"Hand sewing can be a therapeutic activity, but for days when you require more efficiency, it's time to bring out your sewing machine," says Sara SJ Kim, the creator of Sewing Therapy. One of those ...

Sewing machines, threads, button boxes and fabric swathes have always held a nostalgia for me. At my late Granny Margaret’s home in the 1980s, boxes of buttons, beads and threads were something I ...