Diane Boone - Diane recently retired from teaching high school Social Studies and looks forward to more involvement in teaching sewing classes. She has been recognized as a Northern Nevada's High School Teacher of the Year. As a 4 time Bernina University attendee for updates and training, Diane frequently attends seminars and national sewing events in order to keep current in the sewing industry and keep her creative talents sharp.
Diane has been teaching "Sew Club at Sew-n-Such" for 14 years and offers many of her specialty classes on a monthly basis. Having worked closely with Lois Ericson in producing her two design CD's and patterns she shares and enjoys working with local talents. Diane’s creativity took her in 2002 to qualify as a finalist in the National Hoffman Fabric Challenge.

Kathleen Dziurda - Kathie is a 5th generation native of Nevada. She began learning to sew about age 4 when her Grandma Fern gave her a hoop with a stamped design and some floss. Her mom and 4-H furthered her interest in the subject.
Kathie holds degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno in Home Economics Education and Science. A certified teacher since 1972, she retired in 2000 after more than 20 years of teaching high school.
Further training since retirement has included classes at OESD, 5 years of Bernina University, more than 40 hours of embroidery software training, and many seminars at a variety of sewing and embroidery events.
Currently, Kathie is an Instructor for "Sew Club at Sew-n-Such", teaches classes at in Sew-n-Such and digitizes embroidery designs for a number if businesses in the Northern California and Nevada areas.

Janet Inda - Janet is a native Nevadan and was born and reared on ranches in the northern half of Nevada. She taught herself to sew around the age of 8 or 9 years. Since some of the ranches had no electricity she got to “play” on Mom’s pedal machine and soon with a little effort could make things for herself. As interest for sewing grew in Janet, Mom would buy her some “real” material besides using only the flour sacks that were in abundance on the ranches.
Janet moved into high school and the family moved into Reno and here she was able to find books to help her make nice clothes for herself and a few nice things for the family too!
She became a school teacher and enjoyed her work and the kids until she had their daughter. Then she wanted to stay home with her! Because of a strong desire to be at home with her daughter, she started and operated several preschools for many years while keeping up with her sewing and taking a few classes to help master some tricks.
She sold the preschools after a time and began sewing for people out of her home. Her favorite functions were weddings...with her family’s “wants and needs” squeezed in between.
Janet has always loved to teach and has taught a lot of young girls over the years to sew and is now delighted to have the opportunity to teach at Sew-n-Such. Though recently hooked on quilting, Janet still says, “my first love was and will be sewing.”

Maureen Zimmerman - Maureen's introduction to Brazilian embroidery began in 1998 when she saw a sample of it right here at Sew-n-Such. Her interest was sparked by her desire to embellish doll clothes for the porcelain dolls that she was making.
During that year Maureen took several seminars and instructor training classes. She then went on to teach at Sew-n-Such from 1998-2002. She is back now to teach Reno Brazilian Embroidery with a choice of morning or evening classes. Check the calendar and call the store now to reserve your spot!