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		<title>Buy One Get One FREE Sewing Repair Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah J. Doyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, you heard it right!  Call it March Madness or call it Spring Fever!  Call it what you want but this is the first ever opportunity to get one of our sewing machine, serger or treadle repair books absolutely FREE &#8212; you just pay the shipping fee. Here&#8217;s what you do: Visit our SewMachineRepair website to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, you heard it right!  Call it March Madness or call it Spring Fever!  Call it what you want but this is the first ever opportunity to get one of our sewing machine, serger or treadle repair books absolutely FREE &#8212; you just pay the shipping fee.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what you do:</p>
<p>Visit our <a href="http://sewmachinerepair.com" target="_blank">SewMachineRepair</a> website to see what we have available, then when you purchase any one of the repair books, you get the second book, of equal or lesser value free &#8211; just pay the shipping on the second book.</p>
<p>For example, you could purchase the Sewing Machine Repair for the Home Sewer at regular price then get the Serger Repair For The Home Sewer FREE (just pay the shipping).</p>
<p>After visiting the <a href="http://sewmachinerepair.com" target="_blank">SewMachineRepair</a> website and deciding which books you want, just give me a call at 850-944-7570 to place your order.  Ask for Sarah when you call and we&#8217;ll get your Buy One Get One FREE book order taken and out to you.</p>
<p>This March Madness sale will go through March 31, 2012.  What a perfect opportunity to add to your sewing books or get books to give as gifts!</p>
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		<title>For a Family Business, a Full-Time Cameo on &#8216;Project Runway&#8217; &#8211; New York Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Denise Hoyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a Family Business, a Full-Time Cameo on &#8216;Project Runway&#8217; &#8211; New York Times (blog) New York Times (blog) For a Family Business, a Full-Time Cameo on &#8216;Project Runway&#8217; New York Times (blog) In 1976, he came to New York with his wife to work as a contractor — sewing for designers like Michael Kors, [...]]]></description>
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<span><strong><span style="color: #6f6f6f;">New York Times (blog)</span></strong></span><br />
<span>In 1976, he came to New York with his wife to work as a contractor — <strong>sewing</strong> for designers like Michael Kors, now a judge on the show. He moved quickly into dealing fabric wholesale, and, in the 1980s when domestic manufacturing dropped, selling retail <strong>&#8230;</strong></span><br />
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		<title>Sacred Ceremonial Wear: &#8216;Clothes to go see God in&#8217; &#8211; Taos News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Denise Hoyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sacred Ceremonial Wear: &#8216;Clothes to go see God in&#8217; &#8211; Taos News A major help in this was beginning to practice Lakota spirituality about five years ago, and it&#8217;s also now cleared the path for her business sewing Lakota ceremonial clothing. &#8220;I prayed about doing something that was more in line with my spiritual path]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3805" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 226px"><a href="http://sewingbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/brenda_malone.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3805" title="brenda_malone" src="http://sewingbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/brenda_malone.jpg" alt="" width="216" height="178" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Photo by Susan Carpenter Sims / The Taos News</p></div>
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A major help in this was beginning to practice Lakota spirituality about five years ago, and it&#8217;s also now cleared the path for her business sewing Lakota ceremonial clothing. &#8220;I prayed about doing something that was more in line with my spiritual path</p>
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		<title>Savannah Grandmother Sees Her Hobby Grow Into an Online Business &#8211; Savannah Morning News</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Denise Hoyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Savannah Grandmother Sees Her Hobby Grow Into an Online Business &#8211; Savannah Morning News Arlene Ferrino’s love of sewing began in childhood. “My grandmother was my teacher,” she recalls of the Italian immigrant who made her living as a seamstress in New York’s garment district. “I remember sitting by her side, watching with wide-eyed]]></description>
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Arlene Ferrino’s love of sewing began in childhood. “My grandmother was my teacher,” she recalls of the Italian immigrant who made her living as a seamstress in New York’s garment district. “I remember sitting by her side, watching with wide-eyed</p>
