BEAVERCREEK, Ohio (WDTN) — A local group of women is putting their sewing skills to work to make life a little easier for cancer patients. The tight-knit group is known as the “Gang of Seamstresses,” ...
Since last fall, three local seamstresses have provided hospice and dementia patients with handmade items to improve their care and bring comfort to their families. The program doesn’t have an ...
JASON: SOME LOCAL SEAMSTRESSES HAVE BEEN WORKING TIRELESSLY SINCE THE PANDEMIC BEGAN TO MAKE MASKS FOR FIRST RESPONDERS AND NOW OTHERS. MICHELLE: THE NEED HAS INCREASED SINCE MASK AND EIGHT HAVE BEEN ...
When Lillia Whittington was 4 years old, she walked up to her grandmothers and told them she wanted to sew an outfit for herself. Since they had both worked as seamstresses, they were eager to help.
Starting Friday, San Diego County residents are required to wear masks in public, and volunteer organizations that have been fashioning and donating masks to medical facilities in need of personal ...
Jan. 11—When Charlotte Osborne isn't working her shift at the local grocery store in Superior, she's at home stitching together a new dress for her hobby turned business, Blue Sky Doll Clothes. As for ...
Local seamstress extraordinaire Dianne Tate, of Merrimack, recently said she “loves to sew” upon completing more than 1,400 frocks as gifts to impoverished girls in Kenya, Guatemala and Ghana, along ...
Lynette Hinke, of Mankato, has been sewing since she was 9 years old but until recently had never taught the skill. Well, she caught on fast and is now instructing four participants through a YWCA ...
Then she stumbled upon a news article with a pattern for cotton face masks that hospitals were requesting to help slow the spread of the virus. So she — like dozens of other Cowlitz County volunteers ...
The whir of a sewing machine cut through the silent concentration of seamstresses hemming skirts and making pillowcases out of old T-shirts. By their workstations, jackets and dress bags cascaded down ...