Welcome to Specialty Outdoors
Specialty Outdoors is your outdoor gear sewing and repair expert, specializing in alterations, modifications, and problem solving for technical clothing and equipment.
- Technical Clothing Repair, Alteration, and Modification
- General Gear Repair
- Factory Authorized by The North Face™, Helly Hansen™ and TREW Gear™
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Recent Posts
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- My Iceland Trip August 29, 2022
- Retirement doesn’t mean no sewing. August 9, 2022
- Using plastic wrap to copy a garment… who knew? May 21, 2022
- Base Layer Zip and Collar Burrito Finish, Revised With Video April 11, 2022
- A great partnership…. February 10, 2022
- I am keeping the blog!! February 9, 2022