the awesome guide to sewing

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sewing by samiya Nurein & Laura knight


The Biography of a T-shirt you wear a t-shirt day in day out without even thinking where it came from. Now your going to learn wear and how it came to be Step 1: First the cotton grows on a plant and gets harvested using big machines

Step 2: Then it’s get spun into yarn in factories

Step 3: Next the yarn is knitted into fabric and dyed

Type to enter text Step 4: last the t-shirts are printed and sold. this process

takes one to one and a half days

this takes 1 day for pro’s and up to 3 day’s for everyone else

and thats how you're t-shirt came to be


Introduction for this manual you will need:

buttons

material (as many different kinds as possible)

needle

measuring tape ribbon

old jeans thread (all different colours)

scissors

sewing machine (optional but preferred)


BUTTON BRACELET

You will need: Buttons Thread, Ribbon, Tape

first first gather you're materials and measure you're wrist adding four inches for the latch.

four now separate your buttons into colours and start sewing them on to the ribbon.

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second next cut the ribbon into the length that you measured.after you’ve done this section off two inches at each

Now cut a long piece of thread. use this thread to thread your needle.

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once you’ve finished sewing on the buttons cut a whole at each end of the ribbon.

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now feed a different kind of material through the holes and tie the ends together according to the size of your wrist.


recycled denim bag you will need: old jeans sewing machine scissors different kinds of material

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first cut off the legs of the jeans and turn them inside out

now use you’re sewing machine to sew up the holes where the legs used to be

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turn the main body the right way round cut a strip of colourful material, put it through the belt loops and tie it

now cut one of the legs to make a strip the length you want you’re strap to be and cut 2 pieces of material the same length.

now braid the strips together and sew them onto the main part of the bag

this is an image of what you’re bag might turn out.


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