Craft Business
How I Actually Find Time to Sew Between Client Orders
A woman messaged me last month asking, half joking and half genuinely frustrated, how I manage to run an alterations business,...
Sewing and mixed media writer, page 8 of 9
Junie runs a small alterations business out of her spare room and keeps a junk journal she has never once finished on schedule. She writes about fabric and paper with the same practical impatience she brings to a broken zipper.
Craft Business
A woman messaged me last month asking, half joking and half genuinely frustrated, how I manage to run an alterations business,...
Sewing and Textiles
A client brought me a jacket to mend last year with a small embroidered panel on the cuff, Kashmiri needlework she had bought...
Sewing and Textiles
The community branch library near my alterations shop asked me last winter if I would run a free mending workshop for whoever...
Sewing and Textiles
A friend commissioned a hand sewn scarf for her club's biggest match of the season, and by halftime the stitching along one...
Tools and Workspace
I rewatched a woodworking tutorial recently that spent four full minutes explaining how to hold a pencil for marking a line,...
Paper and Mixed Media
A friend who paints tabletop game miniatures as a serious hobby once let me watch her work through a single figure for nearly...