The Hump Jumperâ, Puts-it™ and The Buttonhole Buster™ are the products to solve frustrating sewing problems.  The idea for The Hump Jumperâ, originated when I owned a couture bridal shop in Beverly, Massachusetts. Finding it very frustrating to sew many layers of bridal fabric with even straight stitches, I decided to invent something because sticking paper, wads of material, or whatever under the back of the presser foot was not solving the problem.  How I got my dentist friend to create the first Hump Jumper® with a blowtorch and a piece of Plexiglas is one of the funniest incidences of the whole process.  Sewing since the age of four, I knew if I needed this great idea then every sewer in the world needed one!  The hardest part of the entire process was finding a company to make the injection mold, and convincing them to create a mold to my specifications when they had no idea about sewing.   Show and Tell worked wonders, and when the orders started coming in, The Hump Jumper® started moving out the door, the mold maker nicknamed me The Hump Jump Lady.

The Puts-It™ Use your imagination and you’ll see one end is the shape of a flat head screwdriver, the opposite end a pencil, and the curve is your hand.  Yes, I have been known to poke out corners with a pencil, and have no idea how many pieces of lace are covering the marks.  Every sewer knows, there is no mistake in sewing if you have enough lace! The screw driver was used to control lace, ruffles, and gathers under the presser foot.  How many needles did I break? Don’t ask! You now have The Puts-It™, your third hand.

The Buttonhole Buster™ was a request from a friend who just could not sew proper buttonholes in collars, or waist bands because of seam allowance. As a professor of fashion design, many of my students were experiencing the same problem, and requested a solution. The Buttonhole Buster™, with its patented bi-level bottom, solves the problem of the presser foot not fitting in uneven places.

In the summer of 2005, our two families were spending the day together at the beach. Late that afternoon, as we wrestled to get seven rambunctious kids back into the truck, we both sat back and laughed at the insanity of it all. Kids were fighting, sand was all over the place, wet bathing suits were soaking into the seats, someone had lost a flip-flop and two boogie boards were sticking out the back window. We had to laugh…instead of pounding our foreheads into the car until we passed out.

What had happened to that idyllic dream of being the perfect mom with the perfect kids and the perfect life?

We came to a few conclusions that day. First: this was it. We were Living the Dream. Being a Mom really is tough sometimes, we’re faced fairly often with some pretty insane and chaotic situations, and WE LOVE IT! We wouldn’t trade it for the world!

On the way home that night, we started talking about how we got to this point in our lives. Why hadn't anyone told us? Did we ever truly understand when we were younger just how much time we’d spend every day doing laundry, carting our kids to activities, cooking, house cleaning and countless other chores in and out of the home?

Back when we were sitting at our orderly desks in our organized workplaces, balancing budgets and spending our paychecks on business suits and happy hour, we had no clue what was in store when we traded in 9-to-5 for 24/7. We decided then and there that we should come up with a line of T-shirts that relate to all the moms out there – shirts that really express what we all experience on a daily basis.