2008 Conference Instructor List
Shirley Adams - Shirley Adams designs a vast pattern line and speaks internationally showing her 200 pattern samples.
Fred Bloebaum - Fred Bloebaum is the designer of the highly acclaimed La Fred pattern line, which features elegant, easy-to-construct garments for women of all shapes and sizes.
Melissa Brown - Melissa Brown has sewn for over 30 years: on an assembly line, as a sample maker, alterations expert, and custom seamstress.
Bobbi Bullard - Bobbi Bullard is known for her ability to create unique clothing that’s really wearable.
Barb Callahan - Barb Callahan has designed and constructed one-of-a-kind garments, using her label “Barb Originals,” for 25 years.
June Colburn - After two years in South America, five years in Europe, several trips to Africa and 12+ years in Japan, June Colburn knows not only motifs, but also the culture, the history, and the people who developed them.
Connie Crawford - Connie is CEO of Fashion Patterns by Coni who shares her love of sewing and patternmaking by bringing a new level of understanding to the professional arena and the home clothier.
Louise Cutting - Louise Cutting is the designer of Cutting Line Designs patterns. Her instructions have often been called the best in the pattern industry.
Pam Damour - Pam Damour, the Decorating Diva, is a seasoned educator and a sewing professional with over 26 years experience.
Nancy Estep - Nancy has successfully operated a home-based business for over 15 years. Nancy has been a guest on America Sews with Sue Hausmann.
Jean Haas - Jean Haas is now educating sewers with her exclusive dress form designing classes and video series.
Sue Hausmann - Sue Hausmann is known for her quick yet professional ways to create just about anything.
Christine Jonson - Christine is a professional pattern maker, clothing designer and couture dressmaker. Her patterns combine classic styling, expert fit and a dedication to share sewing knowledge.
Marla Kazell - Marla Kazell has been creating custom couture clothing for clients for over 27 years. Her work has been featured in the book and videos of nationally known sewing expert Roberta Carr.
Eve Kovacs - Eve Kovacs is a physicist who has enjoyed sewing since an early age. Her current focus is on creating wearable art garments that combine elegant tailoring, interesting dressmaker details and surface embellishment.
Linda Lee - Linda Lee, ASID is the owner of The Sewing Workshop Pattern Collection, a group of patterns for distinctive garments using innovative sewing techniques.
Cindy Losekamp - Cindy Losekamp is a fun and enlightening teacher known for her incredible amount of samples and ingenious way of creating.
Linda MacPhee - Linda is co-founder of MacPhee Workshop, one of Canada's largest design house and pattern manufacturer.
Marsha McClintock - As designer and owner of Saf-T-Pockets Patterns, Marsha McClintock creates and sells travel-wear patterns. Marsha also organizes and guides groups of women on sewing adventures from New York to Hong Kong with her Sew Many Options Tours.
Linda McGehee - Linda is known worldwide for her award-winning books, patterns, and spectacular fabric manipulation techniques.
Lyla Messinger - Lyla Messinger of LJ Designs is an internationally recognized designer, author and speaker. She produces three pattern lines and promotes fashion sewing by providing simple boutique-style garments and accessory patterns.
Penny Muncaster-Jewell - Penny is one of the most dynamic and entertaining teachers in the home embroidery and wearable art world.
Laura Murray - Laura's quilts have been exhibited internationally in major quilt shows and galleries, and have won numerous awards. Laura's career integrates many facets of her love for textiles
Nancy Nix-Rice - Nancy Nix-Rice is an internationally known wardrobe consultant with life-long home sewing roots. She wrote "Looking Good" and has just filmed the "Looking Good Live" video.
Tammy O'Connell - Tammy O'Connell brings beauty, form, and function together with Peacock Patterns. She features practical totes and purses with individual flair.
Pati Palmer - Pati Palmer is president of Palmer/Pletsch Publishing and has been teaching 37 years. She has written 10 books, edited/published 20 more books and 11 how-to DVDs and created eight sewing notions.
Mary Ray - Mary is currently a contributing editor with Threads and travels around the country teaching her techniques.
Kat Robinson - Kat is a yoga instructor certified with two fitness companies and is also an award-winning machine embroiderer.
Londa Rolfing - Londa’s mission is to offer quality sewing products with passion, individual attention, and creativity as a fellow seamstress, teacher, author, and designer.
Rosebud - Rosebud is an author, pattern designer, and certified Islander Sewing Systems instructor with extensive industrial sewing experience in the ready-to-wear industry.
Anne St. Clair - For the past 22 years, Anne St. Clair has owned Needle Nook Fabrics, partnering with her mother the first 10 years. She specializes in lingerie, knit fabrics, and some outdoor fabrics.
Peggy Sagers - Peggy created her own pattern line, Silhouettes, in mid-1990. Her patterns incorporate B-, C-, and D-cup sizing as well as proportionate lengths, which are unique in the pattern industry.
Emma Seabrooke - Emma is a certified Palmer/Pletsch pant and fit instructor. She loves working with knits and has worked with patterns and fabrics to perfect the best styles for all sizes.
Suzy Seed - Suzy has over 25 years experience in the sewing world. Getting students to stretch and grow their sewing skills is such fun and so rewarding to Suzy.
Nancy Shriber - A nationally recognized artist, teacher, lecturer, and writer, Nancy designs and sells one-of-a-kind garments under the Contemporary Sashiko label, showcasing her signature sashiko-inspired stitching technique.
Judy Stinton - Judy is a textile artist, she produces hand-dyed silk clothing that's really wearable, as well as jewelry and accessories.
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