This is a blog post on machine embroidery review. Recently I got myself a machine embroidery as I wanted to get one myself a long time. It was down to cost as well. My mum had an old singer manual embroidery machine. I grew up watching my mum and my cousin making embroidery on pillowcases […]
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I have recently been fabric dyeing using natural dyes. I have started by using the roll-up method. Where you just roll the dye products on to the fabric together. Like making a sandwich roll. The patterning effect wasn’t as nice I found as the patterns were quite uneven. This blog post is about shibori patterning
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Here is my blog post on how to use smapseed, a free google photo editing app. This photo editing app is only available to use on mobile phone and not on the deskstop. There are many other photo editing app however, I just love using snap seed as it is so easy to use. Other
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I recently made myself a coat. The pattern uses collar band for its notch collar. Therefore this blog is on how to sew collar band. Some collar bands do come with collars some don’t. Collar bands are used to ‘hold’ the collar up so as to give it more shape. It is a function in
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This is a recipe to cook baked cassava cake. It is a classic Southeast Asian dessert as cassava is native/ grown in that part of the world. Also known in Malay as Kuih Bingka Ubi Kayu. However, nowadays frozen or fresh cassava is available to buy from Asian or Turkish grocers especially in big cities
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Here is a blog post on how to cook/ use yacon. Recently, well now it’s growing season again. I have been harvesting Yacon off the ground last month. here is a link to post on it. I will put a link on when the blog post is published. once you get hold of the tubers
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Sewing sleeves here how to sew it. Here is an example I have made on a wrap-around stretch fabric dress. Bias cut. There are many types of sleeves in a pattern. Roglan, puffed, ordinary shirt sleeves. The type of fabric used will also determine the outcome of the final look of the sleeve. Below I
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