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Alton,
Marie-I've been doing crafts of one type or another
for as long as I can remember.....but since discovering SRE about 6 years
ago.....it has become
Arkens, Glenna-I've sewn since I was 4 and have always loved color. I've been in business for 8 years. I sell my work by consignment and wholesale. I have a line of quilt patterns as well as sr patterns and kits. I have designed a line of notecards with sr wildflowrs on them. I design landmark (mostly lighthouse) patterns for shops and notecards with their area's wildflowers on them. I do put colors together well so I would be happy to coordinate ribbon selection for customers.
Becker, Marilyn-II am from England. I am a wife to 1, a mother to 2 and grandmother to 7 - and they are all gorgeous. Ribbon Designs is the largest supplier of pure silk ribbon in Europe. I have been in the ribbon business now for over 21 years. It all started with a display by Offray of their ribbons and also the technique of ribbon weaving at a craft show. I used to make ribbon woven cushions which were sold in major department stores in the UK and abroad. I designed ribbon weaving kits for sale to the shops and by mail order, and then gradually found that I was supplying ribbons so that people could do their own thing. I sell YLI and Japanese silk and spark organdy ribbons
to shops, teachers, craft workers and the general public. My business
is mail order only, and I send my ribbons around the world. I teach (occasionally),
and design (often) and my work has been featured in many national magazines.
What I do not have is a scanner, or even good pictures so at the moment
I am not able to let you see what I do. I sell my ribbons by the metre
and by the reel to teachers and the general public. I also package them
for stores in a way that makes them easy to sell and very attractive to
look at. My "trademark" is my mixed colour assortments - one metre
lengths of different ribbons in collections of shades, florals or themes.
I sell them in 2mm., 4mm., or 7 mm. assortments, and have over 50 different
combinations.
Bennett,
Valeri-I'm married with two children and expecting
my first grandchild in
Bracken, Catherine E.-By training and vocation, I have been a lawyer for 15+ years. My mother was a stitcher from my earliest memory and about 5-6 years ago, we started a quilting and stitching shop in the Dallas area for her retirement years. The quilting was too much for her to handle, so we later dropped that but kept the stitchery. The shop continued, adding silk ribbon and crewel supplies. I taught classes at night and on weekends while working as a lawyer. We went to internet sales when in-store sales slowed down after a move to the suburbs. Fate intervened and my company was bought and a severance package offered to the legal department. Since then, I have focused on the gift store that morphed out of the needlework shop, as well as the internet business, which continued even after we moved all the needlework out of the retail store. So now I cross stitch, do silk ribbon work, quilt, needlepoint, and sew Halloween costumes in my spare :) time. Haven't cracked a lawbook in almost 2 years, which is OK.
Brucia, Jeanmarie-I remember my mother teaching me how to embroider when I was 5 or 6 years old. I specifically remember the lazy-daisy stitch and the French knot; what a thrill of victory I felt when I could do these on my own! At age 11, I entered two crewel pieces in the State Fair and won first and second places for them. I stopped doing embroidery after that because I didn't know where else to find more challenging needlework. When I was 26, I started quilting and saw a piece of stumpwork at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival. That year, I also found a copy of "Needle Arts" in my local library and learned about the Embroiderers' Guild of America. I soon joined my local guild and began to learn other types of embroidery including Schwalm, ribbon, and hardanger. I quit work as a renal dietitian when I was 34 and three years later bought a computer and learned about the SRE list. After participating in the pincushion swap, I gained the confidence to start my own business. I thought that since I couldn't find what I needed in order to do stumpwork embroidery, that probably neither could anyone else, so I would form a business to do so. Here I am, a year later with "Jenny June Fancy Work" and a whole host of new friends! I used to think that I needed to work with impoverished people, providing the necessities of life, in order to feel fulfilled as a human being. In time I discovered there are many ways of being impoverished. To me right now, the world is beauty-impoverished; whatever I can do to bring beauty to the world, therefore, is how I wish to dedicate my life. I believe this is in line with the Creator's design for me, as well. Working intensely with people and their problems drained my life from me. Creating beauty, teaching others to embroider, and encouraging the development of needlework all give me life. This year (2001), I plan to focus on learning needlelace and providing more needlelace resources to my customers. I want to provide as much support to that community of lacers as I can. It is beautiful and is frequently incorporated into stumpwork embroidery. In 2003, I hope to bring a group of embroiderers to Australia to study embroidery design and stumpwork with Anne Mieke Mein, Jane Nicholas, Jennifer Bee and Jean Fletcher. My ultimate goal is to encourage embroiderers to be open to The Divine to enable them to grow into their creative potential and thereby increase beauty in the world.
