Here are all of our downloadable PDF tutorials, our favorite local and online pals in the sewing, textile, fashion, needle arts and craft world, plus the very best blogs you SEW need to KNOW!

• Stitch Lab Downloadable PDF Tutorials
  • Easy Peasy Canister!
    
  • Fun Felt Embroidered Badge
  • Velvet Ribbon Pillow
• Local (Austin) Supply Sources
  • Local Fabrics
  • Local Sewing Machine Sales, Service and Repairs
  • Local Sharpening Services (scissors & pinking shears!!)
  • Local Beads & Jewelry Making
  • Local Yarn & Needlecrafts
    
  • Local Custom Embroidery & Monogramming
  • Local Custom Sewing/Patternmaking
  • Local Alterations & Tailoring
  • Local Upholstery
  • Local Slip Covers
  • Local Drapery
  • Local Bridal
  • Local Quilting
  • Local Dyeing, Screenprinting and Textile Arts Supplies
• Online Materials Sources
  • Online Fabrics
  • Online Ribbons & Trims
  • Online Notions
  • Online Pursemaking Supplies/Hardware
  • Online Beads & Jewelry Supplies
  • Online Vintage & Contemporary Sewing Patterns
  • Online Dyeing, Screenprinting and Textile Arts Supplies
• Blogs & Web Sites We Love
  • Stitch Lab Instructors' Web Sites
  • Craft Shows & Special Events
  • Fabric and Sewing
  • Knitting and Needle Arts
  • Art, Fashion, Costume and Design
  • Textile Artists & Groups
  • Millinery
  • Dyeing
  • General Inspiration

STITCH LAB DOWNLOADABLE PDF TUTORIALS

Easy Peasy Canister!

Fun Felt Embroidered Badge

Velvet Ribbon Pillow

LOCAL (AUSTIN) SUPPLY SOURCES

Local Fabrics

• A Quilter's Folly (formerly, Austin Sew & Vac)
• Calico Corners
• Capital City Upholstery
• Cowgirls & Lace
• Fanny's Fabrics
• Ginger's Needle Arts
• Honey Bee Quilt Store
• Interior Fabrics
• Mod Green Pod
• Spruce Upholstery
• TexStyles
• The Common Thread
• The Fabricker
• The Quilt Store
• Valli & Kim
• Walker Hall Design

Local Sewing Machine Sales, Service and Repairs

• Sewing Machine Service & Repair at Stitch Lab! - NEW!!!
• A Quilter's Folly (formerly, Austin Sew & Vac)
• Artisan Sewing Machine Repairs
• City Service Sewing Machines
• Singer Northwest Sewing Center
• Sewing Station
• Sew Much More
• Husqvarna Viking Sewing Gallery (Inside JoAnn Fabrics @ Arborwalk Shopping Village), 512-340-0640

Local Sharpening Services

• Matt Czosnek (512) 609-9724 sharpandpointyknives@gmail.com
• Knife Sharpist
  

Local Beads & Jewelry Making

• AMC Company
• Legendary Beads
• Bead It
• Nomadic Notions
• Lapis Lane Beads

Local Yarn & Needlecrafts

• Ginger's Needle Arts
• Hill Country Weavers
• Knitting Nest

Local Custom Embroidery & Monogramming

• The Dancing Needle

Local Custom Sewing/Patternmaking

• Malissa Long
• Sew Fits
• Carter Creations
  
• Monica Gibson
• Sarah Hopkins

Local Alterations & Tailoring

• 88 Tailor
• Ace Tailors
• Gassane Tailors
• Kimery Manufacturing - Nikki Emery, in Bastrop (512) 303-1767
  Production seamstress who also does alterations, slip covers and dancewear
• Nelda's Tailors
• Perfect Fit Alterations - Mariana Switzer 512-335-0255 (by appointment only)
  
• Sewing by Norma
• Sewing Impaired?
• Shannon Gottshall (512) 560-3901 shanimal_g@yahoo.com

Local Upholstery

• South House Sustainable
• Spruce Upholstery

Local Slip Covers

• Donna Morrow (512) 442-3669 dmorrow61@gmail.com

Local Drapery

• Contact Spruce Upholstery, Fanny's Fabrics or Interior Fabrics for suggestions for local seamstresses.

