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Our only limitation is your imagination.

Full Service, In House, Embroidering & Digitizing Since 1991

If its Embroidered Goods you are looking for....you have come to the right place. We embroid everything from Leather to Lace.

A Little Bit....About the Owner of A Little Crafty...

Born and raised in Upstate NY, Shari was the 4th of 5 children. In the fall of 1980 at the age of 7, Shari and her younger brother were to stay at their Grandparents log cabin in the woods just outside a small town called Wellsville, NY.

There wasn't much to do up in the woods being 5 miles from town. There were always chores to be done, but Grandpa Harold always made them fun. He had lots of things to do and all his grandchildren loved to work right along side him. Two things that needed to be done daily were chopping wood for the potbelly stove and collecting the sap from the surrounding trees for homemade maple syrup. Grandpa would spend his afternoons cooking down the sap and puttering around in his workshop. His evenings were spent handcrafting baseball bat fiddles from scratch.

Grandma Ginny loved to cook, bake and handcraft. There were always cookies and pies and the smell of fresh, warm baking powder biscuits in the kitchen. If you came to visit Ginny, you were gonna sit, talk and eat!

It was on this stay in the log cabin that Shari was taught many of the things she would take with her through life. One snowy afternoon, Shari and Grandma were sitting by the wood stove talking and chatting about the family. Shari watched as Grandma worked vigorously stitching pieces of fabric together. Watching her with the needle and thread and how the item grew by every stitch. Shari was amazed and asked how she knew how to sew so fast. Grandma chortled and said, "It just comes natural." At the same time she reached around her big comfy chair and grabbed a bag of square cut materials and handed it to Shari with a needle and spool of thread. She said to Shari, "There, now you have something to do with your hands and we can finish this quilt twice as fast".

Shari looked at the bag of material, looked at Grandma, looked back at the bag, shrugged her shoulders and started sorting and laying out the fabric to create the same pattern. There was some trial and error...but she did it and found that she loved it. Grandma was very pleased and in the next couple of days, they put the entire quilt top together.

When they completed the quilt, Grandma showed Shari how to hand embroid a label for the beautiful piece.

Low and behold, this was the first quilt and first embroidery that Shari ever laid her hands on. Grandma was right, it does come natural.

Shari still has that first quilt that she and Grandma made, tucked away in a trunk with all the memories of that first stay at Grandma and Grandpa's Log Cabin.

Over the years, Shari has fine tuned her Embroidery and Quilting skills and tried her hand at many crafts. Cross Stitch, NeedlePoint, Crocheting, Drawing, Stenciling, Wood Burning and most recently Leather Carving are among her favorite.

Although the two skills that are her favorite work with quite different crowds, she blends well with both. Shari takes great pride in helping her customers and loves when their items come to life and they are able to share them with others...be it a Hand Digitized Motorcycle Back Patch or a Hand Pieced Log Cabin Quilt.

Helping others is very important to Shari and her family. They are very much a part of their community and Shari is the President of the Rochester Area Quilts For Kids Organization. QFK is a Non-Profit Organization that transforms scrap materials into patchwork quilts that comfort children in need.

Since that visit to her Grandparents Log Home, Shari has taken the skills she possess and her life's passions and combined them into an ever growing business that is run by her and her family. The business keeps her on the home front most of the time but she is very often found around the country at various Biker Trade Shows and Quilting Bazaars with 2 of her 12 embroidery machines...dubbed "the traveling duo". She has earned many Awards, Certificates, Ribbons and letters of praise for the items she creates. The real reward, for Shari, comes in the creation of an item and the happiness of her customer.