ADam Worrel’s vision for a garment-making and screen-printing company is finally sewing itself – nearly 4,000 miles from where it started – with a label made in KC.

First formulating the idea in 2010, he envisioned creating a line with in-house production and printing and maximum control over the supply chain. But living in Hawaii at the time, the plan just wasn’t feasible, logistically or cost-wise, Worrel said.

“So we kind of dropped it off,” he added. “Now we have the ability to do that. It’s actually really exciting to me – where it’s basically a 12-year project, to make it happen.

Moving to his hometown made all the difference.

In August, Worrel launched her Hewn tailoring studio and Southwind clothing line in Olathe under South Wind Press. Products made at the Johnson County store are expected to hit shelves at Made in North Carolina Marketplace stores this month.

“It’s pretty surreal to be at this point,” he noted. “Hawaii was definitely a great experience. I’m super grateful. But it’s a “We put down roots” kind of thing. To be here and establish this is like, “Well, this is going to last, I think, for the next 30 to 40 years.” I’m excited.”

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Everything from pattern design and making to cutting and sewing will be done in-house, Worrel said.

“We bought everything from the United States on this project,” he explained. “So from the cotton itself, it’s grown in Arkansas. The yarn is spun there in Arkansas. And then the yarn is brought to the Carolinas, where it’s then ground into the actual fabric. Then the fabric goes through straight from the Carolinas to here, then that’s where we cut, sew and assemble the product.

The company also donates to Harvesters with every purchase of the Southwind line.

“It boils down to, every shirt purchased or item purchased, we donate the equivalent of three meals,” he added. “So each shirt feeds a person for an entire day.”

Starting talks

Worrel – who taught himself screen printing via YouTube videos while earning his fine arts degree at Missouri State University – and his wife returned to Olathe in 2020 and he started Southwind Press in May 2021 after that the pandemic shut down his custom screen printing business in Hawaii.

“They shut down our business,” he recalls. “Hawaii was super strict on everything. And then, of course, all my customers were closed – retail stores and everything.

He turned to an e-commerce line of Hawaiian-inspired clothing, but gave up waiting for the local economy to reopen. Ultimately, they decided to move back to the Kansas City area to be closer to their family.

Worrel, however, hasn’t completely given up on Hawaii.

He split operations – moving some of the equipment to Olathe and leaving some on the island with a small staff to continue serving existing customers such as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Gift Shop and the Diamond Gift Shop Head.

Once business in Olathe picked up, Southwind Press consolidated with its Hawaii-based director moving to Kansas City to help out.

“I’ve spoken to my customers from Hawaii and they’ve been absolutely successful printing and shipping products here,” he continued. “That’s what got us out pretty quickly here. And since then, we have started printing for local customers. We just started with Rally House and we were doing that kind of stuff. So we do contract printing and that’s kind of the basis of the business.

Pockets of potential

With the wholesale printing side of the business already established, Worrel is now focusing on building the Hewn Tailor Shop – located across the parking lot from the printing presses, although the business is quickly outgrowing the space .

Southwind Press brought in Molly Burd to run the tailoring shop and lead production in the print shop, done in small batches with the intention of taking on more as the business grows. Watching the process quickly inspired even more designs, Worrel said.

“As I watched her operate the machines, I was like, ‘Wait, so this machine can do a three-needle stitch on top?’ and then that sparked all these new design ideas,” he recalls. “Then it was like, ‘Can we do this with the necklace?’ (We were) making these little tweaks and then it just evolved into our own internal line.

In addition to American-sourced materials, Worrel said, the Southwind line features additional details like the triple-stitched collar and pocket in colors that match the pocket design.

“We elevate our couture details,” he explained. “The pocket itself, we took a blank fabric panel and we can print the pocket template with our screen print there about six per sheet. Then we cut them into the pocket. This red is actually ink and it’s just natural colored fabric. So those kind of clean lines are materials that we really only need to stock one natural fabric and one black for.

Burd — who has been sewing professionally for eight years and graduated from Missouri State with a degree in fashion design and merchandising — created all of the patterns herself and works with three seamstresses at Southwind Press to produce the shirts.

She’s excited to help Worrel start the sewing shop, she said, and doubts she’ll have such a creative opportunity anywhere else.

“It was super fun (and) very difficult, but we’re up for the challenge,” Burd continued. “Starting it from scratch has been a unique and super cool process. Adam and I really agree on this big long-term vision. So it’s been super fun bringing in employees and teaching them. And in having everything under one roof – or two roofs here – we can make changes and products so quickly.

