Edgewater Park girl, 9, pictured in Vogue Patterns
EDGEWATER PARK — A township youngster’s stitching skills have been showcased on the pages of an international sewing publication.
Julia Kennedy, 9, is pictured in the current edition of Vogue Patterns wearing the dress she made for her First Communion. She [...]
Summer fashion trends beat the heat
By Natalia Aguilar
Summer has officially checked in to the city of El Paso bringing along its blazing temperatures that only seem to be getting higher. But along with the heat rise is a wide set of mod fashions and trends for both men and women to wear this summer season.
“Gold is what’s [...]
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 [...]
The Challenges of Garment Production in Portland, Oregon
When it comes to purchasing goods, there is a hierarchy of consumerism that goes something like this: knowing a product was made in America, good; knowing a product was made in Oregon, better; knowing a product was made right here in Portland, super bananas awesome. This line of thinking drives us to support farmers’ markets [...]
‘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 [...]
Video T-Shirt Alteration Tutorial: Baggy t-shirt to cute ruffle top
Video t-shirt alteration tutorial on how to turn a baggy t-shirt into a cute ruffle top.
Jean Alteration Video Tutorial: How to sew skinny jeans!
Video tutorial on how to turn your old baggy jeans into fitted skinny jeans.
Tutorial: How to sew your own fabric hair rollers.
Step-by-step tutorial on how to sew your own fabric hair rollers by Life with Monkey.
Materials needed for one curler:
a scrap of cotton fabric, at least 4″ X 9″ in size
a small amount of stuffing the curler (i use polyester)
a button
some thread
tools:
a sewing machine, preferably with a zipper foot attachment
a hand-sewing needle
scissors
Creation time:
around 10 minutes [...]
