Maybe those sewing skills your grandmother had skipped a generation or so, but what happens when you pop a button or your step through the hem in your pants? In my grandma’s era, it was common for ...

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 ...

Instructor Robin Lunger helps Kora Darby, 11, of Manchester, load the bobbin holder into her sewing machine during a Kids Intro to Basic Sewing Skills class at Exploration Commons in Westminster ...

I started to sew for a simple, selfish reason: I just wanted cool clothes that actually fit my body. I was a very tall teenage girl in an era long before online shopping was popular, living in a small ...

Few of us can grab something off the rack and have it fit perfectly, but with a few sewing techniques, the fix can be inexpensive. Try sewing a pocket. Do a hem. No problem, if you've been sewing your ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD — After more than 30 years as a chef and 14 years’ experience in bank management, Lucila “Lucy” Sanchez is pursuing another of her passions by launching Azaleah’s Sewing Academy. Her goal ...