"I cannot count my day complete 'til needle, thread, and fabric meet." - Anonymous

Cheryl Weiderspahn is a respected award-winning seamstress, an accomplished designer and an entertaining teacher, speaker and author.

Her background includes 36 years experience of over 2,200 extensive custom orders from her successful home-based sewing business. Yet, Cheryl yearned to reach a wider range of women. Homestead Specialties Pattern Company was founded in 1996 from her drive to awaken the dormant creativity in sewers across the country. She now travels about once a month to teach, vend at sewing expos, and give programs and fashion shows of her innovative original designs. Her humor, enthusiasm and passion for sewing inspires all in attendance.

She has a versatile approach and her patterns are unlike others on the market. Cheryl’s philosophy of garment design is that if you spend your hard-earned money and precious time on a project, it should open up a world of wearing pleasure. Cheryl works hard to bring you designs with multiple wearing options without sacrificing style. Make just one garment, and then choose from dozens of different ways to wear it! She is widely known for her vest worn 48 ways. Imagine having a new look every time you go to your closet!

Sewing has been a part of Cheryl’s life as long as she can remember. Even as a toddler, she was sent to retrieve dropped needles and thimbles for her Mom and the other quilters at her hometown Methodist Church (when she wasn’t napping under the quilt frames). She even confesses to skipping school in Jr. High to stay home to sew! (Sorry, Mom!) By age 12 she was sewing for others for pay on a regular basis. Nine years of 4-H competitions further sharpened her skills.

Her original designs have been featured on the cover of Pfaff Club Magazine; in Lark Books; in Sew News, Sew Beautiful, Country Woman, Designs in Machine Embroidery, McCall’s Quilting, Craftrends, and Quick and Easy Crafts Magazines; and in Creative Machine and Total Embellishment Newsletters. Cheryl has also appeared as a guest or guest host on Kay’s Quilting Friends and Quilter’s Toolbox TV shows as well as Quilter’s News Network online. Her patterns have been carried by many distributors and in over 600 U.S. shops and in several foreign countries. They are also available here on her website. Click here to visit the store.