Over 30 years ago, Debra started sewing when her young daughter wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll for Christmas. You couldn’t buy one anywhere so Mrs. Claus got busy and took a class on how to make the doll. It was love at first project!

For the last 15 years, she has been teaching sewing, embroidery and embroidery software across the United States. While she is accomplished in many sewing techniques, her obsession is embroidery and embroidery software. She has attended many training sessions through the years and is familiar with most brands.

Debra has been published in Creative Machine Embroidery and Through the Needle and is a contributor to Keeping the World Sewing and VSM Software Club.

“What I learned from working in different Dealerships and teaching classes or clubs, was that embroiderers are confused by all of the products available to them”. Debra’s classes are designed to help embroiderers take the mystery, and misery, out of embroidering. To help them feel more confident when they embroider so they will enjoy it more. She shares her sewing successes and her failures, with samples and anecdotes, with her students, who are glad to know they are not the only one who makes mistakes.

Debra’s philosophy for teaching is that her students have fun while learning and she tries to help them realize that there is potential in all of them.