The following is an excerpt from Thimbles and Acorns “18th Century Hoodie” pattern and it gives the basic instructions for embedding hook and eye tape in a seam line. This method of applying hook and eye tape works great for closures that meet in the middle, is inconspicuous, and has […]
December 2013
Buttons, buckles, pins, and ties… zippers, snaps, hooks, and eyes! The question of what to use to fasten a closure is a perplexing one if you are working with small scale designs, and the only flat answer I can give you is… it depends. If you are sewing doll clothes […]
A Question Of Closures
Although winter doesn’t officially begin until December 21st, it arrived here in Minnesota on December 3rd bearing 2 feet of snow and trailing a string of frigid days where the temperatures plummeted to -20°F … that’s just about -30°C for those of you that use the metric system. We take […]