Not all that long ago, women met in sewing circles held in homes or churches to catch up on the latest news and take a break from everyday responsibilities. They would stash mending, piecework or ...

WAYNESBORO As Bertha, Ruth and Florence Showalter bend over a new quilting project on its table-length frame, the handiwork of generations of Showalters -- and Heatwoles, Hostetters and other women of ...

Suzanne Hege has been sewing for over 50 years. It is simply her passion. She has created costumes for churches and schools and has made shirts for racing teams. She has also sewn for many people in ...

SNOW HILL, Md. (AP) -- Janine Dufrene's fingers gingerly guided her needle into the soft, cotton face of the quilt stretched on a quilting frame. Around her, half a dozen ladies worked, their short, ...

The recipient of this week's Ben's Bell is Jordan Newhouse, a Tucson teen who started a sewing circle that's helped hundreds of people in Tucson and around the world. Newhouse, 15, was nominated by a ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Twenty donated sewing machines is helping change the fabric of more than a dozen Afghan women’s lives. Imani Aid’s delivered them to Exodus Refugee’s sewing Art Circle group as ...

Row upon row of women sit hunched over sewing machines. Needles clack. Rotary cutters slice fabric into strips. The sweet smell of ironing hangs in the air. Lake Arrowhead sparkles out the window.

It’s just before 1 o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon when we pull into the lot of the former Dark Harbor School, a 109-year-old, brown-shingled American foursquare on the southern end of Islesboro island ...

Knitting, crochetting, embroidering, mending -- whatever you're working on, bring it to the sewing circle! The PUL Makerspace will have some basic sewing materials like scissors and embroidery hoops, ...