I buy a lot of clothes from charity shops. I notice there’s a button missing, a slight tear or a ripped seam. I often wonder if people have donated them simply because they don’t know how to fix them.

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, ...