I’ve been sewing off and on since I was a kid, and I really started to get into it about ten years ago. Even though I technically outgrew my little 3/4 size domestic machine pretty quickly, I kept ...
Well, it’s done. After weeks of trawling Craigslist, an hour-long phone call with an intelligent stranger about a different machine that wasn’t going suit my needs, and a two-week delay while the ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City nonprofit is helping revitalize the art of sewing by training people to become industrial sewing machine operators. Through a partnership with both the U.S. and ...
It seems we've mastered every part of the car-building process. When our engines wore out, we bought a book and rebuilt them. When the body shop gave us our first estimate, we learned how to paint. We ...
The whirring of sewing machines fills Sonoran Stitch Factory — a cut and sew manufacturer of women’s apparel and industrial sewn products for the health care industry, university and college ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Grand Rapids Community College is offering a new industrial sewing class to help train students for the profession. The class will provide skills needed for a variety of ...
The pleasant hum of a sewing machine fills a busy work space in Johnston Square, just off the corner of Greenmount Avenue and Preston Street. It’s an industrial sound that once reverberated all over ...
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Editor’s Note: CNN’s Schools of Thought blog looks at the high-tech return of high school shop class. By day, Scott Loeser works from home for a company based in Hong Kong, selling stationery and ...