When I was a kid and my bike chain gummed up with gunk, Mom handed me a can of “sewing machine oil” and had me lubricate the chain. Soon, the bike hummed along smoothly again. We’d use sewing machine ...

'Do you remember how to pivot?" Melissa Stasi-Thomas asks the four girls seated at sewing machines in her new, colorful "Little Miss Sew It All" sewing studio in East Moriches. "Needles down, presser ...

Sewing instructor Sophie Hood has always made her own Halloween costumes. From kindergarten in California through high school at St. Johnsbury Academy in Vermont, she and her parents and younger ...

Singer is a household name, synonymous with home economics. Singer is reputed for quality and this year the brand celebrates 171 years. Isaac Merritt Singer founded the company in New York, USA, in ...

Noteworthy Tar Heel Traveler: Sewing machine shop Sam Johnson passed away the other day. For much of his life, he ran a little sewing machine shop in Raleigh and even invented sewing-machine devices ...

Verna and Walter Davidson opened the Sewing Machine Exchange at 325 First St. SW in 1920. They offered new and used sewing machines, took trade-ins, rented machines and offered to do hem stitching and ...