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This club brings women together to learn, sew and make friends

Kathleen Turner, 88, works with a sewing machine on Friday, Sept. 7, at Myrtle Terraces in Gainesville. Turner helped start the Sew and Sew group which gets together to make handbags for women. - photo by Layne Saliba

09112018 SEW 3.jpg — Kathleen Turner, 88, works with a sewing machine on Friday, Sept. 7, at Myrtle Terraces in Gainesville. Turner helped start the Sew and Sew group which gets together to make handbags for women. - photo by Layne Saliba

Kathleen Turner sits at a table surrounded by six sewing machines just about every day of the week. Sometimes, she said, even on Sundays. That’s where she’s happy.