For as long as I can remember, I've been sewing buttons back onto shirts for my dad and three brothers. It used to be easy when we lived in the same house. But as us kids have grown up and moved away, ...

If you're anything like us, you have a pile of cardigans, coats and shirts with missing and loose buttons, that have waited to be mended for far too long now. Or, you have an item (perhaps a vintage ...

Every time you get your favourite shirt back from the dry cleaners, there's another button missing. But no need to take it to a professional. There's really nothing to this simplest of sewing skills.

Sewing is becoming such an endangered skill that one in four people cannot even stitch a button back onto their clothes, a survey has found. Almost six in 10 people said they were unable to sew ...