Learn to Sew

Start your sewing journey with our beginner-friendly, step-by-step sewing guides and tutorials. Learn essential sewing skills, master your sewing machine, and make your own clothes with clear instructions designed to build confidence from your very first stitch.

Online Workshop

Make Friends with a Sewing Machine!

Get comfortable and confident using a sewing machine, whether you’re completely new to sewing or need to refresh the basics.
  • Includes setting up your sewing machine, perfect threading, stitching basics
  • Fix common issues + caring your machine
  • Learn to sew a simple scarf
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Six Steps to Starting Sewing

Six Steps to Starting Sewing
Tilly sitting at a sewing machine with the title 'how to choose a sewing machine'

How to Choose a Sewing Machine
How to Thread Your Sewing Machine with Video!

How to Thread Your Sewing Machine with Video!
Seven Steps to Perfect Thread Tension (with video!)

Seven Steps to Perfect Thread Tension (with video!)
How to Set Up Your Sewing Machine

How to Set Up Your Sewing Machine
How to Stitch: Part 1

How to Stitch: Part 1
How to Stitch: Part 2

How to Stitch: Part 2
Tips for Accurate Sewing

Tips for Accurate Sewing
Easy Sewing Projects for Beginners

Easy Sewing Projects for Beginners
Ten Tips for Tip Top Topstitching

Ten Tips for Tip Top Topstitching
Five Tips for a Neat Finish

Five Tips for a Neat Finish
How to Stitch in the Ditch - With Video!

How to Stitch in the Ditch - With Video!
An iron pressing the neckline of a Stevie top, showing the understitching. With the title text 'How to understitch'

How to Understitch Like a Pro
Five Tips for Neat Understitching

Five Tips for Neat Understitching
Ten Tips for Sewing Gathers - With Video!

Ten Tips for Sewing Gathers - With Video!
Ten Sewing Videos to Up Your Skills

Ten Sewing Videos to Up Your Skills
Five Tips for Threading a Sewing Machine Needle

Five Tips for Threading a Sewing Machine Needle
How to Sew with a Twin Needle

How to Sew with a Twin Needle
How to Sew Shirring

How to Sew Shirring
TIPS FOR SPEEDY SEWING

TIPS FOR SPEEDY SEWING
Troubleshooting Overlocker Stitches

Troubleshooting Overlocker Stitches
Tips for Tracing Sewing Patterns

Tips for Tracing Sewing Patterns
Understanding Sewing Pattern Markings

Understanding Sewing Pattern Markings
Iron on an ironing board against a blue background. With the title text 'Ten tips for pressing your sewing projects like a pro'

Ten Tips for Pressing Your Sewing Projects Like a Pro!
How to Sew Buttonholes on Knit Fabric (with video!)

How to Sew Buttonholes on Knit Fabric (with video!)
How To Sew On A Button (+ Video!)

How To Sew On A Button (+ Video!)
How to Sew Four-Step Buttonholes

How to Sew Four-Step Buttonholes
How to Sew One-Step Buttonholes

How to Sew One-Step Buttonholes
How to sew an invisible zip

How to sew an invisible zip
How to Sew a Zip Fly - with Video!

How to Sew a Zip Fly - with Video!
Sewing Orla: How to Sew an Exposed Zip

Sewing Orla: How to Sew an Exposed Zip
How to Insert a Sleeve

How to Insert a Sleeve
Before You Cut Your Fabric...

Before You Cut Your Fabric...
How to Cut Fabric Without Cutting Your Pattern (Much)

How to Cut Fabric Without Cutting Your Pattern (Much)
Marking and Cutting Fabric

Marking and Cutting Fabric
Sewing Construction: The Basics

Sewing Construction: The Basics
Interfacing Fabric

Interfacing Fabric
Model wearing the Noa pinafore against a blue background with the title text 'How to sew princess seams'.

How to Sew Princess Seams
Five Tips for Sewing a Smooth Dart - With Video!

Five Tips for Sewing a Smooth Dart - With Video!
Pattern pieces showing the staystitching on pieces of the Frida shirt sewing pattern, against a pink background. With the title text 'How + why to staystitch'.

How and why to staystitch
How to Sew Balanced Darts

How to Sew Balanced Darts
Stitching Darts

Stitching Darts
Flat lay of the Noa pinafore sewing pattern on a purple backdrop. With the title text 'How to sew the burrito method'.

How to Sew a Facing Using the Burrito Method (+ video!)
Sewing the Neckline Facing

Sewing the Neckline Facing
Five Tips for Sewing on the Bias

Five Tips for Sewing on the Bias
How to Finish Seams with a Zigzag Stitch

How to Finish Seams with a Zigzag Stitch
How to Sew French Seams

How to Sew French Seams
How to Sew a Mitred Corner

How to Sew a Mitred Corner
How to Shape a Sharp Corner

How to Shape a Sharp Corner
When, Why + How to Make a Toile or Muslin

When, Why + How to Make a Toile or Muslin
How to Sew Slipstitch

How to Sew Slipstitch
Five Tips For Sewing With Interfacing (with Video!)

Five Tips For Sewing With Interfacing (with Video!)

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