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Stretch Yourself // Learn to Sew Knits
January 6, 2013

This series is sponsored by Baby Lock.  For over 40 years, Baby Lock has been dedicated to the love of sewing by creating machines for sewing, embroidery, quilting and serging – all with ease-of-use, high quality and a touch of elegance.

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Welcome to Stretch Yourself with Mad Mim and One Little Minute! It’s a new year, and the perfect time to put aside any apprehensions you may have about sewing with knits. Miriam and I have filled the next two weeks with information, tutorials, pattern reviews, giveaways, and guest projects all focused on teaching you how to sew with knit fabric. If you already feel comfortable with knits, we think you might learn something new. If you don’t know how to sew, this is a great time to learn! We have been working on this series since the idea was born last July, and we have tried hard to ensure that there is something here for everyone.

The first week will be all tutorials and information. The schedule will go as follows (I’ll update the links as the weeks continue):

Monday, January 7th: Knit Fabrics and Selection at One Little Minute // Cutting Knit Fabric at Mad Mim

Tuesday, January 8th: Making a Pattern from a Tee Shirt at One Little Minute // Drafting a Tee Pattern from Measurements at Mad Mim

Wednesday, January 9th: Basic Tee Shirt Construction at One Little Minute // Finishing Techniques for Knit Fabric at Mad Mim

Thursday, January 10th: Tee Shirt Dress Variation at One Little Minute // Peplum Tee Variation at Mad Mim

Friday, January 11th: Drafting and Sewing Leggings at One Little Minute // Drafting and Sewing a Maxi Skirt at Mad Mim

Saturday, Januraty 12th: Serger and Coverstitch Techniques at One Little Minute // Threading and Setting Up the Baby Lock Diana at Mad Mim

Whew! Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about sewing with knits, right? We’ve been sewing our nights away in preparation for this series, and are so thrilled with the piles of finished clothing that we’ve made. Everything is super basic but with endless variations. We hope you’ll find some stretchy fabric this week and sew along with us!

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Next week will be all about pattern reviews and guest projects. The schedule for week two looks like this:

Monday, January 14th: Sewaholic Renfrew Review at One Little Minute + Mad Mim // Guest Projects at I Still Love You + Feather’s Flights

Tuesday, January 15th: Oliver + S Field Trip Raglan Tee Review at One Little Minute + Mad Mim // Guest Projects at Skirtastop + Elle Apparel

Wednesday, January 16th: Victory Lola Review at One Little Minute + Mad Mim // Guest Projects at Very Purple Person + Sew Fearless

Thursday, January 17th: Figgy’s Banyan Tee Review at One Little Minute + Mad Mim // Guest Projects at Anu*Miki + Paunnet

Friday, January 18th: Megan Nielsen Briar Review at One Little Minute + Mad Mim // Guest Projects at A Little Gray + Lladybird

Saturday, January 19th: Ottobre Design Review at One Little Minute + Mad Mim // Series Wrap Up at One Little Minute + Mad Mim

In addition to all of that, throughout the series we will be hosting giveaways from Fiskars, The Fabric Fairy, and each of the pattern companies that we worked with!

Miriam and I have learned a lot through experience, but also have definitely benefited from so many great tips and tricks we’ve seen online. Made by Rae did a series of “KNITerviews” in her series: KNITS (sub-titled “Stretch Yourself”! Great minds think alike!), on Sewaholic there is a roundup of some great posts about sewing with knits, Luvinthemommyhood also shared a list of her favorite resources, I love this post by Prudent Baby on sewing with jersey, and there are hundreds more.

We appreciate the chance to add our love of sewing with knits to the many resources available. We hope you enjoy reading along, but we really hope that you STRETCH YOURSELF and try a little something you learn!

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