Six years ago, Renita Yahara was given several large boxes of material from a friend. Yahara, of Elizabethtown, started searching online for a way to use the material that would help others. That’s ...

The whir of sewing machines and the snipping of scissors through fabric are sounds heard in Lancaster County that are changing young girls’ lives on the other side of the world. More than 4,000 miles ...

Recently retired, Romaine Shubzda, an avid sewer, found she had a lot of time on her hands and a lot of extra fabric in her home. Then she heard about a women’s project that takes pillowcases or ...

The concept is simple: Get as many willing hands together as possible to sew basic sleeveless cotton dresses and send them to young girls in Africa who may never have had a new dress. Then watch the ...

One by one dresses are sewn together at the Casas Adobes Congregational Church. Stitch warlock, Ron McLain says sewing these dresses, "gives little girls all over the world a dress that they may have ...

DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE. BUSY BOBBINS AT THE BRIDGEWATER SENIOR CENTER. THE PATTERN BEING SEWN IS SIMPLE. SO WE HAVE THE FABRIC. WE HAVE THE POCKET MATERIAL, ALL THE STRAPS. BUT SO VERY SPECIAL. THEY’RE ...

A dozen woman gather every week at E-Town Sewing Studio to help others. The dresses they sew are woven with the power to save children from human trafficking. Armed with ordinary needles and thread, ...

Sharon Meehan used to teach in an inner-city school. She noticed that a girl at her school was teased about her clothing, which revealed her low-income status. So when the girl was named student of ...