Gibb, Helen-Helen, an Australian now living in the USA, has been involved with crafts and needle arts since 1984. She is a Certified Professional Demonstrator with the Hobby Industry Association. She's the author of the ribbon book, The Secrets of Fashioning Ribbon Flowers and Heirloom Ribbonwork, and teaches her ribbon art to many students throughout the USA and in Australia. Helen also makes regular appearances on HGTV's Carol Duvall Show with her ribbonwork and half dolls. In addition to ribbonwork, Helen has demonstrated a wide variety of crafts products, including paints, and silk flowers for manufacturers at trade shows and she's also showcased her floral painting talents for US retail companies including Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, and Dillard's stores. Many things inspire Helen - her garden, her antique hat collection, a massive ribbon collection that includes vintage pieces of ribbonwork and a small half doll collection. She also enjoys a variety of music and sings with the Rocky Mountain Chorale, in Boulder Colorado. Helen offers a lovely range of ribbon kits, half dolls, silk prints, albums, French trims, and more for sale on her website www.helengibb.com. As she puts it, "I sell everything from the basics to the luxurious, in relation to ribbonwork. If you don't see it listed then contact me - I probably have it!"
Greeson, Maureen A.- My husband of 34 years and I live in scenic South Windsor, Connecticut which is just north-east of Hartford and a couple of miles from the Connecticut river. Our home is a 1911 farmhouse that we have worked hard to restore to a Victorian flavor. My shop is located in my home. I have been involved in crafts all my life. For many years I ran a business making and selling porcelain reproduction dolls. My business also included selling supplies to others and providing instruction. This interest migrated into costuming of dolls and then into heirloom sewing. Over time, my interests have shifted to crazy quilting and silk ribbon embroidery. My home-based store has now grown to the Internet which has expanded my customer base dramatically. I look forward to the business growing in this area and being able to offer even a greater range of merchandise.
Iman, Sue Anne-There are four of us-Sue, Jamie, Susan, and Sue Anne. All of us love to stitch and quilt, so dyeing ribbon and fabric was a new outlet for our creativity. We still ooh and aah over each piece of ribbon and fabric as we press and wrap it! We hope you enjoy it as much as we do! Designing and creating patterns has become another outlet for our creative juices. We now have kits and patterns for both sre and quilting. Check out our web site for a look at what we do!
Kotarba, Linda-The Bead Link was established Online in 1996. The Bead Link evolved from an interest in crafting and offering fellow guild members supplies at near wholesale prices. As the the Bead Link caught on it became possible to buy in larger volume. Being a web designer, the next logical step was to take our growing business Online. Our aim is to offer the lowest possible prices. We thank you for your patronage.
Lynne,
Sassa-In 1988 I discovered dyeing. It was a chance
encounter, almost by accident. I was hooked. I dyed fabric and made quilts,
threads to quilt them. I dyed T-shirts for the family, underwear (sometimes
by accident), curtains, tablecloths, anything that I could get my hands
on - just to see the Before long the house was full of colour, but nothing else
to dye!!!!!!!!! Now I have 2 grandchildren, 6 and 9. They don't help me
to dye, but they do As you gather, I just love dyeing. But don't like selling
myself, so as from
Okawara, Chris-I've been embroidering for about 35 years, since university days when long trips to & from school were taken up by needlepoint. I'm interested in all kinds of embroidery -- surface & counted, western & eastern, and have taught it all. I was certified to teach traditional Japanese Embroidery in 1988. I retired recently as a senior financial analyst from a large technology firm. Looking toward the future and following on a decade-long teaching career, Needle Mania was established in 1996 to share my love of needlework, and some of my humoungous stash of threads!
Sheffield, Debbie-We are a family business of fifteen years of which we've been a part for four years. We used to do lots of quilt shows on the east coast including NJ, PA, VA, MD and VT, but now we are constantly expanding our website business to enable us to stay at home more often. Our mission is for our customers to have fun with our products and to enjoy creating things with them. Visit us often!
wyldwmn- wyldwmn is the moderator of silkribbon@egroups.com. She owns a business dedicated to bringing intriguing and useful accessories to needleworkers, from unique frames and mats for displaying needlework, to unique fabrics from Guatemalan women. In the future wyldwmn will be bringing unique fabrics, beads, and other needlework items from women's cooperatives from around the world. |
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