MyFairLadyDesigns.com
Title
My Fair Lady Designs
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- Shelly used to watch her mother, Reta, sew doll clothes for her favorite doll, Jenny, when she was just a few years old. As Jenny demanded new outfits (and bigger suitcases to store them), Reta tried to teach Shelly how to sew. Shelly was a slow learner, and never really picked up the skill until she was old enough to move from Pocatello (that’s in Idaho, folks) to her own apartment in Boston, and wise enough to know she couldn’t afford curtains unless she made her own. So Reta shipped a Singer Featherweight to her frantic, curtainless daughter in the big city and again attempted to teach her how to sew, this time over the phone. After making gorgeous curtains from sheets found at flea markets and pretty tablecloths for her boxes (no furniture yet), Shelly was finally hooked on sewing. She used the trusty Featherweight through good times and bad, from poverty to slightly above poverty, from Boston to Seattle, from marriage to (well, we
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