Sneak peek inside Issue 4 of One Thimble Digital Sewing Magazine

SNEAK PEEK INSIDE ISSUE 4 SEWN PROJECTS & TIPS TO HELP YOU

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Contributors If you have a tutorial or pattern that you’d like to contribute to One Thimble, I’d love to hear from you at hello@onethimble.com.au

Kristie Gilbert Boo Designs

www.boodesigns.com.au Kristie is the designer behind BOO! Designs. What started as a little hobby in the evenings has now become a thriving full-time business. Kristie designs out of her home studio in Brisbane and has a online store selling modern sewing products which compliment her patterns where she works alongside Grandpa BOO! to pack and ship orders. Kristie has submitted the Firefly dress for this issue.

Jody Herbert Jody’s Crafty Creations www.jodyscraftycreations.com Jody lives on a small farm in East Gippsland Victoria with her husband & two kids where they run beef cattle. It’s busy but lots of fun and they love living there. She loves sewing, making & designing her own softie toys and loves teaching kids to sew too. Jody has contributed the Easy Softie Pattern to this issue.

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Kylie Gersekowski Little Moo Designs www.littlemoodesigns.com.au Kylie’s love of sewing began when she was young. Her Nan and Mum are both amazing dressmakers. Little Moo Designs was started in 2010 when she wanted to design a unique hobby horse for her daughter. She now designs and sews many designs with a focus on high quality children’s fashion, accessories and her beloved hobby horses.

Kylie has contributed the Busy Block pattern to this issue.

Jess DeWitt Gracious Threads www.graciousthreads.ca

Gracious Threads began as a place for Jess to share all the sewing she did for her friends and family. It soon grew, as other sewists shared her love for simple, practical clothing for kids. Jess lives with her husband and 3 children on their Canadian dairy farm. Jess has contributed the Traveller Tee to this issue.

Kate Anderson Horris & Deedle

Crystal Motes Stitched by Crystal

Kate and her sister share their blog, Horris & Deedle and love of sewing. Kate’s blog focuses on her love of quilting. For this issue Kate shares with us her Raincloud Applique Quilt.

Crystal is a wife and working mommy to 2 wonderful children living in sunny Florida.

You can usually find her at her sewing machine first thing in the morning before her kids wake. She loves to sew, craft, DIY, and photograph and she blogs about it all.

Crystal has submitted the Sunny Daytripper bag pattern to this issue

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Kylie Downs Voodoo Rabbit

Debra Verrall Brenda Eden Stitching Rules Boo Boo Dee’s

Brooke Sleep Bug & Miss

Marnie Durbridge Horris&Deedle

Samantha Ormiston

Kath Chown Handmade High Street

Jo Skinner Collective Avenue

Johanna Dee Prasser Glennen Cherry Joey Jellybean Blossom Baby

Sarah Marquet Ric Rac and Retro www.facebook.com/RicRacAndRetro Sarah is the designer and creator behind Ric-Rac & Retro. She opened Ric-Rac & Retro in 2013 and quickly became known for her raw-edge appliqué designs. With a background in Education, Drama and English, Sarah loves making things with a bit of a literary touch about them. She loves how appliqué is all about the attention to detail and giving new life to fabric scraps.

The Snow Queen appliqué template and tutorial is her pattern-making debut.

The Handmade Business Mentor

Chloe March Marketing Wizard

Sarah Caporn Hunting for Ladybugs

Jen Kennedy Ainslee Fox Boutique Patterns www.ainsleefox.com.au

Jen lives in tropical North Queensland. She loves making Party Dresses and sharing her love of sewing with others. Jen’s first PDF pattern was released in 2010, but she didn’t really hit her pattern making groove till 2013 with the Disco dress pattern. Jen has contributed the Mem Rose Skirt & Honey Gum dress pattern to this issue.

Simone Kleefsman India’s Closet

Lesley Fletcher Cherub’s Kiss

Kellie Rout Emphasis Hair Studio

Mr Fox

If you have an article that you’d like to contribute to One Thimble or an idea or technique you’d like to have us cover, I’d love to hear from you at hello@onethimble.com.au 3

Contents PDF PATTERNS

For SEWING

PATTERN OVERVIEW..................................PAGE 3 PATTERN PAGE LIFTOUT................................. 156 Sunny Daytripper bag.........................................18 Snow Queen Applique .......................................34 Traveller tee ........................................................46 Urbanite pants ....................................................58 Kids Creations: Easy Softie Patterns ..................68 Mem Rose Skirt...................................................90 Firefly dress.......................................................104 Rainy Days Quilt............................................... 114 Busy block ........................................................130 page 6 Gum ......................................................144 Honey

Gadgets & Gizmos...........................................64 Buying sewing supplies online ........................66 Tips for Teaching Kids to sew ..........................83 Teaching Softie Making to school kids.............84 Gift Guide .......................................................112 What’s in your fabric cart? ..............................153 Offers and vouchers .....................................156 Ziplines ...........................................................157

INTERVIEWS

PLEASURE

Mel from Mini Mooches ...................................30 Johanna from Joey Jelly Bean ........................87

s SEWING TECHNIQUES and SEWING TUTES Maintaining your sewing machine .........32 How to Line a Skirt..................................41 English Paper Piecing ............................98 Sewing Bias Around a Mitred Curve ... 103 Converting a dress to a playsuit ..........121 Who’s afraid of zips .............................140 Show Sewing .......................................142

