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 ...

Keep your sewing machine busy with 15 free summer sewing patterns for girls. These easy projects are fun to make and even more fun to wear. If your sewing machine’s been calling your name and your ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a recent sunny Saturday, about 26 women gathered to sew dresses for the Dress a Girl Around the World project, which is part of Hope 4 Women International. This organization, founded in 2006, has a ...

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 ...

It has happened to the best of us: The shopping disaster day. We drag ourself from shop to shop, searching for that perfect dress and go home empty-handed and frustrated. But what if I told you that ...

Las Vegas resident Jil Gertz just wants to make a difference in the lives of children. That s why she came up with the idea to hold a sew-a-thon to benefit girls in Africa with the help of her church, ...

NEOSHO, Mo. — Some fabric, elastic, and instructions is all that’s needed for Neosho High School students to make a difference around the world. The FCCLA chapter has dedicated its yearly project to ...