Sewing News

As The Inter-Mountain and Elkins Distributing prepare for Thursday's Taste of Home Cooking School, a number of local companies are gearing up for the event's exclusive vendor fair.

After trolling style blogs one day, Crump - a self-professed craft maniac and hobbyist - decided to teach herself Shibori, a more intricate form of tie-dye with roots in Japan .

The rat-a-tat of a hundred green sewing machines. The hypnotic hum of spools spinning brightly colored threads.

Sewing machines are on display at West Side Sewing in Cedar Rapids. Due to the popularity of reality TV shows like 'Project Runway,' sewing machines and sewing clothes are once again in style.

My husband, Joe, has been at work several hours already and daughter Elizabeth left for her job at 5:15 a.m. Joe tilled part of the garden last night.

What can you make with covers from old, worn out book covers, used sewing patterns, stray playing cards, puzzle pieces and loads of mismatched papers? If you are Debbie Gilbert of the Altered Bee in Bristol, NH, you create beautiful, one of a kind altered journals .

The American Sewing Expo wants you to enter their 7th Annual ASE Passion For Fashion .

The opening of the McCook House Civil War Museum today through Sunday will showcase a never-before-viewed by the public McCook family album recently donated for permanent display at the state memorial.

Judy Edwards says she has been quilting "since birth," so it was natural for her to open a quilt shop in Loveland.

TINY NAPPIES: Ella Foat and Leslee Loney in Ella's nail studio each holding a set of "Angel Baby Nappies" ready to go to local hospitals for stillborn babies and premature babies that pass away.

Knitting and crocheting may not strike you as the coolest way to spend your evenings - but you'd be wrong! The wool based projects are enjoying a revival and now they are not just the preserve of elderly women.

Lois Milosch, this year's Featured Quilter at the Sun Country Quilter's Biennial Quilt Show, not only uses fabrics of many colors in her quilts, but has led a colorful life beginning with her childhood in Colorado and Oregon to her home in Redding.

Quilts no longer belong just on the bed as pro-quilter Sally Papin depicts tropical rain forests in her latest series of homemade animal quilt wall art.

Instructor Ruth Kirchner , who works at Kelle Co., teaches students in a class called "Introduction to Sewing and the Process of Production," at the Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis.

Maddy Maxey is a regular 20-year-old who's too tired to be doing a 9 a.m. phone interview, until she starts talking about pattern-making software.

Gardening has become a quickly unfolding obsession for me. I'm bordering on farming and that's cool.

The Rwanda Development Bank on Friday commemorated the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis, and held a vigil in memory of its staff and clients at the time.

I like doing foundation piecing on a machine. I had some interesting patterns though for miniature foundation piecing.

A group of girls from El Salvador wear dresses made by women from Chesapeake Community of Hope Church.

My husband, Joe, has been at work several hours already and daughter Elizabeth left for her job at 5:15 a.m. Joe tilled part of the garden last night.