Where do you live? Central
Pennsylvania
How did you start selling patterns?
I've always been interested in patterns for the illustrations as much as sewing
and kept collecting and collecting. I
finally ran out of storage space and began to sell. Unfortunately I keep buying and never did
free up any space :). Oh, I also have
trouble passing up beautiful fabric when I see it too, but that's another
story.
How long have you been selling?
On and off since 2010 as time would
permit. I'm now retired and hope to
devote more time to selling (and buying, of course). I
learned to sew small, basic items like potholders and pillows in the late 60's
and eventually graduated to making clothing for myself and made a lot of my
clothing through my college and early work years. As a young mother of three children in the 1980's, I
didn't want to work outside the home, so I built a home-based mail order
business selling historically accurate
garment patterns, which I ran for 16 years.
In 1999, since my children were older and didn't need me to be at home
24/7, I sold the home-based business and resumed my career as a government
financial analyst. I'm happy to say that
I
retired recently and am loving life with my husband , our two shelties and a
new grandson! While I have so many plans
for travel, gardening and sewing (teaching our granddaughters), I plan to continue
selling patterns in my Etsy shop. I
really enjoy the Pattern Patter Team - it's a wonderful community of
like-minded people! I feels good to keep
these wonderful patterns with their lovely illustrations out there for people
to enjoy rather than seeing them be tossed and forgotten. It's especially heart-warming to come across
a pattern that I actually sewed and wore as a teenager in the late 60's and
early 70's!
Deb with her adorable grandson!
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