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Helpful Sewing/Garment Making Materials (Beginner and Lazy People Friendly ♡)
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items These are a compilation of helpful things that helped me a lot in fashion school. They're all affordable, easy to find, and hopefully will help ease your sewing journey like they did mine!
For rolling hems of any size on industrial machines! You see a lot of options for portable machines but no one talks about hemming attachments for industrial machines. However, please note that your machine needs to have a screw near the foot to atta...
2026 Upgraded Universal Sewing Rolled Hemmer Foot Set
This is not just a sewing tip I fear. If you iron your own clothes in general and struggle when dealing with sleeves (like me), get this. It'll save you from a lifetime of frustration.
Sleeve Ironing Board
I remember when I used to ruche tulle for a dress and my fingers bruised from doing it. Truly wish I found out this existed sooner 💔 If you find pushing needles through fabrics painful when hand sewing, save yourself from the suffering and get this.
Sewing Thimbles
You know when you draft and you fold your paper since you need to mark the other side but you can't see what you've drawn anymore because of the fold? Get a tracing wheel! Roll it on the lines of your drawing and just follow the holes when tracing th...
Tracing Wheel
One of my saviors during fashion school. Saved me from so many crash outs whenever I needed to bias anything. Make sure to take it slow when using it the first few times!
Bias Tape Maker Kit
Really helps when you're tracing patterns onto a different paper! You can use your regular tablet, laptop, or even a tv if you're desperate like I was by playing a white video or using a white photo but those options come with their own inconvenience...
LED Light Tracing Board - #FC770335 – Faber-Castell USA
Love using this to put notches, darts or sewing guides on fabrics. You can use chalk but sometimes it won't come off even after you wash them. So, if you struggle with that, use this instead! When you wanna get rid of the markings, just iron them and...
PILOT FriXion Clicker Erasable Pen 0.7mm, 7ct
Usually sewing rulers have their markings in red, and while that works for light colored fabrics, I used to struggle so much trying to see the lines when I used it on darker colored ones. So if you're someone who works with dark colored fabrics a lot...
See-Thru Accurate Positioning & Marking Ruler
Best type of pin cushion for messy people like me ♡. Back in school, when we were rushing to finish our assignments, my friends and I would just let pins fall to the ground then regret it when it was clear up time. Picking them up one by one sucked m...
Magnetic Straight Pin Holder
If you want to make projects that include eyelets; like corsets, belts, bags, save some money and get yourself this type of eyelet maker instead! It works just as well, if not better than other eyelet making tools. They also come in many different si...
Eyelet Hole Punch Grommet Setter
If you use pins a lot, you'll know that they go dull pretty quickly. An easy solution to that is to just buy a sharpening cushion like this one. The tomato part is a regular pin cushion but the strawberry is a sharpening one. That way you don't need ...
Dritz Large Tomato Pin Cushion w/ Strawberry Emery