Almost five years ago, Michelle Lyon turned some scraps of old chenille into a booming business making stuffed animals. Lyon, a mom of three in Raleigh, is next up in our Made by Mom Gift Guide.

Have you taken a look into your mother or grandmother’s linen closet or one of the old dresser drawers, or even that trunk or cedar chest in the attic? You just might find an old chenille bedspread or ...

Multi-colored chenille bedspreads draped over long clotheslines — and blowing in Frog Level’s mountain breezes — had a vibrant history in Dalton, Ga. As a child in the late 1940s and early 1950s, I ...

* What: “Threads of Home: The Sandra Mahs Collection.”* When: Through Sept. 30. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday.* Where: Bandy Heritage Center’s Old Freight ...