Sign-in My Cart

Home What's New? I Made This

Contact Newsletter Articles

My Account Login or Create an Account Shop Search All Products Gift Certificates Shop by Author Categories Featured Products What's New Most Popular Applique Baby Beginner Basics BOYS Bundle Pack SAVINGS! Business Clothing Creation Cooking & Baking Crafts Crochet/Knitting Digital Scrapbooking Dolls & Clothing Embellishing Espanol Flower Accessories FREE! Graphic Design Hair Accessories Handbags Holidays Home Decor Jewelry and Beading Kids Can Make This! Laptop Bag machine embroidery Made with Jeans Made with Ribbon Make a Difference (Charity) Painting Pets Photography Pillows Polymer Clay Printable Crafts Quilting Sewing Patterns Shoes Stitchery Toys & Activities Tweens & Teens! Twirl Skirts Video Tutorials Womens Woodworking

RSS Feed Facebook Twitter Youtube

About

Kim Christopherson

Kim Christopherson is the founder of www.YouCanMakeThis.com, www.SWAKembroidery.com, and www.theDIYdish.com. When starting the sites, Kim wanted to provide a place where people could learn how to make items for their homes and families. She has always loved the creative process and the joy it brings and loves to see others do the same.

After several years in the e-commerce world, Kim has become a seasoned entrepreneur with a knack for focusing on the customer. Kim leads the "YCMT" team with a passionate emphasis on our customers and how to deliver the best experience for them.

Kim is also the owner and creative force of Kimberbell, a popular sewing pattern and embroidery design company. Kimberbell products are available online and in quilt and fabric shops around the country.

Between juggling children's schedules with karate, piano lessons, and homework, she enjoys sewing, crafting, quilting, photography, and embroidery. Kim is also a frequent and popular speaker on entrepreneurship, women in business, and succeeding online.

Cheri Carroll

It started with cutting and pasting and has now turned into a love for all crafts and design. Cheri officially started her crafting career with a tole painting class when she twelve and has been creating in one way or another ever since.

Cheri graduated with a degree in Elementary Education. Cheri quit teaching school soon after she had her first set of twins. When another set followed three and a half years later it was obvious she was going to be home for a while. During her time "off" she enjoyed making crafts and projects for her home and family. She even picked a few new craft and design skills along the way, thanks to her awesome friends.

Her hobbies also include reading, cooking, photography and spending time with her family camping, fishing and riding 4-wheelers. She enjoys volunteering for many things including working at a living history farm with her children and 4-H.

One of Cheri's first experiences with an YCMT pattern left her saying "I can't believe I made that!" She has loved the great authors and patterns offered on the site ever since. Cheri is excited to be the Site Manager at YouCanMakeThis.com so she can work with the authors and the customers, but mostly because she is one of the first people to see the new ideas that come in!

Michelle Gibas

Michelle is our resident machine embroidery expert at SWAKembroidery.com, handling technical customer service, working with designers, helping new embroiderers as well as uploading designs.

Michelle is a self taught sewer, machine embroiderer and digitizer since 1997. She home schools her daughter and loves to sew, garden, and read. She is also a certified Usui Reiki Master.

Brynnly Pabst

Brynnly Pabst is currently a marketing student at Utah State University and loves to apply the concepts she learns in the classroom to her marketing position at YCMT. Brynnly enjoys working with blogs to host reviews and giveaways to showcase our great authors and patterns!

She started sewing lessons at the age of 9 and has enjoyed creating small projects ever since. Brynnly particularly enjoys trying the patterns here at YCMT; they have inspired a whole new level of creativity in her. Along with crafting, Brynnly has an incredible passion for the edible things of life. She loves to spend lots of time in the kitchen cooking and baking recipes from her favorite food blogs.

Brynnly looks forward to being more involved in marketing and crafts in the future as she works here at YouCanMakeThis.com.

Shelli Christiansen

Shelli is a former school teacher, turned full-time mom, turned part-time designer. Creating home decor items that feature sewing and embroidery is what she's crazy about (well, of course in line next to her hubby and kids).

Shelli also collaborates with the fabulous crew at YCMT to provide you with unique monthly projects that are offered to you for free through the blog and newsletters. In addition to sewing and stitching and all the usual motherly duties, Shelli works hard just to keep the walls of her home standing against the craziness and commotion created by her four kiddos!