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Hello, I have been sewing all my life. I was taught at a Catholic secondary school, needlework as it was called in them days, and I did my GCE needlecraft. In the '60's, - the Mary Quant days - I would buy some fabric from the market on Saturday morning, copy from a picture of a mini dress, make it in the afternoon and wear it to a disco in the evening!
Later when my daughter was a baby, I would make her little dresses out of the off cuts I always keep around.
The first sewing machine I used was my mother's Singer, a treadle which had been converted to electric! When I started secondary school my mother bought us a new fancy machine which did zig zag! What luxury! It was made by Sondan. I had that machine for years and took it with me when I married. When it passed away my aunt bought me a second hand Singer from the local paper. On that I did my first really big complete wedding, which comprised of the dress, veil, 6 bridesmaids dresses and 7 waistcoats. That was in the early '90's.
I then decided as this was going to be something I was going to do more of that I needed a new machine.
I had always passed Bambers when I was going for my bus in Stevenson Sq in Manchester, so that was where I bought my New Home Memorycraft 4000 and my New Home "My Lock" overlocker. I was a Bamber Brownie with the card to prove it! That machine is still going well to this day after making numerous wedding dresses, veils, curtains and alterations.
I went to nightschool to do my city & guild for fashion and another C & G for pattern making.
Then earlier this year whilst I was in the process of making another wedding dress, I decided to start a company making veils. I saw the new Janome Memorycraft 11000 and I decided to go mad and buy it and hope my new company might help to raise some funds to pay for it! I automatically went to Bambers. I was really happy to see they had moved to Eccles where it was much easier to park. I visited & was shown the machine by Maggie and that was it!
I have since been on a course there for the overlocker which I have had for 15 years, and still I learnt things I did not know! I have done the course at Janome on the sewing machine and have now bought the Customiser programme from Bambers and I am going to do the course with Alan at Bambers to learn how to use it.
My Company started out to make bridal and other types of veils, but since the Memorycraft 11000 has come into my life I have also enlarged my services to make personalised napkins for wedding reception tables. Then following that I have become involved in embroidering initials and company / football club details on the backs of sweatshirts, fleeces and training coats. I have also been able to do logo's using the Customiser programme.
My Company is called Dream Veils and the web site which I built myself is
www.dream-veils.co.uk I have put lots of photos there of things I have made and I am constantly updating and adding more photos as I go along.
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