Jenni Avins owns a red fox vest. It is simple, warm and, to many, hideously ugly for what it represents. To Ms Avins, though, it is not only thing of beauty, but the hard-earned product of hours of ...

Unlike fabric sewing machines, which hold and sew pieces horizontally, fur sewing machines hold pieces vertically between two wheels. The sewer must move the wheels at the same pace, or the fur will ...

A group of women write haiku at the 2018 Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Winter Workshop. The Talkeetna Mountains are in the background. (Photo by Steve Meyer) The pile of furs in the corner of the ...

Donna Salyers was all set to buy a fur coat-on sale, no less-when the guilt set in. So Salyers, a Cincinnatian who writes a nationally syndicated sewing column and stars in her own series of ...

Maija Katak Lukin brings her sewing kit everywhere she goes. Making clothes for her family is as crucial as taking care of the people she loves and, by now, comes to her as natural as breathing. This ...