Sewing Machine Feet - Sewing Supplies - Notions

The Creative Feet™ team welcomes you to our website.

The inventor and founder of Creative Feet™ is Clare Rowley-Greene, who started working in her parents’ sewing machine store at the age of 19, and continued until she was 26. She repaired sewing machines, taught a variety of sewing arts, and specialized in machine use instruction classes.

Before working in her parent’s store, she assisted patients in convalescent hospitals. Her parents had an extensive background working with the hearing impaired in their

former hearing aid business. As a result, they were visited by many challenged individuals and earned a reputation for aiding the visual, hearing, and physically challenged to sew independently.

Creative Feet™ were born as a result of Clare’s desire to assist a visually disabled and hearing impaired sewer named Mary. Mary and her husband, who is now legally blind, entered Clare's store, and asked if she could help them. They needed a sewing machine that could be used without assistance. Mary had begun sewing construction classes at the Braille Institute and found that she loved to sew! Mary asked her instructor if there were any sewing machines designed for blind individuals like herself that would allow her to sew independently at home. The instructor referred her to Clare's shop, hoping that she could answer her dream, which she did!

After a year or so of working with Mary, teaching her machine use, she asked Clare if she could help her make satinedged napkins. This was only possible using an Overlock/Serger at the time and Clare knew that this was something Mary couldn’t achieve. So she worked on a foot that would fit Mary’s machine and out of her work the Satinedge foot was born.

She later developed the Pearls ‘N Piping foot for a woman with rheumatoid arthritis and the Sequins ‘N Ribbon, for a fashion designer.

After six years of business and thousands of hours using the feet, she discovered many new and exciting things that each of the feet can do which forced her to write her Creative Feet Technical Guide & Workbook Vol. #1.

Every year more techniques are discovered that are easily achieved with the Creative Feet™. Currently there are 61 techniques that are easily achieved with these unique presser feet. Clare produced her first instructional video tape covering the Creative Feet in 2000. It is called Creative Feet™ Techniques and will surprise and delight you as it has so many others. You can visit the testimonials page for comment from others regarding these well-designed products.

Clare's daughter Jennifer, assists in the office and attends shows with her and son Vincent, assists with production and also joins her at some shows. This family run business grows stronger every year with love and dedication to each other and to their loyal customers.

Clare’s father Don Rowley, is also an inventor in the sewing industry. He is the manufacturer of the Hoop-It-All™ products you will find on this website. Clare’s mother Lucille Rowley, is vice president of Hoop-It-All™ and an inspiration to Clare. John and Robert Rowley, are Clare’s brothers that run production at Hoop-It-All™, insuring your satisfaction with their products.

"This website is dedicated to all of you genuinely wonderful people who continue pushing me to solve your sewing dilemmas. I hope the information contained within these pages answers your questions and inspires you to create incredible works of fabric art".

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