Category Archives: Guides

Explore marking delicate fabric with practical advice, a worked example and a checklist to help you choose sewing tools for your project.

Needle choice begins with the fabric, thread and stitch you plan to make. Practical sewing advice, useful checks and related tools from Eight Needles.

A chalk wheel lays down a line as it rolls; a chalk pencil is guided more like a drawing tool.

Fabric tracing paper transfers a mark under pressure. Practical sewing advice, useful checks and related tools from Eight Needles.

The working edge of tailor’s chalk affects the width of the mark. Practical sewing advice, useful checks and related tools from Eight Needles.

Explore patternmaking tools beginners with practical advice, a worked example and a checklist to help you choose sewing tools for your project.

A hera marker makes a pressure crease rather than adding coloured ink. Practical sewing advice, useful checks and related tools from Eight Needles.

The seamline shows where stitching joins the pieces. Practical sewing advice, useful checks and related tools from Eight Needles.

A measuring wheel follows a line as it rolls. Practical sewing advice, useful checks and related tools from Eight Needles.

Half-scale work makes drafting exercises manageable on a small sheet. Practical sewing advice, useful checks and related tools from Eight Needles.