Meet Partners of Baby Lock USA & Canada

Baby Lock Partners are groups, sewing personalities, non-profits, brands, project-focused creators, and rising social media makers. In most cases, they are looking to Baby Lock for collaboration on their initiatives and ideas. In turn, they have the opportunity to partner directly with the brand on key brand initiatives as their schedule allows.

Baby Lock Partners

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Catherine Bell

Catherine Bell is a fashion designer based out of Lawrence, KS. After completing college in 2015 she opened PROPERWEAR with her mother, a custom apparel, alteration and embroidery shop. Not long after, Sew Simple Sewing was born. A sewing program for children and adults to learn the art of sewing and designing. The students learn how to understand the sewing machine, basic techniques, how to read patterns, and construct clothing. Sewing exclusively on Professional Baby Lock sewing machines. They complete projects, have fun and learn a life needed skill. For Catherine, sewing is so much more than her livelihood. She gets to do what she loves every single day and inspire others to create. It is a career, but Catherine finds her actual work to be a stress reliever and mentally relaxing.

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Deb Canham

Deb Canham has spent the last 20 years designing and working with her own factory in China and working as a Consultant to garment factories improving their quality control through education and developing simple, methodical systems. Since retiring from travelling to China, Deb has focused on the serger for home use designing projects, patterns, courses and videos to encourage serger owners to “play” and develop confidence with their machines

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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 wear designer, a freelance embroidery designer, shop owner, children's wear designer/manufacturer and a graphic artist. She currently designs and digitizes her embroidery designs and creates projects, patterns, and more at her website, A Bit of Stitch. Evy also enjoys teaching classes across the United States at local Baby Lock retailers.

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Riley Blake Designs

Riley Blake Designs is one of the most well-known fabric brands in the sewing industry. They make a wide selection of beautiful fabrics, including flannels, cotton, and knits. Head over to their YouTube channel to watch fun project tutorials created with Baby Lock sewing machines.

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Salima Jaffer

After being around the store and sewing industry for most of my life, Salima joined the AAA Sewing & Fabric store in 1996 and soon realized that she wanted to make sewing her full-time career. Salima specializes in creating educational programs and events. A couple of years ago, Baby Lock and Salima worked together to launch the Enhancing Your IQ Series. This series is focusing on teaching the creative techniques available through IQ Designer. Each volume contains a video lesson, six PDF projects, and embroidery files,

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Shannon Fabrics

Shannon Fabrics is a fabric wholesaler that believes that fostering meaningful relationships is just as important as selling fabric. Check out their Sew Together Tuesday segment with National Educator Teresa Coates to create fun projects with their fabrics on Baby Lock sewing machines.

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Zandra Shaw

Embroidery Expert Zandra Shaw, of the Embroider Shoppe, focuses on various techniques that include organza, applique, lace, patches and 3D flower embroidery. Her philosophy: “Don’t hoop yourself in! There is life beyond the small hoop.

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