Small tears and frayed ends are easy repairs, thanks to Nicole Vasbinder’s guide to machine sewing and hand stitching. “Super Stitches Sewing” (Potter Craft/Crown Publishing Group, $19.99) includes 50 ...

When most of us were growing up, there were a handful of basic life skills that just about everybody learned. They were simple, useful abilities, like changing a tire, making a dress from a pattern, ...

This tutorial provides the photographic step-by-step process to implement a variety of the six most common basic hand stitches. The six stitches we’ll be learning today are: running baste stitch and ...

I mainly use DMC embroidery floss. For DMC No. 5 and No. 8 and for linen thread, I embroider with a single strand.

Chanin (Alabama Stitch Book) adds something extra to this comprehensive anthology of embroidery stitches: plastic prepunched grids that crafters can use to ink fabric for the exact execution of ...

Guest Maria King demonstrates the ins and outs of creating practical projects with a straight stitch All garments, no matter how difficult, start with a straight stitch. There are a few methods we can ...