Sewing and Textiles
Sewing Your Own Clothes, Where Craft Meets Actual Style
Learning to sew your own clothes is one of the most rewarding crafts there is, and one of the most humbling.
Sewing and mixed media writer, page 6 of 7
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.
Sewing and Textiles
Learning to sew your own clothes is one of the most rewarding crafts there is, and one of the most humbling.
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,...