Careful hand stitching brings strength and refinement to a hand-tooled leather strap. Each stitch is placed with intention, ...

Small tears and frayed ends are easy repairs, thanks to Nicole Vasbinder’s guide to machine sewing and hand stitching. “Super Stitches Sewing” (Potter Craft/Crown Publishing Group, $19.99) includes 50 ...

This tutorial provides the photographic step-by-step process to implement a variety of the six most common basic hand ...

Displayed in order from left to right is the Double Herringbone, the Woven Double Herringbone, the Whipped Herringbone, the Laced Herringbone, the Threaded Herringbone, the Looped and Threaded ...

When most of us were growing up, there were a handful of basic life skills that just about everybody learned. They were simple, useful abilities, like changing a tire, making a dress from a pattern, ...

I mainly use DMC embroidery floss. For DMC No. 5 and No. 8 and for linen thread, I embroider with a single strand.

During the mid 1800s, women were busy in the summer months tending to the garden, then harvesting and canning. The winter was the time for sewing and mending. The idea of cozy, winter sewing sessions ...