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I am the owner of Garden of Daisies Embroidery. I started my business 10 years ago when my youngest daughter began taking Irish step dancing lessons. The school was relatively new and in need of a dressmaker – I was the ‘mom-in-the-lobby’ who raised her hand when the teacher asked if anyone knew how to sew. At first I made the dresses, hiring out the embroidery to a commercial firm. But finding I couldn’t control their quality, I invested in my first embroidery machine. I now own two industrial single-head, 15-thread machines, a Baby Lock Ellegante, a couple of Pfaffs, my Mum’s Singer, an Elna, and lots of digitizing software. My business has evolved into supplying embroidery to the Irish dancing costuming industry, as well as designing, digitizing and selling my own embroidery designs here at OPW. I love writing about embroidery and have numerous articles published in Designs in Machine Embroidery magazine. I won Stitches magazine’s 2006 Stitch-Off Competition in the Fashion category, as well as the People’s Choice Award. My life-long love of sewing has expanded into combining cutting-edge technology with traditional needle arts to see what I can come up with.

JoAnn

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Updated 3/22/10