WAYNESBORO As Bertha, Ruth and Florence Showalter bend over a new quilting project on its table-length frame, the handiwork of generations of Showalters -- and Heatwoles, Hostetters and other women of ...

Row upon row of women sit hunched over sewing machines. Needles clack. Rotary cutters slice fabric into strips. The sweet smell of ironing hangs in the air. Lake Arrowhead sparkles out the window.

An ice storm is slowing morning commuters, but there’s no stopping the 10 members of the Sewing Circle who convene at a Geneva church for their quilting bee. “When I was out of town, I missed them,” ...

In a theft that may or (probably for sure) may not be related to a conservative sewing circle's project to construct a massive patchwork quilt with which to absorb the tears flowing from Glenn Beck's ...