Both Burd and Worrel noted that they hoped Hewn would be a catalyst in making Kansas City a center for clothing production.

“It was a dream job for me to come here and really be able to be creative and start something new here in Kansas City,” Burd added. “This is just the start. I can’t wait to see what we do next.

Future designs

The Southwind line is initially focused on hometown/Kansas City-inspired designs, but Worrel said it will add more Midwestern-inspired designs soon. More colors are expected and new body styles – a women’s cut and a long sleeve – have already been developed.

Also in the works: a fleece hoodie, a matching travel set for women, and canvas and leather bags.

“We have some really creative people on our team, so we’ve probably been in development for months already,” Worrel said. “So (we’re) going to keep adding styles, adding fabrics. Lots of variety to come.

The Southwind line can be purchased on line and this month at Made in KC Marketplace stores, but Worrel hopes to expand to the shelves of big-box retailers in the Metro and nationwide.

“I see endless potential,” he added.

All items in the range will also come with a lifetime warranty, he noted.

“They can send it in for repair or we’ll replace it if it’s a manufacturing defect,” he said. “If it’s normal wear and tear, we can’t cover that.”

In the tailor shop, Worrel said, designers are also working on another in-house line — United Legacy — which will focus on custom design and production for museum stores and gift shops.

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Just in time for the winter indoor play season, playmonster added two new craft kits to her list – Crafty Cakes and Little Knitty Bittys – to give kids the chance to create decorative cake designs or adorable yarn outfits for a collection of animal friends.

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Mount Airy government officials who support a new downtown master plan are unlikely to reconsider the measure, despite opposition from critics, including a protest march last Sunday.

“I see the process moving forward,” Mayor Ron Niland said Wednesday of the plan approved by city commissioners in a 3-2 vote on Sept. 1.

It updated a previous master plan completed in 2004 to include today’s business outlook and help guide the future of Mount Airy’s central business district and adjacent areas.

But it has encountered opposition from some downtown shopkeepers and leaders, as well as citizens in general, who fear it will result in a quaint downtown adopting the “cookie-cutter” look of others. locations.

They see the plan’s recommendations for new flexible spaces that can accommodate outdoor dining and additional features – as well as landscaping and other cosmetic changes, including tree planting – as undermining what is already a charming and prosperous downtown.

In addition to organizing Sunday’s “Save Our Main Street” march, opponents of the plan have been circulating petitions in hopes of getting the majority of city commissioners supporting the plan update to reconsider their action from the 1st september.

“I don’t see that,” Mayor Niland said Wednesday of that possibility.

Niland, a strong supporter of the plan, believes the measure has received sufficient study that does not require further review.

“We had a lot of public meetings,” he said of a nine-month process leading up to the plan’s adoption. “It was not done in a vacuum.”

Supporters of the plan in council also drew fire for voting on the measure the same evening a public hearing was held into the proposal. During this hearing, the majority of speakers said they were opposed to the plan as it concerned the changes being considered for North Main Street.

Discussing Wednesday’s vote and whether, in retrospect, it might have been a good decision to delay action until further study, the mayor said: ‘I don’t know, I think it’s hindsight – I don’t think there was any ill will on anyone’s part.

And in discussing the need to revisit the matter, “I think before anything is done, we’re going to revisit it,” Niland said of individual aspects of the plan.

“If and when we move forward, we will do so block by block,” he said. “The plan is not written in stone.”

Small “very noisy” group?

The mayor also indicated on Wednesday that he believed the mounting opposition obscured the fact that many downtown merchants broadly support the measure, echoing comments he and other officials made at a meeting of the council last Thursday.

“I walked Main Street and met at least 40 or 50 landlords,” he said.

Although some dislike parts of it, “in my conversations with owners, they’re generally happy with most of the plan.”

The opposition was also challenged last Thursday by other supporters of the plan, including Commissioner Steve Yokeley.

Yokeley’s presentation of carefully worded remarks included his belief that no one wants to see North Main become a palm-lined one-lane street – another West Palm Beach, Fla., Asheville “or any place outside of Mount Airy. “.

The longtime commissioner went on to take on what he called “opponents”, “fearmongers”, “doomsday prophets”, “obstructionists” and “sabotagers”.

“I wish we could expect better from this small group of very vocal but still negative people in our town,” Yokeley continued.

He said some claim to represent the silent majority, but rely on assumptions, innuendo, false narratives, negative comments, misinformation, partial facts, misinformed opinions and even personal attacks to defend their cause.

“They can always be counted on to conjure up a poisonous witch brew that isn’t appropriate even on Halloween,” Yokeley charged.

