Once there was a news article about this child who had to be operated because a needle somehow got into his body. I read it and it gave me the heebie-jeebies. For one week I was so terrified that I had left needles like this and it had —-. Too horrified to even write about … Read more
Professional Sewing involves many repetitive tasks, frequent head, and trunk bending movements for a long period, long duration of sitting work without a break. Poor sewing room layout, incorrect table, and chair heights, repetitive actions for long hours without any break, lack of exercise – all these results in Musculoskeletal pain (MSP) – simple body … Read more
Some people abandon sewing altogether in the initial days of starting sewing, just like my daughter did. She got frustrated at simple things like threading a needle, being unable to knot the thread and major things like the sewing machine tangling all the thread in the spool. In Sewing, such frustrations come up all the … Read more
What is a Top Stitch? A Top stitch refers to the stitching that you see on top of a garment/accessory, some 1/4 inch or more away from the seam line. Basically, any visible stitching done a short distance from the edge of a fabric fold or seam line made from the top of the fabric … Read more
Today, we have an overabundant choice of sewing machines and if this does not interest you, there are so many ready-made clothing shops that, even if you do not touch a needle and thread you would not go without clothes by a longshot. But that does not make me and my ilk (of die-hard sewists) … Read more
“Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens”. Carl Jung obviously did not refer to the dress I have sewn when he said this. But for me there is a close reference to my sewing – On the outside, the dress may look like a dream. A rude shock awaits those who look inside – … Read more