Cartonnage Book

Sherri Jones grew up in Texas and had the good fortune of learning a variety of needle arts from her mother and grandmother. She graduated from law school at the University of Texas in Austin, and then moved with her husband to Michigan. Sherri designs counted thread embroidery under the trade name of Patrick’s Woods, and has been enjoying sharing and teaching her embroidery designs for over 25 years. She has taught for needlework shows and private guilds all across the United States, as well as Canada and England. Her designs have been published in Just CrossStitch magazine and Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly magazine. Sherri’s designs are functional, dimensional pieces and are inspired by her collection of souvenirs and novelties of the 18th and 19th centuries. Many of her designs are an interpretation of the old while preserving the sentiment of the era and the quality of hand construction.

Lynn Hodge is a fiber artist and instructor. Married 50 years to her highschool sweetheart, mother of 2, grandmother of 5. Having grown up in Ohio, living most of her adult life in Indiana, she claims dual citizenship. Currently she teaches fiber art & manages a Quilt shop near Indianapolis, IN (Quilt Expressions). Her art is playful. Her creative thirst sees something new in everything old. Her studio is filled with an array of fabrics, textures, tools, mediums and embellishments. She hand stitches, machine stitches, personalizes fabrics with acrylics, oils, inks, dyes, stains, rust and bleach. She believes that everyone is an artist when inspired by beauty in the mundane and have an insatiable desire to create a technique to capture each moment. Sharing feeds her artistic soul and she does that through teaching and motivating others to elasticize their own boundaries!