Sewing

You do not need vast amounts of experience working on creative DIY-projects to get a seamless start to your sewing life. The art of sewing is the kind of needlework that allows for enjoyment no matter the skill-level and age. Everything you need is the right equipment and materials to get started sewing.

With a solid sewing machine, you can easily create wonderful projects. This includes everything from bags and unique decorations to pretty clothes. You can find almost endless inspiration for your sewing projects in our wide selection of incredible textiles.

Regardless of what your dream project may be, you can find everything needed for sewing on our website. Our range includes plenty of fabrics, sewing accessories, and sewing machines.

Useful knowledge about sewing and DIY

Sewing is a cool method of creating unique items with a personal touch to separate them from mass produced products. It should therefore come as no surprise that sewing continues to be a popular hobby with people in every age range. Before putting your needle and thread to use, make sure to have these items and accessories sorted out:

Sewing machine – electronic or mechanical

The easiest way to enjoy and succeed when sewing is to use a sewing machine. A sewing machine, with all its nice features can provide greater freedom and flexibility when sewing. The machine additionally keeps seams, patterns and holes nice and symmetric. Wheter you choose a mechanical or an electronic sewing machine should depend on experience and apsirations in regards to sewing.

Fabric & textiles

The process of choosing the fabric for a project is one of the many joys of sewing. It is easy to spend hours looking at potential candidates. Depending on the project and design you wish to create, the ideal fabrics can vary considerably. Regardless of material, the choice of sewing needle is vital. The thicker and tougher the fabric, the thicker the needle needs to be!

Sewing thread

We sell sewing thread both separately and in bulk. The advantage of buying thread in bulk is the sheer number of colours to choose from. This is also an easy opportunity for newcomers to easily establish a collection of threads. It is not all types serger threads that is sold with bobbin thread. It is a great idea to have a nice variety of serger threads to easily thread your bobbin in matching nuances, keeping the colours of your projects consistent.

Extra sewing accessories

Sewing accessories is a category filled to the brim with both practical and more technical tools for bettering your sewing experience. Here, you will find essentials such as fabric scissors and measurement tape as well as accessories like stitching awls, thimbles, and ribbon. We recommend always keeping an extra sewing machine- and sewing-needle at hand. Heavy use of needles will in time break the tip of the needle. A neat sewing box or thread box to keep track of all your items is also a must-have. These boxes are ideal for storing equipment like, needles, thread, bobbins, chalk, oil, and fabric samples.

Advise on hand/machine sewing

Switching between hand and machine can sometimes be an advantage when working on sewing projects. Sewing by hand can be especially useful when working on finer details and closures. Whether it being the corner of a pillow, a zipper or some extra stitching: sewing by hand can be a useful tool. Other great pieces of advice to keep in mind while sewing are:

Use contrast colours and a seam ripper for your tacking stitches

It is a good idea to use strong colours when tacking. Try to stitch the fabric together in hand using rough stitching. The colour of the thread should be easily distinguishable from the actual sewing thread. This makes it easier to remove the tacking afterwards using a seam ripper.

Always keep sewing scissors at hand in different sizes

Having different sizes in your arsenal of sewing scissors greatly increases your working conditions while sewing. Cutting fabric or thread both require different dimensions of scissors for a smoother experience.

Always save leftover fabric

When cutting dress patterns, you should keep the leftover fabric. Adjusting your sewing machine for new stitching requires test stitching. Here, leftover fabrics are a lifesaver for use as test subjects. Proper testing allows you to save time you would otherwise use ripping up failed seams.

Use Vliesofix when working on applications

Vliesofix is extremely useful when adding custom motives to the front of a pillow or bag. It is a practical tool and a gamechanger in these kinds of situations. Being a paper-thin material, which sticks on either one or both sides, it is attachable to whatever kind of motive you wish to apply. It then prevents your project from sliding around as you sew it together on your machine.

Shop top-quality accessories for sewing at Ritohobby.co.uk

Whatever kind of material and accessories you need for your next sewing adventure, you can probably find it on our website. Our sewing equipment is top quality and priced competitively which ensure you the best accessories at low price points. Furthermore, we provide price guarantee on all products.

Our website is packed with amazing deals on different kinds of creative products. This guarantees that you are kept up to date on the very best items of the hobby-world. Should you have any further questions regarding our selection of sewing products or other items, we are always ready to help you via. mail or phone.