Here’s an easy sewing project I dreamed up when trying to figure out how to be able to carry more water in an emergency. 2 liter soda bottles are so easy and inexpensive to get, wash, and fill for emergencies, but they are difficult to carry if you need to leave and take your water […]
23 (mostly beginner) Preparedness Sewing Projects
Want to try your hand at sewing? How about taking on a project that, besides honing your sewing skills, will help you be better prepared when it’s finished? I’ve rounded up 23 great sewing projects from around the web that are perfect for preppers to get started sewing on. Almost every one of these would […]
Four Essential Survival Sewing Skills
You don’t need to be able to sew a masterpiece to have the essential skills you’re most likely to need in a long term emergency situation. The majority of sewing you will need to perform will fall into one of these four basic categories. Learn these and you’ll be able to tackle most emergency sewing […]
Food Storage and Survival Radio Episode 45: Survival Sewing
Episode 45: Survival Sewing Listen here! Today we discuss the most likely reasons you’ll need to be able to sew, some easy ways to get started, and the essentials you’ll need for your survival sewing kit. Plus lots of great tips to help make sewing easier and more enjoyable! Even if you are a non-sewer, […]
How to Repair a Frayed Shirt Collar
My husband is arguably even cheaper more frugal than I am. Plus he gets attached to his clothes. Take this favorite shirt, for example. He brought this to me a couple of weeks ago. “Can you fix this? It’s a perfectly good shirt,” he tells me. Except for the collar, honey. The collar is falling […]
Food Storage and Survival Radio Episode 13: Sewing Skills and Colonial Heritage Foundation
Episode 13: Sewing Skills and Colonial Heritage Foundation Listen here! Part 2 of an Independence Day interview with Gregg Hardy from the Utah Colonial Heritage Foundation discussing events leading up to the American Revolution from the Miracle at New York to the Crossing of the Delaware to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Plus […]
Organizing: The Remote Control Pillow
Living in a small space, I’m always looking for a little more organization in my life. With end tables made of food storage buckets instead of drawers, it leaves a few items without a good home–especially remote controls. What to do to reclaim control over the remote controls? Here’s our solution: The Remote Control Pillow. […]
The Short List of Essential Off-Grid Sewing Supplies
In a grid down situation, sewing may become quite a valuable skill as clothes and furnishings need repaired, rebuilt, or created. Even in everyday life, having the tools and skills to do some sewing repairs can be extremely useful. There are a myriad of sewing tools out there as evidenced by racks of “notions” in […]
Sew Like a Pro Tip: Don’t Cut Your Patterns!
Here’s a little known sewing tip that will save you tons of hassle. Don’t cut your patterns. You know how you open up a pattern, especially a multi-sized one, and there are a bunch of different sizes all drawn on top of each other? Don’t cut out the one you want to use. Trace it […]
Some Thoughts on Learning to Sew
Learning basic sewing skills is never a bad thing. Knowing how to patch a hole in a pair of pants or stitch up a tear in a sleeve are valuable skills, especially if there comes a time when clothes are not so plentiful and we need to repair what we have when they start showing […]
