Gayle Fesperman has been a seamstress since the first grade and an entrepreneur since the fourth. By the ripe old age of 10, Gayle was making blouses, culottes and wedding dresses for Barbie dolls and selling them to school chums for 15 to 90 cents apiece. Gayle spent her grade school years winning 4-H Club competitions across her home state of Wisconsin, and in 1975 graduated from the University of Minnesota with a home economics degree in clothing and textile science. But it wasn’t until some 25 years later when caring for a terminally ill sister that Gayle found her true passion and potential for clothing design. In June 1993, breast cancer took on a personal face for Gayle - that of her sister, Barb. In the course of Barb’s seven years of treatments, Gayle hand fashioned clothing items that would help her chase the chills away whether she was receiving a chemotherapy treatment, waiting to see a doctor, or resting at home. In Barb’s memory, Gayle designed ChillChaser ShawlsTM and now produces them for others to enjoy.