Biographies
Beginner-friendly, artistic, stylish, elegant and comfortable. The perfect canvas for embellishments with the creative touch. Detailed guide sheets encourage with humor. XS-XXXL.

Barbara Alexander
Victoria, BC
Barb's goal is to encourage a return to garment sewing. Many of her patterns are “beginner friendly” that do not require a lot of fitting, are easy to sew and encourage the novice or absentee sewer. The thorough guide sheets provide abundant illustrations while Zeke (a gecko mascot) provides tips for success with his own style of humor.

Elegant, classic clothing with a contemporary twist.
Fred Bloebaum
Oakland, CA
A highly-regarded sewing instructor from the San Francisco area, Fred is a regular instructor at The Sewing Workshop and other local sewing schools. She has served on the faculties of several colleges, and specializes in fashion-conscious sewing classes focusing on designer techniques, tailoring, figure flattery, and sewing with a wide variety of unique fabrics.
Make a Visual Statement!

Dana Bontrager
Arlington, WA
Dana has made a career of "thinking outside the fashion box", constantly stretching design and sewing conventions to develop new skills and creativity. She creates designs to enable the wearable artist to fashion unique, eye-catching garments that are both casually simple and wonderfully imaginative.
Contemporary classic styles especially for full-figured petites in sizes 14 to 24.
Kathleen Cheetham
Burnaby, BC
Kathleen runs a woman’s tailoring and pattern making shop. She teaches classes on fitting, design and business. Her mission is to see any woman, no matter her size, look fabulous. Kathleen designs especially for the woman with narrow shoulders, D cup bra, rounded tummy and delicious full curves! The look is classic with clean lines that are easy to dress up or down with your choice of fabric and accessories.
Connie Crawford
Hansville, WA
Connie Crawford is a licensed designer for BUTTERICK PATTERNS. She is a nationally recognized lecturer, fashion specialist, educator, and author of sewing and pattern textbooks. Drawing on her 35 years of experience in apparel manufacturing and 23 years teaching fashion design classes in patternmaking, sewing, and draping at The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, Connie created her own pattern line with true-to-body fit from sizes X-Small to 6X.
Our patterns offer comfort and style along with pockets to keep your cash undercover and your hands free
Marsha McClintok
Portland, OR
Owner and head designer, Marsha’s patterns provide customers more than just comfort and style with their hidden pockets for carrying valuables. In addition, she enjoys teaching around the country sharing her passion for sewing. Marsha also leads women on sewing related tours to places like New York and Hong Kong with her Sew Many Options Tours.
Features Ordinary to Extraordinary patterns: stylish, simple and comfortable boutique designs and the spirited new A La Mode collection for the young and young at heart.
Lyla Messinger
Reno, NV
Lyla J. Messinger is an internationally recognized designer, author and speaker. Lyla retired from teaching to pursue her passion to promote fashion sewing by providing simple, stylish garment and accessory patterns, notions, education and inspiration to the sewing public She continually builds her business with innovation, education, and integrity.
An exciting variety of classic designs includes jackets, dresses, pants, skirts and tees. Ready-to-wear techniques allow you to sew an entire wardrobe quickly and easily.

Pattie Otto
Racine, WI
 Pattie spends her time creating new patterns, teaching, writing books and articles and designing machine embroidery. She has taught extensively, with her favorite classes being machine embroidery, sewing with knits, swim & action wear, heirloom work, serger techniques, and fitting seminars. She also teaches Embroidery Club in Southeast Wisconsin and Northeast Illinois and presents a variety of seminars at national and regional sewing expos.

Patterns that give sewing lessons that provide professional results in half the time, all without pins or basting.
Janet Pray
Highland, MI
Self employed since 1981 as a fiber artist, fiber arts teacher and sewing instructor. She has exhibited her award winning works across the US. Since 1998 she has produced patterns of her most popular coat and cape designs and a series of professional shirt patterns for both men and women. All of Janet's patterns include industrial sewing techniques that do not require pins or basting.
Lorraine Torrence
Seattle, WA
An author and designer with a Master of Fine Arts degree, Lorraine uses the universal lessons of color, composition, line and space to create wearable and wall textiles with the techniques of piecing, appliqué and quilting. She has been teaching quiltmaking since 1972 and currently travels throughout the United States and other countries teaching for guilds, shops and conferences.
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