Samantha Hussey
Samantha Hussey, or Mrs H to her fans, is a bag-sewing patterns designer based in the beautiful Welsh Valleys. As well as having her own line of modern bag-sewing...
Abigail Mill
Abigail Mill studied Embroidered Textiles at Cumbria College of Art and Design and graduated in 1990. After graduating, she set up her business with the help of...
Gina Barrett
Gina Barrett began her career as a graphic designer and illustrator, often specialising in romantic book covers. This led to more intense study of costume, which...
Corinne Lapierre
Corinne Lapierre developed a passion for crafts and textiles from a very young age, and has always had an avid desire to learn about traditional techniques such...
Carolyn Forster
Carolyn Forster is a best-selling quilting author, with over 150,000 books sold worldwide. She started making quilts when she was a teenager, and her passion for...
Brioni Greenberg
Brioni Greenberg is one of the four founding members of Fat Quarterly, the e-zine dedicated to modern sewists. She has a successful blog and is active on twitter....
Marie Claire Idées
Marie Claire Idées is the essential place for creative hobbies from cross stitch, sewing, crochet and embroidery to dyeing painting and collage. It is a community...
Ame Verso
Ame Verso is an experienced craft editor who has worked in the industry for over 15 years. Her previous curated collection, 50 Fat Quarter Makes, was well received...
Lisa Lam
Lisa Lam is a London College of Fashion graduate and the founder and owner of U-Handbag.com. She is a prolific bag designer and regular contributor to craft magazines....
Estelle Zanatta
Estelle Zanatta and Marion Grandamme are stylists and designers, and together they created their own company, CO MODE, which specialises in clothes and accessories....
Clémentine Lubin
Clémentine Lubin is in love with sewing. She is the author of numerous titles with Marie Claire Books: L’Agenda Couture Singer (2016), Je couds pour...
Clémentine Collinet
Clémentine Collinet has been a professional children’s illustrator producing pictures, games and books for toddlers for over 15 years. About 10 years...
Emma Curtis
Emma Curtis and Elizabeth Parnell got to know each other when their children were very young, and they quickly became firm friends. At that time, neither of them...
Juliet van der Heijden
First time author Juliet van der Heijden, is quilt pattern designer based in New Zealand. She sells her striking animal quilt patterns on Etsy and Craftsy, as well...
Sandra Reis
Sandra Reis is the fabric designer and pattern designer behind the popular Portuguese brand Anita Catita. She has over 75,000 Facebook followers (@anitacatita.pt)...
Country Bumpkin
Compiled by the expert team at Country Bumpkin, renowned Australian publishers of embroidery books and magazines.
Annabel Benilan
A graduate of the Duperré Applied Arts School in Paris, Annabel Benilan is a stylist and illustrator. After working as a costume designer, she created her...
Elizabeth Betts
Elizabeth (Liz) Betts runs Quilty Pleasures, a quilt studio/shop based in her home town of Brighton and Hove. As well as supplying quilters with everything they...
Beate Schmitz
Beate Schmitz is an avid seamstress who is also an accomplished crocheter, designer, illustrator, writer and teacher. She has worked for publishers such as Christophorus...
Lorna Knight
Lorna Knight specializes in clothing/textiles, with a degree from Queen Margaret College in Edinburgh. After a decade of teaching in schools she now runs sewing...
Jules Fallon
Jules Fallon is an established indie pattern designer and owner of the brand Sew Me Something, she is also an experienced author and teacher. Jules is a regular...
Lynette Anderson
Lynette Anderson is a popular Australian quilter, fabric designer and author of six successful quilting titles including the bestseller Country Cottage Quilting....