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Going to do the rest of your life, hanging around with a bunch of animals getting drunk every week? >> allen's films, characters, and co-stars are legendary, like playing opposite harrison ford in "raiders of the lost ark." >> come back tomorrow. >> why? >> because i said so, that's why. >> the young widow in the sci-fi classic "star man" with jeff bridges, and bill murray's love interest in "scrooged." >> people made jokes because i would have a suitcase full of clothing and a suitcase full of yarn and i'd often set up a design studio in my trailers, because you have an enormous amount of tim...

It's been almost six months since karen allen has been in her massachusetts textile design studio, splitting her time between acting, directing, and her business, karen allen fiber arts, a boutique that sells her collection of knit ware, this has been an unusually long time away, but things are set up to run smoothly when she's gone, and now that she's back, the never idle allen has a lot of catching up to do. >> i decide when i'm coming to work and i decide when i'm leaving, and i decide if i want to take a day off. not many jobs are like that out there. that's a pretty good gig, actually. >>...

Business owner. when we visited karen allen, it had been six months since she set foot in her massachusetts textile design studio. she splits her time between acting, directing and her business. a boutique that sells her collection of knit wear. when she gets back, the never idle allen has a lot of catching up to do. >> i decide when i'm coming to work and i decide when i'm leaving and decide if i want to take a day off and there's not many jobs like that out there. that's a pretty good gig actually. >> that freedom is a far cry from the demands of a movie set. with an acting career that took ...

>> it's been almost six months since karen allen has been in her massachusetts textile design studio, splitting her time between acting, directing and her business, karen allen fiber arts, a bow teak that sells her collection of vibrantly colored knit wear, this has been an unusually long time away. things are set up to run smoothly when she's gone. now that she's back, the never idle allen has a lot of catching up to do. >> i decide when i'm coming to work and i decide when i'm leaving and i decide if i want to take a day off. there's not many jobs like that out there. that's a pretty good gi...

>> i began to work professionally fairly quickly, which was quite lucky in some ways. >> so it was a very much learning by the seat of my pants experience. >> and that seat of the pants experience is what prepared her to do something far outside her life as an actor. she became an entrepreneur. >> i always thought at some point when things maybe settled down a little in my life, i would start a little textile company. >> the time to start that company came in 2002 when she decided to take time off from her acting career to raise her son nicholas. >> i would put things in a gallery and people w...