Sewing and Textiles
Prewashing Fabric Before Sewing and When to Skip It
The first linen shirt I ever made fitted beautifully on a Sunday.
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Machine basics, mending and the small habits that make fabric work behave.
Sewing and Textiles
The first linen shirt I ever made fitted beautifully on a Sunday.
Sewing and Textiles
Nothing marks a garment as homemade quite like a wavy zipper, the fabric rippling along the seam in little waves that no amount...
Sewing and Textiles
A skipped stitch, a pulled thread, or a seam that puckers no matter how carefully it is pressed usually gets blamed on the...
Sewing and Textiles
Learning to sew your own clothes is one of the most rewarding crafts there is, and one of the most humbling.
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...