Make some beautiful and personalized Christmas stockings with all of these fun DIY Christmas stocking tutorials! There is a ...

Get inspired for everything spooky and scary with these Halloween sewing projects. These fun projects use cute fabric and lots have free sewing patterns. I love Halloween so much. My birthday is ...

For a while it looked as if home sewing was going the way of butter churning. It seldom saved money over cheap, imported clothing, and its dowdy image was a turnoff for young career women. Then came ...

MRS VonBulow-Bauer began her dressmaking course in 1943, and by 1950 she was teaching classes of more than 20. Although Ruth VonBulow-Bauer was shocked when she stumbled on her mother's ...

Pattern-makers are at the core of the design process that leads to a new creation. They translate the designer’s sketches into a paper pattern ready to be transferred onto fabric. The newly graduates ...

Calling all budding fashion designers: Are you a fashion designer by heart, who obviously has talent, but lack knowledge of pattern-making and sewing? Created by Rucht D ‘Oleo, a veteran within the ...

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