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, ...

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 ...

ON A DECEMBER night at Quality Sewing & Vacuum in Bellevue, about 20 women are seated on folding chairs arranged in a circle. In the center is a table filled with brightly wrapped packages. There’s a ...

It is a sewing circle like no other in the world, made up of a group of women in Richmond, B.C., who make their living painstakingly sewing hundreds of stitches onto a tiny fabric processed from the ...

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 ...

A new sewing project is being set up in the remote northwestern Ontario community of Eabametoong First Nation, with the help of a Canadian fashion designer. Over 1,100 kilograms of cargo, including ...