The Pattern Pages

10 MINUTES WITH… Clair Heal from Emporia Patterns

TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF AND HOW THE BUSINESS STARTED?

I had a long break between being a costumer designer in the ’90s and starting to work once my children went to school. I decided I really wanted to open a fabric shop, because I had been selling home-sewn things at craft fairs and wanted to get back into being creative for a living. While my

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