Welcome to this week’s edition of Tips and Clips. If you missed last week’s edition, you can read about it here. To recap, this is meant to be a compilation of “tips” or “clips” about sewing, fabric, sales, or articles I’ve stumbled upon that I found interesting and hope you’ll find useful as well.
1. I’ve been fascinated by hexagon piecing projects lately. There are so many beautiful items you can make with pieced hexagons. If you’re interested in giving it a try, you can take a look at this traditional piecing tutorial by 1/4″ mark here. If you want to try sewing hexagons by machine, take a look at this Youtube video here. Finally, this tutorial to sew hexagons by cutting the hexagons in half.
2. If you love working with Liberty fabrics like I do, check out this post with tips on sewing with Liberty.
3. I’ve seen a lot of bloggers rave about Aurifil thread but never understood the appeal. Here is a great post that talks about the various weights of Aurifil thread and the best uses.
4. Duckadilly has 40% off selected Liberty fabric. Check it out here.
5. Pink Castle Fabrics has 20% off fabric bundles ending today Aug. 14th using coupon code BUNDLE20. Read more about it here.
6. fabric.com currently has 15% or more off selected Liberty fabric. Check it out here.
That’s it for this week’s edition. Happy “mad” sewing!
