Long before basic sewing needle options evolved as “sharps” or “betweens,” cave-era folks simply threaded bone shard and animal horn with sinew or plant fiber to stitch animal skins into outerwear.

WILLMAR — For former Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg School District family and consumer sciences teacher Bonnie Kluver, sewing is so important. Simply put, she is a firm believer in equipping oneself with ...

Maybe those sewing skills your grandmother had skipped a generation or so, but what happens when you pop a button or your step through the hem in your pants? In my grandma’s era, it was common for ...

In a room filled with sewing machines from various eras, a dozen women learned to wind a bobbin, thread a machine and create a simple tote-bag. “I feel like we can go home and take out our machine and ...