‘I brought this fabric for you,” my mom said in Bengali. She lifted an emerald and ecru plaid from a Jo-Ann bag. My fingers read the twill weave. We couldn’t tell what the fiber was exactly. Maybe ...

I don’t remember when my mother didn’t sew. Her Singer machine sat at the far end of what we called the Florida room, and nights when I couldn’t sleep, I’d go downstairs and stand in the doorway ...

MIDDLEBORO — Lifelong seamstress and costume designer/maker Betty Sylvia will be offering a beginner sewing class for adults, teens and mommy and me at The Burt Wood School of Performing Arts. For the ...

Last fall, desperate for an alternative to the constant stream of sing-song Disney Jr. shows flowing through our living room, I enthusiastically introduced my 7-year-old daughter, Kona, to Season 14 ...

MIDDLEBORO — Lifelong seamstress and costume designer/maker Betty Sylvia will be offering a beginner sewing class for adults, teens and mommy and me at The Burt Wood School of Performing Arts. For the ...

Coats, dresses, pants, silky blouses, costumes, curtains, bedspreads, pillows, slipcovers — my house and my parents’ house are filled with my mom’s handiwork. Growing up poor on a farm, she received a ...

I’m not normally the kind of person who cares much about looking like a geek, because I’m so used to it and refuse to acknowledge the stares and whispers. I was always odd and dorky as far back as I ...