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" Connie Tesene, 54, and Mary Etherington, 59 Country Threads, Inc. Quilt Shop, Quilt Patterns Garner, Iowa Launched 1983 Connie wrote our first quilt pattern. We made 50 copies, put them in Ziploc bags, and slapped a photo on them. Our first order was for 24 patterns. We don&amp;#039;t design anything we&amp;#039;re not familiar with. And our patterns aren&amp;#039;t very hard. We thought we could do it, so we just tried. And here we are, 25 years later.  View more web-exclusive interviews with the 2008 Women Entrepreneurs   View all the 2008 Women Entrepreneurs "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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