This past weekend I had the opportunity to work at a small trade show in Albany, NY with Ken Chadwick that represented the Stahl’s Products line and Jeff Hajenski that represented embroidery and screen printing machines from Hirsch International.

This was an extremely busy show, especially on Saturday, and I had the privilege of visiting with some of the embroiderers that I had trained and it was really exciting listening to them as they were telling me about their success.

I want to tell you about one in particular. Marjorie Corrow, of Life’s A Stitch Embroidery , a single mom with 2 young daughters has been in business 5 years and grew from a single head embroidery shop….. to a 7 head embroidery shop in 4 years. I first met Marjorie when she was working for a Uniform shop as their embroiderer. She was a very ambitious employee and was being held back by her employer in the Uniform shop.

Marjorie was very good at creating something out of nothing and really wanted to start her own embroidery business but was very apprehensive because of the cost of getting started. She also wondered if she really be able to get enough customers to make a living. She was the one that was responsible for herself and her two daughters and her job was their main source of income.

Marjorie was already supplementing her income by making unique bibs , “Bibs That Cover The Whole Kid” and selling them through craft shows. She has since that time added more products to her line for babies and children and now offers all of her unique products with the addition of embroidery.

All that it took for Marjorie to take that leap was a little encouragement. Her business is Life’s A Stitch Embroidery, LLC located in Niskayuna, New York. After working with her software and machine for a while, she called me to teach her how to digitize. She thought that this was could really help her to grow and attract the kind of customer that he was not able to get. I worked with her at her home teaching her how to digitize and gave her some pointers that could help her to increase her production and then again on-line and over the phone helping her to fine tune some issues.

She quickly found herself in the position with more work than she could handle with her single embroidery machine and purchased another single head and then then shortly she had to have another single head embroidery machine. In December of 2006 she purchased a 4 head embroidery machine to add to her 3 single heads.

Marjorie now has employees, has moved her business from her home into a more convenient location for herself and her customers. She was able to purchase another home without selling the one that she was living in. She is now renting that home to one of her employees. Not only is Marjorie a huge embroidery business success, she is a very thoughtful person and wanted her employee to have a nicer place to live and Marjorie was able to provide that for her.

Life’s A Stitch Embroidery is a very growing company and Marjorie still sells her products at craft shows and many other shows and this has really helped her to go gain notoriety and many new customers. She is a full service embroidery business but is still manufacturing a lot of her own products. I am very proud of her and of her embroidery success!

If I have been able to help you, I would love to hear about it. It is such a satisfying feeling knowing that I have been a part of someone else’s embroidery business success!

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