Author: Elaine Schmidt
Born: 1950
Bio: Hi, I’m Elaine Schmidt, a hands-on designer creating fun projects with fabric, ribbon, needle and thread.  I develop new product lines for creative industry manufacturers and work with them to inspire their consumers and promote innovative uses for their products.  I offer my clients a full range of creative services, working with them from product design and development, through sourcing and project management, to marketing and promotions.

I’m a fabric addict, ribbon hoarder, button and bead collector, yarn and thread junkie, and sewing geek who grew up “always making something.”  Brought up learning proper traditional techniques by my Mom, I now enjoy bending the old-school rules a bit and “coloring outside the lines.”   Never happy to do one thing at a time, I always have several projects going on.  It’s a real thrill for me to see a finished project arise from a pile of materials to become something useful and unique or just plain fun to make. 

(From the Author's web-site.)