When most of us were growing up, there were a handful of basic life skills that just about everybody learned. They were simple, useful abilities, like changing a tire, making a dress from a pattern, ...

This tutorial provides the photographic step-by-step process to implement a variety of the six most common basic hand ...

For as long as I can remember, I've been sewing buttons back onto shirts for my dad and three brothers. It used to be easy when we lived in the same house. But as us kids have grown up and moved away, ...

In the 1940’s, kits were created to help young girls learn to sew. They were available from Butterick, McCalls and Simplicity. They contained fabric, a miniature mannequin, patterns, tape measure and ...

ROCHESTER — Is an old sewing machine taking up space in your closet? Brooke Burch can put it to good use. “I kind of like rescuing sewing machines,” said Burch, owner of Brooke Burch Custom Sewing and ...

So since I have some sewing questions, figured why not start a general purpose thread? So I know some basic hand sewing for tears, buttons, etc, but little to nothing about sewing machines. However, I ...