CREDIT: STEPHANIE LAI

Second-year Fashion Design students Serafina Decristofano (left), Charlotte Hanington and Julie Eden showed off their new blind hemmer.

The machine was purchased through the $1,000 Awesome Fanshawe Students grant, which was won by Cassie Smith, a third-year Fashion Design student, in November. About half the money was used to purchase this blind hemming machine, and the rest will go toward supplies and advertising for their student-run business, Fashion Fits, which raises money for the annual Unbound fashion show in April.

“It's a great investment,” Hanington said. She used the machine for the first time in early February. She estimated that this machine completes blind hems approximately 20 times as fast as a human seamstress. “It's pretty awesome!”

Fashion Fits is an on-campus alteration service run entirely by students. Check out Fashion Fits at facebook.com/fashionfits2014 or send an email to fashionfits.unbound@gmail.com. They accept garments for repair on Mondays in H3006 and Fridays in H3004 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

For more information on Awesome Fanshawe Students and to submit your own awesome idea, go to fsu.ca/awesome.