Erin Bried knows what intimidates people. “I’ve talked to so many powerful men and women who say, ‘Omigod, I don’t know how to sew on a button.’ And it’s like: ‘You run a company. Why are you ...

At one point in my family’s history, someone — maybe my grandmother, maybe her mother before her — knew how to sew a button back onto a pair of pants. But in the years that ensued, and certainly by ...

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, ...

WELL, A NEW PROGRAM IS TEACHING TEENS VALUABLE LIFE SKILLS THROUGH SEWING LESSONS. AND RIGHT NOW, THE FAIRFIELD PAL TEEN CENTER NEEDS YOUR HELP TO MAKE SURE STUDENTS HAVE THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO ...

In fact, the former Sydney man was so terrible at it he nearly cried after his first sewing lesson at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). “I went to the professor and said, ‘Look, I can’t sew ...

On Tuesday evenings this past spring, Abbey Overmeyer could be found practicing the art of patience. Bent over a sewing machine, the 13-year-old learned the skills necessary to make a pillow as part ...

IT USED to be a departmentstore staple - dress fabrics: upstairs, right at evening dresses and straight on past knitting. Out on the high street, whole shops were devoted to it, dark Mr Ben-style ...

Sewing is becoming such an endangered skill that one in four people cannot even stitch a button back onto their clothes, a survey has found. Almost six in 10 people said they were unable to sew ...

Tutorials start in April in Dublin, followed by Galway, Waterford, Limerick and Cork The one-hour classes will be hosted by Orla Kelly (pictured), an art-textile graduate from National College of Art ...

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