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[Andrew] is bringing his old mechanical sewing machine into the 21st century by adding an Arduino control module. Originally, his Alfa sewing machine could only do a straight stitch or a zig-zag ...

Sewing machines, threads, button boxes and fabric swathes have always held a nostalgia for me. At my late Granny Margaret’s home in the 1980s, boxes of buttons, beads and threads were something I ...

I hadn’t sewed in 27 years. It was in the summer of 1993, following a natural disaster in central Iowa, that my sewing machine was found in my home floating in 4 feet of water. I never ...

In a world of disposable everything, fast fashion and throw-away convenience, vintage skills are making a comeback. New users are embracing practices such as sewing, gardening and canning ...

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