Meet Our Educators…
- Sally Baker
- Sally Baker has taught first grade and other interesting ages for the past thirty years. She is an accomplished heirloom sewer and has dabbled in quilting, serging and garment construction.
- Linda Ryland
- Linda Ryland has been a quilter for over twenty-five years and a quilt teacher for the past five. She enjoys traditional as well as contemporary quilts and loves taking an old pattern and creating something new through the combination of new fabrics and color combinations. She teaches beginning as well as intermediate and advanced classes.
- Lynn Hopeman
- Lynn started quilting fifteen years ago when she wanted to decorate a new house with quilts instead of paintings. She was immediately hooked on quilting and has made over 100 quilts and quilted items such as vests, tote bags and children's books. The techniques she has used range from traditional piecing, curved piecing and appliqué, to both hand and machine quilting, including original free-motion quilting patterns. She enjoys both traditional and contemporary patterns and techniques, designing original works…always experimenting with something new.
- Ellen Blair
- Ellen has been making quilts and garment sewing for many years. She teaches the children's class in Lewisville as well as several different quilts, jackets and accessory classes. Her classes are fun, as well as instructional.
- Teresa Lupole
- Teresa has been sewing, teaching and working in the business for over fifteen years. She teaches beginning to advance techniques on sewing machines and sergers. She also happens to know a lot about all brands of sewing machines and sergers.
Teresa teaches some of our most popular classes such as the Vera Bradley Look a Like and the Stitch N Flip jacket. Teresa is one of the two owners of Sewingly Yours. - Debra Bohn
- Debra is a Husqvarna Viking® educator with several years' experience in machine embroidery and software. She is best known for her Tips and Tricks for Successful Machine Embroidery class.
- Cathy Hutchins
- Cathy spends many hours every month preparing the “Embroidery In Motion” club. Embroidery is her specialty. Depend on Cathy to have several ways to use a design. She also teaches the Designer 1 owners classes.
- Brenda Rothrock
- Comes to us with a wealth of quilting knowledge. She brings an easy technique for paper piecing to all that want to move from the traditional.
- Kim Johnson
- Kim has years of experience in landscape quilts to traditional quilting, hand bags and much more. She brings fresh ideas to her classes. You take home a finished project that took you out of your comfort zone.
- Linda Gearhart
- Comes to us with many years of experience with fabric and the sewing machine. She teaches those quick and classy projects you can finish in a few hours.