He says critics should produce their own plan rather than attacking a positive one that focuses on the future. “Let’s listen to what you want to do instead of what you don’t want to do.”

Yokeley said he wants opponents of the plan to take the time to get the facts on all issues before developing uninformed opinions and spreading misinformation and “outright lies”.

“Think of what we could accomplish if we all worked together,” said Yokeley, who began his commentary by mentioning that “we all have to get along.”

Others weigh

Statements from fellow city council members also showed that they are firmly entrenched in their positions.

Commissioner Marie Wood said she could not understand why a good plan is “blown through the roof”, as evidenced by the criticisms made.

Wood further mentioned that she had studied all aspects included in the 78-page document from the beginning “and I saw no reason to vote against” on September 1.

She agreed with Yokeley in loving Mount Airy and not wanting to diminish its charm, much of which is due to its people.

“The citizens of Mount Airy make our city and they can break it too,” Wood said.

Commissioner Joe Zalescik spoke along the same lines.

“Everyone has the right to demonstrate, everyone has the right to demonstrate, but you have to look at the facts and not invent,” observed Zalescik. “Don’t create lies about what we’re doing here.”

Zalescik said he has also studied the plan from the start and believes it will help improve mobility and walkability in the city center in particular.

Council members were prompted to offer such comments in reaction to citizens who addressed the plan in a public forum at last Thursday’s meeting, including four who criticized it and two who supported it. .

Shirley Brinkley, a former Mount Airy commissioner, said while on the podium that the overwhelmingly unsupportive remarks from citizens at the September 1 hearing seemed to make no difference among the trio of council members voting in favor.

“I believe you had made up your mind,” Brinkley said.

Karen Armstrong also reiterated her earlier concerns that she didn’t want to see the small American town embodied by North Main Street damaged.

“People don’t really want the way Main Street looks to change,” Armstrong said, adding that citizens shouldn’t “stand idly by.”

John Pritchard, another forum speaker, made a simple plea to city officials: “Build on what works and don’t waste it,” he said.

“Just work on the little things and keep the story alive,” urged Devon Hays, who also spoke.

Main Street Coordinator Lizzie Morrison of Mount Airy Downtown Inc. offered her support for the plan during the forum and sought to allay fears.

“I was born and raised here – this is my hometown – I’m not trying to erase what we love about it,” she said.

Additionally, John Phillips, owner of a business on North South Street, spoke positively of the downtown plan and thanked city officials for approving the measure.

“When something happens like that, there are always disagreements, people on different sides,” Phillips acknowledged. “It’s a myth to say ‘let’s keep it the same’ – change is inevitable.”

The local businessman believes the plan could serve to increase revenue and reduce property taxes.

Commissioner Jon Cawley, who had voted against the measure on September 1 with the board’s Tom Koch, offered his views on that outcome – and its timing.

“It was obvious to me the night we had the discussion that the public wasn’t ready for this,” Cawley said of the plan, which the commissioners had the power to act on — or not.

Holding the vote then “was a bad decision on our part”, he claimed.

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The study focuses on key growth factors and developments that will help the market maintain momentum. The study includes a detailed overview of growth trends along with a comprehensive assessment of sales opportunities in major products, application/end-use industries, and technology segments across different regions. It gives a detailed picture of the shares or sizes of different segments each year of market growth. The sewing threads the assessment of growth trends includes year-over-year growth in key geographies as well as a gradual outlook in a number of key countries.

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A thorough review of recent acquisitions by major sewing thread players helps identify key R&D initiatives in key regional markets. The multiple analyzes of the business landscape reflect the level of competitiveness, barriers to entry, PESTLE exam, and top winning imperatives. Readers will also learn about recent industry trends such as divestitures, entry of players from various markets, licensing agreements and long-term alliances to merge the stocks of top players.

Major Key Players Included in the Sewing Threads Market are: Threads India Limited, Vardhman Yarns and Threads, AMANN Group, HP Cotton Textile Mills Limited, Kamal Yarn Industries, Coats, A&E, Amann, Tamishna, KDS Thread, Modi Thread, Well Group, Durak, Onuki, Hapete, PT Sing Long, Sarla Fibers, Simtex Group, IEM, Jovidasal, Huarui, Hoton Group, Huaxin, SDerons, Forland, Ningbo MH, Yiwu Mingrong, Amin Associates, Sujata Synthetics, Rising Group, United Thread, Kai International, Gunze

By typeNatural (cotton, silk, wool, etc.)Synthetic (rayon, polyester, nylon, etc.)By applicationClothingShoesBedding and mattressesLuggage and bagsOther

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Regionally, the global sewing thread market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa. In addition, market data classification and region to country analysis are covered in the market research report. Additionally, regions are separated into country and region groups:

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Our clothes can take a lot of wear and tear, especially favorite pieces worn day in and day out – whether it’s trusty blue jeans, a timeless black blazer, or a comfy sweater that’ll see you through the cold months.

