You can start making gifts and homemade goods for everyone in your life when you learn to quilt, crochet or sew. Here’s what ...

For ultra-affordable basic boxers, Gildan has a five-pack that you can snag for under 20 bucks. The moisture-wicking fabric ...

Jersey fabric is knit instead of woven, often from cotton or cotton blended with synthetic fibers, giving it a soft, stretchy, cozy hand feel. Alternative fibers: A whole crop of sheets is made ...

That’s how we feel about sewing machines. Sure, there’s a motor. There’s a needle and some thread. But how does the machine make a stitch? We always wondered, but after watching a recent ...

The sewing machine can’t do a backstitch with a single thread as you might expect, it’s very difficult for a machine to pass the thread though the fabric in its entirety on each stitch.

Using the instruction manual, our testers run strips of soft cotton, delicate satin, stretchy jersey and layers of thick denim through each sewing machine. We assess how easy it is to: Select the ...

Cotton (plant) Highly absorbent so is comfortable to wear, strong and durable, easy to care for but can shrink and has poor elasticity so creases Most clothing, bed linen, upholstery fabric and in ...

If you’re in a pinch for a Halloween costume, you can never go wrong with a DIY bat costume you can make in minutes. There ...

The holiday season is perfect for experimenting with crochet gift ideas for 2024 and beyond. This time of year is expensive, ...

The soft microfiber fleece feels similar to the Luna but with one key difference: The Gravity blanket is made with moisture-wicking fabric designed ... other is a 100% cotton knit.