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We are so pleased you are taking the time to discover more about our
beautiful oak quilt hangers, but now it's time to tell you more about us. My wife and I started this business in July of 1999. At that time we were new to the quilting industry, but we were not new to quilting. My wife, Lorie, is the quilter in the family. She has been quilting since the time she could hold a needle without doing serious damage to herself. She learned quilting mainly from her grandmother who made beautiful full sized quilts, all hand pieced and hand quilted. Since then Lorie has moved toward wall hangings since they are quicker to make and can be used to decorate our home. Once Lorie had several wall hangings finished and we couldn't find a hanger to our liking, she asked me to make her something out of wood. I designed and made her what became our 10" Little hanger. It used miniature clothespins to clamp the quilt and had decorative rosettes hiding the clothespins. She loved it and so did others who saw it. So we decided to start selling through an ad in a quilting magazine and that was the start of our Little business. In the months that followed, we expanded our small line of hangers by introducing new sizes and selling wholesale to quilt shops across the country. After receiving numerous requests for larger quilt hangers, we designed the SOFTouch™ Series line of hangers, our first being the SOFTouch Classic. In October of 2000, we had the pleasure of attending our first International Quilt Market in Houston. It was quite an experience, being our first show, but we really enjoyed it. The quilt shop owners who saw us there were amazed at how easy our hangers were to use and how nice they looked. After Quilt Market, we launched our web site and started work on the design of what is now our SOFTouch Designer™ and Mini Designer™ hangers. About a year later we took these newest hangers to the Quilt Odyssey show in Pennsylvania and a few months later to the International Quilt Market (our second year) and Festival in Houston. The response we received was unbelievable. Quilters couldn't believe how easy the fabric inlay was to use. You could almost see the gears turning in their heads as they stood there looking at our displays and imagining what they could do with these new hangers. Since we decided to do more quilt shows, we have traveled more than a little and met some great quilters. We have done shows from Chicago to Houston, and from Gettysburg to San Diego, but our favorite show to do is the one in Quilt Town, USA; Paducah, Kentucky. Come by our booth next year, we would love to meet you. Also, if you live in or around California, come see us at the Road to California show in January. Lately we've reduced the number of shows we do each year. Now we only attend two shows, the Paducah Quilt show in Kentucky and the Road to California show in Ontario, California. There's a very good reason we've reduced our show schedule; on Valentines Day 2008 we added to our family. We adopted three precious little girls. We hope to see you at one of the quilt shows and we would love share our love of quilting with you. Hope to see you soon! Happy Quilting,
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Copyright 2008 Last update: November 2008 |
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