Sewing Business News Weekly Digest
GSC team places 6th in free enterprise competition
Access North Georgia
The Sewing Company, or SewCo, will be a non-profit sewing cooperative targeting unemployed or under-employed individuals who would like to become entrepreneurs. The GSC SIFE team has developed a two-part plan targeting women with young children who may …
Veteran shoe repairman looks for wounded heels in Fairbanks
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Hornbostel is partners with Marsha Panfil, who is handling the marketing end of the business. The shop is stocked with equipment they purchased from a gentleman in Illinois who was getting out of the business and includes a 1929 Singer sewing machine, …
Bus crash tragedy inspires act of comfort by grieving Sunderland mum
Sunderland Echo
Lesley, 56, who was living in Twickenham Road, Thorney Close, at the time of the tragedy, said: “I got into sewing after we lost Janine. “It became a sort of therapy for my grief. I made dolls’ clothes for my nieces and that sort of thing. …
Mitten maven: Leslie Ogden loves making mittens
Ogden owns Smitten with Mittens, a sewing business she operates from her home. Ogden, who lives on a farm near Cavalier, N.D., started making mittens after she retired from 31 years of teaching school, the last 19 in Cavalier. CAVALIER
The fabric of life
Today her business, Judy Stokes Sewing and Design, operates largely via word-of-mouth. “My goal was to have a studio where a bride could bring her mother and friends and savor this special time,” Stokes said. “I really feel joy when I see
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