quilted kantha sari napkins Imagine this. It's the holidays. You're busy preparing to welcome friends and family into your home. Perhaps there's a fire crackling nearby. You're huddled around it on the hearth. You reach for that quilt... the one you always bring out this time of year. The quilted fabric reminds you of the warmth of the season. And of generations gone by. Of hands that stitched before yours. Perhaps the fabric reminds you of the quilt created many years ago

I was stunned. The comment was rude and uninformed. But, I get it. Handmade jewelry looks so deceptively simple, it's easy to get, well, deceived. That is, until you really learn what you're looking at. And, to be honest, the hand-work is never as visible on screen as it is in person. Instead of deleting the comment, I explained the process. In fact, a skeptical comment is often a sheep in wolf's clothing to a founder. It forced me to think about the handmade process, the sto

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