t all began at a mutual friend’s wedding with assigned seating. Melissa and I chatted politely over dinner, but it wasn’t until our husbands took to the dance floor, both breaking into “the robot” that we realized we were cut from the same cloth…or at least married to the same man. A special friendship was born. We quickly became inseparable, half-joking that someday we would start a company, Karamel Productions, a merger that could explore all of our interests: movies, screenplays, books, and…hemming devices? One day over coffee, Melissa shared her idea for an invention. She had just been to New York City and was annoyed by a problem familiar to all women: her long hem dragging up and down the Big Apple sidewalks. This was 2008: enough is enough! So we brainstormed, drank more coffee, brainstormed, got the jitters, and wondered if we were out of our minds – what did we know about inventing? Melissa stars in movies and Kara has made one. Maybe it was the caffeine, or maybe it was the love of a challenge that had us chomping at the bit. We formed Karamel Productions and dove into the world of plastics, adhesives, manufacturing, and sales. Like any new venture, the road is littered with potholes, but we’ve been dedicated to the end goal: when stepping over those holes, we refuse to let our hems drag on the ground!

Thank you for visiting our site, and we hope HemmingMyWay checks one annoying problem off your list.

Karamel (Kara Harshbarger & Melissa George)