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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew” by Erin Bried had me at the word “nifty.” But the book is actually a really cool concept since there are tons of things my grandma ...

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, ...