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 ...

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 ...

Cut 2 pieces of gray fur to 10½" x 7½" (26.67 cm x 19.05 cm). Cut 1 piece of gray fur to 10½" x 3½" (26.67 cm x 8.89 cm). Cut 1 piece of gray fur to 4" x 3" (10.16 cm x 7.62 cm). Cut 2 pieces of gray ...

A pair of women have teamed up to find a solution for those old fur coats in the back of many closets. Gail Pettinger of Victoria, B.C., is collecting the coats for Inuit women who’ll refashion them ...

Gail Pettinger shows some of the donated fur coats that will eventually make their way to the Arctic.ADRIAN LAM When the package from Victoria arrived at the community sewing group in Kugluktuk, ...