ABOUT TERRY
Terry has been sewing and making her own clothes for nearly 50 years. She took advantage of her position as Director of Product Presentation for Wicks ‘N Sticks candles at their corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas, to incorporate into her sewing the knowledge of color and design that she acquired while working there.
At WNS Terry designed visual merchandising displays for all company sponsored
special events, and traveled around the United States attending store openings and
supervising the displays for new stores. Terry periodically gave seminars to franchisee storeowners at the Houston headquarters on the subject of line, color, and design and
also wrote the company’s display manual. All of the knowledge that she acquired she
now brings to her workshops.
When her children left home for college, she decided to pursue her own higher education. She earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees with English and Communication majors. After receiving her master’s degree, she began teaching college Freshman English, but continued her avid love of sewing always adding to her knowledge base.
After retirement, Terry decided to combine her love of sewing with her love of teaching. She became a Dress Shop™ Educator and began doing sewing workshops, which continued until November of 2005. Her basic workshops covered the basics of fitting and knowledge of patternmaking software. She also held workshops in color analysis and figure analysis combining these with designing garments for individuals drawing on her prior knowledge from merchandise display. She understood that the same principles would apply in showing the body to its best advantage as applied to displaying product to its best advantage. Her advanced workshops went further to instruct attendees on designing outfits with flattering design advanced workshops went further to instruct attendees on designing outfits with flattering design lines and colors that specifically showed their best features. Terry is now offering more flexible workshop agendas that are oriented to construction and fit of garments regardless of pattern origin.
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