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, ...

Repair Café Whanganui volunteer Pat Livesley wants to teach people how to sew on buttons. To most older people, sewing a button on a garment is a basic skill learned in childhood. But it’s not ...

Got a split seam in your backpack? A shirt button you need to sew back on? Or, if you’re ambitious, a hole in your jeans you’d like to patch? Let’s talk about the basics of repairing clothes, so that ...

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, ...