Students were set up at sewing machines ... sewing on the printed sheets, without thread in the machines. Once they learned to sew a straight line, they progressed to sewing corners and curved ...

My aunts and mother went through 4-H in rural Minnesota and learned to sew zippers and dresses with tight-fitting bodices. They could whip up buttonholes ... how to pull the thread through a ...

Angie DePoe, of St. Joesph, Missouri, eyes her thread while practicing setting up her sewing machine during the Community Thread Studio gathering at the Willmar Community Center on Tuesday ...