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Upcycling, sewing advice, repair and customisation tips... Here you'll find all our articles on how to reinvent your dressing room and give a second life to your clothes, accessories and household linen.

How to enlarge a jacket and adapt it to your body shape?

Your jacket is a little tight and yet it's so beautiful. Rest assured, there are techniques for enlarging garments and more specifically, jackets! Phew, let's take a breath and have a look at it all together.

Posted 5 ans

The art of creating pretty ties

In this article, we're going to talk about fasteners, those super-practical little accessories that allow us to carry everything around. Our bag, our mobile phone, our wallet, ... Can we sew any kind of fastener onto any kind of support, and how do we go about it? Tilli explains it all!

Posted 5 ans

How to sew your double curtains?

That's it, you've finally decided to sew your living room curtains. And because you don't do things by halves, you've opted for double curtains.It's a good idea, they'll have more hold and better opacity. Go and get that fabric you've been crushing on! Tilli tells you how to sew your curtains to perfection and give your home a crazy charm.

Posted 5 ans

Customise the bottom of your jeans to make them longer

Are your jeans too short and you don't feel like wearing them any more? Have you considered lengthening them? Impossible, you think? Well, it is! There are loads of ways to lengthen your jeans and Tilli has selected a few for you! Frankly, you almost want to have jeans that are way too short just to try them out.

Posted 5 ans

The War of the Buttons... Press studs!

Has the press stud on your favourite shirt failed? Don't panic, Tilli will show you how to sew a new one on.

Posted 5 ans

How about making gathers with your gathering foot?

Have you just bought a beautiful ruffling presser foot for your machine but you're still not quite sure how to use it? Tilli explains it all to you!

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