Sewing on a lost button is like doing your taxes – it’s inevitable, it’s a hassle and not doing it makes you look like a delinquent. Nobody looks good with a gaping hole in his dress shirt or a safety ...

If you're anything like us, you have a pile of cardigans, coats and shirts with missing and loose buttons, that have waited to be mended for far too long now. Or, you have an item (perhaps a vintage ...

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 ...

Erin Bried knows what intimidates people. “I’ve talked to so many powerful men and women who say, ‘Omigod, I don’t know how to sew on a button.’ And it’s like: ‘You run a company. Why are you ...

1. Take twelve inches of thread, knotted securely at one end, and thread your needle. Make a single stitch in the shirt in line with the row of buttons, about ⅛ inch long, and then make another stitch ...

Sewing a button seems like a simple task, but if you’re not careful, sewing it on without spacing it properly will make your clothes tight and the button difficult to open and close.. Make sure your ...

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, ...

Sometimes your sponge can only go so far in getting stuck food off dishes. Home-centric weblog Re-Nest recommends sewing a button on the edge of your dish cloth for scrubbing off particularly stubborn ...

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