I started to sew for a simple, selfish reason: I just wanted cool clothes that actually fit my body. I was a very tall teenage girl in an era long before online shopping was popular, living in a small ...

Maybe those sewing skills your grandmother had skipped a generation or so, but what happens when you pop a button or your step through the hem in your pants? In my grandma’s era, it was common for ...

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, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Instructor Robin Lunger helps Kora Darby, 11, of Manchester, load the bobbin holder into her sewing machine during a Kids Intro to Basic Sewing Skills class at Exploration Commons in Westminster ...

Carla Peery teaches a 14-week sewing skills class, Let's Do Business, to grade schoolers. Carla Peery, an educator from Seattle, teaches basic sewing skills to 4th and 5th graders in a program called ...