became familiar with textiles and fabrics. Today, her thriving

became familiar with textiles and fabrics.

Today, her thriving business in the face of a national recession speaks for her work.

Her two-room shop is made into three with a curtain of clothes hanging from one wall. The walls above her U-shaped workspace are decorated with a rainbow of colored thread.

She admits to not enjoying nightly television. While others watch she finds time to do handiwork—not just sewing, but alterations of all kinds.

“Alterations, sewing, mending, these are the things I really enjoy,” she said, adding that most other seamstresses do not like the “tedious jobs like these.”

Known to mend a few horse blankets, create a dress or two, and alter just about anything, Mrs. Vierling has a few things she will not do— slipcovers, upholstery and picking and purchasing someone else’s material.

“I prefer the smaller jobs,” she said with a quick smile.

She also, prefers to alter men’s clothing and copy patterns from already made garments.

“I love to take an old favorite and copy it," she said, explaining that then the customer has a garment “exactly like they want."

While dressmaking is not her preference, she does oblige. At present she is three to four months behind due to demand.

Through word of mouth, her talent has been advertised and business is busy for Aunt Jane’s.

“1 was working 10-hour days before Christmas," she said. A mother and housewife, Mrs. Vierling has been in business for over 12 years, since she moved to the county with her husband, local chimney sweep Bruce Vierling, and daughter Jennifer.

From the Eastern Shore area in Maryland, the Vierlings moved the county to live on a farm.

With a bookkeeping background and her first sewing machine in tow, she started her business at the far end of the packing house.

She says she did not expect much the first two years, but to her surprise the business grew.