What do you do when you are smart, driven and retired?
I just spent some time in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (a bucket list item - not mine) and then Pittsburgh where I met Karen and John Crandall. After working for years in corporate America, Kate and John retired. Instead of fading into the sunset, they've spent the last thirteen years building up a small business based on machine embroidery. Starting with one machine and some talented and trustworthy employees, they've built the business into what it is today. They can embroider just one item or several hundred. They can customize designs and items exactly to each customer's needs. If you can imagine it, they can probably do it. Wow. Something that is both practical, commercial, and creative all at the same time.
As a lifelong sewer and handcrafter, I was green with envy seeing their walls of threads, in every color and sheen imaginable, and seeing their four industrial machines lined up and ready for action.
This is a great example of entrepreneurship. If you are ever in Monroeville, Pennsylvania look them up at monroevilleembroidery.com
-Chee Mee
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