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A former bar worker who took up embroidery as a hobby during maternity leave has become an entrepreneur who is inundated with more than 80 orders a day for her personalised baby gifts. Jo Millett, 28, runs Jo's Baby Gifts, an online store which sells a range of products from teddy bears and blankets to towels and clothes. She started the company with nothing more than a second-hand embroidery machine in 2007, and now processes more than 80 orders a day – all from her conservatory at her...