For HANDMADE BUSINESS New Age Handmade .............................26 Marketing 101 ........................................44 Does your business have soul? .............52 Photography ..........................................54 Selling on Instagram ..............................95 Cyber Safety ........................................110 Investing Clothing Safety .....................129 The Importance of Digital Marketing ...139 Your Trademark questions answered....154

GENERAL

how to’s

FOR ONE THIMBLE …

The e-zine and pattern lift-out is in this one PDF document The e-zine is at the front and the pattern lift-out comes after. At the start of the pattern lift-out (page 159) is a printing guide so you can see which pages you’ll need to print to make which pattern. The pattern lift-out has the pattern pieces, sizing information, fabric requirements and other important information for the construction of each of the patterns.

The instructions for making the patterns are in the e-zine pages.

Before making any of the patterns you should read the pattern thoroughly.

If you have any questions during construction please don’t hesitate to email me at help@onethimble.com.au or ask in the Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/onethimblesewingenthusiasts

Viewing your e-zine pages as a flip-book To view as a flip-book you can download One Thimble to your mobile device and use an app such as the free app Google Playbooks for android or Perfect Reader for iPhone - make sure you have “page curl” selected for the page turning mode and you have selected to view as double pages with a single first page for the cover.

If you’d like to see One Thimble continue and grow please send your friends and peers to our website to purchase their copy of this e-zine at www.onethimble.com.au

THE

legal

JARGON

The PDF patterns in this e-zine come with cottage licences.

What that means is that if you sew from home to sell at markets or online via Facebook, etsy, madeit etc. you can definitely sell items made from the patterns in the magazine without needing to purchase a separate license.

Please note these patterns themselves, the photographs & the content of the e-zine ARE covered by copyright and may not be shared. They are for your personal use only. Each person who wishes to use these patterns should purchase their own copy.

If you are unclear on this please ask at help@onethimble.com.au

Future

ISSUES

If you’ve drafted a pattern or written an article or have an idea, that you think would fit in future editions of one thimble, please contact us at hello@onethimble.com.au If you’d like to advertise in future editions of one thimble, please contact us at advertise@onethimble.com.au

INTERMEDIATE

Featuring: ›› Optional shoulder strap ›› Outer & inner pocket ›› zip closure ›› fully lined

PDF Download Metric + Imperial

The Sunny Daytripper

BY STITCHED BY CRYSTAL for

BY RIC-RAC & RETRO for

Snow Queen Applique

INTERMEDIATE ›› PDF Download ›› Sketchy Stitch Technique ›› Two application methods

SIZE 2 - 8 CONFIDENT BEGINNER

Featuring:

›› Unisex relaxed ʩt knit top ›› Colourblocked side panels ›› PDF Download ›› Metric + Imperial

Traveller Tee

BY GRACIOUS THREADS for

SIZE 1* - 12 INTERMEDIATE

Featuring:

›› front & back pockets ›› front & back contrast yoke ›› elastic waist Fit does not accommodate diapers/nappies

BY RABBIT RABBIT CREATIONS for

Urbanite Pants

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PDF Download Imperial

Kids Creations: Easy Softie patterns

BY JODY’S CRAFTY CREATIONS for

BEGINNER

Featuring:

›› Four Softie options ›› wide seams ›› ʪeece bodies

PDF Download Metric + Imperial

Mem Rose skirt

BY AINSLEE FOX BOUTIQUE PATTERNS for

PDF Download Metric + Imperial

SIZE 2 - 12 CONFIDENT BEGINNER ›› Double bias casing elastic back ›› Shaped front yoke ›› Side tying sash ›› Two length options

SIZE 0-7 INTERMEDIATE

Featuring: ›› button back ›› double enclosed frills ›› mitred neckline ›› attached sash

PDF Download Metric + Imperial

Firefly Dress

BY BOO! DESIGNS for

Rainy Days Quilt

BY HORRIS AND DEEDLE for

CONFIDENT BEGINNER

Featuring: ›› applique front PDF Download Metric + Imperial

Busy Block

BY LITTLE MOO DESIGNS for

CONFIDENT BEGINNER ›› PDF Download ›› Customise your sides from the included options

SIZE 1-12

CONFIDENT BEGINNER Featuring: ›› Zip back ›› Optional shoulder ties ›› Faced bodice

PDF Download Metric + Imperial

Honey Gum Dress

BY AINSLEE FOX BOUTIQUE PATTERNS for

On the following pages is a very small selection of the wonderful images that pattern testers for this Issue have shared. To see more images of items made with patterns from One Thimble Sewing E-zine be sure to check out the One Thimble facebook page and the One Thimble facebook group.

One Thimble is all about inspiring confidence in enthusiastic home sewists - whether they’re sewing for pleasure or to make money in a handmade business. We want One Thimble to provide the tools to help your sewing soar!

Between issues of One Thimble the One Thimble Mini-Mag comes out. The mini-mag is your opportunity to share pictures of items you’ve made with One Thimble patterns. If you’ve got a picture or story you’d like to see included in the Mini Mag please email me at hello@onethimble.com.au

I hope you’ve enjoyed this sneak peek inside Issue 4!

Issue 4 will be available to purchase via www.onethimble.com.au from Friday 15th August 2014.