Take a few days and have your machine serviced and cleaned. It can save so many headaches later. Start with new needles, and rearrange your sewing basket so everything you need is at hand.

As shoppers scavenge to find toilet paper and other quarantine essentials, some crafters who are making protective masks said they struggle to find another necessary item: elastic. With protection ...

A sewing machine is a fantastically useful thing to own, but too often sewing machines end up languishing in a closet because something wasn't working quite right the last time you tried to use it.