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Masaki Schuette
["271.6"]We Sew Design
Keene, New Hampshire
207-752-7018
masaki@wesewdesign.com
www.wesewdesign.com
Masaki Schuette started bed-making and authoritative children’s accouterment in the mid- 1990s, appropriate afterwards she affiliated her bedmate and confused to New England from Japan. She went aback to academy to get a BFA at Massachusetts College of Art and Architecture and majored in ecology design, with a focus on appearance design. We batten with Masaki about her home-based accouterment architecture and about-face business.
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Alter Ego Tailoring - Sewing | Wedding Dress Alterations HalifaxWhen did you alpha your business?
I started this business one year ago, in bounce of 2016. (But) I accept been designing and bed-making a continued time. During my (time at Massachusetts College of Art and Design), I formed at a clothier boutique in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, breadth I abstruse added “art of alteration,” which is a bit altered from designing clothes.
Tell me about why you started your home business in Keene.
We confused actuality because of my husband’s work, and I started this business because I was laid off from my antecedent work. There is not abundant appearance accompanying assignment in this area, and I didn’t appetite to drive to Boston or seacoast, I capital to break calm with my family. Plus, I adulation affair bodies and providing bed-making and architecture casework to others to attending good.
What kinds of accouterment alterations do you do?
I do best of aggregate for men, women and accouchement — from dressmaking apparel and hemming trousers to applicable bells gowns, bridesmaid dresses and brawl dresses. I additionally do simple mending.
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Lillian's Tailor Shop | Wedding Dress Alterations HalifaxYou additionally architecture accouterment ... Can you acquaint me about that?
I afresh re-started authoritative “Wee-ware” my band of children’s clothes. For women, I accomplish simple, adequate gaucho pants. I am additionally planning to accomplish a top for women to go with my gaucho pants. But appropriate now, I am accepting so abundant fun with designing and authoritative kids’ clothes.
I accept you additionally architecture amphitheater costumes.
I started alive as a apparel artist aback my kids were actual baby at Kimball Union Academy in Plainfield, New Hampshire. David Stern, who is aesthetic administrator at Main Street Art in Saxton River, Vermont, acclimated to advise at the amphitheater administration at Kimball Union Academy. And my bedmate was teaching there, additional he was a babysitter for the art arcade KUA, but aback one of the artists could not accomplish it to the promised arcade exhibit, he had to acquisition addition to ample the spot. So, to advice my husband, I offered to appearance my accumulating from my graduation appearance at Mass Art. Afterwards the display of my accouterment designs, David encouraged me to become complex in apparel architecture for the KUA amphitheater productions. I formed on several shows there. In 2009, afterwards we confused to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, I formed as a apparel designer for the Administration of Theatre at Dalhousie University. I advised (productions) from “Dante Inferno” to Shakespeare's “The Comedy of Errors.” While in Halifax, I additionally advised shows such as “Jungle Book,” “Romeo & Juliet,” and some added baby productions for Neptune Theater, which is a above amphitheater aggregation in Maritime Provinces, and addition baby amphitheater aggregation and school.
What do you adulation best about what you do?
I adulation seeing blessed faces; I adulation analytic problems with artistic solutions. Best of all, I adulation affair bodies and chatting with them. What I do makes me feel like I am giving article aback to the community, which has accustomed me in. Plus, authoritative and altering accouterment is one affectionate of sustainable practice, I believe.
["558.72"]Where are your admirers amid (locally, regionally, nationwide, etc.?)
Locally, and I adulation actuality allotment of bounded business, but I like to accompany the architecture allotment of my business to be allotment of a added audience, as able-bodied as local.
What do you do aback you are not designing or alive on accouterment alterations?
Taking affliction of my family. I try to absorb added time with my kids, but they became teenagers, so they like to be abandoned or with accompany than spending time with mom. As a family, we approved to go skiing calm as abundant as we could this winter. Addition affair I do is knitting and crocheting. Knitting makes me feel relaxed, although I am not one of those super acceptable knitters, like my sister-in-law, but article about knitting/crocheting calms me down. I try to affiliate from my head, not from added people’s patterns … I assumption I am still designing!
Describe your home workspace.
It is actual homey, I think. I use one of the apartment at our abode as my studio. It is actual small, and I don’t alike accept a able changing room, but so far, bodies don’t apperception my quick fabricated “changing room” at the bend of my studio. They assume captivated with the hominess of my studio.
["931.2"]Anything abroad you appetite to add about your business or about you?
I accept a website, Facebook folio and Instagram; I’d like bodies to appointment there, please. I am aggravating to accord acceptable advice accompanying to fashion, alteration, annihilation about clothing. ◼
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