When Carol MacDougall, a retired nurse and active volunteer, heard that five sewing machines had been donated to the club, she wondered if the kids might want to learn to sew. When nearly 15 teens ...

Diana Turner, a retired educator, has been teaching inmates how to sew for the past seven months. “They’re eager,” says ...

Contributed STEUBENVILLE — Sewing can sometimes be a difficult task to master. It takes time. It takes coordination. It takes a good instructor to teach the ins and outs of how to utilize a sewing ...

I think about how teaching this skill is part of my familys ... I think of my grandfather, who learned to mend clothes and sew on buttons during the war and took such good care of his machine ...

In a day and age when Home Economics has been cut from budgets or replaced by technology education, Jerilyn's Sewing School in Cranston has not forgotten about teaching boys and girls basic life ...