MY STORY

I started my sewing blog, Made by Rae, in 2007, after quitting my job as a high school physics teacher to be home with my first child, Elliot. I'd been sewing for as long as I could remember -- my mom taught me when I was little -- but when I started my blog, the internet was connecting creative people in a completely new way, giving us a place to share our projects and connect with each other online. Readers were interested in the designs I was posting on my blog, so I started selling digital sewing patterns shortly after my daughter Clementine was born in 2009.

In many ways, my blog is the story, in pieces, of how I grew a family and a sewing pattern business at the same time.

Now, over a decade after starting my blog, I design sewing patterns for women and children along with my sister Elli here at Made by Rae. I've been a fabric designer for Cloud9 Fabrics and an online sewing instructor for Creativebug. I teach sewing demonstrations at my local library, and host occasional local sewing workshops and sewing nights at my studio.

I grew up on the west side of Michigan and then moved to the Bay Area for a couple of years after college. I currently live in Ann Arbor Michigan, with my husband and three silly kiddos.