Sisters, Anne Adams and Liz Johnson are the creative engine behind Sew4Home. They believe anyone can and should sew for the sheer love of it. Their mission is to promote sewing and educate visitors on the value of working with the proper tools and materials, and demonstrate how quality makes the sewing experience faster and easier, and produces finished results that are more polished and professional-looking.

Since launching in early 2009, S4H has attracted a rapidly increasing group of devoted readers and makers of their step-by-step projects, techniques, tips, and tricks. The site features today’s easy-to-use sewing machines, beautiful and readily available fabrics, plus news about clever notions and tools. The sisters know how to spot the best trends and to develop them into must-make projects for their followers.

The S4H team is an experienced group with long ties to the sewing and design industry. Thanks for sharing some of your creative time with us; we’re glad you’re here.

How do I print/save a PDF of an article?
Look along the left edge of any article page for our SHARE bar — it’s a vertical bar that scrolls as you scroll. The first item on the bar is a bold, red PDF icon. Click this icon to generate a printable PDF. Click to read more about how to use our PDF articles + patterns.

What is the best way to search?
Check out the black bar at the top of every page. It includes links to our project and technique categories + an open box to use for searching by key words.

Can I make S4H items for sale?
All material (projects, artwork, text, patterns, photos, etc.) on Sew4Home.com is protected under the copyright laws. You can make small quantities (10 items or fewer per year) for sale if you make the items yourself and follow a few additional guidelines. Click here to read our full Copyright and Usage statement.

Can I convert from inches to millimeters?
Scroll down to the bottom of the main side bar, on any page, to find our Conversion Calculator.

Can I offer S4H an article, link or other content?
We do not use outside writers or content at this time.

You can contact us by email:
[email protected]

Or by standard mail:
Sew4Home
101 E 8th Street, Suite 330D
Vancouver, WA 98660

If you have any questions about Terms of Use, see section below.

Sew4Home LLC (S4H) has a flexible range of customized advertising and sponsorship options. For rates and availability, please contact us by email: [email protected] and someone will contact you right away.

Many of our articles are “sponsored posts.”  This means the company who sponsored the article compensated S4H via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value. That said, please understand that we ONLY recommend products or services we believe to be of good quality and of interest to our followers. The trust of our followers is of utmost importance and we would never jeopardize that relationship. The views and opinions expressed on this website are purely our own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

We’re always looking for talented people for freelance project work who have an eye for current style trends as well as experience designing sewing projects and creating tutorials with step-by-step instructions. 

Description of Work

Sew4Home LLC (S4H) provides fabric and notions and the basic concept for the projects; for example, the assignment might be to design an apron using a specified fabric collection that incorporates a technique such as a dart or pleat. The process would include the initial discussion of the project specifications, followed by submission of a design concept sketch for approval with general assembly notes and fabric cut requirements. The project is completed with instructions and accompanying photography. The final construction, step-by-step instructions, and photography may be completed by the designer or may be completed by a S4H seamstress as appropriate, depending on the project’s budget, timeline, and complexity.

Requirements

• Good design skills combined with strong sewing experience and a basic understanding of fabric substrates.
• Ability to take a good instructional photos. Instructional images only – beauty images are handled by S4H.
• Computer skills for communication, file transfer, and the ability to create basic concepts in a drawing program such as Illustrator or Photoshop.
• Ability to meet all agreed-upon deadlines. 

Applying

Please follow these application steps so we don’t miss your submission:

• Include your name, address, phone number, and an email address where we can contact you.
• Include a resume that summarizes your qualifications and experience, details how you work, and mentions any special strengths and skills, talents or interests. Please to not attach a resume; simply paste the summary into the body of the email. 
• Provide a link to examples of your work. This could be to your blog or website, or to Instagram or Pinterest images. Please do not send any attachments with your email.
• Send the application email to [email protected] with the word APPLICATION in the subject line.

