I started Sardine like most great thing, completely by accident. I had recently been widowed with 2 young kids and a teenager to care for. I was making pants for my youngest out of T shirts when one day I decided to make a skirt out of the remaining scraps. I wore my skirt on my morning "therapy" walk with my sister and kept getting stopped and questioned about it.
I made a few more. In an effort to keep myself from thinking about the life i was throw into
I Just Kept Sewing.

Soon there was a large pile of skirts. I needed to do something with them so I gave them to friends.

They were stopped, they were questioned.

I did some research, thinking I was the first person to do this I was feeling quite impressed with myself. Google is the ugly honest sister you need but knows everything....I was in fact among many, many people doing very similar things. Undaunted, I continued to make my Skirts. I decided I would just make them different than everyone else. My skirts still are made from the first pattern I designed. I added a pocket, I made the cut and flair perfectly flattering for a size 0 to a 2x. I created my signature knee length skirt and began to appliqué my drawing on them.

To this day and forever more, I personally draw every appliqué with the machine. this is something I won't change. I love that every single poppy, bird, lobstah! and creature I draw is a reflection of me and my mood that day.

Since starting all this in 2008 I have grown in more ways than I would have thought possible. My studio began in a small cramped room in my house, a restored 1880 wool mill and now resides below my "home" in a lovely space that houses 12+ sewing machines and my retail store. I have a few "minnows" that help out part-time with the assembling of the skirts. I no longer need to sew to occupy my mind, I sew because I love what I make.

I sell at many shows across the east coast and travel with my awesome daughter. She is a perfect companion and knows the skirts as if she made them herself.

I hope you enjoy my stuff as much as I do and that you get a lifetime of wear out of it!