Fancy Work

        Thank you for visiting Fancy Work's web site.  My name is Jane Timmers and I have had an extremely close relationship with the needle since I was very young.  My mother taught me to sew on a hand-crank miniature Singer sewing machine when I was 5 years old.  I was a dressmaker throughout high school and college and began designing costumes as a Theatre major at Valdosta State University.  Not wanting to venture out into the real world, I remained in college and received an additional degree in Music (Piano).

        I began cross-stitch in my mid-twenties and quickly became enamored with samplers and other historic needlework.  I began designing in 1990 and began publishing my designs under the name Fancy Work in 1994.  In 1998, Threads of Gold in Dunn, NC, distributed my designs.  In the fall of 2002, I began distributing my own designs as well as those from Concord House  (reproductions and designs by Rebecca Brockman).  Since many of my designs are for Shaker boxes, I sell those on a retail basis also.

        Most of my designs are based on sewing accessories (necessities) and motifs of the past, from Elizabethan costume, samplers from the 16th, 17th & 18th centuries, and Victorian and Edwardian accessories.  My Christmas ornaments are inspired by carols, anthems and hymns that are sung by my choir at St. David's Episcopal Church in Roswell, GA.