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Candie Cooper and Katie Hacker

Candie Cooper is a jewelry designer with a passion for combining unique materials and color combinations, inspired by extensive travel and her years living in China. Katie Hacker is an artist and writer who started designing her own jewelry as a teenager. She now makes a living doing what she loves best - making jewelry and sharing her ideas.

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Brenda K.B. Anderson

Brenda K. B. Anderson can be found sewing, crocheting, and knitting into the wee hours after her kids have gone to bed. She loves designing stuffies that make her laugh and accessories that beg to be worn over and over again by her friends and family. Brenda is the author of Beastly Crochet and Crochet Ever After and can be found teaching classes at Craftsy.com, including her class, Crochet Mittens and Fingerless Gloves. She has contributed to several books and numerous magazines and is the managing editor of Creative Crochet Corner. She lives in a little house in Saint Paul, MN where it is sweater weather nine months of the year and blogs about her crafty adventures at Craftsplosion.com.

Beth Bradley

Beth Bradley's love for clothing started at a young age. With a clear passion for fashion, she began taking sewing classes at her local fabric store during high school, using money from her part-time job. Pursuing her passion, she earned a degree in Apparel Design, and her expertise in sewing has taken her to various cities including New York and London. While Beth enjoys draping and patternmaking, she equally cherishes simple and enjoyable sewing projects. Beth's work history includes experience as associate editor for Sew News and Sew It All magazines.

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Suzy Furrer

Suzy Furrer has over 35 years’ experience in the fashion industry. She began her career as a freelance patternmaker and directed the development of capsule collections for small fashion companies. Suzy is the Founder and Director of Apparel Arts (established 1996) and Apparel Arts Productions (www.ApparelArtsProductions.com), an online fashion design school established in 2020. Suzy developed a comprehensive curriculum to give students in-depth training to be strong candidates to enter the workforce in apparel or costume design or to simply build strong sewing and drafting skills for one's own personal use. Apparel Arts has graduated hundreds of students who currently work in the apparel or costuming industries. In addition, she has been an instructor for GAP Inc.’s Product Development Immersion Program. Suzy teaches and speaks at sewing and craft conferences, sewing guilds, and art schools and has taught classes for the employees of entertainment giants Pixar and Lucas Films. She is the author of Building Patterns, The Architecture of Women’s Clothing.

Jessica Giardino

Hailing from a long line of artists, crafters and make-do-and-menders, Jessica grew up enjoying several different creative outlets. As an adult this has translated into finding any excuse to create daily. Her passion for sewing was handed down from her grandmother and mother. Previously, Jessica worked as a member of the amazing team that creates Sew News, Creative Machine Embroidery, and Sew it All magazines. Her work has appeared in the pages of each publication and she was featured on two episodes of Sew it All TV. When not stitching, Jessica can be found walking her tiny dog, seeking out delicious tacos, and playing all sorts of games in Portland, OR.

Stacy Grissom

Stacy Grissom is an avid sewer, knitter, and crocheter. Her sewing journey began a few years ago when she attended an Intro to Sewing class at Fabric Bliss in Denver, Colorado, and from that moment, she was hooked. Leaving behind her high-stress job as a veteran middle school special educator, she decided to pursue her passion further and is now a sewing and knitting teacher at Fabric Bliss. When she's not immersed in crafting, you can find Stacy exploring various activities, from spending time in the kitchen to hitting the ski slopes.

Ashley Hough

Ashley has sewn for years. Her mother taught her at a very young age. When first starting out, she stuck to mastering commercial patterns before venturing into creating her own. Her patterns have been featured in Sew News, Sew It All, and she has even been on Sew It All TV. Quilting is somewhat new to Ashley, but she dove in head first – coming up with an original design for her first quilt that included curved seams and hand appliqué! She was even lucky enough to have it featured in one of Quilty’s "This is My Quilt" episodes. Ashley loves all things crafty, from sewing to knitting, crochet to quilting, and everything in between. When she isn’t working on a new project or learning a different technique she loves teaching her passion to others.

ZJ Humbach

ZJ Humbach is a professional longarm quilter and pattern designer who owns and operates Dream Stitcher Quilt Studio in Nederland, Colorado. Her work appears in McCall’s Quilting, Quilters Newsletter, and Quiltmaker magazines. A former Quilters Newsletter editor, she wrote a longarm quilting column, “Finish Line,” for each issue. Now ZJ is a freelance writer for Quilters Newsletter and the Studio Arts Quilt Associates (SAQA) Journal. She also quilts regularly for Connecting Threads.

Nicki LaFoille

Nicki LaFoille has been sewing for over 20 years. After her grandmother taught her to hand sew at the tender age of 11, Nicki fell in love with the craft and went on to receive a degree in Apparel Design from Central Michigan University. She worked as Associate Editor, then freelance contributor for Sew News, Sew It All and Creative Machine Embroidery magazines, and appeared as a guest on Sew It All TV. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with her husband, daughter, and red worm colony. In addition to being a seamstress, she is an author of several novels and enjoys gardening and canning the bounty.

