It's Official - "Sewing is Cool Again," according to the NYTimes

[Sparkly]

This surge in activity at the sewing center represents a small, hyperlocal slice of a wider trend in which a craving for crafts and community across all ages has driven a resurgence in interest in old-fashioned, hands-on skills like crocheting, knitting and embroidery. On Reddit, the sewing subreddit community has more than two million members, and communities around crocheting or cross-stitching are similarly popular. On TikTok, users share tips on how to create the perfect dart on a pair of pants or how to repurpose old curtains or bed linens into summer dresses.

Increased economic uncertainty might be one reason that more students are enrolling in classes than have in previous years, Ms. Frailing said, with many noting that learning how to make their own clothes or tune up their thrift store finds would help them save money. Roughly a third of clothing purchases in the United States in the past year were secondhand — an increase from previous years — in large part because consumers are looking to save money, according to a recent report by Capital One.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/style/sewing-is-cool-again.html

(Should be a 'gift article' w/o paywall)

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Trumpy inflation will make new clothes unaffordable for most of us.

Repurposing will be the name of the game

[wordstroken]

2. As a life-long sewing enthusiast since my mom taught me how on her Singer treadle at age 9 when I made

a pair of shorts — and oh so proud to wear them!

Since then I’ve made from scratch my own wedding dress, baby clothes, my daughters’ prom dresses, men’s suit jackets, my dazzling competitive dance roller skating costumes and nursing uniforms, thick drapes, quilts, crocheted blankets, and on and on. So much fun!

To this day, sewing is my therapy when I need to tune out (which is often these days).

So glad to see the new trend, and strongly approve.
🧵

🦋 wordstroken

[msongs]

3. just got out of the board shorts making biz. ppl would not pay for interesting fabric designs. nt