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Hoboken’s Fashion Lab: Day camp sewing classes for kids
Offering kids a place to mend their sewing skills and develop their fashion senses, Hoboken’s Fashion Lab, 266 Seventh Street in Hoboken NJ, will begin its first week of day camp classes this Monday, June 21. Classes will teach basic sewing and fashion design to kids and teens ages 10-18.
Open at its current location on [...]
‘Fast Fashion’: Italians Wary Of Chinese On Their Turf
“A Chinese employee works in a textile firm in the Macrolotto area in Prato, the biggest textile district in Europe, in 2005. The town has become home to the largest concentration of Chinese residents in Europe — many of whom are not legal.”
by Sylvia Poggioli
For more than a thousand years, the Italian town of [...]
Back-to-school campaign: Getting Ready for the New School Year
The South Plains Food Bank and volunteers assembled more than 4,000 blocks of school supplies last year. The campaign is going into its 21st year. This time, organizers are putting in a little extra work to get all those school supplies to area kids.
Instead of putting everything into plastic bags they’re turning to T-shirts for [...]
Author Mary Adams and 365 Days of Sewing Invite Seamstresses to Design an Apron Dress
Author Mary Adams and 365 Days of Sewing Invite Seamstresses to Design an Apron Dress
NewswireToday – /newswire/ – Wilmington, NC, United States, 06/15/2011 – Seamstresses are invited to participate in “The Apron Dress Contest.” Grand prize is an apron sewn by renowned designer, Mary Adams, among other prizes – MaryAdamsTheDress.com / 365DaysofSewing.com.
Mary Adams, author of [...]
WeAllSew.com Free Stuff
WeAllSew.com has over 50 free sewing tutorials and craft ideas from free bedskirt and pattern weight patterns.
Free IPad/Kindle/Laptop Sleeve or Case Sewing Tutorial
Learn how to sew this case in this sewing tutorial. This case can made to fit your iPad, laptop, or kindle.
Sewing Tutorial: How to Sew a Tote Bag
This is a great tote bag to sew which consists of two pockets with flaps. It is perfect to use as a diaper bag.This project is for the intermediate to advanced sewer since you may need some sewing knowledge for this project. A sheet of paper was used to create the pattern for this tote [...]
Sewing Tutorial: How to make a Minni Duffle Bag
Learn how sew this cute mini duffle bag in a dayin this easy step-by-step tutorial.
Supplies needed:
- 1 piece of outer fabric 20 1/2 inches by 13 1/2 inches
- 2 pieces of outer fabric in a circular shape 7 1/2 inches
- interfacing
- One 14 inches long zipper.
Click here for step-by-step tutorial.
Sewing Tutorial: How to make a reversible fabric belt
Learn how to make a quick, easy and inexpensive to sew reversible fabric belt created by Tarilyn of Tarily’s Show’n tell.
Materials Needed:
* 1/8 yard each of two cotton fabrics that compliment each other
* 1/4 yard of medium weight fusible interfacing
* See Important Note on Sizing under Step 1 in tutorial
* thread that matches both fabrics [...]
Sewing Tutorial: Recycled Girls Jumper from Pants
Recycle an old pair of pants into a girls jumper. If you have an old pair of pants that you no longer want or does not fit do not throw it away. The pants can be recycled into a cute girls jumper.
