The Suffolk Sewist

The Suffolk Sewist The Suffolk Sewist is a local business offering sewing support and tuition.
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30/08/2026

Here's a little follow up to the video on how to make the easiest scrunchies that I did a few weeks ago. This will show you how to make little mini heatless rollers that are great for giving you perfect hair, straight out of bed!

If you head over to my You Tube channel you can see a longer video that also shows you how I style them overnight, so that I wake up with beautiful blow-dry style curls.

These are a 10 minute make!!

I'm all for an easy life so I literally just use one roller and a scrunchie for this. I haven't got time for anything else! 🤣

24/08/2026

Making it work! 😂 When you absolutely, positively need some of the thread colour on your overlocker cones to use on your sewing machine. Wind off a couple of bobbins, and thread one up top and bottom.

Cheeky!

Machines:
Bernina L450 overlocker
Juki DX5 sewing machine

Start of the new season and you realise that you have accidentally given yourself an Ipswich Town manicure! 🤣Up The Town...
22/08/2026

Start of the new season and you realise that you have accidentally given yourself an Ipswich Town manicure! 🤣

Up The Town!

Happy birthday to me! 🥳🎂🎈 We are up in Norfolk at the moment so we went out to Cromer for the day, and got thoroughly bl...
18/08/2026

Happy birthday to me! 🥳🎂🎈 We are up in Norfolk at the moment so we went out to Cromer for the day, and got thoroughly blown around by the gale coming in off the North Sea.

Bertie the Beauceroodle looked very dashing in his Daddy's baseball cap.

I got a new pair of headphones and an armful of books so I can finish the Throne of Glass series. Super stuff!

I'll be back at the sewing machine soon, promise. 😘

16/08/2026

Adding belt loops onto an existing garment today. I made these shorts for my husband last month (I will get some photos at some point) and he requested some belt loops. For all of about 1/2 a second I considered seam ripping the waistband off and sewing them into it at the top before I realised that I absolutely was not going to do that 😂

I had some of the same denim left so I made some belt loops by just cutting a long rectangle of fabric, finished along one long edge and then folded in thirds and stitched shut. That then gets chopped up into sections that are about 1.5" longer than the depth of your waistband.

Attach as instructed and it will be nice and secure, cleanly finished and the job is done!

🧷 Save this so you can find it again later!

11/08/2026

I love the float function on my machine, does yours do it too? It's so helpful for floating over thick seams or zips or anything else bulky. You can adjust the height of the float in the settings so you can customise it to your needs, which is super handy.

I'll sing the praises of this machine until the end of days. ❤️

Machine: Juki DX5

06/08/2026

The ultimate turning tool, perfect for turning out waistbands, ties, loops etc. My thanks to the lovely Megan at Made for Mermaids for putting me onto this years ago. The original ones are made by Dritz and I had to search for a while before I found a way to get them in the UK.

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45-49 Westgate Street
Ipswich
IP1 3DX

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