OUR STORY

Founder and CEO of Stitchcraft Marketing, Leanne Pressly has over 25 years of marketing experience. An expert in content and marketing strategy, sales, and branding, she has worked with over 300 clients in the crafting space, hosts a popular podcast, Business of Craft, and works with the Small Business Development Center in Colorado as a consultant. She is a frequent presenter with a wide ranging repertoire of webinar topics on marketing and has partnered with Craft Industry Alliance, The National Needlearts Association, Association for Creative Industries, Embroidery Guild of America, and others. She's also multicraftual--an experienced knitter, sewist, spinner and mixed media artist—so she behaves and thinks like your customer.

Rebecca obtained her M.S. in chemistry fully planning to become an Environmental Chemist before a passion for crafts lead her into the craft arena. She’s got the best of both brains: creative and open-minded thinking combined with attention to detail, schedules, and deadlines make her a well-balanced social media manager. She loves to test and sample knit, cross-stitch, and recently discovered EPP. She’s a science geek, bookworm, dog mom and family gal. She blogs at Nutmegknitter.com.

Flossie is a freelance writer, copy and content editor, and social media manager living in New York City. With more than a decade in social media, and more than two years on the Stitchcraft Marketing team as an account manager, she has honed her skills as a writer to shrewdly and effectively identify and communicate brand voice.

Anneliese Johnson lives in Nebraska with her husband Wes, two small kiddos, and two medium sized cats. She has a B.S. in Textile and Apparel Design from the University of Nebraska and over a decade of experience with the quilting industry as a quilt pattern designer. And before that she worked in a quilt shop. Basically she’ll do anything to pet fabric.

Michelle is an artist turned craft business owner residing in the heart of Colorado. Through years of entrepreneurship, she discovered her favorite part was helping other business owners thrive. When not working on money, data, and project design flow, Michelle is getting out into nature with her dog, Maxx.

Meagan is a lifelong writer with a PhD in English. She finished her first cross stitch at age 8 and since then has embroidered, crocheted, sewed, and knitted all kinds of handmade goods. Meagan also hikes, reads, travels, and is generally fascinated by the role that crafts play in our lives. She writes about crafts in society at craftculturestyle.com.

Paul is a native Coloradan, and has been building websites professionally for 14 years. He is well-versed in all aspects of web development from Shopify setup to fully custom web applications.

Nellie is a career marketer and lifelong maker. She started her career in digital marketing working with clients such as AT&T, Delta Airlines, and BMW. She also worked in-house at the MoMA. Her career detoured into the food industry where she distributed seafood to NYC’s best restaurants and taught oyster shucking and tasting classes. She has deep experience in all verticals of the fabric, quilting, and sewing industries from retail to wholesale. She loves to quilt, sew, and knit. When she’s not working with her hands, you can find her in a bookstore or bakery.

Rebecca is a web designer and WordPress consultant for handmade business owners. She has experience with a variety of web design platforms, focusing on WordPress since 2013. Since 2016 she has been dedicated to helping handmade sellers elevate and take control of their businesses with their own website.

Based in Southern California, Amberleigh lives with her graphic-designer husband and sweet husky, Kenobi. A former art educator, she is now a social media manager for several small creative businesses while building her brand as a surface pattern designer.

Jessica resides in Salida, Colorado and has been immersed in the ECommerce and web management world for 8 years. She creates websites in WordPress & Shopify, and loves needing it up with organic SEO and website strategy. Learn more about Jess at envisionwebdesigners.com