Sewing is a skill that comes in handy more often than you think. If you’d like to handle clothing alterations yourself or tackle more DIY projects, pick up a book to help you learn to sew. Books that ...

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, ...

It “seams” that Philadelphia’s sewing and quilting community is growing in Mt. Airy. Located on the corner of Germantown and East Mount Pleasant Avenues, Cut and Sew PHL is a new shop dedicated to ...

Once upon a time, sewing and mending clothes was commonplace — more a given than a unique hobby. At some point in the last few decades, though, it became something of a lost art. Why have people ...

In Shauna Smith's midtown sewing studio, a red button-down shirt hangs on a mannequin. Smith gestures to the sleeves — she'll cut those off — and at the mid section — just take it in here — and voila!