How-to, Tips & Tricks

How to use the Brother narrow zipper foot

How to use the Brother Fringe Foot

The Brother Fringe Foot lets you create looped fringing, chenille effects and raised stitching for decorative touches on garments, housewares and art quilts.

How to: free motion appliquéd greeting cards

Learn how to make free motion appliquéd greeting cards on your Brother Stellaire sewing machine.

How to use the Brother ruler foot

The Brother ruler feet allow you to glide along the edge of a shaped ruler to create accurate free motion quilting lines.

Embroidered babygrow

It is possible to embroider small garments on a Brother flatbed embroidery machine. Tracey Dennis shows us both the traditional hooping method and the floating method.

Sarah’s diary - how to free motion embroidery

This form of embroidery is quite liberating as you don’t stitch out a set pattern, but create your own – using your sewing machine to ‘draw’ a design.

Sarah’s diary - how to personalise a T-shirt

Customising your own clothes is one of the easiest ways to make a personal fashion statement and ensure that whatever you wear, you won’t see anyone else in it!

Upcycled frilled shirt

Lacking wardrobe inspiration? Our guest bloggers Atelier Bomb show you how to upcycle a man’s shirt into a frilly shirt.

Balloon sleeve upcycled shirt

Transform this XXL shirt into a balloon sleeve blouse!

Finish off ruffled garments like a pro

Making ruffled dresses and skirts on your overlocker is easy when using the gathering foot. But how to finish off those side seams in a professional way?

Create balloon sleeves from a standard sleeve pattern

Balloon sleeves add an impressive statement to any garment. We show you how to alter a standard sleeve pattern to a balloon pattern.

Perfect ruffles, fitting (almost) perfectly, fast!

Sewing a dress with layers of ruffles is so fast if you use the gathering (ruffler) foot on your overlocker. But how do you make that ruffle fit? Don’t worry, we’ve got three (almost) fool-proof methods for you.