Hi, I’m Marci!
I started sewing at age 7 and haven’t stopped. It is my true passion!
I love being able to create whatever comes into my mind. I have made wedding dresses, dolls, clothing for many, reupholstered couches the list goes on. I have made some really beautiful things and really terrible things too! Nevertheless, I love the process and touching pretty fabric gets me sew most every time.
In college I studied Recreational Therapy and worked as a therapist with at risk youth for many years. As a Recreational Therapist, I created programs to help the youth I worked with to maintain their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. We would hike, ski, ride horses, care for animals, rock climb, and create crafts in an effort to reduce depression, stress, and anxiety; recover basic motor functioning and reasoning abilities; build confidence; and socialize effectively.
After getting married I moved away and had to leave my job. I started having children of my own and I had always wanted to sew my own children’s clothing. As I sewed my children would sit on my lap and I would teach them. I realized that I was applying the same principles I had taught many youth as a Recreational Therapist and these were skills I wanted my own children to know.
My end goal isn’t necessarily to have my children know how to sew but that through the process they are capable of creating what is in their mind! I want them to learn patience, perseverance, the good things their hands can do, confidence in themselves and to express creativity.
Sewing is my recreation of choice and the benefits of learning to sew are amazing. We are all born to create and there is so much joy experienced when you have made something for yourself or a friend. We have so much to learn in life. Let’s keep our hands busy creating all the good things.
Thanks for sending your children to sew with me. I am amazed what children can do and how creative their minds are.
xo,
Marci