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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

March Issue Features Seven Standout Machines as a New Generation Embraces the Hobby Singer, a brand synonymous with sewing, leads in sales, but not in testing. The Singer sewing machines CR tested ...

Not gonna lie: Sewing is a little intimidating. All those needles flying and fabric billowing—not to mention the seemingly complicated machinery—can be scary for someone who's never even attempted to ...