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		<title>Area woman sewing again after tornado destroys her home &#8211; Gadsden Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 18:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Denise Hoyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Area woman sewing again after tornado destroys her home &#8211; Gadsden Times By the time she was a teenager, she was making her own clothes. Smith opened her sewing business a few years later and never slowed down. But her life was turned upside down on April 27, and she soon discovered many challenges were [...]]]></description>
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By the time she was a teenager, she was making her own clothes. Smith opened her sewing business a few years later and never slowed down. But her life was turned upside down on April 27, and she soon discovered many challenges were ahead of her.</p>
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		<title>Janet&#8217;s Chili Peppers in Wilmer makes glamorous gowns and more &#8211; Everything Alabama Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 18:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Denise Hoyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janet&#8217;s Chili Peppers in Wilmer makes glamorous gowns and more &#8211; Everything Alabama Blog For Hollinghead’s business, the couple purchased property that contained that she has worked with a broken wrist for about four weeks and she hasn’t stopped sewing,” Hollinghead said. The two Wilmer residents not only bond over sewing, but]]></description>
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For Hollinghead’s business, the couple purchased property that contained that she has worked with a broken wrist for about four weeks and she hasn’t stopped sewing,” Hollinghead said. The two Wilmer residents not only bond over sewing, but</p>
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		<title>Dad still makes SHeDaisy girls do the dishes &#8211; Deseret News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 15:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Denise Hoyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dad still makes SHeDaisy girls do the dishes &#8211; Deseret News Through the years, the one constant for the Osborns has been the sewing business that his father opened the year Dave was born. At first, the original Osborns sewed for companies such as Pendleton, Eddie Bauer and White Stag, but when cheap overseas labor]]></description>
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Through the years, the one constant for the Osborns has been the sewing business that his father opened the year Dave was born. At first, the original Osborns sewed for companies such as Pendleton, Eddie Bauer and White Stag, but when cheap overseas labor</p>
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		<title>Dawn sews up a one-woman business &#8211; Wanganui Chronicle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 01:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Denise Hoyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanganui Chronicle Dawn sews up a one-woman business Wanganui Chronicle HER BUSINESS: Dawn Potaka and grandson Shodan Casson with the waterproof vests she makes and sells. Photo / Stuart Munro 290411wcsmbiz-1 After decades of sewing for other people, Wanganui woman Dawn Potaka has started her own home clothing business. &#8230;     Read the article]]></description>
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<span>HER <strong>BUSINESS</strong>: Dawn Potaka and grandson Shodan Casson with the waterproof vests she makes and sells. Photo / Stuart Munro 290411wcsmbiz-1 After decades of <strong>sewing</strong> for other people, Wanganui woman Dawn Potaka has started her own home clothing <strong>business</strong>. <strong>&#8230;</strong></span><br />
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		<title>The Avatar&#8217;s New Clothes &#8211; Fast Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Denise Hoyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fast Company The Avatar&#8217;s New Clothes Fast Company Ram, the patriarch, trained as a mechanical engineer, took a job fixing sewing machines, and finally founded a company, Tukatech, that made fashion-design software. (Breasts, he later explained, are the hardest body part to design for. &#8230;     Read the article]]></description>
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		<title>Stay-at-home mom finds busines niche sewing kids clothes &#8211; Chattanooga Times Free Press</title>
		<link>http://sewingbusiness.com/2011/04/05/stay-at-home-mom-finds-busines-niche-sewing-kids-clothes-chattanooga-times-free-press.aspx</link>
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		<dc:creator>S. Denise Hoyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her sewing business was launched a year after the birth of her second child, daughter Ruth, 3. Hometown : Born in Rome, Ga., now lives in Rossville. Education : Bachelor of Science in family and child development from Auburn University, and a master’s Read the article]]></description>
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