Debbie Shore Debbie Shore is a best-selling and award-winning author. She began her career as a children's television presenter and since then has appeared regularly as an actress in various popular dramas and as a presenter on shopping channels. Debbie has developed her own range of fabrics, designed her own patterns, writes for several popular sewing magazine and has written over 20 books for Search Press with several more underway. She is the winner of Craft Influencer of the Year 2020 in the Craft Business Awards, and Social Media Influencer of the Year 2019 in the British Sewing Awards. Debbie has over 230,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, which has over 30 million views. In 2018, Debbie launched her Half Yard Sewing Club , a monthly subscription service based on the mega-selling Half Yard(tm) series, and won the 2019 IPG Digital Publishing Award. For more details about the club visit www.halfyardsewingclub.

com. Debbie lives in Lincolnshire, UK. Visit her website www.debbieshoresewing.com Kimberley Hind Being the daughter of Debbie Shore, Kimberley has grown up around sewing. She has always loved watching her mother create amazing items from scratch, and over the last few years her passion for sewing has increased rapidly. Now her full-time job is running a successful online sewing shop, writing dressmaking blog posts for Minerva Crafts, creating sewing projects for The Craft Cotton Company and filming sewing video tutorials on her own YouTube Channel. She has a keen interest in interior design, and worked as a Visual Merchandiser for 12 years before sewing became her full-time occupation.

Kim loves to upcycling clothes particularly, transforming a once discarded piece of clothing into something new. Her collaboration with her mother, Debbie Shore, combines both of their sewing passions, as well as Kim's enthusiasm for refashioning and helping readers look at thrift-store clothing in a whole new light. Kim lives in London, UK. Visit her website www.whatkimberleymakes.com Competing titles.