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There are plenty of good reasons to head to J.Crew or Zara for your holiday shopping, but today we bring you 38 reasons not to. In honor of Small Business Saturday, where consumers are encouraged to shop at independently operated and/or local stores...

Fitting details ahead! Including my hand drawn illustration of pattern adjustments. I have written before that fitting is the final frontier for many a seamstress/sewist/stitcher (take your choice). I am seriously considering doing a post this fall with...

Hey everyone! Before we get into the fun part of this post, a couple things that bear mentioning but don’t quite warrant their own post: – Have you signed up to join The Sewing Party yet? The party starts on November 8 (this Saturday!), where over ...

Who run the world? Girls. Or, more specifically, dancers! Have you ever thought of starting your own business? Do you want to sell your delicious homemade energy bars at your dance studio? Perhaps you’ve got a knack for knitting and want to make custom...

I have a bit of a love / hate relationship with the NYC garment district.  It was one of the things that I was most excited about when I moved here.  It’s amazing to have a whole area of a big city dedicated to fabric shopping.  I love that most of it...