I remember the first time I used a sewing machine to make clothing. I was a freshman in high school, 1969-70, taking a home economics class. My classmates and I were instructed on how to use a sewing ...

When he was 11, Brian Hurita found a few yards of canvas and hand-stitched his own French Foreign Legion hat. "It was cool -- with a flap down the back," he remembers. "I'd seen them in movies -- back ...

The line of people with shopping carts stretched around the aisles April 14 at the Middleburg Heights Jo-Ann Fabric store, but they were not buying fabric or crafts. Instead, each cart held at least ...

Yesterday my husband and I had "craft time." Yeah, I know it sounds like pre-school curriculum, but I just bought a couple of retro-inspired crafting books and felt like putting them to good use. I ...