We're in our ‘fix it’ era! Along with learning how to un-shrink our clothes, fix a broken zipper and clean our suede shoes, we're also improving our sewing skills – and that starts with learning how ...

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, ...

Buttons come in two varieties—shanked and unshanked. Shanked buttons have a small protruding stem on the back, whereas unshanked buttons have holes running through them. Which you choose is a question ...

Every time you get your favourite shirt back from the dry cleaners, there's another button missing. But no need to take it to a professional. There's really nothing to this simplest of sewing skills.

New Yorkers think they know everything, but they don’t. Grandma does. This generation may know how to Twitter about animated GIF, but can they darn a sock or sew on a patch? Enter Brooklyn-based ...