Once upon a time, saying something looked “homemade” was perceived as an insult. But now that fast-fashion brands have made cheap clothes accessible on a global scale, everyone is dressing the same.

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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.

Camp Stitch-A-Lot started in 1999 to help Snohomish County 4-H members enter their work at the Evergreen State Fair. But sewing is so much more than a yearly project aimed at earning a blue ribbon.

When you hear someone talk about a lab on campus, generally you think of beakers, Bunsen burners and chemistry equipment. In the basement of the Joseph F. Smith Building, the word lab takes on a whole ...

My 11-year-old son pressed the sewing machine foot pedal like a NASCAR driver hitting the gas on a straight away. The machine hummed and rattled as he fed the fabric under the flashing needle. I ...

Sewing my first quilt was equal parts excitement, confusion, and “wait… did I just sew that backwards?” and I loved it anyway ...

WSVN — It's a new pattern for fashionable women on a budget, get a pattern and make your own haute looks! At Sassy BB Design Store in Fort Lauderdale sewing classes are so popular these days. Kerry ...

Nancy and Eileen Roche discuss the first three easy lessons for machine embroidery. Nancy and Eileen Roche discuss the first three easy lessons for machine embroidery: Lesson 1: Beginning Basics, ...