April 13, 2020 4 Mask Sewing Tutorials: more efficiency, less pain by Kathleen Fasanella It’s crazy out there -lots of competing information, mythinformation and just plain craziness -I’m not going to go there. Still, like many of you, I wondered what I could do to help so I started watching mask sewing videos. Very quickly, I realized that the videos are all the same -or rather, that makers had the same constraints.… Read More...
August 3, 2016 Register for Apparel Manufacturing Boot Camp Fall 2016 by Kathleen Fasanella Whew, running this sewing factory is a full time job (contact me if you’re looking for a sewing factory). No wonder my posting suffers. I’d meant to post this weeks ago but registration for the Fall 2016 Apparel Manufacturing Boot Camp is open.… Read More...
April 16, 2016 Breathing New Life into an Older Machine by Kathleen Fasanella You can breathe new life into older machines with just a few upgrades. Here’s a breakdown on the recent remodeling job I did on my Singer 107 W12. She was made in 1932 -84 years ago! She still runs like a top.… Read More...
July 6, 2015 The Sewing Factory School & Apparel Manufacturing Boot Camp by Kathleen Fasanella Okay! So by now you should have read the So I bought a sewing factory post and we can jump into what is going on next and that would be, a manufacturing boot camp session in this place that I’ve envisioned as a prototypically perfect sewing factory for people to visit in the event they want to learn how to set up their own factory, aka, The Sewing Factory School.…
July 6, 2015 So I bought a sewing factory by Kathleen Fasanella So I bought a sewing factory makes a good title but the truther is that I bought a near perfectly sized industrial building and remodeled it to become a sewing factory. So how did it happen? Well, I was going along, thinking yet again about the dearth of sewing factories in New Mexico and how my business was stuck because I couldn’t really hire anybody to work at my shop at my house because it was at my house, and what or if I should do anything about it.… Read More...
