Saturday, December 21, 2019

Sew Twists and Ties: Tutorials and Sew-a-longs

Some more #SewTwistsandTies resources to get you ready for January's challenge!



This post rounds up some new (or new to me!) resources that will help you with some of those tricky twist and tie patterns. Be sure to check out last's years resource post, too. Here we go:

Brittany J. Jones has several fabulous "Sew With Me" sewalong videos that feature #SewTwistsandTies patterns, including McCalls 7975 and McCalls 7922:





Juliet Uzor, of Great British Sewing Bee and Sew So Natural fame, has a really cool video tutorial for hacking a twist/knot back onto a sweater pattern!




Ellie and Mac Patterns has a helpful video sewalong for their Twist It Up Top Sewing Pattern.





DP Studio has a video sewalong for their elegant twist-hem blouse, Le 5001:






If you don't want to sew up a twist or tie pattern from scratch, how about trying this refashion option from Paper Michey?




Sangeeta at The Dress Garden has an Instagram post describing how to sew the tricky twist on the Tilly and the Buttons Joni dress:




Nicole at @nf_merritts has a tutorial for a super quick and easy twist headband from babies to adults on her blog: