Align Designs

If you make any item yourself, please don’t sell yourselves too short.. If you have a price, stick to it! Your time and your talents/skills are worth something. . .not everyone has the ability to do what you and not everyone wants to invest the time in making it. A lady wanted to purchase a beautiful hand crocheted dress and spotted a crafter who did absolutely amazing work, but she charged a good price too. The lady thought that her price was way too high so she approached t...he crocheter and in quite a brusque fashion stated "I want to buy a dress from you, but I think you charge too much." The crafter was a little taken aback but replied "Ok, how much do you think i should charge?" The lady replied I think you should charge X much, because the yarn will cost this much, and ribbons this much, and buttons this much. I even factored in the price of scissors." The final price the lady had calculated was a lot cheaper than the crafter's original price, but she said "Ok, deal. You will get your dress in a week". The customer is very pleased with herself and can’t resist telling all her friends what a fabulous deal she has negotiated and how smart she is, and that in a week she will have her gorgeous crocheted dress. A week later her parcel arrives in a lovely packaged box. She opens it and inside is yarn, ribbons, buttons and even scissors. Angrily she contacts the crafter asking How could you do this to me? I asked you for a dress and you sent me a box of yarn, ribbon, buttons and scissors?!" The crafter quietly replies "My dear, you got exactly what you paid for, if you think there is something missing, you need to pay for it." Moral of the story, when you buy handmade you are not just buying the materials you are buying the crafters, time, effort, love and dedication that goes into making your itemsand also the continuous learning that craft and your knowledge is priceless because it comes with a lot of ups and downs and tears and frustration, but we do it because it is a craft and it’s not easy, there’s nothing easy about learning any craft. (Copied from a friend)

Due to the Covid 19 outbreak and the nature of my business being Non-essential, I have excused myself from Handy Dandy and am self isolating as I am pregnant and an asthmatic. I am sorry for the inconvenience this may cause. If you are wanting your projects in my posession to be completed sooner, please contact me to book a time to come retrieve them. Thank you for your attention in this matter. Stay safe and healthy.

Hello Terrace and area, if you have a grad/prom dress that needs altering for 2020, bring it in ASAP. I will be going on maternity leave end of May and won't be able to serve the community for sometime.

Snow day today everyone. The shop is closed. Stay safe out there.Snow day today everyone. The shop is closed. Stay safe out there.

Oh My Gosh! Look at how much work goes into these works of art. So Amazing!

I got all dressed up for work today. Cone say hi at Handy Dandy.

This is how I feel on a Saturday! Just let me sew all day!

Finally have some time to sit down and get all the knick nacks sorted. I think I may have bitten off a bit more than I can chew!

This dress is a lovely fishtail style gown. When the customer received it she discovered the size was too small and the hem was too long. I took up the hem and gave it a nice six inch long train out the back. I also replaced the zipper with a lace up. The lacing and loops are brighter due to blue being more difficult to color match than other colors. I made the modesty panel from the hem cut-off.

A lovely vest made of red wool and decorated with black braid and silver sequined tape. The materials were a bit tricky to work with, but I'm very happy with the result and so was the lovely lady who ordered it.

These pants were brought in to be lengthened. I ripped out the stitching along the hemline, steamed out the folds, applied hem binding, then rolled this up and stiched it as a normal hem. This process added an extra inch and a half to the length. Cost $20.