Who Am I?

 

I am the owner of a Pfaff Creative Sensation, a couple of Featherweights, a 301, a Bernina, and Elna and Simplicity Sergers and finally a Babylock Ovation Serger.  I have forever, loved to sew and I am not limited in what I like to do with it.   My greatest fear is that I will not get all my sewing projects done in this one lifetime and that I will not have owned all the threads, fabrics and machines I want either!!!  But, it is not from the lack of trying.

 

My mother was a tailor and I learned to sew at an early age, partly because my mother would always buy me a pattern and fabric and rarely a finished dress.   I have always been an avid garment maker but I like the challenge of making lots of different things.  I have always been a designer and my projects go in all sorts of different directions from toys, clothes, quilts to garments.

 

Inevitably, I ended up sewing for a living. In my early years when I lived in the UK my early work was featured by the Pfaff Sewing Machine Company and they supplied me with machines. 

 

For 20 years I organized and ran a factory in China and travelled out there 3-4 times a year to develop new product and advance training.  I also worked with garment factories out there where we improved systems to perfect the quality of sewn items.

 

I have been a Sewing Educator since the early 80`s and have taught classes in Germany, UK and USA.    I am also a trained `Palmer Pletsch Fit and Serger teacher.` 

 

While I enjoy all aspects of sewing I do have a fascination with the Serger.  They can do so much.  I have always used them to finish seams and work with knits but I love the fact that you can use thicker yarns and wire.  So not only do I have a large fabric stash, I have a large thread stash too.

 

I belong to social networking sites re the serger and am disappointed to read that so many people have sergers and never actually use them or if they do limit themselves to just finishing edges.  I understand there is a lot to learn given all the different threading set ups but it truly is worth taking time to conquer these machines.

 

Now I am semi retired from travelling to China I have my life exactly as I want it.  I can be found in my sewing room where I still work on miniature dragons, mice and bears but also other sewn projects.  Of late, I have concentrated on the serger in a desperate attempt to find ways to encourage people to learn and enjoy these awesome machines.