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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...