Sewing your own clothes can be empowering. Here's how to get started. Updated December 18, 2024 10:19 AM ET Originally published May 4, 2021 12:05 AM ET. By . Meg Cramer , Liam McBain ...

Back left is: Toshio Takakura who helps with hand sewing repairs to clothing. Swaine repairs and hems clothes free of charge for anybody who asks. Event on 11/15/05 in San Francisco.

Inspect your repair and reinforce if needed by sewing over any weak areas. Unshrink clothes: How to unshrink your laundry mishap. How to sew buttons on clothing. Most clothing includes spare buttons.

Episode 715: The Sewing Robot : Planet Money Building a robot that can sew even simple clothes is surprisingly hard. A retired professor in Atlanta thinks he's solved the problem.

Learning to sew your own clothes is being heralded as way for consumers to make their closets more sustainable. But, asks Isabel B. Slone, is it really that easy to master a needle and thread?

New sewing technology projects custom patterns onto material: 'Game changer' for making clothes at home Ditto, unveiled at New York Fashion Week, is the first evolution of paper patterns since ...