Exclusive Projects by Sew4Home
Sew4Home is dedicated to stylish home sewing – from bags to blankets, pillows to linens, aprons, gifts, accessories and more. Inspiring sewing tutorials are expertly designed projects you’ll be proud to keep, display, or give as gifts.
Toddler Paint and Activity Smock
Stay clean. Stay cute! Wipe-clean oilcloth and soft quilting cotton combine with an all-around custom binding to create a full coverage Toddler Paint and Activity Smock that your favorite little one (and the little one’s parents) will love. The smock is designed with Velcro at each shoulder, so it’s easy to fit to the child. Once the shoulders have been set, you can simply slip it over the child’s head when they’re ready to paint, color, glue, or otherwise get creatively messy.
As you put together your smock, you’ll get to learn/practice S4H’s favorite tips for working with oilcloth (and other sticky substrates), as well as how to make and attach your own custom bias binding. There are even special notes on how and when to gently stretch your binding as your curve and when you don’t want to that.
> Download Project Instructions – English | French
> Helpful S4H project links “Sewing Laminated Cottons + Oilcloth” and “ Cutting, Making and Attaching”
> Download Smock Pattern Bundle
> Watch the introduction video
Flower Power Pillow
Peace and love are flowing your way courtesy of the flower children at Sew4Home. This latest S4H exclusive project for Janome Canada is a unique Flower Power Pillow that will be a fun addition to your favorite pillow pile. This beginner-friendly project features several techniques that are excellent learning opportunities for new sewsits. Even more experienced sewists may find something they haven’t seen before or recognize an old skill they can brush up on. You’ll find step-by-step instructions for fussy cutting with a pattern frame, decorative stitching tips, making a custom covered button, how to cinch a shape using pearl cotton, and even some handy notes on pillow stuffing.
> Download Project Instructions and Pattern – English
> Helpful S4H project links “Tips for Blending Colors and Prints” and “Ladder Stitch Tutorial”
Table Runner and Banded Napkins
Widen your horizons! You may have noticed an exciting new trend in designer fabric collections: wide width quilt backing. The motifs are bold and beautiful, and they are not merely one of the main collection’s designs in a larger format. They are a unique pattern, specifically chosen to look great across a wide swath of fabric. Although they are amazing at what their name implies: as a quilt back, our friends at S4H couldn’t help but wonder what else these wonderfully wide widths could be used for.
Their super smart idea: a gorgeous, long table runner cut as a single panel! Thanks to that incredible wide width quilt backing, you need just a little over a yard to make it happen. Download and create your own with the instructions are provided below.
> Download Project Instructions – English | French
> Helpful S4H project links “Fussy Cutting” and “ Narrow Hem with a Neat Corner”.
> Watch the introduction video
Box Style Canvas Tote
Petite pouches and itty-bitty bags are always fun and useful, but sometimes you simply need to be large and in charge. This project from our friends at Sew4Home works as a jumbo tote when you’re out and about or fill it up with storables when you’re home. With a tough canvas exterior and wide webbing straps and handles, it can take on whatever tasks you have in mind. The Box Style Canvas Tote instructions has techniques you’ll use again and again for future bag making and storage solution projects. The detailed steps and photos take you through tips for sewing thick layers, how to create wide flat felled seams, topstitching, sewing an X Box to secure the straps and handles, finishing the interior seam allowances with bias binding, in setting a flat base panel and more.
> Download Project Instructions – English
> Helpful S4H project links “X Box Straps”, “ Flat Felled Seams” and “Tips on Pre-washing”
> Watch the introduction video
Rainbow Patchwork Half Apron
This is a fast and fun project that would be perfect for someone new to sewing and/or patchwork. A colorful blend of solid pastel charm squares gives the apron its rainbow blend of pinks, yellows, greens, blues, and purples. The coordinating print fabric adds a beautiful backdrop to the rainbow with decorative Madeira thread stitching accents along the waistband as well as the pocket flaps. Our friends at Sew4Home created this pretty project exclusively for Janome Canada users and can be made on any Janome machine: Continental M7, Skyline Series or QDC Series
> Understitching with Sew4Home a Step-By-Step Tutorial
> Download Project Instructions – English | French
> Download Pocket Flap Pattern
Patchwork Bib and Skirt Apron Project
Stir a swirl of colour into your cooking! This gorgeous patchwork apron will feel like wrapping yourself in a rainbow. Four amazing quilting cottons, plus a coordinating lining cotton, and unique corduroy accents all come together in a delightful mixture of pattern and texture.
