Our Influencers
Amy Barickman
Growing up, Amy wanted to own her own teddy bear business. But after she graduated college, she decided that arts and crafts...
Anita Morris
Anita Morris is the creator of Anita by Design, a sewing blog designed to inspire style, confidence and creativity for women of...
Christopher Thompson
Christopher Thompson, known as The Tattooed Quilter was raised in a traditional quilting family, he discovered the modern quilting movement a few...
Dana Willard
Dana started her blog, Made Everyday, as a place to connect with and encourage fellow makers. In addition to posting tutorials, she...
Eleanor Burns
In 1978, Eleanor published her first Quilt In a Day book. Now, almost 40 years later, she’s written more than 100 more...
Evy Hawkins
Evy has been sewing since she was a child. During the course of her career she has been a couturiere, a women's...
Heather Valentine
Heather Valentine is the creative mind behind The Sewing Loft. She is a wife, mother, fourth generation seamstress and a former apparel...
Jenny Doan
Jenny is a prominent quilter and the face of the Missouri Star Quilt Company. She turned her hobby into a multimillion-dollar business....
Kari Sweeten
Kari started her blog in 2008 as a place where she could bookmark ideas from around the web – her own Pinterest...
Kelly Bowser
Kelly began sewing in 2010. Her blog plays home to a variety of her finished quilting projects, as well as patterns, tutorials...
Lindsay Conner
Based in Indianapolis, Lindsay has been crafting for as long as she can remember. He mother bought her first sewing machine, a...
Lindsay Wilkes
Lindsay owns the Cottage Mama, a boutique children’s sewing pattern company. She is the author behind “Classic Clothes for Girls” and provides...
Mallory Donohue
After running a sewing machine dealership for 11 years, Mallory left it all behind to pursue her passion for creating media for...
Melissa Mora
Austin-based sewer Melissa Mora is a Riley Blake fabric designer, author of the book “Sundressing” and owner of Blank Slate Patterns. She...
Mimi Goodwin
Mimi G. is Editor-in-chief of the popular Fashion, Lifestyle, and DIY blog MimiGStyle.com and YouTube Channel, which houses tutorials, fashion and beauty...
Miranda Anderson
Miranda shares weekly stories and tutorials on her blog. Throughout 2017, she’s focused on one medium a month and then shares a...
Nancy Zieman
Nancy Zieman – author, pattern designer, businesswoman, producer and national sewing authority – was the host of the PBS show Sewing with...
Nicci Brazzell
Nicci is a professional embroidery artist and textile designer. She has taught at international machine conventions and has been regularly published within...
Norris Ford
Norris edits norrisdantaford.com, a style and DIY blog. After styling celebrities, musicians and sports figures, he decided to learn to sewing, quickly...
Pam Damour
Pam’s career spans more than 30 years. She offers professional drapery workroom training and travels internationally to teach specialty techniques. She is...
Patty Young
Patty is a licensed textile designer for Riley Blake Designs and a publish author of sewing and coloring books. She is the...
Sara Gallegos
When Sara Gallegos began hosting Fons and Porter’s Love of Quilting, she stepped into big shoes vacated by the show’s hosts –...
Simple Simon & Co.
Liz and Elizabeth Evans are two girls who married brothers and ended up with the exact same name. They also happen to...
Truly Alvarenga
Truly conceives, sketches, designs fits and sews all of her fashions. She has designed everything from her own collections, to wardrobe and...