For Mary Lou Gilbert, sewing is the thread that's connected generations of her family. "My mother was a sewer. My grandmother in Indiana was a seamstress by trade. She came out from Indiana to make my ...

In Cranbrook, B.C., volunteers Deb Smithurst and Barb Fenwick are turning clothing belonging to loved ones who have passed away into hand-sewn memory bears — small keepsakes made from shirts, sweaters ...

PITTSBURGH — Shirley Whitlinger knows all too well the profound, existential loneliness that follows a spouse’s death. When David, her husband of 50 years, died from prostate cancer in 2021, after two ...