Karen Ferguson remembers learning to sew from her mother and grandmother.
At age 5, she sewed by hand. Two years later, Ferguson was using a non-electric sewing machine.
“I took to it, like a duck to water,” she said.
Now 70, Ferguson works on a variety of projects from her home in Fern Prairie.
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