by GillyMac | Apr 20, 2022 | Beginners, blog, free, general, GillyMac Community, Sewing Made Simple, Tutorial
Last month the gorgeous participants in the GillyMac Junior Sewing Bee made bunny cushions. The pattern was such a success, I created instructions for the GillyMac Club and thought I would share it here. The pattern covers the cushion top. If you need help making a...
by GillyMac | Apr 6, 2022 | Beginners, blog, Doodles, free, GillyMac Doodle Challenge, Quilting, Sewing Made Simple, Tutorial
In this short video tutorial, I show you how to quilt out the designs from last week and how to a simple “invisible’ line can add interest to bounce back feathers. You will find the templates to practise with below the...
by GillyMac | Feb 23, 2022 | Beginners, blog, Quilting, Sewing Made Simple, Tutorial
When we start sewing, we don’t always think about how we will tackle the quilting part of a project, leading to us growing a pile of projects waiting to be quilted “when we are ready”. I started my sewing journey properly in 2012, and it is not so long ago that I...
by GillyMac | Jan 26, 2022 | Beginners, blog, general, Sewing Made Simple, Tutorial
Like many of us, when we start to sew, we are often too excited or impatient to properly investigate our machines. A great product is dependent on more than just sewing accuracy. We must also trace out any paper pattern precisely and cut it out perfectly before we...
by GillyMac | Sep 1, 2021 | Beginners, blog, Dressmaking, free, GillyMac Community, Sewing Made Simple, Tutorial
This course builds week on week and if you join later you can still access all the classes as long as you are a current subscriber to GillyMac Designs Newsletter. The course outline is as follows (we are now in Week 2) Week 1 – (28th July) Understanding the pattern...
by GillyMac | Aug 25, 2021 | Beginners, blog, Dressmaking, free, GillyMac Community, Sewing Made Simple, Tutorial
This course builds week on week and if you join later you can still access all the classes as long as you are a current subscriber to GillyMac Designs Newsletter. The course outline is as follows (we are now in Week 2) Week 1 – (28th July) Understanding the pattern...
by GillyMac | Aug 11, 2021 | Beginners, Dressmaking, free, GillyMac Community, Sewing Made Simple, Tutorial
This course builds week on week and if you join later you can still access all the classes as long as you are a current subscriber to GillyMac Designs Newsletter. The course outline is as follows (we are now in Week 2) Week 1 – (28th July) Understanding the pattern...
by GillyMac | Aug 4, 2021 | Beginners, Dressmaking, free, GillyMac Community, Sewing Made Simple, Tutorial
This course builds week on week and if you join later you can still access all the classes as long as you are a current subscriber to GillyMac Designs Newsletter. The course outline is as follows (we are now in Week 2) Week 1 – (28th July) Understanding the pattern...
by GillyMac | Jul 21, 2021 | Beginners, blog, Dressmaking, free, general, Sewing Made Simple, Tutorial
Whilst the majority of the sewing I do is patchwork and quilting, I love to make clothes. The skills are very broadly the same, but the sewing terms used are very different. I find that sewing garments are often simpler than patchwork and quilting. However, getting to...