The S4H team created this beautiful project exclusively for Janome Canada users. As you put the apron together, you’ll learn/practice: assembling panels, stitching darts, making skinny ties, inserting a decorative flange, and more. In addition, you’ll see how all the layers can be assembled, stitched, and then turned through the open top of the bib, resulting in an apron that is fully finished front to back. Watch the YouTube intro video for more informaion.
> Download Project Instructions – English
> Helpful S4H project links “Bias Binding”, “Cutting Corners” and “Making Darts”
Structured Waist Pack
Learn and apply multiple sewing techniques with this fun Structured Waist Pack project from our friends at Sew4Home. This innovative design has lots of great features and compartments for all your necessities. Large enough for a cell phone and prefect for on-the-go. Explore great techniques: from applying an overlaid zipper to creating a zippered all-around sidewall to inserting flat panels into a loop. Each of this techniques – any many others – are explained in detail with step-by-step photos to guide you through.
> Download Project Instructions – English
> Download Project Pattern Bundle
> S4H project links: Working with Piping, Sewing in Circles, Curved Top Canvas Zippered Pencil Case
Quilted Octagonal Placemats
From the 2030QDC-TC to the Continental M7, this is a great quilting project for any Janome sewing machine. The octagon placemats are a unique shape that is not only fun and different, but also perfect for highlighting the half square triangle patchwork as well as the clean corners of the perimeter binding. Designed and presented exclusively for Janome Canada users, S4H’s Quilted Octagonal Placemat instructions have been specially prepared for anyone brand new to patchwork or quilting – or to be able to be used an introductory project if you’re teaching someone to sew and quilt.
> Download Project Instructions – English
> Watch the introduction video
Digital Device Case Project
Take your laptop or other electronic device on-the-go in this stylish Device Case. It’s fashionable on the outside, smartly padded on the inside so your devices are stored safely and protected from scratches and dust. Our friends at Sew4Home created this fun project exclusively for Janome Canada. It features the Janome Continental M7 Professional, which has the power and precision to stitch smoothly through the project’s thicker layers and the wide bed space to easily accommodate the straight line quilting.
> Download Project Instructions – English | French
> Download Project Flap Template and Tassel Template
> Helpful S4H project links “Fussy Cutting”, “Pocket Matching” and “Triming Corners”
Monogrammed Zipper Pouch
Can you ever have – or make – too many zippered pouches? We think not! This entry into the category features a bold ticking stripe accented with faux leather. There’s also a fabulous diamond monogram patch appliquéd on the front and a detachable wrist loop. Our friends at Sew4Home created this handy custom project exclusively for Janome Canada with the Skyline S9. This project can be made on any Janome machine, but if you wish to add the monogram, you will need a model that offers embroidery.
> Download Project Instructions – English | French
> Download Pattern File
> S4H Tutorial Bonus: Everything you need to know about rivets
Faux Fur Plaid Flannel Pillows
Traditional plaid and lush faux fur, it’s a classic combination that immediately signals the need to snuggle in front of a crackling fire in your rustic cabin in the woods. What? No cabin in the woods?! No worries. These Plaid Flannel + Faux Fur Pillows will look just as amazing anywhere they end up! You’ll learn some very handy tips for sewing with faux fur as well as see two different presser feet used to insert the optional invisible zipper: a traditional Concealed Zipper foot and a new take, using the Janome AcuFeed™ Flex fabric feeding system.
> Download Project Instructions – English | French
> S4H Tutorial Bonus: Sewing with faux fur and how-to install an invisible zipper