Here’s an article about Haystacks from the Leelanau Enterprise.

“It was just after 9/11, aviation slowed and many airlines closed,” Lambert said. “So I decided to go back to work.”

She turned to something she knew: sewing.

Lambert’s mother had owned and operated a dress shop in Franklin, Mich., from the time she was a kindergartner. Sewing came naturally to Lambert. Her first pieces of clothing were for Barbie dolls.

Six years and four stores later, Lambert’s “Haystacks” line of clothing, designed, sewn and sold in Leelanau County, has become a success story.

“I’m a perfect example of someone who took $1,500 on their credit card to start a business,” she said.

Sewing up a profitable, ‘all-Leelanau’ business