Media Celebrities!

We've had an exciting few days - not only are our machines finally reconditioned to working order, but we have had some television coverage.

A local channel - Channel 23 - filmed a story on our project Friday last week and it was screened on Newscentral last night. They very kindly posted the web address and email at the end of the story, so if you are here because of that story - welcome!

For those of you who missed the story or were not able to watch due to not living in this country - here is a brief overview.

They first filmed at House of Laurel (Rajo Laurel's shop in Rockwell), showing our skirts for sale there as well as interviewing me and one of our customers - Sally.


Me showing off the Danielle skirt for the cameras.

They also interviewed the store manager - Yoya, who discussed our upcoming work with Rajo that will be using remnant fabrics in Japanese inspired patchwork garments. They will be great!


My interview!

We then moved on to Manila to interview Mia, another one of our customers.


Mia showing off her Emily pants.

From Manila, we headed to Smokey Mountain and filmed the sewers at work as well as the surroundings. They interviewed Mila, one of our sewers.


Mila being interviewed at Smokey Mountain.

It was a very positive story and we are looking forward to seeing what kind of a response we get from the public.

Now that our machines are in working order, we are going to be developing the capacity of our sewers to meet our overseas orders as well as building their patchworking skills to soon be sewing Rajo Laurel's designs - stay tuned!