'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 ...

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 ...