks and thread pieces. Trace ...

How to sew hair rubber on your with a piece of cloth and elastic.Here is the process woth images.  Take a piece of cloth.  Cut the piece in the length wise as show above.  Fold it to half  start stiching upto the center of the cloth  leave some gap in the middle and stitch reamining cloth to the end.  Turn the cloth inside out from the middle.  Now take an elastic  insert the elastic inside the stiched cloth with saftey pin  Join the elastic Hair rubber band.