When new mum Cara Keegan asked her mother Morag to join her at a sewing class, she thought it would be a good chance for them to spend some quality time together.

Three years later, the mother and daughter combo from Lanarkshire are about to open their first shop after the handmade kids’ clothes company they set up afterwards, selling online and at craft fairs, was a runaway success.

Cara, now mum to two young boys, can’t quite believe how successful Nana Momo Makes has been since they set up, and says opening the shop in Glasgow’s Ruthven Lane is something of a dream come true for her and Morag, 65.

“It’s been a fantastic couple of years,” says Cara, 35, who also works as an operations manager. “We started small, buying fabric and making dresses for friends, then moved on to craft fairs, where we learned a lot about how a business is run.

“We started a Facebook page and changed our product offering, adding kids accessories as well as clothes, and things really started to take off.”

Cara believes simplicity is the key to their success.

“People really seem to get what we do, simple design using quality fabrics,” she says. “We now know what we’re good at and we can do whatever our individual customers want. The west end location of the shop is quirky, just like us. And we’ll have the chance to build on the market we’ve already established.”

And she says mixing family with business has worked brilliantly.

“Our partnership works really well because we come at things from different angles. Mum is more practical and I’m the one with the ideas. But I’ve been very impressed at the new skills mum has been learning, such as how to use social media.

“Mum will be the one most people will see in the shop, which seems appropriate as the business was actually named after her. None of the kids could pronounce Morag – Momo just stuck, and it sounds so cute.”

As well as selling clothes and accessories, the shop also has space for the pair to run sewing workshops for both adults and kids.

“Who knows what will happen in future,” smiles Cara. “In an ideal world I’d just have the one job! At the moment, we’re just hoping people will like the shop and that the business will expand on social media. Small steps at first, then who knows?”

Nana Momo Makes, 37 Ruthven Lane, Glasgow.

www.nanamomomakes.co.uk