Welcome to DAY 10 of our 12 Days of Christmas celebration!
For our 10th Day Of Christmas giveaway, we are doing a GIVEAWAY of one $100 Pixie Faire Gift Card to one lucky winner. The gift card can be used towards any item available on the Pixie Faire website. Woot, Woot!
Maybe you'll use your gift card to buy a new pattern to use to practice a new sewing skill! Need some ideas? The Sewing Techniques collection of courses available in Sewing With Cinnamon span from basic beginner level tutorials and projects to more advanced skills designed to challenge you!
Wondering what types of technique tutorials are included?
Hand Sewing Mastery includes basic skills with a demonstration for sewing snaps under buttons which can be used with so many pattern found at Pixie Faire!
Here's a peek at that video:
Lace Applique demonstrated on the Starlight Gala pattern and the Aviator Jacket pattern
Basic Hand Embroidery with demonstrations to add something special to a pair of jeans!
Smocking for dolls done by hand using the Katya pattern.
Hemming Techniques with an emphasis on using decorative stitches demonstrated on the Jeans, Lace Overlay Top, Spring Dirndl, and Open Pelisse & Regency Dress patterns.
Creating pleats with demonstrations using the Plated Skirt and Cosplay Day Dress patterns.
Creating pintucks with demonstrations using the Boomerit Falls Dress pattern.
and so much more...
There are so many technique based video tutorials available in Sewing With Cinnamon and the streaming platform make it so easy to watch at any time from anywhere! Look for us on Roku and watch anytime on your TV!
ENTER TO WIN A $100 Pixie Faire Gift Card!
Toenter this week's contest, simply click the link below and then enter through the giveaway widget at the bottom of the blog post, there are many things you can do to earn multiple entry points!
Contest Details: You enter through the entry form that is embedded on this page and appears just below this paragraph, if you don't see it, be sure to visit the page from your desktop or an alternate browser such as Google Chrome. It may not appear on all mobile devices. The complete rules and entry details appear on the entry form. This is not a comment contest - in other words, leaving a comment on the bottom of this page is not an official entry method. The only required entry method is to leave a comment under this post and then confirm that you did it in the contest widget. One person will receive the gift card. You can enter once, or gain multiple entries by completing the other entry methods and increase your chances of winning. Please review all Terms and Conditions on the giveaway page before entering. While we wish we could run this contest everywhere, for legal reasons it is only open to eligible residents of the U.S. and Canada, not including Rhode Island. This contest is exclusively endorsed by Pixie Faire and Sewing With Cinnamon.
Commenting below and confirming your entry in the widget above gives you one entry method, the other methods are listed in the widget above, be sure to enter in as many ways as you can to receive the maximum amount of entries to win the prize!
Entry method #1, comment on this blog post finishing the following sentence…
“My biggest sewing challenge is ________.” Tell us why :)
Comments must be left (on this blog post) by midnight (pacific) on Tuesday, 1/3/2023.
The widget will be updated the following day with the first name of the winner. The winner will be contacted at the email provided when entering.
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Okay, good luck, and if we’ve forgotten anything we will modify and/or update this post as needed.
We hope you enjoy our 12 Days Of Christmas Celebration. We are incredibly grateful for your ongoing support and wish you a happy holiday season, and a terrific new year!
Happy New Year!
Cinnamon & Pixie Faire Team
100 Comments
Martha R.
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge, other than no time to sew, is straightening fabric to be on grain. It sometimes takes hours and by time the fabric is straight, I ’ve lost interest in making anything out of it.
Diana G
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is getting frustrated when sewing with small garments and zippers.
Amanda McCullough
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is just getting started.
Nanita S Adams
January 03, 2023
I love sewing for little ones.
Helen Meece
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is time. My house often suffers.
LeAnne B
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is not having a dedicated sewing space. It’s hard to get sewing in when you can’t leave out your machines and projects.
BevM
January 03, 2023
My biggest problem is deciding what to sew. So many ideas. Not enough time.
Mary Jo
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is alteration. A little bird tells friends that I do alterations. Taking up my sewing time and set ups.
Susan Fritz
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is learning about all the feet and stitches on my machine. I’m sure there are many that would improve the speed and ease of my sewing. When I finally fit the time for a project, and collect all the materials I am loathe to try a new method that may not work as well. I too, as many others have trouble finding the right size materials.
Kathy Loegering
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is taking the time to research or watch video’s on the right way to do things. I get too excited to get started and think, it can’t be that difficult so I just wing it.
Rita Kryglik
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is finding prints small enough for 18" scale historic clothing.
