Meet the Platinum Designers:

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Lyn Christian
A Design by Lyn

Lyn Christian has been crafting since she was a small child. Her grandmom's and mother were a great influence in her creativity, encouraging her all the way. She now works full time, manages her own web site, teaches with the Hands on Sewing Schools and creates projects for Janome on line. She has won several digitizing and embroidery awards as well as ribbons. Her creativity will make you reach further than you ever have before.  Lyn lives in Kentucky with her husband.  They have 2 sons, one an advertising and screen writer, the other serving in the USMC.

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Carol Hoak
Art in Stitches 

Carol Hoak has  been digitizing since 1994.  Her first software was the very basic Pfaff program, but it taught her a lot about accomplishing special designs with only a few manual tools.  In 2000, Carol won a commercial software program at a trade show, and a new world opened up.  Now she enjoys creating designs both for customers and her favorite - the fun designs for her web pages.

Priscilla Madsen
Madsen Originals

Priscilla started in Machine Embroidery in 1996.  She has been sewing for 25 years prior to that and wanted to do more than stitch little lines of duckies on her children's clothing.  Priscilla, like most of us, can remember so clearly staring at the machine running ALL BY ITSELF, making these fabulous designs!   
Priscilla has been teaching classes since 2000 in embroidery.  While she said she would never get into digitizing, she started working with her software on something special and it grew into more than just a hobby. In 2005, Madsen Originals was born.

Priscilla and her husband live in Caldwell, ID and are owned by their cat.  and they have 5 children and 3 grandchildren. 

 

Allene Snow
Snow Lady Designs

Allene Snow has worked as a seamstress for over 35 years including costume design for Galveston Mardi Gras and Texas Renaissance Festival.  Her love of embroidery started with the purchase of her first embroidery machine in 1995 along with the scanning device for digitizing and she became addicted to machine embroidery and digitizing.  When PEDesign became available the love of digitizing took off like a rocket and has grown with each update.  Snowlady Designs opened in 2000 and quickly became known for free standing lace designs with the look of hand crochet.   Allene loves sharing her passion for this wonderful hobby so has been teaching at various embroidery conferences and local shops since leaving the corporate world in 2002 using visual lecture demos and hands on classroom interaction.

 With all the children grown and moved out of the house, Allene and her husband recently decided to live the life of modern day gypsies moving all their stuff to storage and taking to life on the road in a travel trailer.  Moving around the country has given her the opportunity to meet so many more of you and Allene looks forward to continuing to meet all of you as they travel around…

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