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 ...
Manizha Naziry, 25, is busy hemming clothes for a client at the North Greenwich Congregational Church. Naziry never learned how to sew in her native country of Afghanistan. But now, she might be able ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dignity Memorial network providers Primrose Funeral Service and Sunset Memorial Park announced today the formation of a Community Sewing Circle in conjunction with its Dignity Memorial LIFT (Living ...
Fran Kertesz opened Fran’s Sewing Circle on Oleander Drive in Wilmington in 1996. The 500-square-foot space sold sewing machines and nothing else. Today it’s a 3,500-square-foot mecca of fabrics, ...
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 ...