While it is billed as a community sewing circle, the hand-crafted items that come out of the monthly sessions have an impressive range. On any given evening, a dozen or so women might be working to ...

May 1—ASHLAND — The women who meet at Best Friends Fabric and More are stitching together more than quilts. They are stitching together lifelong friendships. The store, at 2007 Carter Ave., offers ...

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.

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 ...

L-R: Suzanne Hege, Katy Farren, Ellen Rufty, Rhonda Lauver, Patti Wesley, Prudence Robinson and Kathi Elligan are passionate about serving by sewing. Suzanne Hege has been sewing for over 50 years. It ...

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 local quilting bee is a lot more than a sewing circle for the women who meet twice a month at the Terryville Library. In the midst of cutting, sewing and artistic expression, there is an ...

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 ...