About Christine

Christine Haynes is a sewing author, teacher, and pattern designer. Christine grew up in Saugatuck, MI, a small beach community on the southwestern coast of Lake Michigan, where the arts were part of her daily life. Her mother taught her to sew around the age of 10, and it grew from a personal hobby, until it became her main artistic outlet, many years later.

She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in the department of Film, Video, and New Media. After graduating college in Chicago, Christine moved to Los Angeles, CA and sold ready-to-wear garments for many years. When Random House approached Christine to write her first book, she left ready-to-wear, and turned her focus to teaching others to experience the joy of making clothing for themselves, through her patterns, books, and workshops.

While in Los Angeles, in addition to her own creative outlets, she was also the shop manager at Sew LA. Following more than a decade in Los Angeles, Christine relocated to New York, NY, where she became the shop manager of Purl Soho. After managing Purl Soho for a few years, Christine returned to patternmaking and teaching, which she now does from her studio in San Francisco, CA.

Christine has authored four books, and articles she’s written have been published in Sewstylish, Sew News, Craftstylish, and Craft Zine magazines.

She teaches sewing classes in-person, as well as virtual & video workshops on-line, and has presented lectures and workshops at the American Sewing Guild Conference, A Gathering of Stitches Slow Fashion retreat, Camp Workroom Social, the Craftcation Conference, and the 2016 QuiltCon West Conference, among many others.

Christine was a featured guest on seasons 2 and 8 of PBS’s Sew It All TV show, and some of her selected press coverage has been in Threads Magazine, New York Times, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Martha Stewart’s radio network, and NBC’s Today Show.