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 ...

The concept is simple: Get as many willing hands together as possible to sew basic sleeveless cotton dresses and send them to young girls in Africa who may never have had a new dress. Then watch the ...

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 ...

Recently retired, Romaine Shubzda, an avid sewer, found she had a lot of time on her hands and a lot of extra fabric in her home. Then she heard about a women’s project that takes pillowcases or ...

Discover the key steps in part 2 of sewing the Simplicity 9098 Cynthia Rowley dress with insights that refine fit structure ...

Eloise Glover tells PEOPLE that her mother Jennifer Shepherd has been making her clothes since birth Eloise Glover's viral TikTok shows the dresses her mom has made for her over 31 years — ending with ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under the warm backyard lights on her wedding day, Eloise Glover slipped into a silk gown that carried more than just memories — it carried three decades of her mother’s love, stitched into every fold ...