MOLINE — Grant Sims' sewing machine whirred as he quickly maneuvered a camouflage Army uniform top around the needle, tacking a name patch into place. Soon, he cut the thread and was up and moving to ...

If you try to sew leather on a standard consumer-grade machine, more often than not you’ll quickly learn its limits. Most machines are built for speed, and trying to get them to punch through heavy ...