Michelle Griffith

Michelle Griffith is a romantic at heart and it shows in her beautiful, "simple and elegant"™ fabric and embroidery designs! Michelle is one of the sewing industry's top embroidery designers. She is well known as a designer and teacher with leading industry companies such as VSM, Bernina, Janome, and others. Michelle discovered her love of sewing as a young girl, receiving a sewing machine and lessons from her mother as a teenager. With her many creative talents, Michelle went on to own a bed and bath boutique and later became an interior designer. Along with her husband, David, she has owned an interior design firm for the last 30 years. Within that time, Michelle's love of sewing and embroidery was renewed. Along with her own projects, she has taught various sewing, heirloom, and quilting classes. She began a quest to find patterns that would combine the talents of sewing along with new embroidery machines. When she discovered that there was a need for simple yet elegant patterns, she put her creative forces to work and hence Michelle's Designs was born in 2001. Michelle's Designs offers elegant yet simple sewing patterns, beautiful exclusive machine embroidery designs, and project kits.

With her vast experience teaching sewing courses, Michelle understands the need for simplicity in instructions and pattern making. Her focus has always been to create easy-to-understand patterns and instructions that also have a beautiful, finished, customized look. "Simple and Elegant"™ are the hallmark of Michelle's creations. Her love of sewing and embroidery genuinely shines through her creations. With her meticulous attention to detail, her designs are truly inspiring as you can see in her unique embroidery and fabric designs.