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Next to mulberry silk, tasar silk is the second-most produced type of silk fabric. This variety of silk is wild, and it is produced by silkworms native to India. Japan is also home to tasar silkworms, but the silk these worms produce is green.

After looking in the mirror, I could see that the frizz wasn’t nearly half as bad and I was thoroughly impressed, especially as it meant I could just give it a quick brush and start getting ready for my day. As the week went on, this only got better and better.

This is the kind of quilting you do when you don’t have a specific design in mind and you don’t use your sewing machine pressure feet. Instead, you guide the fabric layers manually.

These are usually made of scrap fabric pieces, like old, cut-up clothes or leftover fabric from your last project. You can sew the fabric pieces to form a block, then sew the blocks together to form a quilt. Blocks can consist of different patterns or shapes.

The material can stretch or slip out of your hands. Plus, if you do a lot of scissor-cutting, you may experience discomfort in your hands and wrists. Rotary cutters solve those problems.

This quilt consists of one simple patch of fabric. It usually consists of repeating shapes sewn together to achieve a pieced quilt top.

Both industrialized and developing countries now have modern installations capable of highly efficient fabric production. In addition to mechanical improvements in yarn and fabric manufacture, there have been rapid advances in development of new fibres, processes to improve textile characteristics, and testing methods allowing greater quality control.

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It’s a good idea to prepare your fabric before you quilt. Some shrinking is inevitable when those woven fabrics are eventually washed. Before you do any sewing or cutting, pre-washing the material allows you to “get the shrinking done” before you start.

If you’re new to quilting, coming across words like “batting” or “fat quarter” can be as confusing as encountering a foreign language for the first time.

Originally, human beings harvested wild silk to make rudimentary fabrics. While worms spin silk in the wild in parts of China, India, and Europe, wild silk is never available in large enough quantities to satisfy the needs of full-blown textile production.

Satin is known to be less absorbing than cotton which allows less moisture to escape into your pillowcase during the night, keeping it locked in your hair instead. This felt amazing and really was a game here changer when it came to getting ready.

A linear fireplace will add warmth to a modern living room. Michelle Berwick Design chose a sleek linear fireplace to create a focal point on a wall of built-ins to make this family room more inviting. A Frame TV programmed with a painting takes the focus off the flat screen.

This kind of stitching is done randomly. To make your task easier, you can use the darning foot on your sewing machine. This technique takes a lot of practice to get to the point where it doesn’t look haphazard.