Continue learning to sew McCall’s 8177 with our Part 2 tutorial. Focus on lining, princess seams, and finishing tips to ...

Can one person make a difference? You bet they can. Just ask Susan Cox-Hall of North Aurora. “Years ago, Ruth Ratke started a group called Sewing for Smiles, a 501c3 organization that makes girls' ...

Learn to sew Simplicity 8874 with this Part 1 tutorial. Discover tips and insights for constructing a beautiful knit dress ...

A dozen woman gather every week at E-Town Sewing Studio to help others. The dresses they sew are woven with the power to save children from human trafficking. Armed with ordinary needles and thread, ...

FAIR HAVEN — A local woman has offered sewing lessons to anyone who will learn to keep young women and girls around the world safe and seen. Dress a Girl Around the World is an initiative started by ...

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 ...

Amid the whirl of sewing machines and bins holding stacks of fabric and bobbins of multicolored thread, each volunteer has a job on Monday mornings: to cut, iron or sew “Dresses of Hope.” The five ...

CHATFIELD, Minn. — When Denise Smalley thought about little girls in poor countries having to wear tattered old clothes, it practically broke her heart. "In some of these places they don't get ...

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 ...

A rising ninth-grader at Ohio Virtual Academy (OHVA), Felicity Kenny of Lebanon is helping to protect girls around the world from sex trafficking and sexual assault. Kenny, a 14-year-old, volunteers ...