Tag: home sewing

  • Needles in the Stacks: Homage to Nancy Zieman, pt. 2

    A few weeks ago, I posted the first half of our Needles in the Stacks series reviewing the books of the late Nancy Zieman. The FIT library has How-To sewing books published by more than a dozen famous sewing teacher-personalities.* Zieman was by far the most prolific of these. Our library has 15 items Zieman…

  • Winding Down, Moving Homes

    Hi, everyone, I just wanted to take a moment to report on preparations going on here in the library. There’s a lot going on here in the Periodicals universe. And in the FIT universe. I have also been working on a ton of new articles, but I keep getting interrupted by events here. So: The…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, everyone! The magazine of the last two weeks (sorry about that!) is: This week’s (and last week’s) magazine of the week is Vogue Patterns. This is something we have subscribed to for quite a long time. Both the title and its parent companies have changed several times, and it’s difficult to figure out which…