Ever bought a pair of pants only to later find they're too long? Ever lost a button or ripped a shirt? Don't panic; this workshop can help! We’ll cover the basics of how to use a sewing machine and ...

So, you’d like to start sewing as a new hobby, but you aren’t quite sure what type of project you can handle. Good news: We’ve rounded up a bevy of beginner sewing projects, so you can stop hemming ...

If you’ve ever looked at a sewing pattern, you already know that deciphering it can be intimidating. Yet if you’ve ever found the perfect dress, but the color was slightly off, or the sleeves weren’t ...

When Zoey Washington was a teenager, she loved fashion and regularly visited crafts stores and made her own clothes at home. But she’s never forgotten the ultimate hurdle to her creations: clothing ...

The new “Back to Basics” series will challenge Farron and Maggie to learn a basic life skill for the first time or help them remember a skill they learned long ago. With the help of Jennifer Fairbanks ...

Carla Peery teaches a 14-week sewing skills class, Let's Do Business, to grade schoolers. Carla Peery, an educator from Seattle, teaches basic sewing skills to 4th and 5th graders in a program called ...

This story was originally published on May 22, 2023, and has been updated. When Arounna Khounnoraj was growing up, her mother, a seamstress, made and mended Khounnoraj's clothes. She would try to make ...

I am on the short side of petite, so clothes shopping is often a problem. But my mother, a gifted seamstress, always came to the rescue with her round, gold sewing tin with the red-and-green, ...

Free-motion quilting, preloaded alphabets, and hundreds of stitches—today’s sewing machines do more than stitch in a straight line. By Carol Benton, Stacey L. Nash Updated Oct 13, 2023 12:40 PM EDT We ...