A sewing machine is a fantastically useful thing to own, but too often sewing machines end up languishing in a closet because something wasn't working quite right the last time you tried to use it.

Pat Vandermolen says the work to repair more than 50 sewing machines has not only benefited refugee families, but has helped ...

THE Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD) made a significant contribution to the local ...

This madman was no other than Barthlemy Thimonnier, the inventor of the first sewing machine. He was born at Abreste in the year 1793, and was the son of a dyer of Lyons. It is an old custom with ...

Did you know that September is National Sewing Month? Established in 1982 to support sewing and craft industries, President ...

He spent years stitching together shirts, trousers and relationships with the children he had once left behind. It all ...

Thursday afternoons are a special time for Joan Grewe, her dog, Cora, and the residents of Hidden Springs Senior Living in ...

Come check out the Wando Mount Pleasant Library makerspace; a communal public workshop in which makers can work on personal ...

For Sharon Dubois and her friends at the Fuller Creative Learning Center, sewing, knitting and crocheting are more than just ...

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“Obviously, not anymore,” said Vandermolen, gesturing around a room that has been taken over as a workshop for repairing old sewing machines. For the past two years, Vandermolen has fixed over ...