The Huntress: Sew Crafty helps you create projects for the runway
As the competition begins to heat up on Lifetime's Project Runway, some viewers may be itching to create winning garments of their own. Sew Crafty, a hip sewing and craft lounge in the Heights, hosts classes for varying skill levels in do-it-yourself hobbies such as knitting and crocheting.
Sew Crafty Grand Opening this Weekend
Not all of us were raised with mothers and grandmothers who knew how to knit and sew, women who, as a point of pride and tradition, could pass along the domestic arts.
Overtime with Katie Laird
Katie visits with Sarah Gabbart, founder of Sew Crafty, a boutique home for the creative and the crafty. Sarah offers classes, workshops, community support and connects her virtual friends through a very popular blog.
Sewing Surges in Popularity
HOUSTON -- The rules in the sewing lounge read like metaphors for good living: Know where your fingers are at all times. No running with scissors. Look before you cut.
Strech Your Dollar by Sewing
Sewing is making a huge comeback lately. The reason? What else? The economy! It's cheaper to make your own repairs and alterations than paying someone else to do it.
More people are making homade gifts
Given today’s economic woes, you won’t be the only person going for DIY instead of reaching for the ATM. Craft-store officials say more people are considering making homemade gifts this year.
Crafters’ ideas come to life in sewing lounge
Sew Crafty in the Heights, a sewing lounge owned by Sarah Gabbart, has the ambience of your best friend’s living room, if your best friend were extremely neat, creative, cheerful, hospitable and organized. And once you take a class or two, Gabbart might just become your new best friend.
Girls on the Go!
Sew Crafty, the super-hip sewing lounge in the Heights. You can come borrow the machines in their lounge, or book a group sewing class
Dating on a Budget
Once you're feeling artistically inspired, head to Sew Crafty, Houston's first craft studio and sewing lounge, to take a class on how to make your own stationary or pajama pants.
Heights businesses to host White Linen Night
Ninety-six businesses and nonprofit cultural organizations in the Heights are making plans for White Linen Night, the third annual neighborhood celebration set for Saturday, Aug. 2 from 4-10 p.m.
Retail Wrap
A lifelong DIY devotee, Sarah has loved to make stuff since she was first able to grip a pair of safety scissors.
