Speed Volunteering Stories: Introduction
Have you ever considered volunteering, but decided against it because you’re too busy to commit to something every week, or you’re not sure what kind of volunteering you’d like to…
Read more- Home /
- Posts tagged "sewing"
Volunteer Voices: Paul
Hello, everyone! Here’s a MenDING Volunteer Voices from our bookkeeper, Paul. What do you do at Significant Seams? At the moment, I am the Bookkeeper. I do…
Read more
Tutorial: How to Shorten an (Old) pair of Jeans
Most of us have an attachment to a favourite pair of jeans, and when they wear along the bottom hems we often wish we could give them a new lease…
Read more
Tutorial: Sewing On a Button
Today we bring you a tutorial on sewing buttons by our wonderful mending expert Kaye. This is an extended version of the guide we handed out on our flyer for…
Read more
Neighbourly Knit and Stitch – Now in the evenings too!
We’d like to invite our readers once again to get involved in our Neighbourly Knit and Stitch groups. We know a lot of you have trouble getting here on weekdays,…
Read more
Tutorial: Making Fabric Gift Wrap
It’s almost that time of year again… Time to have an avalanche of gift wrap rolls fall on your head as you attempt to dig them out from wherever it…
Read more
Book Review: Oliver and S: Little Things to Sew
Whenever I look at sewing patterns, I always go back to Oliver and S designs. They make me want to sew and, as a beginning sewist, to advance at sewing.…
Read more
Sewing Club and classes at 131 Wood Street
Following the fabulous events (and cakes, cookies, games, and other treats!) to launch this new creative community space, we are starting to settle into some routines, and our programme of…
Read more
Book Review: The Sewing Machine Classroom by Charlene Phillips
The Sewing Machine Classroom by Charlene Phillips I know; as a self confessed knitter, why am I reviewing yet another sewing book? Well, I shall let you into a little…
Read more
Book Review: The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine by Rozsika Parker
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine by Rozsika Parker It isn’t often that a book changes your life, much less so a book which isn’t a…
Read more