Designers, Authors & Editors

Megan Farrell

Megan is a quilting designer whose designs creatively play with color and pattern. When she was young, about 12, her mother wanted to teach her how to sew. She learned the basics of using a sewing machine and with her mom, planned out a quilt to
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Jessie Agnew

Jessie Agnew is a mixed media artist, patternmaker, seamstress, costumer, and fashion designer. She runs I Am Sew Crazy, an instructional website geared towards giving visitors
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Stephanie Woodson

Stephanie Woodson is a craft blogger sharing tutorials for sewing, upcycling, mending, & refashioning on her site Swoodson Says. She spends too much time thrifting and loves
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Jennifer Davey

Jennifer Davey is an educator, designer, writer, tailor, and sewing enthusiast. She has been a guest on Sew It All TV and published in Sew News, Sew it All, Belle Amore, Crafts n’ Things, and
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Barbara Chojnacki

Barbara Chojnacki has never met a scrap she doesn't like. Her favorites are scraps she gets from other quilters, inspiring her most popular guild lecture and trunk show, "OPM, Other People's Material." She has been quilting for more years than she
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Katherine Mead

Katherine Mead is a quilter, knitter, and lover of all things fiber and textiles. Her writing has appeared in Common Threads, Knotions Magazine, and is forthcoming in PLY Magazine and Making Stories. She writes a weekly newsletter called Read More 

Amanda Ogden

Amanda Jane Ogden is an artist, designer, and maker living near the sea in Ramsgate, Kent, UK. She studied Textiles & Surface Pattern as a mature student. She designs quilt patterns and fabrics for sale online and makes quilts to commission.
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Bea Lee

Bea was born and raised in Denmark before moving to Florida in 1996 to attend college for computer animation. After graduating, she married and began her family. In 2004, Bea was introduced to quilting at a church class, but it took a few years for
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Sophie Tarrant

Sophie Tarrant is a freelance writer, craft project designer, and embroidery artist living with her husband and four cats in Nottingham, UK. She loves to create anything with fabric and thread, and her custom creations can be found in her online
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Zoe Ballard

Zoe Ballard is a qualified teacher with over 17 years experience of teaching in UK schools. She has been stitching for most of her life and has a passion for teaching others this wonderful and mindful craft.

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Brenda Plaster

I love quilts! I design them, quilt them and just admire them. I also write (and sell) quilt patterns. My website is www.spoolandbobbinquilting.com. You can view/buy patterns at Read More 

Joy Heimark

Joy is a retired legal assistant, turned quilt pattern designer and quilt show vendor.  In about 2019, she started selling wool pressing mats to quilters and doing custom cutting for whatever size they requested.  Joy then started designing her
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Mallory Theiss

Mallory has been working in the fabric and craft industry for over fifteen years, specializing in customer service, marketing, and project management. She has worked alongside many industry leaders over the years and loves the opportunity to be
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Connie Kauffman

A love of color and design led Connie to the world of quilting and quilt design. Connie is a quilt designer, author and teacher.  She has had six books published and has many patterns published in other books and
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Sadie Metter

Sadie Fox Metter, Content Creator and owner of Sadie Fox Studio, crafts unique vintage treasures for body and home, available on Etsy, Instagram, and locally in Denver. A third-generation Coloradan, she's a lifelong crafter and sewist inspired by
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Laura Strickland

Hello! I’m Laura Strickland. I live in the Midwest on the banks of the Mississippi River. I own and operate Orange Blossom Quilt Design Studio, LLC. I design quilt patterns with a Mid-century Modern / Pop Culture aesthetic. I enjoy competing in
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Marian Edwards

For as long as she can remember Marian has always loved playing with fabric scraps.  She has fond memories of her mum teaching her how to embroider at the age of four.  From a young age Marian was making dolls clothes for her Sindy doll on her
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Rachel Nielsen

Rachel is the creator behind the blog Adventures of a DIY Mom where she shares craft, sewing and quilting tutorials as well as her favorite recipes. She began her quilting journey in 2020 and has taken her readers along for the ride. She shares
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Janice Bailor

Janice Bailor is a quilt and textile artist based in central Pennsylvania. As a creative entrepreneur, she is the owner artisan behind her La Rue de
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Ann Butler

Ann Butler is a licensed artist, social media influencer, instructor and consultant for the creative industries. Her designs appear in multi-authored books, magazines, booklets, manufacturer trade show booths and websites. She has been teaching
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Staci Wendland

Staci Wendland has been a maker for as long as she can remember. Her first memory of sewing was on her grandmother's quilt when she was three years old. It's been a tumultuous relationship ever since, full of victories and losses. If there's a craft
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Debbie von Grabler Crozier

Debbie von Grabler-Crozier has always been creative. She grew up in Australia and was taught to paint and sew as a child. She painted and sewed her way through childhood and adolescence but when it came to choosing a career, she chose science first.
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Marie Segares

Marie Segares is the Proprietress of Underground Crafter. Marie shares sewing patterns and tutorials, crochet and knitting patterns, recipes, and more creative inspiration on her blog. She also hosts virtual make-a-longs throughout the year. Marie's
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Mary Beth Temple

Mary Beth Temple is an author and designer of sewing, crochet, and knitting books and patterns. Her work appears frequently in a wide variety of magazines, and she also the owner and lead designer for the popular knit and crochet pattern line Read More 

Lindsay Conner

Lindsay Conner is an author and modern quilter who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her family. She has written several books with C&T Publishing, and specializes in writing modern sewing, bag, and quilt patterns for beginners and weekend
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