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While the bulk of Dahl’s work is shortening pants (“I think they make all pants the same length regardless of size,” she said), she also provides almost any apparel alteration or repair one could need, from tailoring sundresses to altering shirts to removing stays from formal gowns to adding buttons.Īpparel repairs are Dahl’s bread and butter, but repairing and restoring heirloom quilts is what really feeds her. What comes in is an array of textiles needing repair, adjustment or restoration. “With more space, it’s easier to keep track of what comes in and what goes out.” “It’s a treat to be here,” Dahl said of her new studio. The move affords Dahl more space, giving her both a place to greet customers and make repairs, as well as a fitting room and storage area in an adjacent room.

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If you wanted a bigger wardrobe and you couldn’t buy everything you saw in magazines, you learned how to sew it yourself.”ĭahl has been sewing ever since, although she didn’t do it professionally until about five years ago, when she opened a “fixing, mending, repairing and restoring” sewing studio in Twisp, located first in the Cascade Center and relocated in early June to the Gloversville Addition building, behind the 3rd Avenue Salon. She was inspired, she said, “Because I wanted clothes.” For Karen Dahl, owner of the Nimble Thimble Needle Nook, that passion was uncovered in home economics class when she learned to sew. If we’re lucky, we discover a passion in high school.

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