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 ...

Houston – September marks National Sewing Month, a tradition recognized by President Ronald Reagan in 1982, celebrating an art that has been a cornerstone of homemaking for centuries. Sewing has ...

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 ...

In a room filled with sewing machines from various eras, a dozen women learned to wind a bobbin, thread a machine and create a simple tote-bag. “I feel like we can go home and take out our machine and ...

Inspired by Martha Stewart, the handmade movement and reality television shows like "Project Runway," 35 million sewing hobbyists are leaving a wake of fabric remnants and notions behind them. With ...

Long before basic sewing needle options evolved as “sharps” or “betweens,” cave-era folks simply threaded bone shard and animal horn with sinew or plant fiber to stitch animal skins into outerwear.

Raine Miller, 7, was on the edge of her seat when the "earthquake" happened. She could barely stay seated while operating the foot pedal for her sewing machine during a children's sewing class at Gusa ...