Linda Kreilick
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is my changing eye sight. Oh to be young again. At least with my old machine, I know exactly where the needle is to thread it, but my newer machines, it is a struggle.
Michelle
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is zippers. I have put them in clothing for myself but for some reason, I avoid doll clothes or other craft projects that use them.
Holly
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is adjusting for differences in sizing. No two of my 18" dolls is the same so I’ve had to learn who fits what style best, but I’d love to learn more
Beth Polvino
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is needing a new setup due to shrinking bones and loss of height causing cervical spine issues.
Rebecca
January 03, 2023
I biggest sewing challenge is -TIME! So much fabric, so little time.
Leslie
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is organization. And focus. If I had more do I, I suppose I would be more organized. Hmm…
Judy S
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is stretch material
Laurie
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is deciding which fabric to use when trying a new pattern because I have so much fabric to choose from.
Sue D
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is making the time to sew.
Melinda
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is hemming.
MARIAN
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is finding find to do all the doll outfits that I design. Since my major in college was Clothing and Textiles, techniques aren’t an issue. With my new studio I have organized space. I am blessed with an understanding husband who helps me around the house. I wish I could finish cleaning and house organizing as easily as I do doll outfits.
Carol
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is finding the right fabrics and notions that are the right weight and scale for dolls.
Charissa Deuser
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is fitting patterns to the bodies and sizes of dolls or even myself😉
Margie
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is probably working with very slick or stretchy fabrics. Instead of trying to get better at it I just tend to avoid them.
Cindy
January 03, 2023
My biggest ongoing challenge is small buttonholes.
Georgia
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is knit fabrics!
Glynda Whitlow
January 03, 2023
Keeping sewing projects together, being organized
CdnCrafter
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is using my serger.
Shelley
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is not enough time to do everything I want to do.
Vicki
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is finding the time to do it! Also, sourcing appropriate fabrics locally—there’s nothing like touching fabrics before you make the decision to purchase.
Deb
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is time. There isn’t enough time to do everything I need to do and want to do. Time is my biggest sewing challenge.
Bridgette
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is making myself just to do it.
Pam
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is deciding what to sew and making the time to complete the project. So many wants and not enough time it seems.
Kim K
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is finding time to sew.
Erin
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is time! Having 2 young kids and a side hustle leaves very little time to sew as much as id like.
Elizabeth
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is buttonholes.
Gail
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is keeping my sewing space organized so that I have freedom to create.
Jeanne
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is time.
Ava
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is creating my own designs. I want to, but I don’t have the skill set yet. I’m planning on starting Pattern Academy soon, which I hope will help with that!
Sharon B.
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is finding time to do it!
Patti M
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is making it a priority. I love the outlet it provides, but I am a giver. I often use my free time helping others in their pursuits, putting sewing on the back burner.
Florence
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is finding the fabric I want!
Betty
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is time and procrastination.
Becky Cortese
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is using my serger!
shaun
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is time to do all the things in my mind and all the things others ask me to do!
Helen
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is sewing pleats. For some reason they scare me. I need to conquer that fear!
APRIL
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is finding time to sew. I watch my nearly 1 year old and nearly 5 year old grandkids several days a week while their parents work. When I’m not watching them (they don’t let me leave their sight even to go to the bathroom), I’m working on household chores and trying to get my business up and running. Night time is spent with my hubby relaxing and unwinding. I’m hoping to be able to start sewing again once the business is up and running.
Joni Jones
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is cutting out the patterns. Would love to have more of the doll clothes with SVG files so I could cut in the Cricut Maker
Connie
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is just getting started. I find so many things I want to sew but can never decide where to begin.
Kate
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is being able to organize my time so that I have regular time to sew.
Sally
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is sewing buttonholes.
Patricia Johnson
January 03, 2023
my biggest sewing challenge is learning all my new feet for my sewing machine
Leenie Jackson
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is just getting in the sewing room and digging in and working on something.
Judith Shear
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is definitely buttonholes!
Cora
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is storage and finding time. I have 17 quart tubs filled with trims and fabrics for doll clothes and other projects. 1-8ft table filled to within 2 feet of my 11 ft ceiling and the top of a bunk bed filled to within 2 feet of the 10 ft ceiling. Being a former theatre costumer, I have all sizes of scraps of every kind of fabric, plus people leave garbage bags of material on my porch. I got a new serger and another machine plus supplies from people I gave free facemasks to in 2020 and 2021. (Their mothers had died and they didn’t sew, so they gave them to me.) My mother was making Raggedy Anns and Andys for our entire family—she had 20 sets in different stages of being made when she was killed crossing a street (impaired driver) and I have 2 xl tubs of them to make for my family. This is my project for this year.
