Caroline-hawaii craft fairs incorporated

To say that Caroline M. Infante founded the Islandwide Crafts & Food Expo in 1987 is to describe only a sliver of her extraordinary journey as a gifted artisan, devoted wife and mother, and pioneering businesswoman.

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In the late 1960s, Caroline was a new wife who was just starting a family with her beloved husband, Raymond.

When Caroline decided that she did not want to leave her babies behind for work, she concluded that the answer was to devise a career of her own that would allow her to work from home.

 

So starting in 1968 Caroline began scaling up the sewing skills she'd been honing since her teen years: She began teaching herself to become a clothing designer and mass-production seamstress.

She squeezed huge industrial sewing machines into the family's tiny duplex apartment in Liliha. The whole apartment became her "sewing room," with cloth bolts stacked against the walls and overflowing from shelves, the machines rattling and roaring through th