Anne Brennan,
Editor-in-Chief, SewAndQuilt.com

"I've been buying my sewing supplies online ever since the Internet arrived, and I can't tell you how much easier it's made my life. I usually shop in the middle of the night, when I can't sleep. By shopping over the Net I can get specialty items that aren't available in my local stores. I still shop in those stores, of course—sometimes I simply crave the comfort of flipping through pattern books and feeling up fabric! And I like to support local businesses. (In fact, SewAndQuilt.com supports the quilt shops and sewing and quilting businesses in your community. For details, read about our Wholesale Warehouse.) But my best buys almost always come from online sewing and quilting stores such as SewAndQuilt.com."

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Anne Brennan

Anne Brennan is an award-winning quilter, fashion sewer, and cross-stitcher as well as a professional editor with extensive experience in marketing and communications.

Before joining SewAndQuilt.com as the editor-in-chief, Anne served as quilting editor with CraftShop.com, editor-in-chief with Easy Living and BC Woman magazines, and course editor with the BC Open University and Open College. She also directed editorial and communications for the In Stitches Sewing, Needlework, and Crafts Expo and ran her own communications company. She has worked on a variety of magazines, web sites, books, newspapers, newsletters, brochures, corporate materials, and sewing patterns.

Anne started sewing at three, when her parents paid a dollar at a church bazaar for a tiny, antique Singer machine that clamped onto a desk and did a chain stitch. (The machine, worth about $250 US, is still proudly displayed in Anne's sewing room.) In the years since, she has been instructed in the textile arts by both her dressmaking, quiltmaking, petit-pointing mother and her auto-upholstering father, her two yarn-crafting grandmothers, her embroidering younger sister, and dozens of professional teachers at sewing, quilting, and needlework expos and classes throughout North America.

Anne lives with her husband and cat in the mouth of British Columbia's great Fraser River, where suburban Vancouver has replaced the temperate coastal rainforest. She loves the heavy, rain-darkened skies that are so prominent on the Pacific northwest coast. Aslan, the world's cutest (and crabbiest) orange tabby, periodically stops by Anne's office, which overlooks a busy bird and squirrel feeder, to make sure she is working instead of sewing.