Pamela
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is rolled hems.
Linda Reynolds
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is understanding the instructions.
Erma T.
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is just getting started!
France
January 03, 2023
I have been sewing for 64 years now. Don’t have much challenging technique. Let say to use the feet for multiple use
Gina B Reiley
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is me.
Gayle Adams
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is working on ‘tiny’ projects. Mostly seeing them.
Amy
January 03, 2023
Thanks for the giveaway
Donna
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge in sewing is having neat backup stitches.
Sylvia Hougland
January 03, 2023
Mu biggest sewing challenge is time. I always have more ideas and patterns than I have time to make.
Nancy H
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is sewing buttonholes.
Linda Estes
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge, at the moment, when sewing doll clothes is sewing with thin slippery fabrics like satin, silk or chiffon.
Ellen
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is organization. It seems everyone, including myself, seems to think my sewing room is the place to put things that otherwise don’t have a home. Consequently, it always seems to be a mess just when I want to sew.
CynthiaW
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is time. After a day at work, have trouble getting myself to start working on a long project.
Kathi M
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is welt pockets. I never can get them squared.
Dixie
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is rolled hems!
Judy McP
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is time. I think a project plan that breaks down steps common to all sewing projects into small tasks would help.
Cathy
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is deciding what to tackle next. My mind is full of ideas and I have so many patterns but it’s sometimes hard to settle on one thing. I have definite storage issues as well,
Jolynn Shenk
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is hemming on jersey fabrics!
Mary
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is choosing a pattern and fabric that looks good on me.
Maureen B
January 03, 2023
My two biggest sewing challenges are working with fine fabrics and making all the fantastic patterns I see before the granddaughters no longer want to play with their dolls.
Janet
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is hemming curves where it goes on the bias.
Juliette
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is working with delicate fabrics. I often get a snarl at the start of a seam.
Lynn M
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is sewing knit fabrics, especially for swimwear.
Sandra
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is finding the time to sew.
Sandra
Lori N.
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is deciding what pattern to sew and what fabric(s) to use.
Tracy
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is altering store bought clothing to fit better.
Shaphan
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is deciding what to make with the fabric that I have. Sometimes there are too many choices.
Rena Howard
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is finding and choosing the appropriate fabric and accessories for each pattern.
Kathy Goldenbogen
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is a big imagination, to much fabric and not enough time. Learning to say No, so I can see what I want.
Lisa
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is making the time to sew because the sewing space also needs organizing. So I know it’s not just sit and sew, I have to work for it first.
Barbara Lipovics
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is sewing velvet and satin together. I pin my heart out, but the slippage is inevitable. I’ve recently tried using an even feet foot. It helps somewhat, but still requires lots of seam ripping to get things lined up the way I had them. I use these materials to make capes for dolls, so the seams are long.
Margaret
January 03, 2023
“My biggest sewing challenge is gathering. No mare how I try can’t seem to get this skill down
sheila
January 03, 2023
my biggest sewing challenge is deciding which pattern I want to make next. they are all so cute and I want to make them all right away.
Susan Hope
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is creating time and space for creativity
Kelly
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is finding the time to sew and just getting started!
Mary
January 03, 2023
My biggest challenge is buttonholes. I purchased a new sewing machine, not only for making buttonholes, that had a more automated system but I just struggle with it.
Lenora
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is keeping my sewing room organized. If it’s a mess, I’m not motivated to sew.
Cathy
January 03, 2023
my biggest problem is zippers, never seem to be able to master putting them in right.
Brenda
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is time. It passes too quickly.
Debra
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is working with fuzzy fabrics
Brenda
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is finishing seams for a professional look. I’d love to invest in sewing with cinnamon one day!
Shannon smith
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is not having enough space and or time to actually sew. I have a large family by todays standards, four children aged 7 months to 9 years. It’s hard to let myself be creative when there’s laundry to do or dishes to be done. I wish I could just let them be dirty but my brain will not let me focus on the things I want to do when I know there’s other crap to be done.
Eileen
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is the feeling that I am not good enough. No one can convince me that I am good. I have changed patterns to make cats with wings, matching marching band uniforms for dolls, and gingerbread dresses and still feel that it could gave been better.
Darlene
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge is alterations. I can do the basic hem and side seams. Arm holes and bust lines are really confusing.
Martha R.
January 03, 2023
My biggest sewing challenge, other than no time to sew, is straightening fabric to be on grain. It sometimes takes hours and by time the fabric is straight, I ’ve lost interest in making anything out of it.