It has happened to the best of us: The shopping disaster day. We drag ourself from shop to shop, searching for that perfect dress and go home empty-handed and frustrated. But what if I told you that ...

Start sewing a Gunne Sax inspired dress using Simplicity 9542. In Part 1, we cover fabric choices, pattern preparation, cutting tips, and early construction steps to set up a successful vintage-style ...

A product of the pre-fast-fashion era, Annie Mollison has been pattern-making and sewing since her mother taught her how to construct garments as a child. After years working away at her home sewing ...

You probably remember walking into a fabric store and seeing racks of Vogue patterns in their printed envelopes. These iconic ...

"It was a pretty big blow," she tells Refinery29. "Brands I'd been saving up to buy from for years suddenly weren't even an option. I remember having a meltdown when my son was 7 months old because I ...

Now that I am a grandmother (finally!), I have many opportunities to dream up creative projects for a whole new audience: children. Shopping for little girls’ dresses is so much fun, but it occurred ...

The Great British Sewing Bee finalist Pascha Al-Qassab is back at university, where she is using her needlework skills to repair friends’ clothes and make last-minute dresses for nights out. Pascha ...