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Difficult Fabrics – Silk Velvet Banding on Drapery Lead Edge
Working with difficult fabrics can be challenging and stressful unless you first determine your course of action. This is the second edition of working with difficult fabrics. I'll show you [...]
Difficult Fabrics – Working With Pleated Fabrics
Have you ever had to work with difficult fabrics? If you've been sewing for any length of time, you probably have. You know the ones. The slippery fabrics that move around [...]
What’s your learning style?
If there's one thing I've figured out from teaching it's that each person has a different way of learning. Some prefer reading to learn a new technique. Others prefer hands [...]
How to sew a interlock stitch in drapery panels
When making multi width drapery panels, adding an interlock stitch at the seams will help keep the seams lined up as they hang. Without this stitch the fabric layers may shift making [...]
Fabric Check-In Process
Fabric arriving at Designs by Donna is checked in and inspected as soon as it arrives. Doing so may avoid delays with the project if any flaws, inconsistencies in the repeat, or wrong [...]
Mistakes and how I turned a big one into a success
Mistakes. We all make them, don't we? Well, I know I do. Some are big and some are small. But I've found one thing to be true. It's what we [...]
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