CJ’s Sewing in Buckhorn designs and stitches real fur garments.

In Carly Kenny’s workroom, hats, mitts, scarves, vests, headbands, pillows, and blankets are produced.

Kenny, the innovator of this business, has been sewing most of her life. When her husband wanted a pair of fur mitts they did some research. They bought a fur machine.

If you are imagining a large machine you are wrong. It is actually smaller than a regular sewing machine and produces a blanket stitch to join pieces together, so as not to catch the fur. These machines originated 150 years ago. Kenny learned how to operate it. She liked it. She took a course with a master furrier from Greece just over five years ago and since then has been making all kinds of items.

A great deal of the fur she uses is locally........

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