We do not currently use outside writers nor do we accept full articles written by outside sources. All content is edited by the S4H Management Team.

No current job openings.

Your privacy and security are a top priority at Sew4Home LLC (S4H). This Privacy Notice outlines what types of personal information we receive and collect when you visit Sew4Home.com and how we safeguard your information.

We will never sell, rent or trade your personal information to third parties. By using Sew4Home, all visitors, customers, and any other users of the site are agreeing to this Privacy Notice, without modification, and acknowledge reading it.

What Information S4H Collects and How it is Used

Website Interaction – S4H only collects the personal information you voluntarily provide to us which may include:

• Your email address in order to subscribe to our mailing list.
• Your name, email address and/or social media profile in order to post a comment on the site.
• Your full name, email address, and message in order to contact us via email or standard mail with a question, concern or comment.

Activity – When visiting Sew4Home.com, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement, and gather broad demographic information for internal use. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are never linked to personally identifiable information.

Cookies – In compliance with the European Union legislation, we inform you that our website will store some information about your preferences on your own computer inside a tiny file called a “cookie.” A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions or preferences over time.

You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work as expected. Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can delete them whenever they like.

Enabling cookies from our website is not strictly necessary for the website to work, but it will provide you with a better browsing experience.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

S4H uses cookies to:

• Identify you as a returning user and to count your visits in our traffic statistics analysis.
• Remember your custom display preferences.
• Suggest any recent searches you’ve made on our site.
• Other usability features, including tracking whether or not you’ve already given your consent to cookies.
• For Third-Party advertising (see more on this below).

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics also gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Personal Data – The information you provide is used to communicate, send emails, and improve the service we provide, such as:

• Customizing your experience and analyzing the usage of the site
• Providing you with information that may affect your use of the site
• Communicating marketing and promotional offers
• Providing customer service
• Developing new products and/or projects
• Resolving disputes and enforcing our policies

Giveaways – Any information collected during giveaways, such as names and email addresses, will not be used for any purpose other than to contact the winner(s) unless specifically stated within the terms of the Giveaway.

How To Update Your Information – If you opt-in to S4H’s mailing list, we will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us (announcements and/or newsletters) and will send you emails regarding S4H and/or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email. You may also access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences by contacting us with your request at [email protected].

We do share your information with trusted third parties who assist us in operating the website, conducting business, and providing service to visitors. These trusted third parties agree to keep this information confidential. Your personal information will never be shared with unrelated third parties.

Third Party Advertising Privacy Statements and GDPR

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement

To help understand your interests, our advertising partners will track your behavior on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies. As described above, a cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

By using Sew4Home.com, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with our other third party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.

For European Economic Area Residents (GDPR)

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing.  If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or AdThrive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact Raptive at [email protected]. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences icon. (Available in the EU.)

Right to Opt Out of “Sales” of Personal Information in Some US States

This information comes to us from Raptive: State laws applicable in California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia give residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under these laws, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of the sharing of your information for advertising information, click the opt out link provided above. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request, please contact us at [email protected]. To be clear, we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.

Third Party Links

In an attempt to provide increased value to our visitors, S4H may link to sites operated by third parties. However, S4H has no control over these linked sites, all of which have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of S4H. These linked sites are only for your convenience and therefore you access them at your own risk. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. S4H seeks to protect the integrity of its site and the links placed upon it, and therefore requests any feedback on not only its own site, but for sites it links to as well (including if a specific link does not work).

Affiliate Program Participation

Sew4Home is a participant in the Amazon Services Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. This program uses cookies to track visits through the customized links for referral purposes. View Amazon’s privacy policy here.

Sew4Home also participates in the Commission Junction and the ShareASale affiliate programs. Cookies are also used in these program to track visits through the customized links for referral purposes. View Commission Junction’s privacy policy here. View ShareASale’s privacy policy here.

