See the wikipedia entry for seam allowance. Seam allowance is the area between the outer edge of the fabric and where you stitch the seam in the...

It’s funny, but I am not finding many nice reference sites for sewing. There are tons of sites with descriptions and pictures of clothing, but trying to find definitions with images seems impossible. I am going to start putting together exactly that. Sewing is a topic where a picture is worth two thousand words. In the end you are just trying to learn a...

I was reading The Long Tail by and I ran across a quote he uses when discussing the Pro-Am movement (professional and amateur). Karl Marx was perhaps the original prophet of the Pro-Am economy. As Demos notes, “In The German Ideology, written between 1845 and 1847, Marx maintained that labor-forced, unspontaneous and waged work-would be superseded by...

is working way, way too late. Seriously.