Meet the makers.

Tara Reed

A Portland-based artist bringing joyful color and over 20 years of design experience to every project.

Alexandra Henry

An award-winning needle artist and passionate quilter who loves sharing the joy of making.

Alicia Wietholter

I’m a graphic designer by trade and fell in love with sewing many years ago. I think it was a natural path for me to mesh the two and start drafting my own sewing patterns. There’s nothing I like sewing together more than bags, so that’s mostly what I do! I…

Alyssa Lichner

Alyssa Lichner is a graphic designer and stay at home mom by day and blogging quilter by night.

Amy DeCesare

Amy is a busy mom and wife, with a part-time job as a medical technologist. In her free time she loves to stitch just about anything: bags and quilts, pillows and pincushions, casserole carriers and e-reader covers, mug rugs and baby toys. Her latest…

Amy Smart

Amy learned to sew and quilt from her mom at a young age. As a mother now, she continues to find happiness in those creative outlets and shares her creations on her blog Diary of a Quilter. She lives in Utah with her patient husband and four busy kids.

Amy Van Scoik

Amy Van Scoik is an artist, world-traveler, organic farmer, hoop dancer and community organizer. When she’s not sewing or crafting, she might be at the farmers market, cooking, riding her bicycle or volunteering for her favorite local community organizations…

Angela Pingel

Angela Pingel is a self-taught quilter who has been sewing for over 20 years. Angela has recently published her first book, A Quilter’s Mixology, and filmed a DVD on the subject of curved piecing. She can be found in the 1500 series of Quilting Arts, airing…

Anjeanette Klinder

Anjeanette is a wife, mother and creator. She dreams in fabric and likes to eat good food way too much. She blogs at byAnjeanette.blogspot.com.

Anshu Jain

Anshu Jain is an engineer turned seamstress/crafter who rediscovered the joy of sewing after being blessed by a baby girl. It all started with a couple of dresses for her and just never stopped. These days she shares her passion for sewing in the form of…

Ariel LaCoste

Ariel LaCoste is the owner of über creative etsy store, Southpaw Creativity. She has a passion for crafting and sewing. Ariel has a distinct style all her own and we are so glad that she is sharing it with us!

Beverly McCullough

Bev is a crafter, sewer and creator of the popular blog Flamingo Toes. She loves creating new projects and sharing step by step directions with her readers.

Bree Wernimont

Bree began sewing when she was wee gal, making pillows and other small but lovely things. She took an extended break and was reunited with her childhood love just two short years ago. She started with small bags, moving on to more complicated bags, apparel…

Caren Adams

Caren Adams is a crafty momma of three young children. She loves to create functional gifts such as soft toys and dolls, giving them special touches with hand embroidery and appliqué. She has a love of creating and makes her own patterns whenever possible…

Caroline Hulse

Cassie Williams

Cassie is a mid-twenties seamstress who likes quilting and garment construction. She loves the feeling of knowing that her hard work resulted in something useful, beautiful and when she can manage it, sustainable. She loves giving handmade gifts and puttering…

Connie Watkins

Connie has quilted for most of my life but she got really serious in the late 80’s early 90’s. She has probably made at least 200 quilts over the years. She has won 3 “Best of Shows” in Central Texas Quilt Shows and numerous ribbons. Connie has had 9 quilts…

Dani Miller

Sewist, Knitter, Quilter, Weaver – Dani is a lover of craft. She is also a highly organized person that thrives on lists. Her business, KSC Designs, is where crafting and organization meet. She spends endless hours behind her industrial Juki sewing machine…

Darlene Christopherson

Darlene C. Christopherson began quilting in 1979 in the Washington, DC area during the resurgence of quilt making. Darlene began teaching regionally in the Virginia area and worked on the staff of the Jinny Beyer Hilton Head Seminars for 5 years before…

Deborah C. Vollbracht

Deborah is an ordinary, everyday, in love with textiles quilter who loves non-traditional design. Lately her journey gravitates toward simple shapes and quickly completed projects—a sort of “side trip” on the quilting highway. As they say, it’s not the…

Elizabeth Dackson

Elizabeth Dackson is a self-proclaimed fabric-aholic, with no designs on reform! Her sewing career began back in 2010 with a quest to develop a new hobby. Little did she know, she was starting a whole new way of life. A stay-at-home mom to a very curious…

Emily Lang

Emily is a wife, mother, and part-time bookseller. She started quilting as a way to create something that would stay done while her daughter napped as an infant, and while she is now past the napping age quilting is here to stay.Most of Emily’s sewing happens…

Erin Erickson

When Erin started writing PDF sewing patterns, the name Dog Under My Desk just seemed appropriate. Her Yorkies really do sleep under her desk all day (and night) while she designs, endlessly prototypes, and photographs her bag patterns.

Giselle LaFrance

Giselle hails from the great state of Maine where she works from her beautiful studio in the heart of Portland’s Arts district. Her passion is creating industrial fashion and accessories melded with elements of fantasy.