Sew4Home is committed to ensuring your information is secure. To that end we maintain security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, misuse or disclosure. However, no exchange of data over the Internet can be guaranteed as 100% secure. While we make every effort to protect your personal information shared with us through our site, you acknowledge that the personal information you voluntarily share with us through our site could be accessed or tampered with by a third party. You agree that we are not responsible for any intercepted information shared through our site without our knowledge or permission. Additionally, you release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of such intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.

The explanations and instructions in our website are published in good faith and have been reviewed for accuracy, however, no warranty, either expressed or implied, is made nor are successful results guaranteed. Since the nature and quality of the materials used and the workmanship of the individual creator are unknown, the finished products bear no warranty as to their safety or ability to perform any function adequately.

Sew4Home LLC (S4H) shall not be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the information on this site or the performance of the products recommended.

Should a typographical error be found, we will make every effort to resolve it. Once resolved, no restitution beyond replacement with a corrected version will be made.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless S4H, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers (collectively the “Service Providers”) from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any violation of these terms and conditions or any activity related to your Internet account (including negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing the site using your Internet account.

All material (projects, artwork, text, patterns, photos, etc.) on Sew4Home.com is protected under the copyright laws. The instructions themselves and any associated patterns or pictures cannot be reproduced or reprinted in any way without the written permission of Sew4Home LLC (S4H). This means our tutorials cannot be re-printed as a handout for use within a class or club.

Copyright laws provide exclusive legal rights of usage of an “original work of authorship” to the copyright holder. This protection is provided by the United States title 17, U.S. Code and other international laws. Anyone who violates copyright is subject to criminal penalties, fines, and the possible recovery of any loss of income or profit suffered by the copyright holder due to the infringement. An infringer is also potentially liable for attorneys’ fees and statutory damages.

AI Notification: Sew4Home LLC, the owner of this website, does not consent to the content on Sew4Home being used or downloaded by any third parties for the purposes of developing, training or operating artificial intelligence or other machine learning systems (“Artificial Intelligence Purposes”), except as authorized by the owner in writing (including written electronic communication). Absent such consent, users of Sew4Home, including any third parties accessing the website through automated systems, are prohibited from using any of the content on the website for Artificial Intelligence Purposes. Users or automated systems that fail to respect these choices will be considered have breached these Terms of Service. 

Users are free to translate the website for their own use, but may not republish content.

Manufacturing of products made from our original designs for mass production or commercial use is strictly prohibited. Exceptions may be made for handmade production in small quantities by at-home businesses. You can make small quantities (10 items or fewer per year) for sale if you make the items yourself. They cannot be manufactured by others or sold through a third party. We stipulate that on the tag and/or somewhere within the display or packaging and/or within the sales description online, credit is given for the item being created from a copyrighted design/pattern/tutorial from Sew4Home.com.

We do allow visitors to pick up one or two photos from our articles to use on their personal blogs or websites along with a Sew4Home.com credit line and a link back to our site. We appreciate this outreach. Patterns and instructional steps cannot be re-published on another site as this violates copyright.

We’re sorry, but we are unable to create revisions to our patterns or projects for size or usage variations. It’s a challenge to change dimensions long-distance, especially without access to the item and/or person for whom the project is being adjusted. We would feel awful if we gave you inaccurate advice that caused your finished project to turn out less than successful.

Our standard recommendation is to measure your item and/or person and compare those measurements to our original dimensions. Do the math to make adjustments and scale the original dimensions up or down. Then use these new measurements to make a prototype out of a muslin or another inexpensive fabric you have on hand. This is often the exact way we determine our own patterns and instructions. It is not only a good way to re-engineer a project, making a prototype is also a great way to do a practice run-through of the steps of construction.

The contents of this page may be altered at any time, at our discretion. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this information periodically and to be aware of any modifications. Updates to this information will be posted on this page.

Please contact Sew4Home if you have any questions regarding any policies outlined here either by email or regular mail as shown above in the Contact section.

This policy last updated on February 25, 2020.