easy beginner sewing patterns

easy beginner sewing patterns

Finding Easy Crochet Patterns is Very Simple

Whether you are just learning to crochet or you are a veteran, everyone likes to have easy crochet patterns that they can complete very quickly. When a beginner uses an easy pattern and does not have any problems completing a project, this provides incentive to do more and more projects and to graduate to more difficult ones with intricate stitching details. One of the easiest patterns to crochet is that of an afghan made of Granny Squares. There are two basic stitches in this pattern and you can make it as large or as small as you wish.

You need to use weight worsted wool and a Size G crochet hook. You can have all the same color or you can use contrasting colors so that you have all different colored squares in the afghan. Many people who do a lot of crocheting use this type of project to use up all the extra pieces of wool that they have lying around.

To get started making a Granny Square, you make a loop with an end of the wool. Insert the needle through the loop to pull the wool through. This makes a chain stitch and you need to make eight of these stitches. Then you join the loop that you have on the needle to the beginning loop to make a circle. To do this, simply insert the needle through the knot at the end and wrap the wool over the needle pulling it through. From now on you work within the circle that you just made.

You will need to use the double crochet stitch and the chain stitch for the rest of the pattern. Start off the second round by chaining three stitches. This is equivalent to one double crochet and it is how you will begin every round. After you chain the three stitches, wrap the wool around the needle and insert it into the circle, pulling the wool through the circle. Then wrap the wool around the needle again to draw it through two loops on the hook. Repeat this again so that you have one loop left. This is a double crochet stitch. For the rest of this round, make one more double crochet stitch and chain three. Make three double crochets and chain three stitches, three more times, ending with a chain three. Join to the top of the chain three with which you started the round.

The next round allows you to make your corners so that you have the shape of a square. You start off in the same way as you started the previous round. In each chain three space, you make two sets of three double crochets and three chains. These will be the corners of the square. When you start the third round, you always do the two sets in the corners, but now you will have chain three spaces along the sides. You only do one set of three double crochets in these spaces.

You can end the square at any point once you complete a round and you think the square is large enough. Now you can start another square of the same color or use a different color. As you complete the squares you sew them together to make an afghan.

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How hard is sewing a bolero?

I'm a beginner... and I'm interested in sewing a bolero out of either satin or lace (bridal). My wedding dress is strapless and I wanted something to cover up a little. I thought that would be appropriate.

My question: Is this possible? Given the fact that I can only sew pillows and curtains? haha Or any suggestions for an easy to follow pattern?

You've picked a couple of really non-beginnerish fabrics to work on.

Satin tends to pucker when sewn, needlemarks (so you can't use pins on the part you see, or do much unstitching) and often watermarks during pressing. It's also a difficult to cut fabric for many people.. it really needs to be cut on paper to obtain accurately cut pieces to sew together.

Lace, likewise, has some difficulties. Depending on the type of lace, you may need to use hairline seams, very narrow french seams, or you may wind up altering the pattern to suit the lace motifs and appliquing the seam -- this is particularly true with venise and similarly heavy laces.

Both of these, imo, would be best left to an experienced seamstress for your wedding dress.

I'm going to suggest something different... would you consider a bolero of tulle (bridal veil netting) or organza (sheer fabrics that aren't that hard to work with) with lace motifs appliqued to the jacket after construction? You can also add pearls, crystals or other decorations to the lace this way.

If so, find a pattern you like and go play with the tulle or organza. Learn how to do hairline seams (tulle) or french seams (tulle or organza) on the extra, and then cut and sew the jacket. Don't like how it turned out? Buy a little more fabric and try again (both organza and tulle are dirt cheap, on the scale of bridal fabrics. (Silk organza, btw, is much nicer to work with than poly organza.)) Buy some lace that goes with any lace that's already on your dress, and cut out the motifs from the lace that you want to use and place them on the jacket, and hand stitch them into place with silk thread and add any decorations you wish.

Books to read: Claire Shaeffer's Couture Sewing Techniques; Roberta Carr's Couture: The Art of Fine Sewing, and Susan Khalje's Bridal Couture. You're looking for hairline and french seams, and the information on working with sheer fabrics and with lace. Claire Shaeffer's Sew Any Fabric also has the seam information and suggestions.

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The next to the last photo is of a tulle veil with lace applique, to give you an idea of the treatment. Both the lace at the hemline and the isolated motif are appliqued to the tulle.

You could actually sew lace fabric with the same techniques as the tulle or organza, but nice laces tend to be so expensive that I'd hate to see you make a mistake with $200/yd lace. On the other hand, appliqueing lace to tulle or organza can make $10/yd lace trim or a quarter of a yard of expensive lace fabric look *very* couture.

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