Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue, New Look and Butterick sewing patterns disappear from NZ stores

Big brand sewing patterns will no longer be available to buy in New Zealand. Kim Knight reflects on a loss that goes beyond ...
WLKY

New modern sewing school opens at Mellwood Art Center

18TH, RUNS THROUGH THE 28. A NEW MODERN SEWING SCHOOL IS OPENING MELWOOD ART CENTER. IT’S CALLED MADE STITCH COMPANY, AND IT OFFERS IN-PERSON AND SEWING CLASSES FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES. WLKY IS ALEX ...
BBC

Puzzling Patterns and Pattern Cutting

Claudia Winkleman hosts the semi-final. The sewers must make an asymmetric yoked skirt inspired by modern Japanese pattern cutting. Show more Claudia Winkleman hosts the semi-final of the Great ...
The Guardian

The end of the paper trail? Australia’s largest garment pattern supplier is closing and sewers are worried – but pragmatic

For many sewers, choosing paper patterns from one of Simplicity McCall’s ‘big four’ brands was an in-store ritual. But others say digital patterns are the way of the future Decades ago, in the ...