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June Mellinger
Director of Education
Home Appliance Division
Brother International Corporation
Thinking about going pro? We've provided a collection of personal profiles featuring people just like you who have chosen to put their love of sewing to the test in the workplace. Follow in their footsteps and learn from their experience. See how they combined craft with career to land the job of their dreams, and profit from their advice as they continue to climb the corporate ladder. Let Brother point you in the direction of success.
Michelle Gilmartin
Michelle Gilmartin is joining forces with Brother to travel all over the US to talk to dealers and customers about "How to Start a Business with a PR-600II". How did Michelle get her start in this industry?
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Joyce Perhac
Joyce Perhac is a lifelong sewing enthusiast who has always been eager to share her love of sewing with others. Inspired by the creations of her mother and grandmother, she started sewing at age 7...
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Rebecca Kemp
To start with her name has a melodic sound to it, doesn't it? If I had to use a phrase to describe her I would start with…total talent and finish with patience
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Preprofessionals
This past week I met 4 young ladies who are either students or alums of the University of Kansas at Topeka. Each of these ladies had a different angle on achieving their current professional goal and they are today’s “preprofessional”.
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June Mellinger
Teachers are finally getting sewing back in the school curriculum after a great many years, though some have to be quite ingenious to pull it off...
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Cookie Gaynor
Determined to give her own children the opportunities she had as a child, Cookie was anxious to support their developing interests - and that led to her own career path...
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Jennifer Lokey
Here's someone whose work I greatly admire, the talented Jennifer Lokey. She loves to combine quilting and machine embroidery and is a real pro at it. You may have seen her at quilting shows, representing Jennifer Lokey Design Studio, offering projects and accessories for machine embroidery and quilting.
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Sandi Irish
Sandi Irish is one of the quilters featured in our Inspired by Life. Created by You, advertising campaign and she is truly an artist who deserves recognition for her stunning and intricate designs. Sandi began her sewing career like most little girls, making Barbie doll clothes. She went on to create clothes for herself, and then to wedding gowns, leotards and costuming.
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Donna Giampa
Donna is the artist who creates the exquisite Vermillion Stitchery designs. Donna has been creating needlework since 1980 and has an international reputation as the Cross stitch Diva...
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Eileen Roche
You will find this hard to believe but, Eileen - like so many of you, learned to sew as an adult. She took her first lesson at a local dealer when she was a newlywed in 1987...
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Jan Borchert
Jan was living her own and couldn’t afford to buy clothes so she bought her first machine and started to teach herself how to sew...
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Josephine Symons
Josephine was a noted musician, composer and painter long before she discovered the medium of machine embroidery as a way to express her thoughts and visions...
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June Mellinger
Many of us started our training for a career in sewing education right in our own sewing space. To some of us, that sewing area has evolved from a quiet area in our bedroom to perhaps our very own sewing room...
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Mary Roehr
Mary tells me that she soon realized that she could make money doing what she loved most, and her first paying job was sewing ruffled shirts and brocade vests for a local rock band...
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Patsy Shields
Some people are blessed with a vision and are sometimes lucky enough to bring it to fruition. Patsy Shields is one of those people...
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Phyllis Nortey
I just always liked fabrics and sewing. Not everyone gets to be a designer and even if they do, they need to learn the business from the ground up...
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Stephanie Kimura
Growing up in Hawaii meant that all young girls had to learn how to sew... everyone did. It was a generational thing that was handed down from grandmother to mother to daughter.
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