Photo Feature: It’s sew good

Published 12:03 am Wednesday, October 17, 2012

LAUREN WOOD | THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT — Bonita Reed, left, sews cough pillows as Ernestine Stanton threads her machine as they and other members of the Adams County Mississippi Homemaker Volunteers work together Tuesday morning after their monthly meeting at the Mississippi State University Extension Building. The group was sewing the pillows for patients at the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children, in addition to making wheelchair tote bags and dresses for children in Haiti and Nicaragua.

LAUREN WOOD | THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT — Linda Gooden, left, and Mae Stanton, right, both measure a piece of fabric for a wheelchair tote bag while working Tuesday morning with the Adams County chapter of the Mississippi Homemaker Volunteers at the Mississippi State University Extension Building.

LAUREN WOOD | THE NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT — Inell Lyles irons a piece of fabric before it is cut and sewn into a wheelchair tote bag Tuesday morning as she and other members of the Adams County chapter of the Mississippi Homemaker Volunteers work on sewing projects.

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