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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...