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	Cheryl Ellex BellaOnline's Sewing Editor

Book Review - Simple Sewing with a French Twist
Often featured in the pages of Marie Claire, author and designer Celine Dupuy now offers sewers of all skill levels a view into her gracious sense of style and chic French touch to sewing clothing and home accessories in her newest book.

Bridal Sewing [offsite link]
The Home Sewing Association has a free project selection for bridal sewing including Tulle Wedding and Bridal Shower Decorations, Sheer Ribbon Roses, Wedding Gown Tips, Fast Veils, and more.

Felted Wool Projects To Sew
Whether sewing by machine or by hand felted wool is one of the easiest of fabrics to use for crafting as it does not fray or ravel, has enough body to easily take on needed shapes and has a luxurious depth of feel and richness of color.

Make Do Sewing Tips and Solutions
Sewing hints and tips can be found from a multitude of websites as well as passed along by friends and family. Sewing hints quickly accumlate, like a fabric stash, and become a sewer´s treasure trove of innovations.

Napped Fabrics
A fabric with "nap" has gone through a manufacturing finishing process that raises the fiber ends to the surface where they are then shorn, brushed or simply left upright. This creates a sculpted surface texture for the fabric and unique opportunities for the sewer´s creative imagination.

Organizing Your Sewing Space [offsite link]
In an ideal world, each of us would have a separate sewing room where we could leave unfinished projects behind closed doors. Host Sandra Betzina shows how to organize your sewing area, no matter what the size, so you can spend more time sewing and less time cleaning up!

Sew with Summer Tropical Flair
Sewing in summer with airy and breezy cottons, linen types, hand-dyed batiks, Swiss batistes, brightly colored tropical prints with vibrant coordinating solids all bring to mind those visions of barefoot living and seaside cabana suppers.

Sewing and Fabric – Partners for the Modern Age
The making of fabric is recognized as one of the oldest of human technologies. Some of the most amazing fabrics to consider are the kinds of fabric used in air-supported, frame, and tensile fabric structures and canopies.

Sewing Resolutions
No time to sew? Make it easy on yourself! Break down your sewing goals and aspirations into small intermediate tasks and then work toward them just one step at a time

Starting Your Own Sewing Business [offsite link]
Mary Wilkins of Sew-What´s-New.com describes starting your own sewing business with a few hints to start you off in the right direction including deciding on your area of expertise, location of your business, and networking.

The Textile Museum [offsite link]
The Textile Museum is dedicated to preserving creative achievements in the textile arts. Located in Washington D.C.

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