Recently we’ve received several large shipments of organic cotton fabrics. If you’ve followed our brand for awhile, you know sustainability is part of what we’re all about. We use reclaimed and remnant upholstery fabrics for our bags and design around what is on hand. That’s why our double-zippered Ramble Mini Carpet Bags are smallish. We …
Words are powerful. They can make the difference between someone giving up or instead pushing on through hard times. As Proverbs 25:11 says, “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.” It’s a beautiful thing to speak the truth that someone else needs to hear. Think back to the …
As our carpet bag sales grow, we have the opportunity to add on some new refugee seamstresses to the team. But as a brand, we’re not just about churning out product. We want the micro manufacturing jobs we provide to be part of a bigger picture, providing holistic support and development opportunities to our employees. …
In the midst of busy sewing production means there are fabric scraps. Everywhere. These two factors contributed to an “ah-hah” moment from one of the kids who was sitting in the studio recently. She reached over and picked up this long strip of gorgeous fabric from the ground that was just too thin to use …
I’d had a rough day. I was tired, kids had demanded much of my attention, and then to top it all off, a toilet overflowed, requiring me to cancel a meeting. When a friend messaged me, I told her some of the story, but the whining that I wanted to do just didn’t seem like …
Kitchen towels. They’re a relatively quick sewing project, perfect for beginning and intermediate seamstresses so we often give this project to new artisans. And they’re fun to create because they’re also a staple of every kitchen. Drying your hands, mopping up spills, covering fresh baked bread – a kitchen towel is used in a myriad of …
His apartment was crawling with cockroaches. He’d complained before to no avail. The management kept taking his requests and doing virtually nothing about it. There were other problems with the unit that the apartment’s staff ignored, and finally the father of three was fed up. He took his complaint to Charlotte’s Housing Department. The powers …
In hindsight, I should have worn the nursing necklace. I was walking through a museum recently with my toddler in tow. I was trying to look at the pictures, but my beginning walker was not too concerned about me. Instead, she was was rapidly toddling from one exhibit to another, looking for whatever she could …
“I don’t know what I’m going to do,” the mom said, with a catch in her voice. I sat there, not sure how to respond. “She just keeps getting in to trouble.” I struggled to come up with words to respond to the desperation in my friend’s voice. Her daughter WAS struggling academically and socially. …
August I was unprepared, basket of peppers and zinnias in hand, yard-sale pots and pans in the back of the car. I was unprepared when she opened the door, ninety pounds of worn woman with black eyes deep in malnourished sockets. Black eyes that lit up and shone bright with delighted surprise at the simple …
