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“My dresses appeal to grandmothers who are accustomed to their mothers sewing that way,” says Mrs. Bailey.
Mrs. Bailey attended prep school in Anderson, S.C. and sewed a little by hand at the time.
She recalls, “I had a friend in South Carolina who wasn’t going to graduate because she couldn’t finish a dress project for home economics. I stayed up until three in the morning so she could graduate. I didn’t take home economics. I studied Latin and pre-med.”
But then she married and with two little girls, “I really started sewing. I couldn’t afford the high-end clothes. I was so naive, I didn’t realize sewing needed any skill whatsoever.”
“I made 20 dresses for my child totally by hand. After four years of that, I finally got a sewing machine!”
For much of her life, Mrs. Bailey worked as an accountant for her father, L.V. Morrill, who owned the Ford Motor Company business in Washington. But around 15 years ago, Mrs. Bailey needed to find a new source of income. And she found a
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