Linda Lee

Linda Lee has loved fabric for as long as she can remember, so it's no surprise that she has spent her career working in fashion and interior design. She is the owner of The Sewing Workshop Pattern Collection, where adventurous sewers can find patterns for distinctive garments created with innovative techniques. She has written numerous sewing books and contributed articles to magazines including Threads, Sew News and Stitch. She has also been the sewing expert for segments on the HGTV programs "Today at Home" and "Our Home."

Ellen March

Ellen March is the director of content at Sulky of America and former editor-in-chief of Sew News and Creative Machine Embroidery magazines. She appeared as the host of Sew It All on PBS for more than nine seasons. Ellen is passionate about furthering the craft of sewing, quilting and embroidery, and she enjoys sharing her knowledge through online tutorials, videos, and in-person events.

Kat McTee

Lifelong artist and maker Kat McTee resides in Austin, Texas. She teaches embroidery, surface design, silkscreening, and color theory to students at the Austin Museum of Art School, Dougherty Art Center, Studio 1408 and The Stitch Lab. Her textile work has been exhibited at the Houston International Quilt Show, Minnesota State Quilt Forum, Rockport Center for the Arts, and Textures Gallery in San Antonio. Kat is a graduate of the Surface Design program at the Southwest School of Art & Craft.

Stephanie Ohnmacht

Stephanie Ohnmacht has had a lifelong passion for sewing, starting at the age of seven. As a member of 4-H, she got her start in fashion by raising sheep and using her winnings to purchase fabric for her original clothing designs. By twelve, she was winning awards for her creations. Now, Ohnmacht designs for her own label, consults on Denver’s Fashion Design Center project, and even appeared on Lifetime’s Project Runway: Under the Gunn series. With decades of experience and expertise, Stephanie's talent is undeniable.

Janet Pray

Janet Pray is the owner of Islander Sewing Systems located in Highland, Michigan. At age 10, she was determined to learn how to sew from her grandmother who lived over 200 miles away, and over the years, learned everything she could about sewing. She eventually collected her skills and applied her entrepreneurial spirit to take over the operation of Islander Sewing Systems, founded by her aunt and mentor, Margaret Islander. Janet's mission is to continue inspiring and teaching home sewers how fun and rewarding the craft is, passing along the knowledge she has gained from her grandmother, aunt, and many others along her journey.

Tara Rex

Tara Rex was born and raised in a small town in Canada, where her parents recognized her artistic talents at an early age. Tara initially pursued a career in nursing, eventually obtaining her Bachelor’s Degree in Science of Nursing (BSN), but later followed her heart to pursue a career in the arts. She now lives in Colorado where her life is jam-packed with painting, DIYing, thrifting, networking, writing and more. She has also cofounded an online artist group called “The Inspired Maker’s Society” together with Cheryl CeCe Hunt of CeCe Restyled, providing artists with how-to videos, support, Facebook Lives, and much more.

Leah Rybak

Leah Rybak has applied her extensive sewing knowledge to her roles at Sew News, Creative Machine Embroidery, and Sew It All magazines. She is currently the owner of LMR Consulting where she helps small businesses with their marketing and social media efforts.

Aurora Sisneros

Aurora grew up around sewing, her mother is a master seamstress who got her into sewing at an early age, and in turn, she got her mother into knitting and crochet after discovering it to be a more portable addiction. After spending 15 years as an IT professional, she realized that many women with high-stress responsibilities — either in the workplace or in the home — need a hobby in order to de-stress. It is her drive to inspire and support women to find their creative side through sewing and crafting!

Emily Steffen

Creator of Oh Yay Studio, Emily Steffen brings joy to everyone she meets by sharing her favorite passions through teaching and DIY instruction. From painting, drawing, and sewing to so much more, her love of creativity is part of everything she does in life. Emily's contagious enthusiasm spreads inspiration like wildfire, and through her simple, step-by-step guidance, she assures you that there is no wrong way to be creative!

Colleen Tauke

Colleen Tauke is a quilter, designer, and quilt educator with 40+ years of sewing experience. Of those, the last 17 years have been focused around quilting. Early in her quilting endeavors, she was challenged to piece a quilt that seemed daunting. Fussy cutting, Y-seams, strip piecing, hourglass blocks, a pieced border, and appliqué—all in ONE quilt. This was her first bed sized quilt that would later become a quilt shop sample and win third-place at the Iowa State Fair in the “My First Quilt” division. Since then, she was hooked!

Mary Beth Temple

Mary Beth Temple is a long-time designer of knit, crochet and sewing patterns, and lover of any other type of craft that comes across her path! She can often be found crafting by the beach near her home in Wilmington, North Carolina, and makes no guarantees that there won’t be sand in her samples. With more than a dozen books to her name, Mary Beth is a prolific designer whose independent work can be found under her brand name Hooked for Life. You can check out her doings at HookedforLifePublishing.com/blog, and from there visit her various social media outlets.

Katrina Walker

Katrina Walker is an educator and designer specializing in textiles, construction, and surface design techniques. She also writes and creates designs for publications such as Threads and Stitch magazines.