Across the country, sewers are attempting to fill the vast, yawning gaps in our national pandemic preparedness. Some…

A star quilter named Karen Kay Buckley has filed suit against a sewing company, alleging that they’ve been ripping…

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic novels, based on her childhood in the late 1860s and 1870s in Minnesota’s Big Woods…

You might associate the McCall Pattern Company and its products with your pre-digital childhood (if you had a crafty…

Vintage sewing patterns, like so much of fashion, often feature very strangely posed models engaged in inexplicable…

Or: Quick and Dirty Pattern-Draping for Fun and Profit! If you're even a neophyte home sewer, you've probably…

Strapless dresses: is there any other garment that promises so much, but at such high risk? If you've owned or worn…

Scott Brown of Massachusetts is pretty much the GOP's greatest remaining hope for hip, modern ideas in a party…

One of the easiest things you can do to spruce up your living environment is re-covering a throw pillow or three.…

If you've never made a purse before, this just might be the purse for you. My last bag, the envelope clutch, was a…

I was raised in a temperate climate — New Zealand, to be precise — but it didn't take me long to grasp the absolute,…

You know what I have too many of? T-shirts. There are t-shirts in my closet that I've had for years and never worn.…

Did you hear about the newest trend? It was invented in prehistoric times, and we've spent thousands of years…

I feel like this happens to me all the time: I'm browsing the racks at the SalvA, skipping past unfortunate…

Okay, so your shorts don't have to be white. You could make them blue, red, yellow, teal, cerulean, seafoam,…

It's summer, and while we're all sweltering in the 98° heat, our thoughts turn naturally to cooling, natural,…

Having a custom dress form that matches your body shape is a boon to any home sewer. Especially any home sewer who'd…

To any home sewer and pattern-drafter, the appeal of a custom dress form is obvious. Commercial forms don't resemble…

Okay, so it doesn't have the gravitas of Mad Men. But nothing can else on TV can fill me with such unmitigated…

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