Inevitably, clothes (just like their owners) will begin to show signs of age. But just because a button falls off or stitches come undone doesn’t mean you have to say goodbye to your favorite item.

Learning to make and repair (as the old saying goes) helps reduce waste, makes our wardrobes more durable, and in most cases it’s a lot cheaper than buying a replacement from the stores. .

You don’t even have to own a sewing machine. Here, sewing experts show you six simple fashion fixes you can do yourself…

1. Replace Buttons

“Most garments already come with extra buttons sewn inside – this little repair job is easy and all you need is a needle and thread,” says Raph Dilhan, designer and Great British runner-up Sewing Bee (@raph_sew_and_so).

Layla Sargent, Founder and CEO of The Seam (thesam.fr), a platform that connects people to qualified, specialized makers for modifications and repairs, suggests reattaching a knob when it’s loose, to prevent it from completely falling off.

“To avoid lost threads, you can create a loop knot to start your stitching,” she explains. “Start by cutting a length of yarn and folding it in half. Thread both ends of the yarn through the eye of the needle and pull them out about 10cm.

“Now make your first stitch by sewing from the back to the front of the garment and again, pulling the needle through the yarn loop to secure. We like to use about four stitch loops through each buttonhole , but you can also match the appearance of other buttons on your garment.

2. Cover the holes with patches

While distressed denim can be trendy, Dilhan says a hole or tear in a garment is an opportunity to personalize it by covering it with a patch.

“I use appliqués for this. The variety available online is vast, from simple to very colorful, and in all shapes and sizes,” he says. “To attach appliqués, simply pin it over the hole and then sew the edges by hand with ordinary sewing thread (remember to remove the pins afterwards).

“You can also use darning thread, which is thicker so that the thread itself can become a decorative feature. If you are unsure about sewing an applique, there are also many iron-on patches available.

3. Fix the drop hems

If the hem of a skirt, dress, or slacks is starting to come undone, a timed stitch can really help.

“When detangling occurs on a few inches of yarn, DIY is a great way to prevent further damage,” says Sargent. Try to find a thread that matches the fabric as closely as possible, or go darker if necessary, as it will be less noticeable than a lighter thread.

“Follow the existing stitch line,” she continues. “When sewing by hand, shorter stitches, sewn tightly together, are the surest way to avoid fraying and damage in the wash.”

4. Unbobble knits

This is a useful technique when you’re getting out your warm clothes for fall and winter.

“When knitted garments and jersey items start to form little balls of fibers on the surface, they can quickly feel worn,” says Sargent. “A quick ‘haircut’ on an item of clothing can make a bobble item feel new again.”

Be sure to work slowly and in good lighting, to ensure you don’t accidentally cut the fabric: “Drape the fabric over the narrow edge of your hand, in a single layer, and use sharp scissors with a wide blade to cut pom poms one at a time.

She adds: “Knitted garments can be prone to fraying, so make sure you never cut a piece of yarn – focus on the fibers that have come loose from the structure of the fabric.”

5. Dye faded fabrics

Not exactly a sewing technique, but a practical skill to add to your fashion toolbox.

“If your whites have gone a little gray or an old favorite shirt has faded, don’t throw them away, color them instead – you’d be surprised how easy it is to do,” says Dilhan . “There are a wide variety of eco-friendly machine dyes designed for your second-hand wardrobe.”

Be sure to check that the dye is right for your fabric (most synthetics won’t work) and follow the directions to make sure you don’t contaminate your laundry.

You can also experiment with tie dyeing and other creative methods. Dilhan says: “You can achieve a nice color gradient with dip dyeing techniques – ideal for example if you have an old dress that needs sprucing up.

6. Rethread the cords

“When the drawstring on a pair of pants or joggers comes out of the waistband channel, putting it back in place is easier than it looks,” says Sargent.

To start, attach a safety pin to one end of the cord. You’ll need a pin that’s narrow enough to fit through the channel, but not the tiny type you get with clothing hang tags.

“Insert the safety pinned end of the string into one end of the channel and feed the fabric along the pin, occasionally distributing all the gathers along the string, until you can pull the pin on the other side and even the fabric along the cord.