Local Bridal

• Impressive Bridal Services
• Carter's Creation

Local Quilting

• Over the Top Quilting

Local Dyeing, Screenprinting and Textile Arts Supplies

• Jerry's Artarama Austin

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ONLINE MATERIALS SOURCES

Online Fabrics

• Born to Quilt
• Contemporary Cloth
• Denver Fabrics
• eQuilter.com
• ReproDepot Fabrics
• Silk Road Fabrics - Located in Austin!
  
• Thai Silks
  
• Organic Cotton Plus
  
• Fabrics.net
• Fabric.com

Online Ribbons & Trims

• Buttons 4U
• Discounted Needlework
• JKM Ribbons & Trims
• M&J Trimming
• Cheep Trims
• Expo International

Online Notions

• Acme Notions (locally owned--web only)
• AllBrands.com
• Clotilde
• Sew True
• Greenberg & Hammer
• Nancy's Notions
• Richard The Thread
  
• J. Hittle Wholesale Sewing Supplier
• Accessories of Old

Online Pursemaking Supplies/Hardware

• UMX - Universal Mercantile Exchange, Inc.
• Sunbelt Fastener Co.
• Bag Works
• Tall Poppy Craft Products
• Lees Crafts & Things

Online Beads & Jewelry Supplies

• Rings & Things
• Fire Mountain Gems & Beads
• Jewelry Supply.com
• Ship Wreck Beads
• General Bead Online

Online Vintage & Contemporary Sewing Patterns

• Butterick
• Folkwear
• McCall Pattern Company
• Patterns from the Past
• Simplicity Pattern Co.
• Vogue Patterns
• So Vintage Patterns
• Sweet Sassafrass

Online Dyeing, Screenprinting and Textile Arts Supplies

• Dharma Trading Company
• Dick Blick

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BLOGS & WEB SITES WE LOVE

Stitch Lab Instructors' Web sites

• Anne Marie Beard
• Rachel Hobson
• Becky Joiner
• Kathleen McTee
• Hayley Sayles Pannone
• Jennifer Perkins
• Kathie Sever
• Tina Sparkles
• Laura Del Villaggio

Craft Shows & Special Events

• Handmade Happenings
• Lone Star Ladies
• Renegade Craft Fair

Fabric and Sewing

• Accessories of Old
• Anna Maria Horner
• Art Cloth
• Atlanta Thread & Supply Company
• Austin Area Quilt Guild
• Burdastyle.com
  
• Costumes & Fashion: A History of Fabrics & Fibers (via Wholesale Costume Club)
• Crafting Comfort
• Dear Golden Vintage
• Gertie's New Blog For Better Sewing
• Hayley Sayles Design
• Just Call Me Ruby
• Pattern Review
• Selvedge Sewing
• Sew, Mama, Sew!
• Sew True
• Spoonflower - Digital Printing on fabric
• Super Buzzy
• Southstar Supply Company
• The Purl Bee
• Threadbanger
• True Up

Knitting and Needle Arts

• Ravelry
  
• Knit on the Net
  
• Army of Knitters
  
• knitty.com
  
• Knit Picks
  
• CRAFT Magazine Embroidery Archives
  
• Sublime Stitching
  
• Hand Embroidery Network
  
• Hand Embroidery Flickr Group
  
• Hoop Love Flickr Group - Downloadable Vintage Embroidery Patterns
• Shorpy

Art, Fashion, Costume and Design

• Amazon Dry Goods
• Brini Maxwell
• Ethical Style
• Hoop Love - vintage embroidery pattern Flickr group
• N.E.E.T. Magazine
• The Black Apple
• The Costumer's Manifesto
  
• The Sartorialist
• Vintage Vivant

Textile Artists & Groups

• Kathleen McTee Textiles
• Jane Dunnewold
• Committed To Cloth
• Tilleke Schwarz
• Surface Design Association
• American Craft Council

Millinery

• La Bricoleuse
• Chapeau Du Jour
• The Rantings of a Mad Hatter Wannabe
• The Starry-Eyed Milliner
  
• Hats by Leko
• From the Neck Up - An illustrated guide to hatmaking

Dyeing

• Tilleke Schwarz
• Shorpy
• Art Cloth
• Natural Dyes
  
• Dharma Trading Company

General Inspiration

• Shorpy
• Plan 59
• Dover Publications
• Interweave Press
• If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Lot of Dead Copycats

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