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Sewing for Beginners: 5 Simple Sewing Project Ideas to get you started!

Pillows are a great Beginner Sewing Project! You can put your sewing knowledge and tips to practice making simple pillows for any room or any person!

  Easy Simple Sewing Project Ideas that are great for Beginners Updated in December 2025 Sewing is a Fun, Useful and Rewarding Hobby! I, Amy, am the owner of Amy’s Sewing Studio.  Read about my early sewing adventures, and see 5 Simple Sewing Project Ideas for Beginners.  Read more about Amy’s Sewing experiences. Amy’s Beginning […]

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Understand Sewing Pattern Instructions before you start your project!

Learn the Details to Understand Sewing Pattern Instructions. A very Helpful post for Beginners! Click this Pin to read more!

Learn How to Understand Sewing Pattern Instructions You made the decision that you want to sew a project, you went and bought a pattern and all the notions needed for your project but opened up the pattern directions and sighed  😕 ,  wishing you could easily understand sewing pattern instructions? Don’t worry! I will show […]

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Ideas on WHERE you can Create a Small Sewing Space

Create a Small but functional Sewing Space anywhere! Finding a place in your house to put a sewing machine is all you need! Click to find ideas!

Ideas of Places Where You can Create a Small Functional Sewing Space Hello!   You’d like to learn how to sew and wonder where you can set up your sewing machine and other sewing supplies but do NOT have an actual dedicated sewing room,  I’ll give you some ideas and tips to help you create […]

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The Easiest Way to Thread a Needle

Easiest Way to Thread Needle. Use a Needle Threader for Threading a Hand Needle. Click this PIN for photos and a VIDEO!

The Easiest Way to Thread a Needle Before you can start any basic hand stitching, you must first master the art of threading a hand needle.  You may ask, what is the Easiest Way to Thread a Needle? Sometimes the end of the thread is pretty stubborn and doesn’t want to go thru the needle […]

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Make Your Own Sewing Patterns From Scratch for Household Accessories

Learn how to Make your own sewing patterns. DIY Sewing without a pattern- Use a Sewing Planner Journal to keep track of all your notes and step by step directions! Click this PIN to READ MORE.....

(Updated October 2024) Why in the world would you need or want to make your own sewing patterns from scratch, when there are SO MANY free tutorials on the internet?  I would like to take you BACK IN TIME before technology showed its pretty face and show you how I have made plenty of accessories for […]

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Beginners Tutorial For Easy to Sew Placemats with Rounded Corners

Easy Sew Placemats for Beginners. Practice beginner sewing skills to make these easy placemats for your kitchen or for a gift!

Beginners Tutorial for: Easy to Sew Placemats  Have fun making these Easy to Sew Placemats for Beginners. Placemats are a MUST for my tabletop! I’ve been wanting to make new placemats for our table, SO I decided to create an EASY Tutorial for Sewing Fabric Placemats with Rounded Corners.   Several years back we got a  new […]

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Quilting Tutorial for Beginners: Super SIMPLE Squares Quilt Tutorial

Super Simple Squares Quilt Tutorial for Beginners. Practice sewing seams along with other beginner sewing skills.

Quilting Tutorial for Beginners: Super SIMPLE Squares Quilt Tutorial If you have been learning how to sew and want a fun sewing project to  practice stitching straight seams, this Quilting Tutorial for Beginners: Super SIMPLE Squares Quilt Tutorial is the perfect project! When I am learning a new skill, I like to have some introductory information […]

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Easy Pillowcase Tutorial

How to make a Quick and Easy Pillowcase Tutorial. Use cotton fabric for simple sewing. Pillowcases can be made for kids and adults; standard and king pillowcase size.

Easy Pillowcase Tutorial-Sew Your Own Simple Pillowcase Welcome to the Easy Pillowcase Tutorial! My boys have quite a collection of pillowcases! It is tradition for me to sew my kids pillowcases on Christmas Eve. There are so many FUN choices of fabric for pillowcases!  My husband even said he’d sleep on a ‘FUN’ pillowcase!   […]

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Back Stitch Instructions for the Beginner; A MUST learn basic sewing stitch!

Back Stitch Instructions for Beginners: Check out this basic sewing stitch that has a VIDEO TUTORIAL and many step by step pictures. Click this PIN to SEE and READ MORE!

The stitches appear larger than usual for instruction purposes.  Notice that the top of a backstitch looks similar to a running stitch or sewing machine straight stitch. Back Stitch Instructions for the Beginner Seamstress Learn the Backstitch:  A SIMPLE must learn Basic Hand Sewing Tutorial When you should use the Backstitch Seam Repairs-used for seams […]

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11 Sewing Machine Safety Tips for Beginners

Sewing Machine Safety Tips for Beginners. When you first start learning to sew, it is hard to remember ALL these safety tips! Click on this pin to get a PDF of Sewing Machine Safety Tips!

Sewing Machine Safety Tips There are ‘sew’ many things to think about and remember when you are learning how to sew.  These Sewing Machine Safety Tips for Beginners will help make learning how to sew with your machine easier. I’m going to give you my Safety Tips while I’m using my sewing machine.  Print out […]

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Sewing Journals

Sewing Project Journals- Keep track of the various details of your Sewing Adventures! 1)Make a Sewing Memories Journal-Pictures and Details of your finished projects. 2)Projects you want to do, or are in progress 3)Measurements Journal. These are a few examples of how you can use Sewing Journals in your sewing room!

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